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American Cetacean Society – Monterey Bay Chapter JANUARY 2019 PO Box HE, Pacific Grove, CA 93950

MONTHLY MEETING AT HOPKINS MARINE STATION, LECTURE HALL BOAT WORKS BUILDING

(ACROSS FROM THE AMERICAN TIN CANNERY OUTLET STORES) MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Thursday, January 31, 2019 Time: 7:30 PM

PLEASE JOIN US AT 7:00 PM FOR REFRESHMENTS

Speaker: Brooke Bessesen

When researcher Brooke Bessesen set out to write a book about the smallest cetacean she had no idea how high the stakes would be. Traveling into Mexico, she found a cartel drama unfolding. Over the next twenty-two months she followed the scientists studying vaquitas and the organizations and honest fishermen facing grave risk to save these tiny porpoises. Attempting to reconcile the conflicts obstructing conservation amid rising violence and a plummeting vaquita population, Brooke found herself on a raw,

personal journey to the doorstep of extinction. In this presentation, she shares stories from the field and helps clarify the historical and immediate forces driving a species to the brink. After her talk, she will be signing her new book Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez.

Brooke Bessesen has worked with wildlife for over thirty years. She's been eye-to-eye with humpback whales and surrounded by free-flying California condors. She has hand-raised a baby wallaby, rehabbed a rattlesnake, trained a tiger, and photo-identified dozens of wild bottlenose dolphins. As a research fellow, Brooke's marine studies in Costa Rica led to the naming of a new yellow sea snake, Hydrophis platurus xanthos. She is the author of seven books. Through her writing, Brooke strives to make science accessible. In 2010, she founded Authors for Earth Day, and many prominent kid-lit authors have joined the coalition to mentor young readers through special conservation-focused school visits.

Please join us for refreshments before the program begins. More information is available on our website, www.acsmb.org.

Next month: Our next meeting will be on Thursday, February 28 at Hopkins Marine Station. Our speaker will be Dr. Shawn R. Snoren, presenting about Pacific walrus. Please save the date and join us!

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

CALENDAR ……………….......2 WHALES LOST THEIR TEETH BEFORE EVOLVING HAIR-LIKE BALEEN IN THEIR MOUTHS.....3 MĀUI’S DOLPHIN: GOING, GOING, GONE?.........................4 WHALE SONGS' CHANGING PITCH MAY BE RESPONSE TO POPULATION, CLIMATE CHANGES…….………...….….5 SIGHTINGS……………..…......7 MEMBERSHIP…………..…......8

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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals Of the Great Plains, by Dan Flores. 2017 University Press of Kansas. End of the Megafauna: The Fate Of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals, by Ross D. E. MacPhee, with illustrations by Peter Schouten. 2018 W.W. Norton.

CALENDAR Now through March 17: Exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California: “Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline: The Art of Ray Troll and the Paleontology of Kirk Johnson”

Now through Nov. 22: Albatross Exhibit at the Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab: “A Perfect Day for an Albatross.” Features Caren Lobel-Fried’s book and artwork. The exhibit also features videos, albatross facts and hands-on activities about this remarkable seabird.

Jan. 18 – Apr. 14: Exhibit at the Pacific Grove Museum Of Natural History: Magnificent Migrations: A Journey Through Central California.

Jan. 20: Science Sunday Lecture at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz: Polar Bears and Climate Change: Living on Sea Ice in a Warming World. Lecture by Anthony Pagano, Ph.D Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global.

Jan. 26-27: Whalefest Monterey 2019 on Monterey’s Old Fisherman’s Wharf. This event celebrates the migration of the gray whales, and benefits the many local and national marine organizations that build awareness about the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. 10 AM – 5 PM both days.

Feb. 1-2: Southern California Marine Mammal Workshop in Newport Beach, CA. The Southern California Marine Mammal Workshop is organized for and by marine mammal researchers to foster discussion and collaboration within the Southern California research community.

Feb. 2: Presentation by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz: “Land of the Jaguars: Wild Wetlands of South America.” 3 PM and 7 PM. Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com.

Feb. 16 – Mar. 5: Antarctic Peninsula Whales and Landscape Expedition, in partnership with ACS. Itinerary, ship details and how to signup at cheesemans.com/Ant-Whales-Feb2019.

Feb. 27 – Mar. 2: Pacific Seabird Group 46th Annual Meeting in Kauai, Hawaii at the Aqua Kauai Beach Resort. For more information please go to www.pacificseabirdgroup.org

Mar. 2-3: Mendocino Whale Festival. Wildlife art exhibits, coastal whale watching, wine and beer tasting, chowder tasting.

ACSMB Winter Whale Watch Fundraiser

Join us in one of the best places along the West Coast to observe the southbound migration of the

Pacific Gray Whale. Monterey Bay is a migratory corridor for southbound gray whales and our whale

watch fleet is only a few miles from a major gray whale migratory highway! In addition to gray

whales we will be on the lookout for Killer Whales and numerous species of delphinids that frequent Monterey Bay. Local gray whale experts will be on

board to answer any questions.

Date: Sunday, January 27, 2019

Time: 8am-10am

Boat: Princess Monterey

Cost: $25

All proceeds benefit research, conservation and education programs funded by ACS.

For reservations: Please call Katlyn Taylor at 971-322-8425 or by email

at [email protected]



Mar. 7-10: 16th Annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival.

Mar. 23: Global Oceans Gala Honoring John Laird at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz.

Apr. 19: Friends of Hopkins Lecture Series by Roz Naylor: “Oceans and the Future of Food.” 7:30 – 8:30 PM at the Boat Works Lecture Hall.

WHALES LOST THEIR TEETH BEFORE EVOLVING HAIR-LIKE BALEEN IN THEIR MOUTHS

Nov. 29, 2018 — Rivaling the evolution of feathers in dinosaurs, one of the most extraordinary transformations in the history of life was the evolution of baleen -- rows of flexible hair-like plates that blue whales, humpbacks and other marine mammals use to filter relatively tiny prey from gulps of ocean water. The unusual structure enables the world's largest creatures to consume several tons of food each day, without ever chewing or biting. Now, Smithsonian scientists have discovered an important intermediary link in the evolution of this innovative feeding strategy: an ancient whale that had neither teeth nor baleen.

In the Nov. 29 issue of the journal Current Biology, scientists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and colleagues describe for the first time Maiabalaena nesbittae, a whale that lived about 33 million years ago. Using new methods to analyze long-ago discovered fossils housed in the Smithsonian's national collection, the team, which includes scientists at George Mason University, Texas A&M University and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, have determined that this toothless, 15-foot whale likely had no baleen, showing a surprising intermediary step between the baleen whales that live today and their toothed ancestors.

"When we talk about whale evolution, textbooks tend to focus on the early stages, when whales went from land to sea," said National Museum of Natural History's curator of fossil marine mammals. "Maiabalaena shows that the second phase of whale evolution is just as important for evolution over big scales. For the first time, we can now pin down the origin of filter-feeding, which is one of the major innovations in whale history."

When whales first evolved, they used teeth to chew their food, just like their land-dwelling ancestors. As time went on, many descendants of these early whales

continued to chew their food, inheriting this trait from their predecessors. But as the oceans around them changed and animals evolved, entirely new feeding strategies arose, including baleen filter feeding, says National Museum of Natural History predoctoral fellow Carlos Mauricio Peredo, the lead author of the study who analyzed the Maiabalaena fossils.

Whales were the first mammals to evolve baleen, and no other mammal uses any anatomical structure even remotely similar to it to consume its prey. But frustratingly, baleen, whose chemical composition is more like that of hair or fingernails than bone, does not preserve well. It is rarely found in the fossil record, leaving paleontologists without direct evidence of its past or origins. Instead, scientists have had to rely on inferences from fossils and studies of fetal-whale development in the womb to piece together clues about how baleen evolved.

As a result, it has not been clear whether, as they evolved, early baleen whales retained the teeth of their ancestors until a filter-feeding system had been established. An early initial assumption, Peredo said, was that ocean-dwelling mammals must have needed teeth or baleen to eat -- but several living whales contradict that idea. Sperm whales have teeth in their bottom jaw, but none on the top, so they cannot bite or chew. Narwhals' only teeth are their long tusks, which they do not use for feeding. And some species of beaked whales, despite being classified as toothed whales, have no teeth at all.

Because of its age, Peredo said, paleontologists suspected Maiabalaena might hold important clues about baleen's evolution. The fossil comes from a period of massive geological change during the second major phase of whale evolution, around the time the Eocene epoch was transitioning to the Oligocene. With continents shifting and separating, ocean currents were swirling around Antarctica for the first time, cooling the waters significantly. The fossil record indicates that whales' feeding styles diverged rapidly during this timeframe, with one group leading to today's filter-feeding whales and the other leading to echolocating ones.

Consequently, Maiabalaena had received plenty of scrutiny since its discovery in Oregon in the 1970s, but the rock matrix and material that the fossil was collected in still obscured many of its features. It was not until Peredo finally cleaned the fossil and then examined it with state-of-the-art CT scanning technology that its most striking features became clear. Maiabalaena's lack of teeth was readily apparent from the preserved bone, but the CT scans, which revealed the fossil's internal anatomy, told the



scientists something new: Maiabalaena's upper jaw was thin and narrow, making it an inadequate surface from which to suspend baleen.

"A living baleen whale has a big, broad roof in its mouth, and it's also thickened to create attachment sites for the baleen," Peredo said. "Maiabalaena does not. We can pretty conclusively tell you this fossil species didn't have teeth, and it is more likely than not that it didn't have baleen either."

While Maiabalaena would not have been able to chew or to filter feed, muscle attachments on the bones of its throat indicate it likely had strong cheeks and a retractable tongue. These traits would have enabled it to suck water into its mouth, taking up fish and small squid in the process. The ability to suction feed would have rendered teeth, whose development requires a lot of energy to grow, unnecessary. The loss of teeth, then, appears to have set the evolutionary stage for the baleen, which the scientists estimate arose about 5 to 7 million years later.

Peredo and Pyenson see studying whale evolution as key to understanding their survival in today's rapidly changing oceans. Like the emergence of baleen, tooth loss in whales is evidence of adaptability, suggesting that whales might be able to adapt to challenges posed in the ocean today. Still, Peredo cautions, evolutionary change may be slow for the largest whales, which have long life spans and take a long time to reproduce.

"Given the scale and rate of changes in the ocean today, we don't exactly know what that will mean for all of the different species of filter-feeding whales," he said. "We know that they've changed in the past. It's just a matter of whether they can keep up with whatever the oceans are doing -- and we're changing the oceans pretty quickly right now."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181129142423.htm

MĀUI’S DOLPHIN: GOING, GOING, GONE? By Veronica Rotman

Dec. 31, 2018 — Clean, green New Zealand. With a dirty little secret. We are on track to becoming the first country in the world to cause the extinction of a marine dolphin. The smallest in the world – the Māui Dolphin.

I don't know about you, but I struggle to see how New Zealand marketing and PR could recover.

The hobbit of the ocean is native to New Zealand waters, ours to enjoy, ours to protect. Split into two subspecies, the Hectors roam the south, while the

elusive Māui Dolphin take refuge on the west coast of the North Island.

Although both are considered endangered, the Māui population is critical. With less than 10 percent of the original 2000 dolphins, the remaining 55 are teetering on the brink of extinction.

The decline has been at the hands of the commercial fishing industry where trawl, setnet and driftnet methods have been detrimental to the survival of these dolphins. Through bycatch and reduced food availability, commercial fishing accounts for the majority of Māui mortalities. There is an average of approximately five fishing related deaths per year – a number the current population simply cannot afford.

Another major threat to these dolphins comes from a puzzling source – cat faeces. Killer cat poop? Exactly.

Cats and other mammals are hosts for the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. But it is exclusively in cats that T. Gondii can sexually reproduce. Once an army has been assembled, the parasites are ‘excavated’ and contaminate fresh water runoff before making their way out to sea. As organic matter fuels life in the ocean, the parasite bioaccumulates up the food chain until it infects our small endemic dolphin – causing death, still births, behavioural changes and reduced reproductive ability.

With both our native birds and dolphins threatened by their presence, it begs the controversial question, New Zealand cat free by 2050?

Boating and tourism, oil exploration, pollution, predation and disease also contribute to the mortalities.

So what do we know about Māui dolphins: They are almost the rarest marine mammal in the

world, second only to the Mexican Vaquita porpoise of which only 30 individuals remain. The species share twin fates with commercial fishing, particularly setnet bycatch, driving their decline.

Māui are the smallest dolphins in the world – the

Campaigners dressed as dolphins attend a protest to protect the critically endangered Maui's dolphin, in front of Parliament House in Wellington in 2012. (Credit: Getty Images).



size of your average 10-year-old child – and easily identified by their unique rounded dorsal fin which is similar in shape to one of Micky Mouse's ears.

Having such large brains, Māui’s dolphin exhibits complex social behaviour. Pods of two to eight are generally comprised of all male, or all females and calves.

Like humans, the young are playful, blowing bubbles and enjoying ‘toys’ like seaweed.

Unfortunately they seldom live past 22 years, and with a late sexual maturity of seven to nine years and pregnancy occurring once every two to four years, they reproduce very slowly.

Their population range is small, just like them, and they live only in shallow coastal waters up to 100m in depth. This makes them surprisingly easy to protect.

But if protection was that simple it would have been done. The main barrier comes down to money, or lack of it. With fishing vessels expected to travel further out, past the 100m depth contour, costs will be higher and incentives required.

With promises of electronic monitoring on boats, it's time for the government and Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash to cough up. Observer coverage is limited to a feeble single figure percentage of boats, and bycatch continues to go unreported. Why? Because it's bad for business. No one wants a side of Māui Dolphin with their fish and chips.

An attractive option is for the government to support local industries transition into dolphin safe fishing methods. Harmful techniques such as setnet and trawl would be replaced with longline fishing, which poses no direct threat to the dolphins.

Business Economic Research Ltd reported that it would cost as little as $26 million dollars to make the shift to Maui-friendly fishing methods – the same figure proposed by the government to change our New Zealand flag design.

This is a small price to pay for the survival of a species.

Alternatively, a section of coastline out to the 100m depth contour from Raglan Harbour in the south, to Kaipara harbour in the North could be protected as an interim measure. This area exhibits the highest risk for Maui’s dolphin populations through the overlap of high dolphin density and fishing effort.

Year after year, the International Whaling Commission calls on the New Zealand government to put their money where their mouth is and provide further protection. And year after year, propositions are rejected.

The reality is that the Māui population will continue to decline steadily unless urgent action is

taken. Current protection measures are feeble, with less than half of their tiny habitat free from setnet and trawl.

In a small victory for our dolphins earlier this year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her ban on oil exploration, protecting the Maui habitat and the entirety of New Zealand.

So fortunately all is not grim and our small country has a large number of individuals fighting tirelessly for their survival. This is true of the scientists who dedicate their life's work to produce the valuable research behind the implementation of marine protected areas. They are at the forefront of the battle against the fishing industries, using science and public education to turn the tide for these aquatic hobbits.

And scientists are not the only ones who can help our flippered friends!

You can get involved in the conservation of these incredible animals by educating yourself and others on their plight. There are many online petitions as well as local protests to attend, but nothing beats the good old handwritten letter. Address it to the Prime Minister, Minister of Conservation, and your local MP, urging them to implement full protection. Also, donations to scientists will make funds available for the continued research of our dolphins down-under!

When you are talking about the extinction of a species, we cannot solve a crisis without treating it like a crisis. A large-scale issue requires a large-scale solution and full habitat protection provides the best chance of population recovery.

There is still time, but not much. Does New Zealand want its clean-green reputation tarnished, as the first country in the world to cause the extinction of a marine dolphin as a result of human activity?

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@future-learning/2018/12/30/380199/muis-dolphin-going-going-gone

WHALE SONGS' CHANGING PITCH MAY BE RESPONSE TO POPULATION, CLIMATE CHANGES

Nov. 28, 2018 — Blue whales around the world are singing a little flat, and scientists may now have more clues as to the reason why.

A new study finds there's a seasonal variation in the whales' pitch correlated with breaking sea ice in the southern Indian Ocean. The new research also extends the mysterious long-term falling pitch to related baleen whales and rules out noise pollution as the cause of the global long-term trend, according to the study's authors.



Blue and fin whales are among the loudest animals in the oceans as well as the largest. Only males sing, humming about as loud as large ships. The whales' loud songs can travel more than 1,000 kilometers (600 mi) underwater, allowing the whales to communicate across vast oceans.

Blue whales have been dropping the pitch of their songs incrementally over several decades, but the cause has remained a mystery. Now, the new study in AGU's Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans finds the same mysterious long-term trend of falling pitch in fin whales and Madagascan pygmy blue whales. Pitch, or the perception of how high or low a note sounds, is a result of the frequency of the sound wave, usually measured in hertz.

The authors of the new study use new data from the southern Indian Ocean to rule out noise pollution as the cause of the pitch change. Instead, the new study suggests the pitch drop is an anatomical consequence of singing less loudly. The whales' calls could be quieter due to growing numbers of whales or changes in the ocean due to climate change, according to the study's authors.

"We think it is something non-voluntary from the whale. Decrease the call intensity and it will decrease the call frequency, just because of the sound emission mechanism," said Emmanuelle Leroy, lead author of the new study and a research fellow at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

The new research also uncovers a seasonal counterpoint in the calls of Antarctic blue whales, potentially related to the noise of melting sea ice. The new study finds blue whale calls in the southern Indian Ocean increase in pitch during the summer. The pitch could be increasing as whales sing louder to

be heard over breaking sea ice, according to the study's authors.

"Our hypothesis is that the call frequency change is again linked to call intensity and that the whale will adapt the call intensity to the variation of noise level," Leroy said. "The noise is related to the increasing number of free icebergs in summer. When the ice sometimes cracks, like when you put ice in your drink, it makes noise. This noise is really strong and will propagate over really long distances, so we can hear this noise at our northernmost site, up to 26 degrees south."

Analyzing whale songs The new study analyzed more than 1 million songs

from three species of large baleen whale: fin, Antarctic blue and three acoustically-distinct populations of pygmy blue whales. Six stationary underwater microphones recorded the calls over six years, from 2010 to 2015, in the southern Indian Ocean, an area spanning 9 million square kilometers (3.5 million square miles).

The stereotypical song of the Antarctic blue whale spans about 15 to 30 hertz, at the very bottom edge of human hearing, which ranges from about 20-20,000 hertz. Blue whale songs are in the range of the lowest, longest pipes of large cathedral organs. For consistency, the study measured the pitch of selected elements of each species' song, which had fallen to about 25.6 hertz for the Antarctic blue and 96 hertz for the fin whale by the end of 2015.

In 2002, the pitch of the selected element of the blue whales' call was closer to 27.5 hertz, a difference from the 2015 values equivalent to about a whole tone or major second interval in Western music tradition.

The new study found Antarctic blue whale calls are falling 0.14 hertz per year. Though fin whales, pygmy blue whales and Antarctic blue whale sing very different songs, the new study observed similar trends in call pitch, falling about 0.12 to 0.54 hertz per year, depending on the species.

The new research also found whale calls rise in pitch by 0.2 -- 0.3 hertz from October through February.

Low pitches carry farther underwater, but the pitch change is likely too small to make a difference in the way the whale calls travel over long distances in the ocean and too subtle for the whales to detect any changes, according to the study's authors

Changing soundscape Unlike most of the world's oceans, subject to an

increasing mechanical cacophony, the southern Indian Ocean has grown quieter in recent years and its shipping traffic is limited.

A fin whale surfaces at 58°S in the southern Indian Ocean, at the southern end of the submerged Kerguelen plateau, in a photo captured in January 2010 from the R/V Marion Dufresne, the research vessel that collected hydrophone data for the new study. (Credit: J-Y Royer).



Because the long-term trends in pitch drop are steady around the global range of the whales, the data from the Indian Ocean indicates the ongoing drop cannot be explained as a response to human-generated noise. Instead, the authors of the new study suggest the drop could be a byproduct of lower volume if the rebounding whale population doesn't need to sing as loudly to reach other whales.

Recent population assessments estimate there are 10,000 to 25,000 blue whales globally, up from a few thousand at the end of commercial whaling in the 1970s, but still fewer than 10 percent of their numbers before the 20th century.

“Because whaling stopped, the whale population is increasing. They can decrease their call intensity to keep in touch, because there are more whales. These calls are a means of long distance communication,” Leroy said.

Alternatively, Leroy said, the whales may not need to be so loud because sound travels farther in ocean water made increasingly acidic by climate change. The speed and distance sound travels are affected by the temperature, pressure and chemistry of the ocean.

Naturally occurring seasonal ocean noise could explain the seasonal variation in whale call pitch observed by the researchers in the southern Indian Ocean, however.

They observe the seasonal variation in pitch during the months of the austral summer when sea ice breaks up. Iceberg crackles are loud. They boom for thousands of kilometers in a frequency range overlapping the pitch of the Antarctic blue whales' calls. To be heard over the noise the whales may need to get a little louder, the study suggests. Singing louder makes the pitch go up.

"What's surprising is the long-term and short-term changes could have the same reason, a change in call intensity, but the change responds to two different causes," Leroy said.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181128182153.htm

SIGHTINGS

Sightings are compiled by Monterey Bay Whale Watch. For complete listing and updates see http://www.montereybaywhalewatch.com/slstcurr.htm

Date # Type of Animal(s)

12/30 9 am

2

25 300

Humpback Whales (feeding with Sea Lions)

Pacific White-sided Dolphins Risso’s Dolphins (includ. Casper)

12/29 10 am

2 2

20 1

Humpback Whales Gray Whales

Risso’s Dolphins Steller Sea Lion

12/28 3 pm 2

200 20

Humpback Whales Risso’s Dolphins

Pacific White-sided Dolphins

12/27 8 am 6 12

Gray Whales Risso’s Dolphins

12/26 9 am 2 4

40


Risso’s Dolphins

12/24 9 am 2 3

75


Risso’s Dolphins

12/23 9 am 1 50

Gray Whale (“friendly”) Risso’s Dolphins

12/22 8 am 8-hr All Day

5 7 3

Gray Whales Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish)

Albatross

12/21 9 am 4 400


12/20 9 am

1 2

100 1 1

Humpback Whale (lunge feeding) Cuvier’s Beaked Whales

Risso’s Dolphins Blue Shark

Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish)

12/19 9 am 1 5

Humpback Whale Gray Whales

12/18 9 am 1

25 10

Gray Whale Risso’s Dolphins Harbor Porpoise

12/15 1 pm

11 100 300 250

Humpback Whales Pacific White-sided Dolphins

Long-beaked Common Dolphins Northern Right Whale Dolphins

12/13 9 am 3

10 500

Gray Whales (breaching) Pacific White-sided Dolphins

Risso’s Dolphins

12/12 9 am 3 200


12/11 9 am 2

200 1

Gray Whales Risso’s Dolphins Steller Sea Lion

12/10 9 am 2

100 1

Gray Whales Risso’s Dolphins Steller Sea Lion

12/9 9 am 2

100 300

Humpback Whales Common Dolphins (breaching) Risso’s Dolphins (breaching)

12/8 8 am 8 hour All Day

3 5

30 700


Bottlenose Dolphins Risso’s Dolphins

12/7 9 am

5 1

300 1

Humpback Whales Gray Whale

Risso’s Dolphins Black-footed Albatross

12/6 9 am 300 Risso’s Dolphins (breaching)



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