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Shrinking fish, shipstrikes, and tracking Putin by wildlife. Thursday Afternoon Dredging: August 24th, 2017

Posted on August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Watch this basking shark feed in a video from Basking Shark Scotland

    Video by Basking Shark Scotland
  • Follow Ting-Chun Kuo, a seahorse conservationist who just defended her Ph.D., on twitter!
  • Climate change is shrinking fish. By Craig Welch, for National Geographic.
  • More whales are dying from shipstrikes then previously believed, because some sink. By KCBS news.
  • Scientists attached cameras to penguins. Here’s what they found. By Sarah Gibbens, for National Geographic

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • How climate change cancelled the grizzly bear salmon run. By Ed Yong, for the Atlantic.
  • Warming waters disrupt seabird’s food supply. By Robin McKie, for the Guardian
  • Where in the World is Vladmir Putin? A biogeographical investigation. By David Steen, for Motherboard.

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