"My conceptual model can explain the mystery of the missing calves: Blue whales produce calves, or give birth, shortly after departing their summer feeding grounds, and wean their calves seven ...

AWI research has revealed that, in service to this model, the industry routinely subjects hundreds of thousands of young, unweaned calves to stressful journeys of up to 1,000 miles or more throughout ...

While the whales gather in large numbers in the summer, they typically produce calves in the winter and fall, when few researchers are around to watch, he said. “My conceptual model can explain ...