{"id":26235,"date":"2009-03-26T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/26\/one-of-a-kind-killer-whales-do\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T21:09:13","slug":"one-of-a-kind-killer-whales-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/one-of-a-kind-killer-whales-do\/","title":{"rendered":"One-of-a-Kind Killer Whales Doomed by Exxon Valdez"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most of Prince William Sound&#8217;s animal populations will someday recover from the lingering effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. One, however, will not: a community of killer whales unlike any other in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a separate population. Their genetics, their acoustics, are different from any other killer whales that we see in the north Pacific,&#8221; said Craig Matkin, director of the North Gulf Oceanic Society, who has studied the region&#8217;s whales for three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Known to researchers as the AT1 pod, the whales&#8217; home range fell within the 11,000 square miles of crude oil dumped by the ship when it ran aground on March 24, 1989. Nine of the pod&#8217;s 22 whales subsequently died, likely from oil ingestion &#8212; a blow from which the group, already struggling to cope with pollution and declining populations of the seals on which they rely for food, never recovered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the last nail in the coffin,&#8221; said Matkin. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/03\/valdezwhales.html\"><br \/>\nRead the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of Prince William Sound&#8217;s animal populations will someday recover from the lingering effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. One, however, will not: a community of killer whales unlike any other in the world. &#8220;It&#8217;s a separate population. Their genetics, their acoustics, are different from any other killer whales that we see in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/one-of-a-kind-killer-whales-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One-of-a-Kind Killer Whales Doomed by Exxon Valdez<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6P9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}