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ScienceAlert on MSNWhale Pee Transports Nutrients Across Thousands of Miles, Study RevealsGreat rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals. While their ...
When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.
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Discovery: The Great Whale Pee FunnelWhales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...
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Interesting Engineering on MSNWhale pee ‘funnel’ moves 4,000 tons of nitrogen a year, keeping ocean aliveA study led by researchers at the University of Vermont describes how whales can transport essential nutrients like nitrogen ...
The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...
New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...
“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...
Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...
“We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman, a University of Vermont biologist and study coauthor, said in a university news release. The study focused on a handful of baleen ...
Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt,” according to a new study. Photo from Venti Views, UnSplash It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh ...
It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh. The marine giants’ urine serves a vital role in ecosystems by moving tons of nutrients across vast ocean distances, according to new research.
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