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An aerial view of a bowhead whale swimming near sea ice. By the time bowhead whaling was abandoned around 1914, there were likely fewer than 4,000 left. (Vicki Beaver/Alaska Fisheries Science Center)

Centuries‑old logbooks reveal how bowhead whales are recovering from near‑extinction

Nicholas Freymueller, Adelaide University and Damien Fordham, Adelaide University

New research used whaling logbooks to explain why only two of the four bowhead whale populations are bouncing back from whaling, which was abandoned a century ago.

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