Orcas Family Health Center Installs First Ultrasound System on Island
...he-Art Diagnostic Imaging from MedPro Imaging orcas ISLAND, Wash., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest island in the San Juan Island chain, orcas Island, has recently added state-of-the-art, diagn...d in the northwest corner of Washington State, the orcas Family Health Center (OFHC), a certified rural hea...American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- Sept. 5, 2007
...60 years Environmental Science & Technology orcas or killer whales may continue to suffer the effect...ie and Peter S. Ross and colleagues point out that orcas face a daunting array of threats to survival, incl...ent declines in PCBs in the environment may affect orcas throughout an exceptionally long life expectancy, ...Unlike other mammals, newborn dolphins and orcas stay active 24/7 during first months of development
If you thought the sleep-deprived months with your newborn were tough, pity the poor mother dolphin or killer whale. Reporting in the June 30 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Nature, UCLA/Veterans Affairs neuroscientists report a developmental pattern in bottlenose dolphins and killer whales...The art of using science to inform ecosystem restoration in Puget Sound
...osystem. The needs of these two species present a prime example of how previous single-species strategies do not work in ecosystem restoration. The orcas main source of food is Chinook salmon. And the whales are suffering from malnutrition, said NOAA Fisheries Scientist Mary Ruckelshaus. But by increasi...