The Conversation Canada
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Jun 1, 2026
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Centuries-old logbooks reveal how bowhead whales are recovering from near-extinction
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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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