{"id":2302,"date":"2016-01-05T18:03:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:14:39","slug":"what-else-is-out-there-that-dont-we-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/what-else-is-out-there-that-dont-we-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What else is out there that don\u2019t we know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have recently discovered a population of whale that has never been seen alive. This species, called Omura\u2019s whale (<em>Balaenoptera omurai<\/em>), was only confirmed to exist in 2003, and has only been glimpsed in the wild over the last several decades, but\u00a0never been confirmed. Until this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.neaq.org\/2015\/10\/new-video-of-nearly-unknown-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\">expedition<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all very\u00a0cool, but the most amazing thing to think about is: that<strong> there is a species of whale that the scientific community had not seen alive!<\/strong> Although it is a \u2018small\u2019 whale (the length of a small city bus;\u00a010-14 m), how can we not have regularly seen a whale that has been sharing this\u00a0planet with us? This is a totally amazing thing.<\/p>\n<p>This really shows us how little we still know about our life on our world, and most especially how little we know about our oceans. We even know that there are other things we don\u2019t know about in the ocean: giant squids, life around hydrothermal vents, and even how different habitats on our coasts\u00a0can change over time.<\/p>\n<p>But the most important thing that\u00a0observing Omura\u2019s whale in the wild for the first time really tells us is this: <strong>we have to be cautious how we behave in the world<\/strong>. If we didn\u2019t even know there was another species of a whale swimming around in our oceans, what else don\u2019t we know? And more importantly, what might we be doing that could be a threat to them continuing to live with us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Scientists have recently discovered a population of whale that has never been seen alive. This species, called Omura\u2019s whale (Balaenoptera omurai), was only confirmed to exist in 2003, and has&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,6],"tags":[134,136,620],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coasts-oceans","category-endangered-species","tag-great-canadian-turtle-race","tag-leatherback-sea-turtle","tag-marine-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}