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for the past many years, Japan has come up with frivolous reasons for killing hundreds of whales: the mammals may be eating commercially important quantities of fish, therefore, it is important to identify the contents of their diet. Now, Australian and us scientists have developed a method that will challenge this long-disputed reason. The scientists say that analysis of the whales' faeces provides a good insight about what's inside their stomach.

The breakthrough occurred when the researchers collected and analysed blue whale's waste, which was excreted near the surface of the water. The researchers after separating the dna material from the wastes, established what the whales had eaten. They also identified a distinctive

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Down to Earth [2]
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Animal Nutrition [3], Animal Feed [4], Whales [5], Research [6], Scientists [7], Information [8], Japan [9], United States Of America (US) [10], Australia [11]
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