Susan Hopp, member of the Board of Directors for the American Cetacean Society, San Francisco Bay Chapter highlights the speaker series events scheduled for the remainder of 2022.
In Conversation with Izzy: Why We Haven’t Seen Whales Feeding in San Francisco Bay This Summer
In Conversation with Izzy: Recent Strandings of Fin and Gray Whales in the Bay Area
The Surprising Diversity of Feeding Methods in Baleen Whales
Baleen first evolved in whales to take advantage of an underutilized prey resource, namely small shoaling fish and krill. A transformation occurred from rudimentary teeth to an intermediate state with both teeth and baleen, until eventually rudimentary teeth were absorbed before birth to make way for baleen plates.