{"id":50125,"date":"2017-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/le-geant-des-geants-a-lhonneur-au-musee-royal-de-lontario-de-toronto\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:18:35","slug":"giant-of-giants-honoured-at-torontos-royal-ontario-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/giant-of-giants-honoured-at-torontos-royal-ontario-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant of Giants Honoured at Toronto&#8217;s Royal Ontario Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 11, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto will launch its new exhibition dedicated to the largest animal the planet has ever known: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/en\/blue-whale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition invites the public to &#8220;discover a story bigger than all of us&#8221; by relating the story of its main star, the 24-metre long blue whale skeleton, which dates back to April 2014 when the animal was found dead near Newfoundland. <a href=\"http:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/des-rorquals-bleus-meurent-dans-les-glaces-a-terre-neuve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This whale was probably one of the nine individuals that had died trapped in the ice a few weeks earlier<\/a>\u00a0(in French). &#8220;Never have so many blue whales perished at the same time in the same area,&#8221; points out Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This stranding, while tragic for the endangered species, eventually proved to be an exceptional opportunity for research and conservation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Out of the Depths: The Blue Whale Story<\/em> offers an in-depth look into the lives of these whales (evolution, communication, feeding strategy) and a chance to discover research and conservation projects being carried out around the world to better understand these elusive giants. Experts will be on hand to present their research projects, including:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/scientific-exploration\/research-in-quebec\/richard-sears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Sears<\/a>, founder and director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rorqual.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Clark of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/page.aspx?pid=2713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornell University<\/a>, marine mammal acoustics specialist<\/p>\n<p>Asha De Vious, investigator for <a href=\"http:\/\/ashadevos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sri Lankan Blue Whale Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/en\/blue-whale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Ontario Museum website<\/a>\u00a0and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/royalontariomuseum\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le 11 mars prochain, le Royal Ontario Museum de Toronto lance sa nouvelle exposition consacr\u00e9e au plus grand animal que la plan\u00e8te ait connu : Du fond des mers, le rorqual bleu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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