* As of January 29, 2024, the total number of calves born was 16.<\/p>\n
An exceptional event was observed a little over a year ago: Pilgrim, a North Atlantic right whale, gave birth to her first calf at the age of 10. This is exceptional, because although sexual maturity in this species is normally reached between 5 and 10 years of age, females are now having their first calf later and later. The culprit? Entanglements, ship strikes and climate change are stressors that are directly affecting the reproductive success of this endangered species.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, with just 14 births recorded so far for the 2023-2024 season, we\u2019re still a far cry from the target threshold to have any hope for population growth, which is 50 births per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
* As of January 29, 2024, the total number of calves born was 16. An exceptional event was observed a little over a year ago: Pilgrim, a North Atlantic right whale, gave birth to her first calf at the age of 10. This is exceptional, because although sexual maturity in this species is normally reached […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12842,"featured_media":65198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[803,444,1903,488,520,1904,463,457,1905,1906],"class_list":["post-65243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-birth","tag-empetrement-en","tag-en-voie-de-disparition-en","tag-endangered-species","tag-entanglement","tag-menaces-en","tag-naissance-en","tag-north-atlantic-right-whale","tag-risk","tag-strike"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n