understanding of their life history. was it surprising to see 50 of these whales earlier this week and some of them died, of course, and then another 20 or so over the past day? well, it does raise cause for concern amongst the public. of course it s a very interesting event, and for the management agencies like noaa fisheries, it s obviously a big cause of concern for the they responsible for managing these types of is dl a virus going around of some kind? is it sonar? what can you point to that is having so many of these whales coming closer to tshores of the u.s.? it could be for a variety of reasons. seismic activity or a multi-beam echo sounder that the oil industry sometimes uses to map the ocean floor, low frequency