His 43 years of study, mostly focused on marine mammals, have exposed him to the animal pain and suffering side of what to many has been a mathematical exercise as North Atlantic right whale numbers freefall towards extinction - as they are beaten down by collisions with ships, entanglement in fishing gear and climate change. Moore anthropomorphizes the thought processes and feelings of two North Atlantic right whales that were caught in fishing gear and experience extreme suffering, and finally, death. WOODS HOLE - In the postscript to his new book, “We Are All Whalers,” Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whale researcher Michael Moore goes where few scientists are comfortable to go, and where most scientists take deliberate steps to avoid.
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