Wed July 27, 2016
Please Join SF Bay ACS for "Sex on the Breach: A Summer Sizzler Peeks Into The Reproductive Practices of The Ocean's Whales"
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Parental Guidance Advised: The topic, and some graphic images, dictate that parents use appropriate judgment.
The giants of the ocean employ a surprisingly “different strokes” approach to sex. Some Marybull whales battle for their mates; some beguile with song and caress. Others may just get lucky – literally. And, where group sex is involved, “timing is everything” may apply. Size matters among certain species, but is almost irrelevant in others.
Between the sexes, mating can be consensual, when females urge males to outcompete each other in heat runs; or otherwise, where some males’ uniquely prehensile anatomy can overcome the coyest females’ evasive movements. Regardless of style — whether to battle, bully or beguile — it all enables these lusty Leviathans to pass on their genes and ensure new whale generations.
Biography:
Mary Jane Schramm. If you live in the Bay Area, you’ve heard the name Mary Jane Schramm. She is theMJ Schramm copy spokesperson, officially Media and Public Outreach liaison, for NOAA’s Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and regional Public Information Officer for the Whale Entanglement Network. As such, she is the go-to person for the media on issues involving whales, dolphins, porpoises and about anything else frolicking in the oceans.
For over three decades, MJ has been involved
in marine mammal conservation, starting with hands-on pinniped and cetacean rescue and rehab and tagging and tracking of elephant seals on the Farallon Islands. She assisted in research cruises focused on marine mammals and seabirds, has worked as a shipboard wildlife observer and led whale watching expeditions off ofMexico and California.
She coordinated Farallones sanctuary interests on the SS Jacob Luckenbach shipwreck lightering (oil removal) project outside the Golden Gate and has been involved in oil spill responses, from the SS Puerto Rican in 1984, to the 2010 BP-Deepwater Horizon event.MJ is co-author of “West Coast Whale Watching” (Harper Collins, 1995).
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The giants of the ocean employ a surprisingly “different strokes” approach to sex. Some Marybull whales battle for their mates; some beguile with song and caress. Others may just get lucky – literally. And, where group sex is involved, “timing is everything” may apply. Size matters among certain species, but is almost irrelevant in others.
Between the sexes, mating can be consensual, when females urge males to outcompete each other in heat runs; or otherwise, where some males’ uniquely prehensile anatomy can overcome the coyest females’ evasive movements. Regardless of style — whether to battle, bully or beguile — it all enables these lusty Leviathans to pass on their genes and ensure new whale generations.
Biography:
Mary Jane Schramm. If you live in the Bay Area, you’ve heard the name Mary Jane Schramm. She is theMJ Schramm copy spokesperson, officially Media and Public Outreach liaison, for NOAA’s Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and regional Public Information Officer for the Whale Entanglement Network. As such, she is the go-to person for the media on issues involving whales, dolphins, porpoises and about anything else frolicking in the oceans.
For over three decades, MJ has been involved
in marine mammal conservation, starting with hands-on pinniped and cetacean rescue and rehab and tagging and tracking of elephant seals on the Farallon Islands. She assisted in research cruises focused on marine mammals and seabirds, has worked as a shipboard wildlife observer and led whale watching expeditions off ofMexico and California.
She coordinated Farallones sanctuary interests on the SS Jacob Luckenbach shipwreck lightering (oil removal) project outside the Golden Gate and has been involved in oil spill responses, from the SS Puerto Rican in 1984, to the 2010 BP-Deepwater Horizon event.MJ is co-author of “West Coast Whale Watching” (Harper Collins, 1995).
Parental Guidance Advised: The topic, and some graphic images, dictate that parents use appropriate judgment.
The giants of the ocean employ a surprisingly “different strokes” approach to sex. Some Marybull whales battle for their mates; some beguile with song and caress. Others may just get lucky – literally. And, where group sex is involved, “timing is everything” may apply. Size matters among certain species, but is almost irrelevant in others.
Between the sexes, mating can be consensual, when females urge males to outcompete each other in heat runs; or otherwise, where some males’ uniquely prehensile anatomy can overcome the coyest females’ evasive movements. Regardless of style — whether to battle, bully or beguile — it all enables these lusty Leviathans to pass on their genes and ensure new whale generations.
Biography:
Mary Jane Schramm. If you live in the Bay Area, you’ve heard the name Mary Jane Schramm. She is theMJ Schramm copy spokesperson, officially Media and Public Outreach liaison, for NOAA’s Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and regional Public Information Officer for the Whale Entanglement Network. As such, she is the go-to person for the media on issues involving whales, dolphins, porpoises and about anything else frolicking in the oceans.
For over three decades, MJ has been involved
in marine mammal conservation, starting with hands-on pinniped and cetacean rescue and rehab and tagging and tracking of elephant seals on the Farallon Islands. She assisted in research cruises focused on marine mammals and seabirds, has worked as a shipboard wildlife observer and led whale watching expeditions off ofMexico and California.
She coordinated Farallones sanctuary interests on the SS Jacob Luckenbach shipwreck lightering (oil removal) project outside the Golden Gate and has been involved in oil spill responses, from the SS Puerto Rican in 1984, to the 2010 BP-Deepwater Horizon event.MJ is co-author of “West Coast Whale Watching” (Harper Collins, 1995).
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The giants of the ocean employ a surprisingly “different strokes” approach to sex. Some Marybull whales battle for their mates; some beguile with song and caress. Others may just get lucky – literally. And, where group sex is involved, “timing is everything” may apply. Size matters among certain species, but is almost irrelevant in others.
Between the sexes, mating can be consensual, when females urge males to outcompete each other in heat runs; or otherwise, where some males’ uniquely prehensile anatomy can overcome the coyest females’ evasive movements. Regardless of style — whether to battle, bully or beguile — it all enables these lusty Leviathans to pass on their genes and ensure new whale generations.
Biography:
Mary Jane Schramm. If you live in the Bay Area, you’ve heard the name Mary Jane Schramm. She is theMJ Schramm copy spokesperson, officially Media and Public Outreach liaison, for NOAA’s Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and regional Public Information Officer for the Whale Entanglement Network. As such, she is the go-to person for the media on issues involving whales, dolphins, porpoises and about anything else frolicking in the oceans.
For over three decades, MJ has been involved
in marine mammal conservation, starting with hands-on pinniped and cetacean rescue and rehab and tagging and tracking of elephant seals on the Farallon Islands. She assisted in research cruises focused on marine mammals and seabirds, has worked as a shipboard wildlife observer and led whale watching expeditions off ofMexico and California.
She coordinated Farallones sanctuary interests on the SS Jacob Luckenbach shipwreck lightering (oil removal) project outside the Golden Gate and has been involved in oil spill responses, from the SS Puerto Rican in 1984, to the 2010 BP-Deepwater Horizon event.MJ is co-author of “West Coast Whale Watching” (Harper Collins, 1995).
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