Read more cetaceans stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/33588/cetaceans.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:11:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/62883/whales-and-dolphins-may-deserve-personhood-status.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhales and dolphins have highly evolved social structures and may deserve a “personhood” status similar to that being considered for members of the great ape family, Wired reports. The emotional and social areas of the cetacean brain are “enormously complex,” notes one researcher, “and in many species are “even more...http://www.newser.com/story/62883/whales-and-dolphins-may-deserve-personhood-status.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 26 Jun 2009 2:38:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34694/humpbacks-no-longer-in-danger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHumpback whales, once feared to be on the verge of extinction, have made such a dramatic comeback that the International Union for Conservation of Nature has removed them from its list of vulnerable species. A ban on humpback whaling in the 1960s has allowed their numbers to grow to 55,...http://www.newser.com/story/34694/humpbacks-no-longer-in-danger.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 12 Aug 2008 9:56:02 CDT