On Second Thought For Tuesday, July 2, 2019

The world has six fewer North Atlantic Right Whales after a summer
of loss for the endangered species. Four of the animals have died
in the last week alone, and three of them were of breeding age. The
whales are Georgia's state marine mammal, and biologists are
alarmed these deaths bring the species even closer to extinction.
Clay George is a wildlife biologist with the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources. He's among those monitoring the numbers, and he
spoke with On Second Thought about the dwindling population, the
role of the Georgia coast in the whales' life cycle and the origins
of their name.