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Thelma Palmer - The Tree That Went Walking
Across the blue water could be seen Mount Baker white with snow all year long and hot with secret fires that sent ... to the trunk and look across the water for sea birds and whales and name the names of islands in the distance. One morning she ... and watching across the water. Once a great pod of black and white whales swam along the shore below her high perch and blew their Orca ...
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Small cetaceans
IWC has the legal competence to regulate catches only of these named great whales. Others believe that all cetaceans, including the smaller dolphins and porpoises, also fall ... incidental takes. Reviews conducted in recent years have considered the status of monodontid whales (white whales and narwhals), freshwater cetaceans (Irrawaddy dolphin, tucuxi, boto, Indus river dolphin, Ganges river dolphin ...
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Online Zoologists: Cetaceans, the Whales and Dolphins
Genus Delphinapterous Species Delphinapterous leucas ("White whale" or "Beluga Whale") Also known as "sea canaries" for their sound mimicking capabilities, the white whales are sometimes found in large groups in northern waters. Charlotte, The Vermont Whale. A paleontological find of an 11,000 year old white whale skeleton. ...
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Online Zoologists: Cetaceans, the Whales and Dolphins
(Automatically updated here.) Order Cetacea (whales & dolphins) Suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales) Baleen whales capture prey items by straining water through a series of ... Genus Delphinapterous Species Delphinapterous leucas ("White whale" or "Beluga Whale") Also known as "sea canaries" for their sound mimicking capabilities, the white whales are sometimes found in large ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Humpback Whales | Introduction
By contrast, the flippers of North Pacific humpback whales ... pigmentation pattern of black and white. The whales are born with this pattern and ... white flippers and irregular dorsal fin are characteristic of North Atlantic humpbacks Much of what is known of humpbacks comes from the fact that, as whales ...
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Sable Island Whales & Dolphins
(Mysticeti) such as Fin and Humpback whales. Of the strandings reported from Sable Island, five species - Pygmy and Dwarf sperm whales, Sowerby's and Blainville's beaked whales, ... Killer whale Orcinus orca Long-finned pilot whale Globicephala melaena White-beaked dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris Atlantic white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus ...
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The Whales of Hervey Bay - Venus
She appeared very beautiful in the morning sunlight, her under-fluke was clean and white and the Calf was gentle and slow moving.
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Whales - History
Australia underway with small shore stations. 1835-1844 Whales hunted to near extinction. Southern Right Whales were considered the "right" whale to hunt because they float when ... winter of 1804 at Kangaroo Island. The first white visitors to South Australia, hardened whalers, were probably a rough introduction to white people for local aboriginals. Records and statistics ...
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General Information About Finback Whales
Florida. Fin whales sometimes become entrapped in ice around Newfoundland waters. Underwater view ... while the right side of the head and baleen are white. Fin whales have been observed to swim toward their prey (krill ... white side of its head to scare and concentrate its prey before engulfing it. Little is known about the social organization of these whales ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Right Whales | Introduction
Studies | Aerial Surveillance | Acoustic Monitoring | Field Notes | Reports Right Whale Introduction North Atlantic right whales, Eubalaena glacialis, are among the rarest of the baleen whale species. Distinct populations of ... home for cyamids or whale lice. Dense colonies of these invertebrates make callosities appear white or tan. A different species of cyamid live on the callosities of very young ...
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