The world's smallest member of the cetacean grouping, which includes whales and dolphins, the vaquita was the most recent cetacean to be recognized by modern science.
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"A person may move a live cetacean from its immediate vicinity when the cetacean is injured or in distress and is in need of assistance," the bill states.
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Under Ninth Circuit precedent — a case called Cetacean v.
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These recorded 548 cetacean fossils from a range of species.
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The decision was based on the Ninth Circuit case Cetacean v.
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As expected, the panel said that it was bound by Cetacean v.
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Like other mammalian vaginas, cetacean vaginas turn out to be very complex.
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Slipping from end to end like a bullet caught in cetacean aspect.
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To find out, he and his colleagues gathered a library of cetacean calls.
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Scientists from Britain's Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme will carry out post-mortem examinations.
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Both Doyle and Elliott studied cetacean communication with various tools provided by information theory.
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That's because the 9th Circuit is bound by its own precedent in Cetacean v.
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He witnessed the first human-caused extinction of a cetacean, the Yangtze River dolphin.
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Kelly has even begun working with researchers at the penis end of the cetacean puzzle.
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Instead, the cetacean had large and broad lower molars it used to feed by filtering seawater.
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As it turns out, cetacean vaginas have unusual folds with unknown functions that differ between species.
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Image: Henk Tanis"This case concerns the second known case of twinning, the first case of conjoined twins in Phocoena phocoena, the fourth known case of parapagus dicephalus in a cetacean species and the tenth known case of conjoined twinning in a cetacean species," the researchers wrote.
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Orcas and other cetacean species have been observed carrying their dead, but rarely longer than a day.
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Now, after two centuries of whaling on an industrial scale, the Southern Ocean will be a cetacean sanctuary.
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That's because research on cetacean genitalia (dolphins and whales are both cetaceans) is pretty biased towards penis-havers.
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There wasn't enough data to compare cetacean vaginal length, because scientists spend all their time measuring penises instead.
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The Zoological Society of London has a Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme which will investigate the causes of death.
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Plus, in a super interesting but no less graphic report, we looked at the gnarly work of cetacean autopsies.
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Not since the Yangtze River dolphin went extinct in 2006 in China has a cetacean gone over the brink.
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Previous objections to resource extraction in the region include the impact it would have on cetacean and sea turtle habitats.
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VICE News Tonight went to La Rochelle to find out exactly what's causing so many cetacean deaths on France's shores.
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A four-ship fleet from Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research traveled to the Antarctic Ocean and killed 333 minke whales.
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It's about Cetacean and about making precedent that will let PETA sue on behalf of animals in more serious matters.
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"But it was clear it was trying to communicate something," the president of the Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation said.
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But after reading about a strange new humpback whale behavior, you might want to add a cetacean coup to your list.
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It would be hazardous to try milking any cetacean in the wild (although scientists have done so with recently deceased specimens).
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Trilobites Scientists have collected skin samples from the unusual orcas, which could help determine whether they are a distinct cetacean species.
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But the dead cetacean proved too big, bouncing off the red bin and flopping onto the pavement of a beachside parking lot.
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In March, Japan's Institute for Cetacean Research slaughtered 333 mink whales, including pregnant females, on a "research" expedition in the Southern Ocean.
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First identified in the 19th century, the cetacean species resembles a cross between an orca and a bottlenose dolphin, according to the Oregonian .
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Swaggy P met a dolphin and wasn't into it but gave it another shot in the spirit of summer vacation and cetacean relations.
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I've been tuning in for an hour, and have so far detected some sort of cetacean noise, and what resembled a boat propeller.
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Since 2014, 872 cetaceans - which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises - have been put into captivity in China, according to the China Cetacean Association.
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In Cetacean, a "self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins" sued the government over the Navy's use of sonar.
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Then again, if you're seriously concerned about the impending cetacean takeover, maybe using technology to interrupt these cryptic marine messages isn't a bad thing.
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While it has not been proven that cetacean communication has all the characteristics of human language, there is evidence that strongly suggests it could.
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Alexander the Great, Pliny, Cicero, Hesiod all tell of the remarkable kinship humans have with dolphins and the uncanny awareness of the cetacean mind.
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"It could have drifted for miles, so it&aposs a matter of re-sighting it," Bill Keener with Golden Gate Cetacean Research, told the paper.
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Pilot whales primarily eat squid but are also known to hunt octopus, cuttlefish and small fish when squid prove elusive, the American Cetacean Society said.
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Pilots, which live in pods of 20 or 90 animals, are about as intelligent as dolphins and easily trained, according to the American Cetacean Society.
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"For individual animals, this is certainly a bad thing," Paul Jepson of the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme at the Zoological Society of London told Gizmodo.
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New Yorkers will be able to track the chatter of their cetacean neighbors in near real-time on a web page devoted to the project.
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This time, the BC bottlenose dolphins were accompanied by about 70 false killer whales, another cetacean species that normally lives in warm and tropical waters.
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"There's nothing that comes out of Western cetacean research that even approximates a Japanese cartoon from the early part of the 19th century," Dyer said.
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So NOAA has a network of offices along the coasts that takes cetacean SOS's from the coast guard, navy, fishermen, and occasionally a very concerned homeowner.
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Exhibition maintenance manager Trenton Dureksen spent three days in a cherrypicker, sucking dust off the 94-foot-long cetacean with an ordinary hepa filter vacuum cleaner.
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Heike Vester, director of Ocean Sounds, a nonprofit cetacean research organization based in Germany, noted that this research was limited by its sample size of one.
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According to Michael Noad, an associate professor in the Cetacean Ecology and Acoustics Laboratory at the University of Queensland in Australia, humpback whales sing complex songs.
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Scientists have found a new species of whale ancestor — a toothy cetacean that sucked prey into its mouth and likely hunted at the bottom of the seafloor.
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Image: Alexandra BoersmaThe Oligocene, a cool chapter in Earth's history that followed the hot, ice-free Eocene, is thought to be a period of rapid cetacean diversification.
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The white cetacean, which feeds on fish, squid and crabs, was first spotted last September and surfaced near Gravesend, Kent on the southern side of the estuary.
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Cetacean stands for the principle that animals can't sue under a given statute unless Congress clearly intended for animals to be able to sue under that law.
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The white cetacean, which feeds on fish, squid and crabs, was first spotted in September and surfaced near Gravesend, Kent on the southern side of the estuary.
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While you'd think that the penis goes inside the vagina, and that's really all there is to it, the biomechanics of cetacean sex are actually fairly complex.
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The smallest, perhaps most exquisite cetacean on earth, the vaquita, 250 feet long with a black circle that rings its eyes, could vanish forever any day now.
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For several months, enormous great white shark corpses have been washing up on the Gansbaai beaches, often missing their livers as if feasted upon by cetacean Hannibal Lecters.
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The people of Texel and the surrounding islands are living in a sort of whale trap that will keep killing any cetacean unlucky enough to wander into it.
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Because of their unique position within the cetacean family tree, scientists can study these creatures to better understand the ancestors of marine dolphins, such as the bottlenose dolphin.
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Known mostly by its Spanish name, the snub-nosed vaquita is the world's smallest cetacean, a miniature porpoise with a cartoonlike features and dark smudges around its eyes.
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"It's a common-sense proposal directly informed by the fact that cetacean species and populations are still recovering from decades of merciless commercial whaling in the twentieth century."
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The only problem is that in the 9th Circuit—an appellate jurisdiction that includes the Northern District of California, where PETA has brought the lawsuit—follows Cetacean v.
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The Japanese whaling fleet, which goes by the Institute of Cetacean Research, is in the midst of a 12-year program that will result in the slaughter of 4,000 whales.
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Image: EPA/Tim Watters/Sea Shepherd Australia/AAPEarlier today, four ships from Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research returned to their home port after a "scientific" expedition to the Antarctic region.
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Pilot whales mainly feed on squid, but are known to eat octopus and small fish when squid are not available, according to the American Cetacean Society, a whale conservation group.
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Humpbacks, and possibly bowheads, sing complex songs with repeated patterns, said Michael Noad, an associate professor in the Cetacean Ecology and Acoustics Laboratory at the University of Queensland in Australia.
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The figures were published in a technical report submitted to the International Whaling Commission and prepared by representatives of the Institute of Cetacean Research, an agency linked to Japan's fisheries ministry.
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Pumping dolphin penises full of saline to simulate cetacean sex in the lab might sound like a lark, but understanding how these animals reproduce could have important implications for species conservation.
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The global population of Antarctic minke whales is estimated to be around 500,000, so they are not threatened to the same extent as some cetacean species, such as blue whales or bowheads.
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In order to really get deep into what's going on here, the researchers collected 59 cetacean reproductive tracts from twenty species of cetaceans that had washed ashore and died of natural causes.
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Researchers told the Post that an outbreak of cetacean morbillivirus killed thousands of dolphins along the Mid-Atlantic from 85033 to 2015 convinced them they needed to do studies on the area.
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In Cetacean, a "self-appointed attorney for all of the world's whales, porpoises, and dolphins" sued under the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In June of 1798, a 55-foot-long humpback whale drifted into Edo's Shinagawa Bay, drawing crowds to the beach to marvel at the trapped cetacean.
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Although Cetacean had concluded that the world's "whales, porpoises, and dolphins" weren't allowed to sue under that particular statute, the case says that the US Constitution itself doesn't stop animals from bringing lawsuits.
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But, when I heard the words "Star Trek," I never pictured, say, the conflicted Klingon Starfleet officer Worf, or the buttock-headed, avaricious Ferengi, or the sleek, cetacean U.S.S. Voyager, from later series.
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The genetic diversity of living sperm whales already suggests the species dwindled during past episodes of climate change, says Alana Alexander, who studies cetacean DNA at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
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Amanda Hodgson, of the school's Cetacean Research Unit, has been using UAVs to capture images of marine animals for years, but the data piles up fast, and there are only so many grad students.
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The IWC's review committee keeps pointing out that you could very easily do this through non-lethal means — by collecting tissue sample or feces — just like every other cetacean researcher on the planet does.
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"The whaling will be conducted in accordance with international law and within the catch limits calculated in accordance with the method adopted by the IWC to avoid negative impact on cetacean resources," Suga said.
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The non-profit Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS), which keeps a research station in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec, on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, is interested in whales—blue whales, especially, but other species, too.
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Roughly the size of a modern beluga whale, this 15-foot-long cetacean didn't have teeth or baleen (rows of hair-like plates that whales use to filter tiny prey from the water), relying instead on suction feeding.
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He came to it as the result of a study, just published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, which he and his team conducted on pilot whales (pictured) and Risso's dolphins—two closely related species of small cetacean.
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It's part of a project called NEWREP-A (New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean), in which Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research has mandated the killing of 4,000 minke whales over the course of 12 years.
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In a report released Friday by the IUCN SSC Cetacean Specialist Group, a panel of scientists suggested that the Mexican government adopt a permanent ban on gill nets and redouble their efforts to crack down on illegal fishing operations.
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In terms of humpback whale biology, this study suggests the animals "are able to see, find and capitalize on a new opportunity," said Alyson Fleming, a cetacean researcher at the Smithsonian Institution who was not involved in the study.
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It would be foolish, however, to ignore the sea change in public opinion that occurred since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, which chronicled years of animal abuse at the park and revealed the darkest aspects of cetacean captivity.
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This Is What a Dolphin&aposs Vagina Looks LikeA couple of months ago, I helped out in Patricia Brennan's lab when she made casts of dolphin…Read more ReadUltimately, there is a whole lot we don't know about cetacean vaginas.
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Throughout that time, pink dolphins -- and to a lesser degree the finless porpoise, another local cetacean -- were a common sight for Hong Kong fishermen, who regarded the animals as a catch-stealing nuisance at best, and an evil omen at worst.
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Voluntary efforts to turn down the volume are having an effect: The Port of Vancouver started the ECHO (Enhancing Cetacean Habitat and Observation) Program, asking mariners to reduce noise by having ships slow down and fix cavitation on the propellers.
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This study takes it a step further, providing "gold-standard, controlled experimental evidence" that orcas can learn fresh sounds through imitation, said Luke Rendell, a cetacean and social learning researcher at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who was not involved in the work.
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In a statement released on the same day, the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), a Japanese nonprofit, said that under the injunction, Sea Shepherd USA would be barred from "physically attacking" their research vessels and crew and from sailing within 500 yards of their whaling ships.
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Yet Totem Pole Park is just a few miles off the famous Route 66 — you can drive a short way to Catoosa and see the Blue Whale, a grinning concrete cetacean sporting a baseball hat that was built in the 1970s by Hugh Davis for his wife.
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An unusually large group of bottlenose dolphins—a species of cetacean that normally lives in tropical and temperate waters—has been spotted off the coast of British Columbia, write researchers Luke Halpin, Jared Towers, and John Ford in a new paper in a marine biodiversity journal.
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Sönke Johnsen, a biologist at Duke University, told Dr. Walkowicz that his team had stumbled upon a bizarre correlation: When the surface of the sun was pocked with dark sunspots, an indicator of solar storms, gray whales and other cetacean species seemed more likely to strand themselves on beaches.
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I believe mimicking the cetacean could prove more efficient than propellers, generate less underwater noise, and allow the ship to sail in shallower waters without damage—all core elements of the Seataci, my idea for a luxury cruise ship that could navigate in shallow waters with an eco-friendly propulsion system.
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This has been happening for years—since 2001, in fact—despite strong consensus among conservation biologists that the eight million square mile reserve is exactly what ailing cetacean populations need to recover from the reckless slaughter of the 20th century, during which nearly three million whales were killed by commercial fishermen.
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If the recommendations kiosk at the Brooklyn Public Library only had copies of Moby Dick and Mein Kampf, I suspect I'd see a rise in anti-semitism among my less cetacean-interested neighbors, and I'd be in the right to put at least some of that blame on the librarians.
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Zoological Society of London (ZSL), along with officials from the U.K. Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme and Port of London Authority performed a post-mortem examination on the whale and determined the mammal was hit by a ship, though it is unclear if the strike occurred before or after the whale's death.
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Ancient, Sharp-Toothed Whales Are Upending Cetacean HistoryAll living whales are descended from terrestrial mammals, but how these aquatic creatures evolved…Read more Read"A living baleen whale has a big, broad roof in its mouth, and it's also thickened to create attachment sites for the baleen," said Peredo in a statement.
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But not that many games place the oceans at the very centre of their narratives – and that includes underwater affairs like Ecco the Dolphin, BioShock and SOMA, where the seawater is mostly a backdrop for more pressing concerns, be they overthrowing a dystopian despot or rescuing your cetacean pals from Giger-inspired aliens.
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This panel disagreed, but said it was bound by the precedent of Cetacean until the case was overruled by a higher court — implicitly calling for a higher court (like a Ninth Circuit en banc panel or the Supreme Court) to go back and make it much harder for PETA to sue for animal rights.
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Japan Unveils Its Plan To Save The Whales, By Killing ThemLast month, the International Court demanded an end to Japan&aposs research whaling program, and …Read more ReadThe 333 minke whales reaches the quota the Institute of Cetacean Research set for itself two years ago (the yield is about one-third of what it used to catch).
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But the world has not forgotten about the wrongs against Morgan, the Free Morgan Foundation — which includes the organizations of Orcalab, Orca Network, Orca Research Trust, Centre for Whale Research, Project SeaWolf Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island — is continuing to work for the whale's freedom, collecting footage of her abuse and campaigning with the government and courts for her release.
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He wanted to move, like the whale, in a sonar world that still contained the pulses of fifty-million-year-old sagas of continuous whale-mind: "elegant cetacean music…lyrical litanies on the bio-radio…rumours of ancestors, memories of loss, memories of ideal love…" The closest he could come to this was perhaps the state of anarchy in which he lived in the late 1970s, in his Free Independent Republic of Frestonia in Notting Hill, where buildings were squatted and food and beds shared in a ferment of ideas.
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Over the past two years, it's become apparent…Read more ReadAviation Experts Have Predicted Automation Will Lead to Disasters Like the Boeing Max Crashes for…The two tragic crashes of Boeing's best-selling 737 Max planes increasingly look to be caused in…Read more ReadA 14-Year-Old&aposs Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis May Have Been Caused by Cat BacteriaDoctors have started to come around to the idea that hidden bacteria and viruses in the body can…Read more ReadMysterious Planetwide Rumble May Have Come From the Largest Underwater Eruption Ever RecordedOn November 11, 2018, a deep rumble ricocheted around the world, one that humans couldn't feel but…Read more ReadSome Humans Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field, Fascinating Experiment SuggestsThe ability to sense the Earth's magnetic field—a trait known as magnetoreception—is well…Read more ReadExploding Whales, Poisoned Porpoises: The Gruesome World of Cetacean AutopsiesA dolphin post-mortem may not be everyone's cup of tea.
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