But it's slow going, and the blue whale, gray whale, fin whale, and sei whale are all still endangered species.
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MINAMIBOSO, Japan (Reuters) - Whale cutlets, sliced raw whale, deep-fried whale nuggets, whale bacon and whale jerky feature on the menu at the restaurant Yoko Ichihara runs - and that's just a small sample of the ways Japan eats whale.
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MINAMIBOSO, Japan, June 24 (Reuters) - Whale cutlets, sliced raw whale, deep-fried whale nuggets, whale bacon and whale jerky feature on the menu at the restaurant Yoko Ichihara runs - and that's just a small sample of the ways Japan eats whale.
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Sophia Al Maria's "A Whale is a Whale is a Whale" (2014) is a mournful tribute to the Arabian whale, a beast that may soon be gone.
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I. The FOLIO WHALE ; II. The OCTAVO WHALE ; III.
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A different species of beaked whale, the Baird's beaked whale.
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Traditional recipes include blubber with vinegar-miso sauce, thinly sliced whale tongue, whale steak, a hotpot where slices of whale meat are simmered with mizuna greens and, the simplest, raw whale dipped in soy sauce.
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A humpback whale expertly drenched a boat full of whale watchers.
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Ichihara's restaurant offers many of these, as well as a unique take on traditional whale treats: fried whale dressed with slivered vegetables and vinegar, grilled marinated whale steak, and raw whale chopped with miso and scallions.
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I can recognize whales, whale families and whale cultures by their sounds, and I now know that identity is important in sperm whale society.
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The group Gotham Whale conducts scientific monitoring and offers whale-watching tours.
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A tour group was whale watching during an afternoon excursion with San Francisco Whale Tours when they spotted a man dodging the body of a whale.
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On the surface of it, filter-feeding sounds like a painstakingly straightforward process: whale opens mouth, whale gobbles-up copious amounts of krill, whale closes mouth.
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This rebound is welcomed news, especially when other whale populations, like the North Atlantic right whale and the Southern Resident killer whale, are suffering devastating losses.
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Another is shaped like a big whale and a baby whale swimming together.
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A group of whale watchers now has a whale of a tale to tell.
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Its body resembles a small whale—though, when flying, the whale is facing backwards.
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But Mr. Sieswerda, the founder of Gotham Whale, a research nonprofit that provides commentary during whale cruises, sees a shadow on the horizon far bigger than a whale.
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Maeda, the former whale hunter, runs his whale-watch trips out of Abashiri in Japan's far north, ironically a city whose history is deeply bound up in whale hunting.
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"We said 'baby whale,' so everyone thought it was a small whale," Walsh told NECN.
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Consumption of whale meat peaked in the '60s, when whale meat production reached 226,000 tons.
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A whale says 'hello' Wikie the whale is able to repeat a handful of words.
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According to the Post, it is not clear whether the whale was a short-finned or long-finned pilot whale, but the short-finned whale is native to the region.
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Most of the other bones belonged to sea creatures that live in the Mediterranean today, such as a fin whale, a sperm whale, a long-finned pilot whale and a dolphin.
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A whale-watching tour for two, Baja California, Mexico The waters in Baja California are among the best in the world for whale-watching, dolphin spotting and even swimming with whale sharks.
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A study published Wednesday provides the first direct evidence that two whale species, the gray whale and the North Atlantic right whale, may have lived near Mediterranean shores some 2,000 years ago.
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The southern right whale was given its name because tragically, it was the "right" whale for whaling.
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Then he pulled out a container of ambergris, the dried excretions of the sperm whale ("whale poop").
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Buckle Toys Blu Whale, $23.99, available at AmazonThe Buckle Blu Whale is bright, soft, lightweight, and engaging.
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A whale of a time Whale watchers off the coast of Alaska got quite a show as a humpback whale breached next to their tour boat, causing a splashy display that captivated passengers.
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Japan maintains that most whale species are not endangered and that eating whale is part of its culture.
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Whale trap Farewell Spit is considered to be a whale trap due to its shallow water, said Grant.
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Whale scientists in the rest of the world manage to study whale populations just fine without lethal methods.
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Tourists get close to a group of whales during a whale watching tours operated by Hermanus Whale Cruises.
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And then came the London Whale, and the whale sunk that idea like Moby Dick sinking the Pequod.
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So when a killer whale she didn't recognize surfaced just 100 feet from a whale watching boat this past week, Nancy Black, a marine biologist and owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch, was surprised.
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Researchers discovered whale bones from the North Atlantic right whale ( Eubalaena glacialis ) and the Atlantic gray whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ) within the ruins of an ancient Roman fish-processing facility located along the Strait of Gibraltar.
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"This is sort of like a wooden whale fall," Margo Haygood, a molecular biologist at the University of Utah, said before the trip; a whale fall is a dead whale that sinks to the seafloor.
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And in many cases, it was the humpback whale that approached the killer whale already engaged in a fight.
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A group a sightseers got closer than expected to an enormous fin whale during a recent whale-watching excursion.
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Whale breaches off the coast of Long Branch, NJ Raw slow motion video of whale leaping from the water.
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According to the Captain Boomer Collective's website, the whale is accompanied by scientists who teach people about the whale.
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Now, he's mapped the habitat of that species, called Omura's whale after Hideo Omura, a prominent Japanese whale biologist.
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Researchers even analyzed whale poop to find that boats had a significant impact on North Atlantic right whale stress levels.
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He said the size of the whale was also extremely impressive, being very large for so early in whale evolution.
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Japan has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and that eating whale is part of its culture.
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In these pages we forget that the right whale got its name because it was the right whale to kill.
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"Lose It," for example, begins with a whale-like sound, maybe if that whale were trapped in an underwater funhouse.
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In the whale study, each whale wears the suction-cup cameras for between 24 and 48 hours at a time.
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"Whale" makes me immediately think of Twitter's faulty "fail whale," so I'm not sure about the whole branding issue here.
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We have evidence for 4 different baleen whale species, and at least 2 toothed whale [dolphin or orca-like] species.
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Researchers at the whale watching company saw killer whales feed on gray whale calves only twice during April and May.
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The North Atlantic right whale is one of the five most frequently entangled large whale species, according to the NOAA.
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Whale meat may have been a delicacy in the old days — especially during WWII when Japan needed whale meat — but today the younger generation especially, are far more interested in whale watching than holding onto antiquated traditions.
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In 2005, Shane founded The Dominica Sperm Whale Project, a long-term study on wild sperm whale social structure and communication.
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All of the visual light movements in My Whale are triggered to the rhythm of whale songs playing over the speakers.
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Government veterinarians were dispatched to care for the whale and were joined later by members of a local whale conservancy group.
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" — Louis Kramberg, 67, Rego Park, N.Y. "It looks like the remains of a whale, maybe, a great, big, beautiful blue whale.
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This photo of a whale calf is actually upside-down, to create the appearance of the whale floating above the water.
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Independent of hotels, Monterey Bay Whale Watch runs year-round whale-watching boat excursions — guests are accompanied by a marine biologist.
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Unfortunately, the state was not given the measurements of the whale and provided a dumpster that could only fit a baby whale.
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The researchers said that the rattles traveled farther than expected, suggesting that they may play a role in whale-to-whale communication.
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There was plenty of enthusiasm on a whale-watching trip off northern Japan, but a mix of opinions about eating whale meat.
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Going to this URL with the binary for "whale" gives you a media player with whale sounds, and typing the Konami code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a) on the homepage plays the same whale audio.
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The Sacramento Bee reports that the aerial footage caught by a drone during a May 14 whale-watching trip features hundreds to thousands of Pacific White-sided and Northern Right Whale dolphins "snout-riding" the mother whale and her calf.
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And obviously the army were fixated on trying to keep their feet dry, so they introduced whale oil; they brought pots of whale oil in and got the soldiers to smear their feet in whale oil, then put their socks on.
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In another new paper, researchers at the University of Brest in France found that the pitch of Antarctic blue whale, pygmy blue whale and fin whale vocalizations fell from 2007 to 2016 at various recording sites in the southern Indian Ocean.
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"The whale was last seen heading south, and NOAA has alerted San Diego, but the whale could be anywhere," rescuers added on Facebook.
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Moore was aboard the SeaWolfe II with the whale tour company Monterey Bay Whale Watch on Tuesday when the group spotted the whales.
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The whale is seen in aerial video surfacing and diving below the water, as a whale rescue safari crew encircles the giant mammal.
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Two years ago, my diving and producing partner, Lucy, resurfaced in my life, calling to tell me about this whale, this lonely whale.
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Japan has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and that eating whale is a cherished part of its food culture.
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There's this one YouTube thing when I was in my "whale hole" on YouTube—and this orca whale ate a great white shark!
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The sounds are accompanied by vibrations that course hundreds if not thousands of feet through the water, possibly enhancing whale-to-whale communication.
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There has been a startling number of killer whale sightings in the bay in June, normally an off-season month for whale watchers.
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Ten days after my whale-less whale-watching visit to Hermanus, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series after a 108-year drought.
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"A blue whale is able to move so much further using so much less energy than a small-bodied whale," Dr. Slater said.
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The star-studded cast also includes an octopus Hank (Ed O'Neill), a whale shark Destiny (Kaitlin Olson) and a beluga whale Bailey (Ty Burrell).
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Cover: A beluga whale (white whale) swims in the enclosure in Srednyaya Bay, outside the Far Eastern port of Nakhodka, Primorsky krai region, Russia.
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This is the third largest recorded whale stranding in New Zealand, which has one of the highest rates of whale beachings in the world.
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Julie Cattiau, a Google product manager for the whale work, said Google plans to make the whale software available to additional organizations to improve.
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In the premiere, Packham heads to the world's largest whale nursery in Mexico to catch the arrival of gray whale mothers and their babies.
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At the International Whaling Commission's Scientific Committee in 28500, I pointed out that there was more economic benefit from whale watching than whale hunting.
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A plastinated whale heart, from a blue whale that died in Newfoundland in 2014, being prepared for shipment in Germany for a museum exhibit.
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On Maui, the island's Honua Kai Resort & Spa has the Whale Adoption Adventure, which includes five nights' accommodations and a whale-watching boat excursion.
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You'll see a group of tourists galvanized by a recent whale watching trip not far from a restaurant where whale eating is routinely practiced.
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In her defense, Fujii said she didn't realize the whale was dead and thought the man had courageously climbed atop a living beached whale.
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"I haven't had whale but now I want to try," said Kazushi Yago, 36, who stopped by a roadside store featuring local whale products.
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The new Southern Resident killer whale was born in May, but thanks to new photographs taken during the first sighting of the whales in more than two months, scientists at the Center for Whale Research were able to confirm the sex of the baby whale.
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A baleen whale call recorded at Challenger Deep Examples of odontocete (toothed whale or dolphin) and baleen whale calls Challenger Deep, it turns out, is an echo chamber for a cacophony of noises produced by everything from ships to baleen whales to Earth itself.
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SeaWorld San Diego puts on its final killer whale performance — sort of SeaWorld San Diego puts on its final killer whale performance — sort of In a hard-won victory for animal rights advocates, SeaWorld in San Diego hosted its final killer whale show on Sunday.
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It's rare to catch this particular type of killer whale, called the offshore killer whale, on camera — and it's even rarer to catch one eating.
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My work has lead to being able to recognize whales, whale families, and whale cultures by the sounds they use to communicate with each other.
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Image: "Capturing a Sperm Whale" by John William Hill (1835)In 19973, a sperm whale attacked and sank the Essex, a whaling ship from Massachusetts.
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In another incident of whale beaching in India, a 30-feet-long dead Bryde's whale washed up on Mumbai's popular Juhu beach on Thursday night.
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Whale researcher Alisa Schulman-Janiger, who works at the California Killer Whale Project, confirmed to BuzzFeed that the orcas were probably not in hunting mode.
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In January its ship Ocean Warrior caught a Japanese vessel with a dead whale on board in an Australian whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean.
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The photographer also had help from whale watcher Kate Cummings, who watched the whale in the photos breach multiple times before Croft got his shot.
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Tom Paladino, the captain of the whale-watching vessel, likes to say that "New York is the new Cape Cod," a longtime whale-watching destination.
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Recently, the pod treated a crew of whale watchers to a lifetime of nightmares when they slaughtered a grey whale calf in front of them.
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The most recent report by the NOAA confirmed 76 cases of large whale entanglements in 2017, with six of those cases involving a dead whale.
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A fancy restaurant serves whale meat, and bloody cuts of Antarctic minke whale, left over from the hunt there, are on sale in a supermarket.
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A Minamiboso roadside store stocks whale-stuffed Chinese buns and whale ham along with more traditional items and cookies sold in boxes decorated with whales.
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A dead blue whale is not some attraction – it&aposs an endangered species beloved by many, wildlife officials said after photos of the whale circulated online.
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Per the Post, experts say that the whale likely believed the bags were food:Thai officials said they believe the whale mistook the floating plastic for food.
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The model whale, which has been on display since 1969, is based on a blue whale found half a century earlier in waters off South America.
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The one captive killer whale who was released, Keiko of "Free Willy" fame, proved that such a whale could find food and travel hundreds of miles.
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The aim of the project is to keep tabs on Western Australia's humpback whale numbers, explained Curt Jenner, managing director of the Centre for Whale Research.
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The set menu began with an appetizer of dried cod, whale blubber, and dried whale meat (which was black and tasted of seawater, blood, and iron).
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According to CNN, the whale watchers and tourists aboard an Island Adventures Whale Watching boat near Anacortes, Washington, spotted a rare, white orca calf on Saturday.
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Instead, increasing blue whale populations could be resulting in a natural shift in volume, since whales may not need to sing as loudly to reach another whale.
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That animal was only the second blue whale - the world's largest living creature - known to have become entangled, and the 40th whale ensnared so far this year.
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Lawrence also explained to the CBC that when the mother whale breached, she immediately dropped her camera to paddle away from the whale as the guides instructed.
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To a whale biologist, he said, the idea of two whale species mixing is as mind-bending as the image of a chimp mating with a gorilla.
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According to recent data from the Center for Whale Research, the southern resident killer whale population is down to just 73 members and is considered "extremely endangered."
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"Big Catch, Prosperity of the Whale" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi centers on one large, dopey-eyed whale being scrubbed and skinned as its pod swims in the background.
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KATU-TV documented the spectacle:The latest whale carcass-related blunder occurred on Monday in Rye, New Hampshire, when a crew used a front-end loader to haul a 16-foot minke whale from a beach to a parking lot, and then attempted to plop the whale into a dumpster.
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Inupiat translates to "real people" who have lived in Alaska for more than 10,000 years, and these foods have remained as staple items of the community, from mukluk (bowhead whale meat), raw and cooked quaq (frozen whale meat), binocduk (dried caribou and raw caribou), beluga whale, and seal meat.
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On Sunday, a group of whale watchers off the coast of Laguna Beach, California, captured remarkable footage of a gray whale and her calf passing beneath its boat.
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The other day, Aragón says she saw an aerial picture of a whale in the water, and thought "Oh yeah, it's a whale," and didn't care very much.
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Image courtesy of Kate Cummings, Blue Ocean Whale WatchIn 2015, whale watchers off the coast of California's Monterey Bay caught a glimpse of an albino baby Risso dolphin.
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He was on a routine whale-watching boat trip last week in Monterey Bay, California, when he noticed a sea lion stuck on the nose of humpback whale.
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"The gray whale mom took her calf and swam very fast to the beach shoreline and saved her calf," Nancy Black of Monterey Bay Whale Watch told KSBW.
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And now I'm going to find out about whale snot, thanks to Chinese company DJI and a team of researchers using its drones to collect more whale goo.
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This killer whale mother was part of the Southern Resident killer whale population, found in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada and the northwestern United States.
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Kelly Christina Paulson and Michael Max Furchtgott are to be married March 12 on a whale-watching vessel in the Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in Maui, Hawaii.
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There was a "big quarrel" a few years back, he said, when a whale-watching boat witnessed a whale being killed — much to the discomfort of both sides.
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Dr. Cerchio said many whale experts and amateurs thought they had seen Bryde's whales, a slightly larger species of baleen whale, when they were really watching Omura's whales.
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The station, which is the official curator of the North Atlantic blue whale catalogues, is home to thousands of whale pictures, some of them in black-and-white.
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A dead whale has washed up in the Philippines with 88 pounds of garbage in its stomach, perhaps the most human waste ever found inside of a whale.
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When I open Explorer inside the Hall of Ocean Life — where the museum's famous 25-foot-long model of a blue whale presides — the app promptly informs me that a blue whale weighs as much as five subway cars, and lets me listen to an underwater recording of whale songs.
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"Today there were more (whale) jumps than usual; it was fantastic," said Kiyoko Ogi, a 47-year-old Tokyo bus driver who's been whale-watching in Rausu three times.
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This particular whale — who followed a group of tiger sharks — was in the area to feed off a sperm whale carcass that's been lingering several miles off the coast.
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In addition, construction and operation is likely to adversely affect six federally listed species - spectacled eider, polar bear, bearded seal, Cook Inlet beluga whale, humpback whale and ringed seal.
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The North Atlantic right whale and other whale species are critical to the health of the ocean on which a large and growing part of the U.S. economy relies.
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Whale bones contain a lot of grease, also known as whale oil, which was once a valuable commodity and was used as fuel to light lamps and make soap.
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Using Wikie the whale, who lives at the Marineland Aquarium in southern France as their test subject, scientists discovered a whale could learn new vocalizations by imitating its trainer.
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On Saturday, a whale watching group near the Farallon Islands, about 27 miles off San Francisco, saw a dead and decaying blue whale floating on the water, the Chronicle reported.
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Japan announced Wednesday that it will be leaving the International Whale Commission so that it can resume commercial whale hunting for the first time in 30 years, the AP reports.
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Today, these whales — like the blue whale or the humpback whale — don't have teeth, but keratin fibers called baleen that filter out the ocean water to catch fish or plankton.
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Whale watchers near Sydney, Australia, caused giggles 'round the internet on Tuesday when they failed to notice a humpback whale making a magnificent jump directly to the boat's left. Why?
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Tokyo says eating whale meat is an important part of Japanese culture, but according to the Asahi newspaper, whale accounts for roughly 0.1% of all meat consumed in the country.
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A sperm whale washed up dead on the shores of Spain in February, and scientists now say it's because the whale swallowed so much garbage that it couldn't digest it.
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Whale watcher and photographer Douglas Croft was in the perfect spot to capture shots of the whale leaping out of the sea right in front of a fisherman's tiny boat.
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Eventually, after a few moments of lying stomach to stomach, the two part with the whale swimming back toward its mother, leaving this diver with a true whale of tale.
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Japan, which says most whale species are not endangered and that eating whale is part of its culture, has long campaigned without success for the IWC to allow commercial whaling.
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Tom Paladino, a former charter fishing boat captain who started running whale watches from the American Princess in 2010 as local whale sightings began to grow, did not mince words.
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He neither names his characters nor identifies their ethnic or national background, wisely so in a story whose underlying dilemma might present itself—whale or no whale—to anyone anywhere.
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"We've got the first-ever sample of Type D killer whale," Mr. Pitman proclaimed a few minutes later, displaying to a videographer a small sample of whale skin and blubber.
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"They got the whale totally disentangled, and then some kind of freak thing happened and the whale made a big flip," Mackie Green of the team told The Canadian Press.
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Every hour and a half, Cuvier's beaked whale, also called the goosebeak whale, dives down up to 10,203 feet and stays there, at tremendous pressure, for up to two hours.
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Sampling the community of microbes and bacteria living inside whales, called the microbiome, can help us better understand what makes a healthy whale, and what happens when a whale gets sick.
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A larger dumpster arrived Tuesday morning, and the whale was successfully placed inside and taken to a facility where marine biologists can perform a necropsy to determine how the whale died.
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He's been spotted a handful of times in the Salish Sea by local whale watchers and cropped up again this weekend, Island Adventures Whale Watching lead naturalist Erin Gless told CNN.
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About 58.2,21-2108.4000,000 metric tons of whale meat are supplied to Japan annually, amounting to 40-50 grams of whale for each Japanese person, said Joji Morishita, Japan's retiring IWC commissioner.
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Each of the new characters — Hank the Octopus, a whale-shark named Destiny, Bailey the beluga whale, Sigourney Weaver — has an important role, a complete arc and a lovely life lesson.
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The Center for Whale Research, which tracks and researches the Southern Resident whale population in the eastern Pacific Ocean, first noted the calf on July 24, the day it was born.
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The submitted rules would limit the tribe to no more than three whale kills per year in even-numbered years, and only one whale kill per year in odd-numbered years.
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After a local radio station, WDRC-FM, was sold in 21990, the new owners rebranded it as 291 The Whale, adopting a whale logo and the team's blue and green colors.
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About 20,000-5,000 metric tons of whale meat are supplied to Japan annually, amounting to 40-50 grams of whale for each Japanese person, said Joji Morishita, Japan's retiring IWC commissioner.
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Behold, the whale of all dick replicas — the Moby.
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We're going for dinner downstairs at Simon & the Whale.
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Off the Menu SIMON & THE WHALE First, the name.
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I did — I turned an iguana into a whale.
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In late 0003, however, Japan decided to withdraw from the IWC -- a move welcomed by its whale industry but condemned by environmental campaigners who believed it would threaten endangered species of whale.
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We take an hour-long drive to Cancun to meet the whale shark crew that will take us passed Isla Mujeres, an island off of Cancun, to the whale shark feeding grounds.
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A young girl receives a whale, and she raises it inside a cup, and all the while the whale continues to grow until only the sky is big enough to hold it.
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On June 216, receive a Fudgie the Whale ball cap for free with the purchase of a Fudgie the Whale Cake (as if you needed another reason to buy a Carvel cake).
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In the case of this whale fall, which the researchers determined was a baleen whale, the ROVs' cameras saw octopuses, eelpout (eellike skinny fish), and bone-eating worms sharing in the feast.
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I also would have loved to go on a whale watching tour, but the peak season for whale watching is more in the late summer/fall, so we wouldn't have seen much.
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Mr. Howlett, who was a member of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, was struck just after the whale was cut free and began to swim away in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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The whale of our own ignorance will devour us, but unlike Pinocchio who survived Monstro and Jonah the Biblical whale, will we be able to extricate ourselves from the jaws of extinction?
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Every whale is protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, meaning that without special authorization (like for scientific research) a drone can't come closer than 1,000 feet of a whale, she said.
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A website has been set up to increase awareness of whale food culture, while a Norwegian company is even promoting a range of "modern" Mexican, Chinese and Italian recipes using whale meat.
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Blatchley told the New York Times that he witnessed a necropsy of the whale, and called it one of the worst cases of a whale having ingested plastic that he has seen.
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But the real gem is the less than one mile walk out to Point Reyes Lighthouse, known for its excellent whale watching potential since when was the last time you saw a whale?
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Modern baleen whales — like the blue whale or the humpback whale — catch their food by taking in vast quantities of water into their mouths, and expelling the water through keratin sieves called baleen.
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Included in the list of 19 animal sounds are a zebra, ape, cat, lion, moose, owl, pig, cow, duck, elephant, horse, raccoon, bowhead whale, humpback whale, wolf, rooster, sheep, tiger and a turkey.
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Recently, heart-wrenching footage of an orca whale beaching herself after a performance at Loro Parque in the Carnary Islands caused outrage across the Internet, with many demanding the killer whale be freed.
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In February, stories about the Russian game Blue Whale began to circulate in the US. Allegedly, Blue Whale players are assigned a "master" who sets them various tasks, often revolving around self-harm.
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Mary ventures out in a whaleboat, rashly determined to save the family's fortunes by killing a whale, but ends up turning her gun on the orcas in order to save a whale calf.
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She said she was called a "blue whale," and dealers and supervisors "would make the whale sounds like the whales make in the ocean" when she and other servers put in drink orders.
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Once numbering in the tens of thousands and known to Yankee whalers as the "right" whale to hunt, the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale now has a dwindling population of about 435.
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Government-backed whaling groups have staged promotional events around Japan and take part in food fairs and festivals, where visitors are invited to try whale meat or enjoy a cup of whale soup.
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To test whether post-reproductive killer whale grandmas improve the survival of their offspring, a group of researchers collected data on killer whale populations off the coast of Washington state and British Columbia.
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That way, they'll be able to find the whale again.
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There are microscopic "singles bars" in the sea, male whale
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In New Jersey, whale watching season is just getting started.
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"Blue Whale Feeding in Palos Verdes, California" (LPETTET) (Credit: iStock)
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Twitter accidentally suspends their own CEO's account Oops, fail whale!
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Its logo would be his totem animal, the leaping whale.
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That's not a bird or a plane, it's a ... whale.
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Benny the beluga whale is a long way from home.
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The other whale has a water spout and big eyes.
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It took about three hours to cut the whale free.
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Facial creams made out of rats, treatments of whale fat.
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Captain Dave's posted footage of the whale to YouTube Tuesday.
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A Norwegian fisherman managed to remove it from the whale.
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Check out this humpback #whale song from the Monterey Bay!
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So you're like Jonah in the whale, in a way.
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Whale sharks today, I am so excited but very tired.
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Oh my god, I have to dodge a whale shark!
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Profile Melissa Broder wanted to meet underneath the fiberglass whale.
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We removed the skeleton from this fin whale in 2003.
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LONDON — A whale leaping out of the placid River Wear.
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A rare whale species has finally made its cinematic debut.
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Or in Finding Nemo when Dory tries to speak whale?
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Um a mix of a whale and a dolphin. Okay.
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The whale shark is the largest fish in the world.
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Or Tom O'Malley in Roads & Kingdoms on Indonesian whale hunters?
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Hemorrhaging on this new whale, though, is a big clue.
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This whale will be left to rot where it lies.
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Boreholes drilled into the teeth of a captive killer whale.
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I knew the whale was there because of the news.
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At 33 feet long, the whale only weighed 13,000 pounds.
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But newly discovered whale bones lend credibility to Pliny's account.
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It's a whale of a tale, told clearly and quickly.
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Among remaining right whale, fewer than 2628 are breeding females.
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"Oh my God, I look like a whale!" she said.
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Adrian Grenier's Lonely Whale Foundation sponsored one of the rooms.
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This area is known for it's vast whale watching adventures.
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Demand for whale oil plummeted with the development of kerosene.
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We first saw the news of Whale via The Information.
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So Jonah ran away and ended up inside a whale.
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The local classic rock station is called 102.9 The Whale.
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Lasso a cantankerous whale, and teach it how to love?
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He started the Lonely Whale Foundation, dedicated to ocean health.
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Think kayaking, surfing, hot springs, scuba, spa, and whale watching.
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THE BOY AND THE WHALE By Mordicai Gerstein 40 pp.
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How long could such a whale survive in the Thames?
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Of note, however: Japan's taste for whale meat is shrinking.
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Authorities say Japan still has an appetite for whale meat.
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Because at any moment, a whale might appear from below.
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Did the company let a whale slip through its fingers?
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Whale cruises are popular in Iceland, and for good reason.
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That's like having a whale blow its nose on you!
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"Chasing the New White Whale" scores points for sheer gumption.
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See what you think of "The Whale Detective" on PBS.
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He'd stopped when he knew he was smelling the whale.
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" With the DNC cache, he said, "they hit a whale.
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Experts say the whale may drown if it isn't freed.
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This one could be a North Atlantic whale, she added.
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But dead whale is not a polar bear's preferred cuisine.
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A whale was found with plastic bags in its stomach.
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Though the whale was still alive just before 11 a.m.
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Above, a humpback whale in the waters off Sri Lanka.
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Watch and listen to this video of a humpback whale.
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Oh, and a whale that Wilder unearths during his dig.
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By Tuesday morning, authorities had lost sight of the whale and were asking tour boats and other vessels to be on the lookout for the whale in hopes of making a second rescue attempt.
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The group said the Nisshin Maru was spotted trying to cover up a dead minke whale carcass with a tarp when a helicopter approached the vessel in the waters of the Australian Whale Sanctuary.
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This quotient, which doesn't yet exist, could help us understand that the bee communication traces itself back to a tiny bee brain, and that whale communication traces itself back to a bigger whale brain.
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As one of just a handful of countries in the world that permits commercial whale hunting, Iceland's whale catch is "sustainable", said Johannesson, who declined to comment on whether he personally supported the industry.
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"Rope in the fishing industry may be an existential threat to the survival of the North Atlantic right whale," the whale biologist Scott Kraus of the New England Aquarium warned in a recent report.
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Italy: A whale was found dead in Sardinia with 48 pounds of plastic in its body, the latest in a grim international collection of whale carcasses burdened by dozens of pounds of plastic trash.
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A dead sperm whale that washed up on a Scottish beach had more than 220 pounds of tangled netting, rope, plastic and other debris inside its stomach, according to a local whale research group.
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The whale-watching boat crew, joined by NOAA officers, local harbor patrol and sheriff's deputies, spent hours trying to slice away the entanglement using cutters on long poles when the whale surfaced to breathe.
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This type of study could eventually help explain why humpback and fin whale calf sightings are much less common in the Gulf since 2011—while endangered right whale sightings seem to be more common.
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Perhaps the most infamous whale-disposal incident took place on November 12, 1970, in Florence, Oregon, when the Oregon Department of Transportation used a half-ton of dynamite to try to obliterate a sperm whale.
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"We had received a report in the morning that this whale was floating in the bay and we were asked to try to document it on our way out on our whale watch," Jarzobski said.
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Worried that something would happen to the whale without intervention, NOAA started working with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to figure out a way to help the whale and keep her a part of the population.
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Commence the adorable facts, as provided by the White Whale Research Centre: Fact #1: The friendly sea-giant was first photographed back in 1991, and was the only white whale on record in the world.
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E.C. has observed an increased humpback whale population in New York waters feeding on menhaden," the department said in a statement, "but D.E.C. cannot speculate as to the overall causes of the whale population increase.
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Or "Merrily," that great white whale of musical theater aspiration, with a hundred Ahabs bent on landing its jaw-dropping score and unworkable book, even if it means building a new whale in the process.
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Erin Gless, the lead naturalist at Island Adventures Whale Watching, an eco touring agency, told CNN the whale is not albino, and that experts are unsure how the calf ended up with its unique coloring.
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Jerry Conway of the Canadian Whale Institute in Campobello, New Brunswick, told The Canadian Press that Mr. Howlett had freed another North Atlantic right whale only a few days earlier in roughly the same area.
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The researchers analyzed the survival rate of 378 whale calves known to have living grandmothers, and found that in the two years after a grandmother whale&aposs death, her grandchildren&aposs chances of survival decreased.
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I won't go on and on about it—I'm a whale.
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Tilikum, the orca whale from the 2013 documentary Blackfish, has died.
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It's very empty, punctuated by the occasional whale or lost clownfish.
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"The whale is not a suspect in our investigation, for now."
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From Russia, with love A whale trained by the Russian military?
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Travelers can also whale watch, hike and explore glaciers while there.
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In American waters, the speed limits near whale sightings are voluntary.
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But this whale was isolated, which could explain the ship strike.
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Spraying graffiti on a dead whale ... distasteful, unnecessary and disrespectful. pic.twitter.
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It is a job almost as big as the whale itself.
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"This could be the whale that ate the unicorns," Smith quipped.
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But by 2017, Japanese ate only 3,000 tons of whale meat.
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His family has been preparing whale meat for half a century.
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I mean, they did sign up for whale watching after all.
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Grant said that many factors can be involved in whale beachings.
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This incident is the first blue whale entanglement of the year.
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We're aware that another whale has become stranded on Hunstanton beach.
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"Whale," the chef smiled, and put his finger to his lips.
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"I really feel like a beached whale," she tells her friends.
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Why whale fossils would accumulate in this particular spot is unknown.
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The Bryde whale is a critically endangered species in New Zealand.
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Humpback whales are considered to be the most charismatic whale species.
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Last fall, a blue whale was also entangled in fishing gear.
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A rare and dramatic event, whale strandings always attract local attention.
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Whale shark in Cendrawasih Bay, part of the Bird's Head Seascape.
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This is something of the white whale for the audio world.
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The whale, it seems, also got to do some people-watching.
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So obstruction could become the new Russia — the left's white whale.
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Fishing rope furrowed into the lip of Bayla, right whale #3911.
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The third "space whale" is Elon Musk and his company SpaceX.
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This pilot whale faced continued health issues since her initial stranding.
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No other quadruped whale has ever been found in South America.
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John Hargrove is a former senior killer whale trainer at SeaWorld.
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Impossibly, he could feel the whale-thing falling back, slowing down.
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Maybe the whale got tangled up in fishing nets and drowned.
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This beluga whale is blowing up after photobombing an aquareum wedding.
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Last year, SeaWorld announced it would phase out killer whale shows.
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Eventually, real-time audio analysis could help ships avoid whale collisions.
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A whale of a good time here at Whytecliff Park today.
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Kusakari said he ate whale maybe once or twice a year.
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That year, "We saw the whale that was singing," she said.
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November 2015: Plans to phase out killer whale shows are announced.
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But this one wasn't dying because it wasn't actually a whale.
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Nintendo turned its latest Classic console into a white whale… again.
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After a series of broken whale tails, the team got creative.
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That whale had about 13 pounds of plastic in its stomach.
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Plastics that mimick estrogen turn a beluga whale into a hermaphrodite.
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The federal government has a responsibility to protect the right whale.
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It's unclear how real and how prevalent Blue Whale really is.
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"Whale Rider" (2002) is a family drama set in New Zealand.
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A beluga whale was also spotted in one of the pens.
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It's believed the Russian military trained the whale, but for what?
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Facebook quietly released a meme-creation app called Whale last week.
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"Sky Ladder," his most personal piece, has been his white whale.
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These whale-shaped melon rolls were almost too cute to eat.
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But anonymity has swallowed me like Jonah's whale; I grope inside.
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The blue whale heart is installed at the ROM on Thursday.
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It feels like Fleetwood Mac are the Eavis family's white whale.
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Find out what Pucky the Whale is up to these days.
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For my roommate Chris Douvos, 22 burgers became his white whale.
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Compared to the iPhone, it was like a poorly dressed whale.
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Mortified, our captain and the whale swim off into the sunset.
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Fishing charters and whale watch tours begin at St. Andrews Harbor.
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However, one title eludes me and has become my white whale.
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A young killer whale died from a fungal infection last year.
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Eighty percent of known right whale deaths are caused by humans.
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That's got to be a white whale for you guys. Texas.
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You spot a humpback whale during your boat tour, for example.
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That show was my John Waters-shaped white whale, taunting me.
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Trilobites Have you ever wanted to talk to a killer whale?
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And, luckily, both RADIATOR CAP and KILLER WHALE contain eleven letters.
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In winter the people survive largely on whale and walrus meat.
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Most, including Amazon, are now willing to stock "Billion Dollar Whale".
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" Embracing her, he thinks, is like "kissing a barnacle-covered whale.
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Ms. Granger noted that the research won't help stop whale strandings.
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The South Pacific's latest hot spot is a whale karaoke lounge.
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He also posted photos of the whale on his group's page.
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To a machine, we must seem like slowed-down whale songs.
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The "London Whale" case lost JPMorgan nearly $6.2 billion in 2012.
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A male sperm whale was found dead with over 220 lbs.
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This makes hunting any endangered, struggling whale species problematic, at best.
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It was one of the country's largest pilot whale strandings ever.
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Early whale ancestors were not fully aerodynamic like whales are today.
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He decided he'd be more hesitant to eat whale meat now.
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The city offers whale meat in school lunches once a year.
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This is how you put a video camera on a whale.
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Whales form exclusive "whale clubs," chat rooms to coordinate investment syndicates.
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What challenges do they face in tracking whale sounds over time?
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Authorities think the whale may have been part of a Russian marine spy program, but it's clear the whale is now more interested in charming locals and getting pats on the head than in underwater espionage.
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Ken Balcomb, the founder of the Center for Whale Research, is still concerned for the mother whale and says the length of this mourning ritual is unprecedented in his 20 years of study, reports Q13 FOX.
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In a video showing the making of Whale (of course there's a video — it's a Justin Kan startup), Kan says that he created Whale after repeatedly getting asked the same questions from his social media followers.
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In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale was pushed by its mother after the birth off the Canadian coast near Victoria, British Columbia.
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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia.
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They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, and one of the most endangered creatures on earth, the North Atlantic right whale, as well as humpback, fin, sei, minke and sperm whales.
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Paul Sieswerda, the president of Gotham Whale, an organization that tracks marine life around the city, said the whale had been seen by New Yorkers who have captured photos and videos of it feeding and swimming.
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He also wrote 10 detective books under the pseudonym Philip Whale — an apparent play on the name Baleine, which means "whale" in French — in a series overseen by the best-selling spy novelist Gérard de Villiers.
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The stakes are high in Mordicai Gerstein's "The Boy and The Whale," a tautly constructed narrative about a fisherman's son who wishes to free a whale from the net his father depends on for his livelihood.
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Maybe if I change position … The next day, in Juneau, Sandy and I go out on a whale-watching expedition on which the tour operator guarantees that passengers will see a whale or receive $100 each.
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You can easily dress as the Prince, or Princess, of "Whales" by buying a tiara or crown to wear and a plush whale to carry around, or perhaps investing in a whale-patterned dress or shirt.
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Hokkaido whalers had long referred to two types of whales as tsuchi-kujira, a name that encompassed the Baird's beaked whale, called Berardius bairdii, and a smaller black whale, called kuro-tsuchi (or karasu, meaning crow).
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Authorities: Alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave and seeking Norwegians' devotion Earlier this week in this space I noted the discovery of Russia's latest platform interference — a beluga spy whale that turned up in Norway.
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A boat tour of Brier Island in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada, was visited by passing humpback whale, who took a break from whatever whale business it was attending to so it could people watch.
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On the right side of the whale, a scientist cutting through flesh pulls out worm-like endoparasites—those would be parasites that live inside their host, common for a whale—and puts them in a plastic baggy.
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In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia
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BLUE WHALE CARCASS CARVED INTO, STOMPED ON BY TOURISTS TAKING SELFIES A video of the Princess Monterey Whale Watching group&aposs recent excursion was posted online July 13 and has already been viewed more than 5,000 times.
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Inspired by the exact insult her peers threw her way, McMillan designed shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Dee the Fat Whale Saves the Whales" — thus taking back the joke, while simultaneously spearheading a fundraiser for whale conservation.
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Together, we can help fishermen explore and adopt whale-safe fishing technologies, encourage Canada to implement standards that incorporate U.S. approaches and experience, and advance whale tracking and smart shipping technologies to help ships avoid deadly collisions.
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Another dead whale has washed ashore with a stomach full of plastic.
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Low-frequency sonar has been implicated in mass whale and dolphin beachings.
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Introducing Maiabalaena nesbittae, an entirely new genus and species of ancient whale.
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Doughty says she&aposs working with town officials to remove the whale.
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"I'm not sure anyone would admit having lost a whale," he said.
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Seconds later, a huge whale breached just feet away from his boat.
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As expected, Nintendo's going whale-hunting with its first mobile app Miitomo.
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Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru with a captured minke whale on deck.
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This whale is about 80 feet (24 meters) long, and all alone.
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The cause of death of the eighth whale has not been determined.
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Footage shows the dead whale was later covered by a blue tarpaulin.
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McCaskill has become something of a white whale for Republicans in Missouri.
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The weather is cool and damp, but the whale watching is spectacular.
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That whale was cute and cartoonish, perfect for this early romantic stage.
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Scientists traced the transformation of whale sizes back nearly 30 million years.
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It could be that they followed a whale that got in trouble.
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Artist's depiction of Llanocetus denticrenatus, an ancient precursor to the baleen whale.
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According to a Facebook post, the whale is about 26 feet long.
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I only knew about Jonah because he was swallowed by the whale.
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Walsh told BuzzFeed News that removing the whale was a collaborative effort.
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The whale is undergoing a necropsy to determine the cause of death.
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Yes, it's going to do that whole like squeaky whale noise thing.
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I think he's like a whale shark, big and playful and gentle.
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Each of us gets two to three turns with a whale shark.
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Are we really to equate the killer whale with the murderous students?
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That's "A Whale of a Tale" from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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That whale had apparently survived a hunter's attack, over a century earlier.
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"This is only a part of a whale, not a whole one."
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News outlets report that the distressed whale drew crowds all day Thursday.
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Video credits: OET/NautilusLive (sperm whale); Schmidt Ocean Institute (Mariana Volcanic Arc).
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"Throughout the 1990s, we never had a humpback whale stranding," Jepson said.
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If the whale becomes extinct, what could evolve to take its place?
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These have included beach days, paintball trips, whale watching and brewery tours.
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It's essentially whale snot, and the drone, appropriately, is dubbed a SnotBot.
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Whale beachings, while unusual, have been seen in other parts of Indonesia.
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The beaked whale being flanked by killer whales closely on each side.
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Probably spying on behalf of the whale armies plotting the imminent whalepocalypse.
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North Atlantic Humpback whale in the Silver Bank Marine Reserve, Dominican Republic.
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The whale-thing was still chugging along behind him, hemming him in.
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Pilot whales suffer from mass strandings more frequently than any other whale.
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On our return we discovered a dead sperm whale inside the reef.
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We're going to just cut to the chase and you the whale.
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The whale was good and inspired Reddit to start a Photoshop battle.
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The Bryde's whale is found in both warm temperate and tropical waters.
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I've even snorkeled with whale sharks off the coast of Cancun, Mexico.
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There is no such thing as a lone killer whale in nature.
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Or a hammerhead shark being chased by a very small whale kite?
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"It's not in good shape," he said of the 20-foot whale.
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But to figure out how, Doyle returned again to humpback whale songs.
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And I use this picture of the whale as a perfect example.
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I was too full to try the whale – another traditional dish here!
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Environmentalists have said the South Atlantic is crucial to preserving whale diversity.
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Animal stories can't always be about exciting whale videos or pregnant giraffes.
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She also appeared in the 1977 movie Orca, about a killer whale.
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Everyone fishing in these crowded waters still hopes to land a whale.
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Economists estimate the planet's whale population is worth more than $1 trillion.
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That's what gives this amazing perspective of looking up at the whale.
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Theron Parker was the hunter who harpooned the whale two decades ago.
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They attached video cameras, hoping to see the whale eating the squid.
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THE SQUID AND THE WHALE A marriage breaking up is hard enough.
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But the market for whale meat remained strong even into the 1960s.
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"Extinction is looming," Center for Whale Research founder Ken Balcomb told CNN.
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Scientists then retrieve the "whale cams" and apply them to other whales.
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"Man, Erik Jones put up a whale of a fight," Busch said.
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Ever seen a Beluga whale play fetch in the open seas before???
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Robotics have long been a bit of a white whale for Qualcomm.
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They have upwards of 20 whale skulls, each about 3 feet long.
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Whale City is due out on June 1 via the Leaf Label.
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The hybrid was only traveling with one companion -- a melon-headed whale.
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Whale sharks were declared endangered last year after their numbers apparently dwindled.
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Pollution alone could result in killer whale population collapses in some regions.
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It's how whale watching cruises often find humpbacks for you to view.
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Without Pakistani cooperation, our army in Afghanistan risks becoming a beached whale.
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For many journalists, Mr. Weinstein was the white whale that got away.
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At the Blue Whale in 2016, Lloyd came up to say hello.
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"We're going to have a whale of a time," Aguirre-Sacasa said.
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But the commission that emerged seemed more a minnow than a whale.
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He was not a whale, the term used for the biggest gamblers.
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Sippy cups for whale anatomy; ethico-politcal praxis for repetitive personal anecdotes.
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Previous research determined a relationship between right whale stranding and sunspot activity.
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The dead 50ft (14.5m) young adult male sperm whale beached in Norfolk.
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A functional shower caddy This is my white whale of bathroom products.
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The clip shows a desolate beach strewn with driftwood and whale bones.
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The wayward humpback whale spotted swimming in London's River Thames has died.
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A photo showed a fishing net laid out next to the whale.
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"A whale is someone who owns a lot of cryptocurrency," Saddington says.
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Popular excursions include the Glacier Bay National Park excursion and whale watching.
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The whale affair was "100 percent Jamie's fault", says one former colleague.
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The lack of a whale candidate who might scare off other rivals.
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This is the right time to stand up for the right whale.
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The whale shark was apparently in no rush to go anywhere else.
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The North Atlantic right whale is deeply intertwined with our nation's history.
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Aficionados say whale tastes somewhat like beef, but with a stronger flavor.
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For nature lovers, February is the peak of humpback whale-watching season.
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Another dead whale has washed ashore with a belly full of plastic.
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Aficionados say whale tastes somewhat like beef, but with a stronger flavour.
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Many Chinese marine parks feature whale sharks, belugas, dolphins and manta rays.
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Long-faced Jonah inside a yawning blue whale felt warm and right.
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Signs now warn beachgoers that "whale material" could be in the area.
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According to the Whale Watch Western Australia, one of its boats was recently steering around the waters of Flinders Bay in Augusta, Australia, when it came upon a mother humpback whale known as Spirit and her calf, Sunny.
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Japan, which has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and that eating whale is part of its culture, began what it calls "scientific whaling" in 1987, a year after an international whaling moratorium took effect.
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Underwater feast Scientists could not contain their excitement as they stumbled upon a "whale fall" -- a carcass of a whale that had fallen to a depth of more than 3,300 feet -- during a live-streamed deep-sea dive.
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If, for example, a whale from China wants to play a variant of blackjack in which the dealer has to hit on soft 17, the casino, especially if it is struggling, will sometimes adjust to please the whale.
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The new whale research device, which sticks to the back of the whales with suction cups, contains a first-generation side-to-side-facing dual camera, and it tracks the movements of a tagged whale in three-dimensions.
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The 16-year-old was naturally upset when she first heard about a fake Twitter account a schoolmate made called "Dee's a fat whale," which featured a profile photo of a cartoon whale on top of McMillan's face.
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Rees, who has worked as a whale watching guide, led the whale singing as part of an exhibition titled "North Atlantic Drift: Pursuing Whales", an examination, she says, of the human relationship with whales in the North Atlantic.
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Crew members from the whale-watching boat, joined in the rescue by NOAA officers, local harbor patrol and sheriff's deputies, spent hours trying to slice away the entanglement using cutters on long poles when the whale surfaced to breathe.
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Here's a recording:New research published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America suggests these sounds are being produced by a species of baleen whale, likely dwarf minke whales—and it's a completely new whale call for them.
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"The alternative ... is to just limit the supply of whale meat to some of the major places in Japan that have a good tradition of whale eating," Morishita said, adding that the meat is difficult to thaw and cook.
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Because humans have taken over so much of the seas, whale mortality events like the killer whale killing spree in Monterey Bay are rare instances where human activities are not to blame for the mass deaths of large whales.
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When she inquired further about what it was for, I told her the story of 52, a blue whale nicknamed for the fact that his whale song goes out at 52 hertz, a frequency that other whales cannot hear.
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"The idea behind 'Snotbot' is to collect physical, biological data, and video and photographs from a whale without the whale knowing, and we needed a drone to collect that data," said Iain Kerr, chief executive officer of Ocean Alliance.
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To paint a more full picture of gray whale health and behavior, these methods can be combined with DNA samples taken from whale blow holes, which apparently smell far worse than the relatively mild odor of the poop plumes.
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For example, Miller said, even having one more blue whale organ to study can give scientists a better idea of how to estimate the size of another blue whale, assuming the same organ can be recovered from the corpse.
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The result has the tiny coastal hamlet of Hermanus proudly proclaiming itself the whale-watching capital of the world, complete with a town "whale crier" who patrols the boardwalk, blowing into a vuvuzela every time a sighting is confirmed.
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Tom Paladino, the captain of the American Princess, a whale-watching vessel that operates out of Riis Landing in Breezy Point, Queens, said passengers can expect about an 80 percent chance of a whale sighting this time of year.
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Given that it's been speculated that Herman Melville partly wrote Moby Dick because he was obsessed with a mountain that kind of looked like a whale, who knows what weird creative masterpiece this magnetically jacked space whale will inspire.
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"It's the first time we're going to be able to measure free-living whales in the wild," said Rachel Cartwright, a whale biologist who runs the Keiki Kohola Project, an organization that preserves humpback whale habitat in Hawaiian waters.
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LOVELORN RIGHT WHALE SONG RECORDED OFF ALASKA The crooning of a rare North Pacific right whale was recorded for the first time ever in June, and scientists said it sounded like the elusive aquatic mammal was looking for love.
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"We have been in contact with whale researchers which I know and they have been in contact with Russian researchers which says it likely is a whale that have been trained by the Russian Navy in Murmansk," Wiig said.
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It's been a white whale for the AI community for a while now.
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Indirectly, it also recalls the Old Testament tale of Jonah and the Whale.
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The mother whale was being approached by several male humpbacks looking to mate.
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When a whale dies, it becomes a rotting feast for birds and sharks.
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The warming Arctic waters is not the only theory about the whale deaths.
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This picture of a slaughtered fin whale was taken on June 22, 2018.
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" Farley also claims she witnessed a teammate who was repeatedly called "a whale.
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Enrique Iglesias is having a whale of a time this Fourth of July!
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Just when you think they can't get lower than whale shit...they do!
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NOAA had urged the public not to interact with the whale in distress.
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The other place was booked so now we get to see whale carcasses.
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Whale experts The septuagenarian Maeda brothers have decades of experience in pursuing whales.
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In 1964, Japanese consumed 154,000 tons of whale meat, according to government statistics.
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Per capita, that amounts to roughly two tablespoons of whale meat a year.
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In the kitchen, cooks carefully laid out garnished dishes of whale heart sashimi.
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Waiters on the restaurant floor delivered platters of whale steak marinated in miso.
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The alleged "Blue Whale Challenge" instructs teens to perform a series of tasks.
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As the whale breeches near the boat an enormous splash soaks everyone aboard.
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San Diego's Sea World ended its controversial killer-whale show earlier this month.
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Diving and snorkeling with whale sharks will be something I will never forget.
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But recently, he's come up with a new source of data: whale snot.
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Indigenous concerns include potential spills and harm to an endangered killer whale population.
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Men on paddle boards herd the whale while one tries to fuck it.
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Like Captain Ahab, every venture capitalist rues the big whale that got away.
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Yet another dead whale has washed ashore with a stomach full of plastic.
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Being a whale in a pool with four minnows isn't a great situation.
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In fact, they can be a strong indicator that whale populations are recovering.
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Either that, or the baby whale is justifiably terrified of flesh-eating seagulls.
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Plus, Whale gives those same influencers the opportunity to better monetize their content.
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You Have No Idea How Mysterious Whale Vaginas AreWhale vaginas are an enigma.
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There are also concerns about how these hunts affect the pilot whale population.
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Doyle conducted similar measurements with humpback whale vocalizations and arrived at similar conclusions.
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Image: Roland EdlerBeaked whale behavior explains why we so rarely see these creatures.
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Along with SeaWorld's Tilikum, the world lost another notable orca whale this week.
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But it does unfortunately mean one more whale will be born in captivity.
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He could feel the huge shape of the whale-thing surging over him.
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Their movements are closely tracked and photographed by researchers, whale watchers and fans.
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That other whale that got tangled and then was struck by a ship?
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There's a whole lot that marine biologists still don't know about whale sharks.
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There's no one way to describe the scent of a beached, rotting whale.
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Unfortunately for the couple, the beluga is only the second most formal whale.
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SeaWorld announced last year that it would end its killer whale breeding program.
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The killer whale made famous by the award-winning documentary Blackfish is dying.
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Startups should read this checklist before they go 'whale hunting' for big partners
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"When a whale looks right into your eye, you feel serene," she says.
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But he's dubious about whether demand for whale meat will ever pick up.
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"If they serve whale, nobody from overseas will come, especially Europeans," he added.
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Unfortunately, this isn't the only instance of massive whale kills in the world.
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Others claim to have seen the whale off nearby Seal Beach on Tuesday.
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The rest remained rapt, pointing at the whale as it was sliced apart.
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The Cuvier's beaked whale is the undisputed champion of the long, deep dive.
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SHELL SEEKS 'FAST' DEVELOPMENT OF WHALE FIELD IN GULF OF MEXICO - SHELL'S BROWN
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This process, called "the whale pump," helps fertilize the marine ecosystem from above.
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A whale fall sequesters a large amount of carbon in the deep sea.
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A virtual David Attenborough encourages you to play with a blue whale skeleton.
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Now, only 0003,000 tons of whale meat is sold at market every year.
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Now, only 3,000 tons of whale meat is sold at market every year.
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In 2003, the southern resident killer whale population was 82; today, it's 74.
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The young whale caught the scientists' attention because she appeared weak and emaciated.
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" When it comes to the blue whale, the answer is an unequivocal "yes.
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The film blames SeaWorld for causing one whale, Tilikum, to become a killer.
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Whale sounding, then, is what it's called when whales dive to great depths.
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A Balinese priest was also seen in photos making offerings to the whale.
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Fun fact: The island is known as a hot spot for whale watching.
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The author was horrified when a dead whale was discovered with 88 lbs.
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The runner-up is the bowhead whale, which lives a measly 211 years.
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A five day fight to save a severely ill whale ended in tragedy.
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"The modern sperm whale is a deep diving squid specialist," said Dr. Fitzgerald.
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Above, the skeleton of the last whale hunted by members of the tribe.
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Volunteers and veterinarians worked for several days to try and save the whale.
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As airgun noise intensified, the whale call rates leveled off and then decreased.
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We want to see the commission's efforts on whale conservation strengthened, not weakened.
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