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- the world's largest animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). ... ***** Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis *** Family Balaenopteridae: ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
- Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals ... ***** Southern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- Whale shark is the common name for a very large, slow, filter-feeding ... The whale shark is ubiquitous in tropical and warm oceans and lives ...14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, is a large ... The Southern Ocean lies in the farthest edge of the Southern Hemisphere ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- exists from historical samples of bowhead whale baleen. D. M. Schell, "Declining ... wildlife. This sea supports many endangered whale species including bowhead ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing ... points for whale watching. The Southern right whale is the species most ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- alteration, via Dutch walvis, "whale," and ros, "horse ... and in Bristol Bay off the south shore of southern Alaska west of the Alaska ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- as the Peninsular Ranges, and extend into Southern California. ... in the mountains at the northern and southern ends of the peninsula. The ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- haven for the Harp Seal, walrus, beluga whale, narwhal, and bowhead whale. ... and mid-Baffin island down to the southern part in winter, and migrate ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- The Kuril island chain runs from the southern tip of the peninsula ... as deep as the trench that parallels the southern coast of the Aleutian chain ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- a giant squid locked in battle with a sperm whale is a common one, although ... and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- to eighth centuries C.E. beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river ... [[Image:Orca mitica nasca.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Killer Whale, Nasca ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:59, 11 November 2022
- century immigrants from Algarve (Southern Portugal) and from the Minho ... catch was exceeded by a single Japanese whale factory ship. Only sperm ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- shaped tail, and the body is very narrow right before the tail. ... * Southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872). ...16 KB (2,306 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- out over the landscape, covering much of southern Nova Scotia. Sections of ... in the Bay of Fundy are caused by a giant whale splashing in the water. Oceanographers ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- * Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra * Killer whale, Orcinus orca * Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- quest of the sea captain Ahab for the white whale Moby-Dick, and is a figurative ... bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm whale fishery. The vessel sailed ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- wind-driven polynya that forms along the southern coast of the island. The ... 1800s. They subsisted by hunting walrus and whale and by fishing. A famine ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards ... called Pacific Yupik or Sugpiaq, are a southern coastal people of the Yupik ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- sub-divided into two smaller groups, the Southern and Northern Gulf Islands. ... a geological standpoint, includes the Southern Gulf Islands and the San ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost ... as well, such as the Northern Bottlenose Whale and Atlantic White-sided ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- genus are found primarily in the Southern hemisphere. The Antarctic ... ursinus) normally ranges from Japan to southern California and north to ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- lamellae of dabbling ducks are similar to a whale's baleen, with these ... the "eclipse" plumage. Southern resident species typically ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 17:18, 12 February 2024
- in the reef, including the dwarf minke whale, the Indo-Pacific humpback ... the reef and the water remains so deep right up to the reef, that anchoring ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 01:04, 21 January 2023
- Fish range in size from the 14m (45ft) whale shark to the 7mm (just ... Lofoten area in northern Norway to the southern parts of Europe. This trade ...18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021
- waters throughout the Pacific and Southern oceans and the southern ... Pacific, diversifying rapidly into the Southern Hemisphere, where most species ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- they began settlement. A group of the southern islands were seized by Japan ... Islands are, in turn, separated from the Southern Kuril Islands (Chirpoy to ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- grasp prey, but the short-clawed otter of southern Asia has only vestigial ... *Southern River Otter (Lontra provocax) *Long-tailed Otter or Neotropical ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- only about 22 grams (0.8 ounces). In southern environments, young muskrats ... introduced. (They were also introduced to southern South America.) While much ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- as food for baleen whales, manta rays, whale sharks, crabeater seals and ... up the largest part of their diet. In the Southern Ocean (or Antarctic Ocean ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, traditionally ... 000 kilometers (6,200 mi) wide at the southern tips of Africa and Australia; ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- *has its population concentrated on the coast and in its southern ... England, which make for excellent skiing. Southern Vermont, New Hampshire, ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- into a northern continent, Laruasia, and a southern continent, Gondwana. Australia is considered to have broken off of the larger landmass about 60 ...10 KB (1,381 words) - 16:17, 6 November 2022
- northern tip of Labrador. Following the southern coast of the strait on August ... example, Hudson discovered and made note of whale pods off the coast of Spitzbergen ...9 KB (1,487 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- Northumberland Strait. The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic ... not on the land, but in the water: Whales. Whale-watching cruises are operated ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- around its northern shores, while the southern islands' waters flow ... it is −11 °F (−24 °C), and in the southern and southeastern parts it ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- the Magellan Strait) is a channel at the southern tip of South America linking ... 14, 2009. In this part of the strait, its southern boundary follows first the ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- (4 ft) long. The largest seal is the male southern elephant seal, a phocid ... All but two species of fur seals are found in the Southern Hemisphere ...18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern oceans. The concept of a ... the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean (which is sometimes ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- two species of fur seals are found in the Southern Hemisphere, while sea lions ... 1.2 m (4 ft) long; the largest, the male southern elephant seal, is over 4 ...15 KB (2,167 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- group of large terrestrial browsers right through the Oligocene. However ... *Rhinocerotidae – Rhinoceroses. Africa and southern Asia. 5 species ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 23:30, 11 November 2022
- including whaling. The capture of a whale benefits each member of a ... makes it more difficult to harvest bowhead whale, seals, walrus, and other ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- status and wealth. The northern and southern dialects of the Haida language ... the moiety of Raven or Eagle. The Killer Whale is associated with the Raven ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south. (Alternatively ... others show it as bounded to the south by the Southern Ocean ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- and again at the port of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu, forcing them to ... trade with Asia. In 1852, the influential southern journal De Bow's Review ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- north of the tree line, the de facto southern border of Inuit society ... were still moving into new territory in southern Labrador in the seventeenth ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- *Diamond Head—a mountain that serves as a landmark on the southern tip of the island *Hanauma Bay—an inlet encircled by the walls of a sunken ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- seasonal inshore fisheries producing for southern European markets. ... the Flemish Cap) and "tail" (southern extremity) of the fishing ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:24, 13 September 2021
- Georgia has emerged as a leader in the southern region, due in large ... to the coastal plain that includes the southern half of the state. The highest ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:40, 29 November 2022
- * H. a. constrictus – in Angola, the southern Democratic Republic ... west through Ghana to Gambia, and also in Southern Africa (Botswana, Republic ...43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
