Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. Large baleen whale species Humpback whale Temporal range: 7.2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
Individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Pages in category "Individual humpback whales" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
English: Young humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) sings in the water of Vava'u islands, Tonga. Other languages Čeština: Mladý keporkak ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) "zpívá" ve vodách Tichého oceánu u soustroví Vava'u , stát Tonga .
The sanctuary encompasses 1,400 square miles (3,600 km 2) in the islands' waters.It was designated by United States Congress on November 4, 1992, as a National Marine Sanctuary to protect the endangered North Pacific humpback whale and its habitat [2] The sanctuary promotes management, research, education and long-term monitoring.
Humphrey the Whale is a humpback whale that twice deviated from his Mexico to Alaska migration by entering San Francisco Bay. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This behavior is unusual for a humpback whale, and Humphrey attracted wide media attention when entering the bay in both 1985 and 1990.
The first episode, Giant Lives, focuses on humpback whales and blue whales, [2] The second, Deep Thinkers, explores the cognitive abilities of dolphins. The third and final episode, Voices of the Sea, investigates the vocalizations of dolphins and whales. The series was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 6 March 2012 by BBC Home Entertainment, but ...
Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae LC [23] Subfamily: Balaenopterinae. Genus: Balaenoptera. Common minke whale, B. acutorostrata LC [24] Omura's whale, Balaenoptera omurai DD; Eden's whale, Balaenoptera edeni DD; Northern blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus CR [23] Suborder: Odontoceti (toothed whales) Superfamily: Platanistoidea. Family ...
Ballena Marine National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Marino Ballena), is a national park of Costa Rica, part of the Osa Conservation Area created as a safe area for humpback whale migration, hence its name, as Ballena is the Spanish word for whale. The national park has an area of 5,160 ha (12,800 acres) marine, and 171 ha (420 acres ...