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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.
Dawn the humpback whale in the Sacramento River in 2007 Cetaceans are the animals commonly known as whales , dolphins , and porpoises . This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional individuals are indicated by their source.
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They swam up the Sacramento River approximately 90 nautical miles (170 km) upstream from the Golden Gate, [1] [2] about 20 miles (32 km) further inland than Humphrey the Whale had gone two decades earlier. Under the Endangered Species Act, California state officials were required to rescue the animals. [1]
Humphrey (cat) (1988–2006), cat employed at 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's residence Humphrey (chimpanzee) , featured in several books and documentaries Humphrey the Whale , a humpback whale that deviated from its migration path and swam into San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River
This is a list of Reading Rainbow episodes, hosted by longtime executive producer LeVar Burton.The show premiered on PBS on July 11, 1983. [1] [2] The final episode aired on November 10, 2006, reruns ceased on August 28, 2009.
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.
The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.