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2. Portal:Cetaceans - Wikipedia

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   There are approximately 89 living species split into two parvorders: Odontoceti or toothed whales (containing porpoises, dolphins, other predatory whales like the beluga and the sperm whale, and the poorly understood beaked whales) and the filter feeding Mysticeti or baleen whales (which includes species like the blue whale, the humpback whale ...

3. List of cetaceans - Wikipedia

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   The pygmy right whale shares several characteristics with the right whales, with the exception of having a dorsal fin. Also, pygmy right whales' heads are no more than one quarter the size of their bodies, whereas the right whales' heads are about one-third the size of their bodies. [11] The pygmy right whale is the only extant member of its ...

4. Marine mammal - Wikipedia

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   A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) A leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx). Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence. They include animals such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), sea otters and polar bears.

5. Cetacea - Wikipedia

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   The southern right whale dolphin and the hourglass dolphin live only in the Southern Ocean. The narwhal and the beluga live only in the Arctic Ocean. Sowerby's beaked whale and the Clymene dolphin exist only in the Atlantic and the Pacific white-sided dolphin and the northern straight dolphin live only in the North Pacific. [citation needed]

6. The islands that went from whale hunting to whale watching - AOL

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   The transition away from whaling gave birth to new industries and practices – with the impetus coming from outside. In 1990, French national Serge Viallele set up the first whale watching ...

7. Bottlenose Dolphins Put on Quite a Show for Whale Watchers ...

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   Whale watchers in San Diego were in for quite a treat recently when a pod of bottlenose dolphins stole the show by leaping 20 feet out of the water to the delight of everyone on board.

8. List of Arctic cetaceans - Wikipedia

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   Narwhals Beluga whales. Balaenidae [1] Bowhead whale (ᐊᕐᕕᖅ, arviq) Balaena mysticetus [2] [3] Balaenopteridae [1] Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus [4] Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis [5] Blue whale (ᐊᕐᕕᖅ ᓂᐊᖁᕐᓗᖕᓂᖅᓴᖅ, ᐃᐸᒃ, arviq niaqurlungniqsaq, ipak) Balaenoptera musculus [3] [6] Common minke whale ...

9. Human impact on ocean increasing pressure on dolphins and ...

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   The UK whale and dolphin conservation charity Orca recorded 55,604 whales and dolphins in oceans worldwide in 2023 as part of a marine survey covering 330,000 kilometres with the support of ...