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The adult male was tangled in fishing nets about a mile out to sea. Divers think the whale may have been tangled there for up to two months.

is dead. Its body is taken aboard the ship. A crew of men sets to work stripping the great whale of its blubber.

But whether a whale primarily intends its song to impress females or to intimidate other males with its swanky style remains unclear.

My novel Whale Song was the only novel of mine he had ever read. And this ties him to me even closer.

Rescuers think the whale had been dragging the net and its anchors for more than a week.

The RSPCA said, with the benefit of hindsight, it may have been better to put the whale down as soon as it was discovered.

This was the call that announced there was about to be a whale hunt.

before he was a year old, and fell in love with the whale after seeing him perform in an aquarium show.

She notes, however, that her team has not found a case of skin cancer in any of the samples of whale skin it has examined thus far.

Growing to two or three inches long, krill provides the major food for the great blue whale, the largest animal to ever inhabit the Earth.

But Japan has continued to hunt whales as scientific research - while not hiding the fact that whale meat ends up in restaurants and shops.

the tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant. the heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

The little whale is so happy to be home. She splashes in the water with her flippers . The other whales swim to her side.

The last whale hunters in the United States, native Alaskans ply slushy waters off the state's coast in a walrus-skin boat.

He has a whale boat and used to go fishing in it, but now he is no longer strong enough to manage its unwieldy bulk.

They were unable to classify it, and, being scientific men, they climbed into the whale-boat alongside and went ashore to see.

The boat of whale watchers first thought the humpback was already dead as it was floating on top of the water.

When confronted, the restaurant accepted responsibility for serving whale, and now faces a fine of up to $200, 000.

Japan argues that years of a global hunting ban have allowed whale populations to grow enough to allow hunting.

I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel.

They were trying to decide if it looked more like a whale or a shimmering serpent.

When a boat got close enough to the whale, the harpooner threw his harpoon at it.

In January 2006, a bottle-nosed whale died in the Thames after it was lifted on to a pontoon ready to be taken back out to sea.

The children had a whale of a time playing in the sand pit.

The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen.

So Glover analyzed the DNA of the 1996 whale captured in the North Atlantic, and found a shocker: It was a pure Antarctic whale.

The difference between whale poop and fish poop is that whale poop tends to float, or at least stay near the surface.

Michael got back on the boat and tried to cut the net off the whale with a small knife.

when a whale strands , it is nearly always very ill . as such , there is often little option but to end the stranded whales suffering.

A humpback whale breathes air at the surface of the water through two blowholes which are located near the top of the head.

A generation of Japanese schoolchildren grew up accustomed to having a bit of whale in their lunch boxes.

Moreover, the bones in the front part of a baleen whale's lower jaw, or mandible, aren't fused as they are in other mammals.

The humpback whale leapt out of the water and pulled the rigging and mast along with it as it slid down the boat.

The shorter length of the Thames whale plus postmortem findings led the scientists to conclude it was a young animal.

The example that is often trotted out is from Beowulf where the kenning "whale road" is used to mean the sea.

Neglect, dilapidation, storm and fire have gradually reduced it to a rusting hulk, like the rib-cage of a whale.

All in all, the experience made it hard for me to keep a straight face when people referred to whale as a "delicacy. "

The shaft of the ceremonial mace is the whorled tusk of a narwhal, a small Arctic whale. The door handles are of walrus tusk.

This occurred at a time that all kingdoms were fully conscious or self aware, although nonverbal like the dolphin and whale kingdoms.

Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother.

feeling small sharks touch your feet as you swim; and, most magically, seeing a whale and her baby surface with a great breath of air.

If a hungry gull landed on the water, the whale would surge up to the surface, sometimes catching a free meal of his own.

Eugenie Clark was one of the first researchers to take the plunge with whale sharks.

And rescuers say it took seven hours but they managed to help get a whale untangled from a net off the coast of Australia.

Still angry about being abandoned, he began carving a great whale out of different types of wood.

it was so great to meet you and your husband and we were thrilled to share our first whale shark experience with you both!

And my spirit soared free, like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria. Nirvana. I found Nirvana.

A crew of men sets to work stripping the great whale of its blubber.

When the gulls landed on the water, the killer whale would then attempt to capture them in her mouth, without killing them.

The fifty-foot whale was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat.

At least one exception to the dire situation: The biggest sharks of all, whale sharks, are thriving off the coast of western Australia.

Pilar is now a museum piece "like some old and gasping browned-out whale" in the garden of Hemingway's house outside Havana.

The whale clitoris, in common with the other sex organs of the largest cetaceans, are the biggest of any animal.

He said he had seen a live whale .

Japan suspended its annual whale hunt in the Antarctic, after vessels from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society hounded one of its whalers.

I appreciated the obstacles that mother whale had to overcome on her long journey to the place she would have her baby.

Whale expert Nancy Black told Local 6 Tilikum could have been playing in the latest attack and did not intend to hurt the trainer.

But it is easier to hear the baleen whale, with its lower-frequency call, than the beaked whales, says Theriault.

During breaching the whale uses its powerful tail flukes to lift nearly two-thirds of its body out of the water in a giant leap.

There's a scavenger hunt, and my team has tasked me with getting a photograph in a whale 's suite.

In March this year, I saw on TV another whale had been washed ashore, this time at Hangzhou Bay where I used to work.

Since hunting of the Southern Right Whale ceased, stocks are estimated to have grown by 7% a year.

Often, one killer whale pops up to identify a Weddell seal perched on an ice floe (shown), then alerts others in the area.

As such the human can become a tree or bird or fish or animal or even a whale and then experience the kingdom's reality for a time.

The old fisherman used to delight the children of the village by spinning yarns about the whale fishery.

Why don' t you admit you had a whale of good time junketing all over Europe, without Tommy to tie you?

E: I can see that the brachiosaurus is the biggest one among dinosaurs. But a blue whale is almost twice as long as a brachiosaurs.

Thus the whale-line goes back and forth through the whole boat, and all the oarsmen are close to it.

swimming off the coast of argentina , a female right whale singles out just one of the suitors that are hotly pursuing her.

By the end of the day, after photos and measurements had been taken, the young whale shark was free again, released into deeper waters.

He sat on a float that the whale could have smashed with a flip of her tail.

It has its large collections of whale parts, in particular ear bones, which, rather like tree rings, can show the age of whales.

The next question the Fail Whale community wanted to address was getting the word out about the Zazzle shop.

First, the young whale spit regurgitated fish onto the surface of the water, then sank below the water and waited.

Divers rescued a humpback whale off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. The adult male was tangled in fishing nets about a mile out to sea.

Do nothing when Dolly came up with a clever approach: the use of a whale out to the water column.

This is what ascension is all about to us map carvers in the Dolphin and Whale form.

The tiger's attention is diverted as the killer whale sails over his head.

The whale is often miscalled a fish.

The dead whale was supposed to be burnt last week but officials decided to wait for perfect weather and tidal conditions.

They were all successful, and very soon a large number of ships was engaged in whale fishing.

She had a whale of a time at the birthday party.

Here then was this grey -headed, ungodly old man chasing with curses a whale round the world, at the head of a wild crew.

That'sright, the Japanese are hiring planes to fly from Australian soil tospy on protesters who are trying to stop the whale slaughter.

Beheaded: Observers -- one of whom appears disgusted -- examine the decapitated head of a harvested whale.

Did you know that a female humpback whale lifts her genitals above the water while males fight for her affections?

Whale, dolphin and porpoise were considered to be fish, so during Lent the salted meats of these sea mammals were eaten.

The basking shark and whale shark are killed mainly for their fins and meat, and the great white shark for its jaws and teeth, he said.

Then the harpoon was ready and the man in the bow of the boat aimed it at the whale.

"It means that we are looking for Him in the wrong places, " the old whale explained.

Pot of killer whales swimming in waters near the Golden Gate Bridge. A nice surprise for a group of tourists on a whale-watching excursion.

"It would take a lot of whale sperm to make the sea that salty, " he said.

The fall was manipulated through a Sirian human dream anchored surrounding Earth and through the human, dolphin and whale species therein.

But until this study, no one had analysed whale faeces to confirm if it indeed contained significant quantities of iron.

"We now have a real whale war on our hands and we have no intention of retreating, " he said.

A killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando jumped out of its tank on Wednesday and fatally attacked a worker as horrified visitors looked on .

Meanwhile, as the whale is to help them tide over the sea, they have a right whale devout reverence, sacrosanct.

Be a bad dog, and I'll whale the stuffing out a you.

Today, Clark said, New Yorkers could stand on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and look down on a present-day active whale habitat.

It was incredibly exciting to spot the little puffs of spray on the horizon -- the tell-tale blow of a whale.

The inner earth has been stable except for the recent whale implosion which cracked the aurora and reeked havoc for a time.

A haiku for you, my dear. 'Night of falling stars. Blasted into tiny bits. The whale soars the sky. '

The name "humpback" , which is the common name for this whale, refers to the typical curve shape the whale's back forms as it dives.

Someone suggested a plush-toy version of the Fail Whale, for instance, and she says she likes the sound of that.

When, eight days ago, the An-Tiki was to be towed to sea by a whale-watching boat, I slumped in the cabin.

And a row may also be brewing between Australia and Japan - this time over whale hunting!

Such dolphin-whale chakras also do not syncopate well for a balanced rotation of field.

Despite the popularity of the Fail Whale, creator Yiying Lu wasn't really profiting from her iconic work.

The endangered mammals are migrating south along the Australian coast, attracting thousands of whale watchers.

As Twitter continued to grow over the year, the popular microblogging site had more and more sightings of the infamous Fail Whale.

The consequences could be horrific for both whale and man, he said.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Thousands of Vietnamese are making pilgrimages to a beach in southern Vietnam to worship a dead whale.

Dr Scheinin said the whale seemed thin but he believed the creature could survive in the Mediterranean.

Tokyo argues that its whaling program helps in the understanding of whale stocks as well as the health of the fragile Antarctic environment.

All around it, her rails were fitted like one great jaw with the long sharp teeth of the whale, to fasten her old ropes to.

Clemenza was blowing like a whale as he gulped down the wine.

Whale sharks, like all sharks, have skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. Their closest relatives are rays and skates.

Yet it is only recently that we have truly turned from a whaling civilization to a whale-watching one.

Yet I doubt the Twitter folk would want their legacy to be the popularization of a sleeping whale.

Delivering whale, on time, to the scattered masses looked like an immense bureaucratic task.

For people interested in cetacean evolution the most perplexing problem has always been: Why are there so many species of [beaked whale]?

The "whale" part of the name refers to size and how the animals eat.

If he pays a guinea to that society, the will expect them to Grant him considerable privileges; he's throwing a sprat to catch a whale.

in response to simpson ' s assertion , alan boyden of rutgers university and a colleague applied the technique to the whale question.

Divers think the whale may have been tangled there for up to two months.

A recent report estimates that whale tourism is a $2 billion-a-year industry and could ultimately be more profitable than hunting.

That was the case until last weekend, when a 13-metre-long grey whale was spotted cruising off the coast of Israel.

Opponents of this annual hunt plan to take legal action to stop Japan from operating in Australia's Antarctic Whale Sanctuary.

instead, he dedicates his entire life to the pursuit of his obsession, the killing of the white whale, Moby-Dick.

Their whale ship had been sunk by an enormous sperm whale.

Many villagers, especially fishermen, worship the giant mammals and believe a dead whale washing ashore is a sign of good fishing to come.

Ther is only a very small domestic market for whale meat in Iceland and over 99% of whale meat produced was exported to Japan.

Baring its teeth for the first time, personal submarine which boasts 'the agility of a dolphin' (but looks more like a killer whale).

A killer whale calf learned the trick of luring gulls to the surface of the water with fish.

Saving endangered baleen whales could boost the carbon storage capacity of the Southern Ocean, suggests a new study of whale faeces.

Forty yards downstream, a bus rocked like a whale stranded in surf, with three people clinging desperately to the top.

Some scientists say noise from all the boat traffic may impair a whale's sonar ability as much as 95 percent.

The whale is an animal characterized by an exquisite paradox.

They climbed up the throat of the whale and jumped into the sea immediately.

On approaching them, we saw it was a mother whale with her baby.

In "The Origin of Species, " Darwin speculated on how natural selection could turn a land mammal into a whale.

Japan, however, argued against the ban, saying whaling was a long tradition in the country and whale meat a key part of the Japanese diet.

In the southern oceans, you think of the blue whale.

Leviathan among sharks, a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) gains on its small prey in the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia.

Whale bones on mountain tops well inland were not lifted by Tsunami waves, nor carried inland atop such a wave.

I awoke remembering the expression on her face after I'd finished my dizzying whale lecture.

When you're a little lost whale, noisy areas can be a real problem.

How did Pinocchio and Gepprtto get out of the whale's belly?

eg: My grandmother told me a whale of a story last night.

Any of various small whales, porpoises, or similar aquatic mammals, especially a whale of the genus Mesoplodon, having a pointed snout.

You've probably heard parrots parrot human speech. But what about this? That strange kazooing sound is from a whale.

Whenever it is requisite to throw a tub to the whale as people found problems on the products, the company will promote a new series.

Andrew and his friend, a young sperm whale named Scar, were swimming together off the west coast of Dominica.

It's got to be the loneliest whale in the world.

Stone says, understandably, that his company would prefer the whale to be a memory, not merchandise.

That he had danced on the floating carcass of a dead whale while blue sharks, in a frenzy, foamed round it.

My grandmother told me a whale of a story last night.

Nicole Polizzi: "I don't really like the beach. I hate sharks, and the water's all whale sperm. That's why the ocean's salty. "

As a whale, you have two choices: poop it out, or throw it up.

It may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form.

This sense of revelation is in part due to our changing attitude towards the whale.

Other mammals are believed to contribute to the myth of the unicorn, including the narwhal, a whale with a long, spiraling tusk.

To protect the whale form the cold of the Arctic seas , nature has provided it with a thick covering of fat called blubber .

A dead whale has been found pinned to the bow of a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska, the third such incident in a decade.

In fact, their teeth are of little use. So what does a whale shark eat to survive? For that, we need a quick side bar.

Since the late 1970s the Allied Whale research group at the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor has built a catalogue of whale photos.

What remains: A young girl looks on as workers tidy up the carcass of a whale.

A SeaWorld whale trainer is now nursing a broken foot after one of the park's killer whales dragged the trainer underwater during a show.

"The whale was closer than I ever expected, " Clark said.

The last humpback whale found stranded around the UK coastline was in 2007 at Port Talbot in Wales.

GAN: I don't think so. You will hit the land eventually, if you don't swim into the mouth of a whale.

The Garden City of Samal Islands is where one can enjoy dolphin and whale watching.

Much like jellyfish or whale, we consume plankton made available unto us through the movement of the sea.

It's quite a privileged to feel a whale breathe on your face.

Andrew and his friend, a young sperm whale named Scar, swim together off the west coast of Dominica.

Villagers grab the line around the fluke of the whale and haul away with shouts and laughter.

A cross between a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wholphins are hybrids that have been reported to exist in the wild.

On September 10, thousands of fish and a dead whale were found dead in the west Mississippi River, Louisiana, US.

'I listen to alternative music and indie music, ' including the British folk bands Mumford & Sons and Noah and the Whale.

In Nuuk that was a simple matter: whale munchers crowded a sports hall for lunch, then strolled home with meat in bulging plastic bags.

Nowadays, despite being protected, the northern right whale is down to the last few hundred animals and faces the same fate.

About the length of a large bus, whale sharks are the largest fish in the world.

It developed in near total isolation from any other species of dolphin or whale.

Osedax were first discovered alive in 2002 in Monterey Bay, California, where they were living on the bones of a decaying gray whale.

The quick-thinking Harwell immediately tries to distract the tiger with the inflatable killer whale they were using for the game.

A yellow, waxy oil obtained from the head of the sperm whale and used as an industrial lubricant.

One important goal was what Mao called " roping the whale" : keeping the United States from intervening directly on Chiang's side.

There were some members of a scientific expedition on the whale-ship Bedford. From the deck they remarked a strange object on the shore.

The White Whale was strong and he snapped the line. The broken end of the rope lay in Ahab's hand.

It would reverse the emerging global consensus for whale conservation and inexplicably legitimize commercial whaling.

If the most beautiful hue of the blue whale is turquoise, then the most beautiful form, the finest sculpture, is in the flukes .

Los Angeles school children partcipate in making a human art sculpture of a gray whale on Tuesday, at Dockweiler State Beach in Los Angeles.

The whale is not a fish just as the dog is not a fish.

Japan came under a storm of criticism Monday for going ahead with its largest whale hunt yet.

That's more than three times the size of the formidable great white shark. It also makes the whale shark the largest fish living today.

This is a picture of me touching the whale. The whale was really cute, and its skin was really smooth.

The Great Whale Trail website will also track the Japanese whaling fleet as it heads south.

No wonder so much red whale meat finds its way, illegally, to restaurants in places from South Korea to California.

A fisherman fishing just east of the Farallon Islands spotted a female humpback whale entangled in a web of crab traps and lines.

Tom had once made himself a Fail Whale t-shirt from a screenshot which he wore at a Mashable party.

By tagging individual specimens, scientists have learned that whale sharks can log thousands of miles in years-long trips.

Winnie the ground before it balloons Dabo, if it can climb up a tree hit it with a whale.

Unless they're lucky enough to find some er. . . er dead Beluga whale(s) or dead seals, perhaps that's washed up on the shore.

But their populations have been slow to recover, and the blue whale is still endangered.

Real world service requires each human or dolphin or whale to be where earth requires one to be to support her global ascent.

It is believed that the sperm whale dives deeper than any other cetacean.

She ran a whale of a race. She ran the race of her life.

The half dolphin and half whale did not survive.

If my sister keeps eating like a pig she will become a real whale!

Watson, for years little known in Europe, has recently become a star of Discovery Channel reality TV programme Whale Wars.

Forty tons of gleaming muscle, a humpback whale blasts out of the water near South Africa.

The Southern Right Whale spends the summer months in the far Southern Ocean feeding, probably close to Antarctica.

Eocene seas were home to an unusual and gigantic form of early whale called Basilosaurus.

At the top of the parade loop, the females lay their eggs and the males release their sperm, which leads to whale shark chow.

As for " a whale is not a fish" (R), before the rational revision of the meaning of "fish" , R is also false.

This beautiful humpback whale, less than 30 ft. away, was now heading directly towards me!

A breach might also include a sideways twist with fins stretched out like wings, as the whale reaches the height of the breach.

The minke whale's missile-sleek shape helps it speed through the water at up to 20 miles (32 kilometers) an hour.

Since then, the Japanese have been instrumental in nearly wiping out the Western grey whale population.

He takes hundreds of high-resolution pictures of a whale and then put piece to piece together to create a life-sized image.

And people were putting up signs in the real world -- (Laughter) -- about this whale.

The turbulence over ohio was like being in the belly of a seizing whale.

The whale matches its strength and weight against the moving arms of the great squid.

Well-intentioned campaigning organisations have fed us with sentimental descriptions of the polar bear, giant panda and blue whale.

Although Westerners were once reliant on whale oil for lighting, we never actually ran out of whales.

But past studies suggest only blue whale males make calls like this.

We saw a whale spray water out of the top of its head.

Humpbacks form the backbone of a lucrative whale-watching industry in Australia and New Zealand.

In the end, though, the "fail whale" error message has become a part of the Twitter story as an error message with personality.

Taiwan's Until Seeing Whale's Eyes performs at The Wall Live House at Wenshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.

Scientists require expensive ships and tools that, despite their sophistication, produce relatively low-resolution readings of whale life.

The blue whale lives in oceans around the world. It is the largest animal in the world but it eats the smallest animals for food.

Many witnesses, including some scientists, felt strongly that the animal was not a whale or any known sea animal.

Either of the two horizontally flattened divisions of the tail of a whale .

for two weeks , scientists have been tracking the northern right whale and planning the unprecedented rescue mission.

This is significant, because when Roman took the whale poop back to his lab, he found it was rich in nitrogen.

Dr. Aronnax, his servant and a Canadian whale hunter set out to find the monster.

Ahab raised his harpoon. With all the strength he could gather, he threw it at the White Whale.

What I have dubbed the Malin and Victoria have been eaten by a section of the whale.

The ground floor of the museum is taken up by the skeleton of a gigantic whale.

The beluga , or white whale, is one of the smallest species of whale.

The dangers and the excitement of those whaling days are written in the Herman Melville's story of the white whale, Moby Dick.

The nose like splash guard atop a whale's head diverts water from two blowholes, each big enough for a toddler to crawl in.

Jang-geum proved her prowess in her cooking skill while preparing whale meat.

The beak of a shoveller duck is a more beautiful and complex structure than the mouth of a whale.

Plankton provides food for some of the smallest and biggest animals on the planet, including the Blue Whale.

Due in part to increased human consumption of krill as fish stocks run low, blue whale numbers are only 3% of what they were in the 1800s.

I would need my rubber ducky, a bucket, and a boat, my toy whale, a submarine, a rubber ball that floats.

Caption : WHALING: At left, a whale's carcass was tied to a ship near a processing plant in Hvalfjordur, Iceland, Friday.

A total of six whale species have been spotted from Long Island to New York Harbor, scientists announced yesterday.