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He saw beautiful landscapes, witnessed enormous whales just meters away and enjoyed what he called God's whispering at him through the wind.

The data could help conservationists make a stronger argument for how much krill the whales need to survive.

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

In a study published in May 2010, Price found that there's a strong connection between what whales eat, and how they evolved to be so large.

We camped with a view of the sea and went to see humpback and minke whales spouting yards from the boat.

The Azores is the best place in Europe to see a large range of whales and dolphins up close.

In Antarctica, the only mammals are those that stay for just a short time -- marine mammals like whales and seals.

There is no sign of the two wayward whales that have been lost near San Francisco and that could be a good thing.

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

There's a potential problem that maybe this kind of shipping will would prevent whales from being able to hear each other.

He spread his arms, taking in the dark horizon and the desert with its sandstone wind sculptures and its countless silent whales.

Humpback whales near Hawaii. Curtsinger says whales seem to be looking him in the eye when he approaches.

There was no report of whales in the area so we decided to test out Max' new, highly sensitive hydrophone7 and the result was astonishing.

Godard-Codding and her team were not able to do a detailed study on the health of the biopsied whales, since the whales were in the wild.

But that's just a bunch of whales in a group imitating each other. That's not like the mass media pop culture humans have, right?

The dolphins and whales hold the original cause for how this came to be so, or so earth's records have revealed in her recent ascent.

Like modern whales, Basilosaurus was an air breather and could not have stayed underwater for long periods of time.

Asked to choose, from all this fleet, the vessel to carry me on a month-long cruise in pursuit of blue whales, I would not have hesitated.

Two years ago the problem made it to the U. S. Supreme Court, in a case that might have been called U. S. Navy v. Whales.

For a week, these pilot whales, mostly mothers and calves, had been spotted swimming together.

As intelligent as they may be, however, whales have not found a way to counter the attacks of their deadliest enemy: human beings.

Masayuki Komatsu, who once described Minke whales as "the cockroaches of the ocean, " said the Japanese were eating tuna into extinction.

And one of the ways they wanted to do it was to put a tracking chip inside one of these humpback whales.

Scientists discovered that at least some of the whales were closely related, with ages ranging in age from a few months to 64 years.

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

And I'm happy to say that there are several very promising developments in this area, looking at the impact of shipping on whales.

Murayama said he hoped one day to train whales to express their feelings in a way that humans could understand.

Fin whales are the most predominant in the area, he said, but blue whales and right whales have also passed through New York waters.

The whales migrate twice a year through the area and are crucial to the subsistence economy of the Inupiat people.

But previous sightings and sound recordings closer to the surface suggested that the sperm whales are relatively few and far between.

Japan take advantage of this loophole, by the name of scientific research whaling, killing hundreds of whales each year.

It turns out that this lane here goes right through a major feeding area of right whales in the summer time.

BIODIVERSITY is not just a matter of tigers and whales, or butterflies and trees, or even coral reefs and tuna.

In years gone by, men sailed in ships that did not take them back to their homes FOR many years. Their job was to capture whales.

His sketches a eared in magazines and encyclopedias and at the center of what was then the begi ing of a movement to save the whales.

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

Some of these whales may already be near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports.

We also pass two dead whales, belly up on the surface, prompting an irreverent suggestion that we tow them to Svalbard to use as bear bait.

Sperm whales, also found in the Antarctic, lie at the surface blowing repeatedly so as not to get the bends.

Japan would be allowed to hunt 120 minke whales in its coastal waters as a sop to local sentiment in four ports.

On the gold coast, I can see dolphins frolicking, whales blowing off water up and down, and the flying fish skimming through the waters.

One may be surprised to understand that Eagle is related to porpoise, which should not be confused with dolphins and whales.

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

Then from far, far away, on the beach of the wind she heard, "Lilly! Lilly! " The whales were calling her name.

Because the records had been erased, dolphins and whales were oblivious to how they had been used in future generations and as time went by.

One of the best places in the world to see blue whales is here in this region .

Those shoppers are the whales of the $140 billion U. S. e-commerce market, one of the fastest-growing parts of U. S. retail.

To them, it almost sounds like the whales are shouting to be heard over the nearly continuous engine noise.

Humans, dolphins and whales do not catch dreams as a group but rather as an individual.

If blue whales above water are only putatively blue, then below the surface they go indisputably turquoise.

All fish have wings whales are fish therefore they have got to have wings haven't they?

What was the creature that swallowed Jonah, given that whales are not given to swimming in warm, southern seas?

'Thirty or 40 pilot whales were spotted off the Inner Hebrides at South Uist last week, ' he said.

Mr Payne said whales absorb the contaminants and passed them on to the next generation when a female nurses her calf.

Life in the oceans ranges from the tiniest plankton all the way up to giants like sharks and whales.

Sperm whales, which spend more time than other species at the surface, were also vulnerable.

Japan, Iceland, Norway and indigenous groups hunted and killed at least 17, 000 whales over the last decade.

Life in the ocean ranges from the tiniest plankton all the way up to giants like sharks and whales.

Killer whales seem to follow rules that go beyond basic instinct and border on culture.

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.

"I do not believe we would be able to do very much to reduce the damage to whales caused by sun exposure, " Acevedo-Whitehouse said.

When whales are traveling close to shore, avoid crowding them near the shore or coming between the whales and the shore.

They were drawn as dolphins and whales hold a piece of human truth as it is now understood.

Dolphins and whales suddenly asserted themselves into an important position of authority, claiming that they were a fully conscious species.

Only a few weeks ago, researchers reported finding two new species of primitive whales that had well-developed limbs.

They are trying to save nearly 200 stranded pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins.

Most people don't realise that whales also feed on the floor of the ocean, so it is possible that they also use electrosensing.

Fossils show how the nostrils of ancestral whales moved from the tip of the snout to the top of the head.

Over the last 50 years, as we've put more noise into the oceans, these whales have had to shift.

Whales are the largest animals on the Earth. Dolphins are one of the most intelligent animals. Sharks are one of the most dangerous animals.

Any of several whales of the family Balaenidae, characterized by a large head, whalebone plates in the mouth, and absence of a dorsal fin.

Dolphins and whales number more as map carvers to this level, but are only 80 in total upon the surface of the earth.

The truth is now, as it's ever been: We need whales more than they need us.

Large animals, like passing whales and dolphins, can also create enough disruption to produce a glow, as will passing boats.

Villagers often drive young whales, not banned by the International Whaling Commis-sion, into the shallow bay to be killed. . .

Whales are very important but sharks are more fundamental to the survival of our oceans, healthy oceans than whales probably ever will be.

Japanese officials, who call Sea Shepherd a "terrorist" outfit, say that the manoeuvres have made it impossible to catch whales safely.

The microscopic teeth of the Gillicus suggest it was a filter feeder that ate zooplankton , similar to today's baleen whales.

When you think of animals that sing, birds will certainly come to mind. Whales might, too.

Whales are continuously exposed to the sun and are now suffering skin damage as ultraviolet radiation increases.

Like fossils of whales with legs, Archaeopteryx seemed to capture a moment in a critical evolutionary metamorphosis.

As the sea lion pups splash happily in the water, they're revealing their location to the finely tuned sonar receptors of the whales.

Humans and dolphins and whales alike have always subordinated to the creator of any creation.

Her interest in whales motivated her to visit the aquarium.

Many may be surprised to hear that dolphins and whales were at cause in the fall of earth.

Killer whales, who live at the top of the ocean food chain, used to prey on sperm and baleen whales.

I stood with other onlookers, listening to the rhythmic motion of the sea, following the graceful, ghostly crescents of surfacing whales.

The whales prefer weddell seals, which can be up to 11 feet long, rather than the more aggressive crabeater and leopard seals.

Approach whales from the side, not from the front or the back.

Life in the oceans ranges from the tiniest planktoon all the way up to giants like sharks and whales.

And of course this will impact up the food chain, to fish and even sperm whales who dive deep to graze the ocean floor.

My children and I have gone swimming with dolphins, watched whales and hiked around the crater rim of the volcano.

During the few days I was on the ice, there was a visible difference in how long the whales would stay underwater.

In fact, at least six species of baleen whales have been detected singing in the region.

I made whales, fish, and birds of every size, shape and colour.

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

To be able to keep the ocean safe for whales to be able to continue to communicate .

This "nature farm" serves as a breeding center and a center of rehabilitation for white whales.

Whales emerge to the surface at approximately every 15 minutes, at random locations.

Only a few nations-Japan. Iceland, and Norway-continue to hound whales commercially.

Most people don't realise that whales alsofeed on the floor of the ocean, so it is possible that they also useelectrosensing.

Whales have long been central part of Inuit life in Greenland, where a regulated subsistence hunt continues to this day.

One service might be populating a tree with devas. Another service might be producing devas for whales.

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

Watching whales surface above the water was an exciting spectacle.

She wanted to be Jane Goodall. But instead of chimpanzees, her animals would turn out to be killer whales.

However, under the oceans , Dolphins and Whales shall remain at this time the only fully conscious mammals.

The seal feels perfectly safe lying on the Antarctic ice even if it is surrounded by a pod of killer whales.

In winter the humpback whales migrate to warmer waters, just as some land animals move to warmer climates.

This could be a good thing, of course. More algae might mean more krill, and that might mean more whales and other large sea animals.

On one day we had traveled up and down the shore and far out to sea in search of whales, but the horizon was deserted.

Baleen whales have been tracked by autonomous gliders before, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts.

The moratorium remains in place today, though some countries still hunt whales in the name of scientific research.

Miss White: Well, some whales have teeth and eat large animals. Some whales have no teeth and eats only small fish and plants in water.

Bowhead whales, the giants of the Arctic, are using the Northwest Passage to move across the top of the Americas.

The intertwining of consciousness also causes distortion in such experiences of parallel kind to what dolphins and whales suffer.

Soon the whales "answer" with an exquisite array of sounds from gurgles made by blowing bubbles through their blowholes to little squeaks.

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.

Sperm whales gather in their breeding grounds off the Caribbean island of Dominica in a file photo.

Noise pollution drowns out the vocalizations on which whales rely to find food and navigate.

It is not easy to envision what the first whales looked like.

"Allowing the great whales to recover will allow the system to slowly reset itself, " he says.

How the millions of liters of oil will impact sperm whales and other cetaceans is an ongoing, unintentional science experiment.

"I used to sit at the end of the jetty and listen for whales " said Lilly's grandmother.

Second, the whales chasing prey into the bank.

But at least in most places, we remain loath to both cherish and consume whales.

Norway's own data shows that at least one in five hunted whales suffers a long, agonising death.

A century ago only a few hundred right whales survived in the Southern Hemisphere.

Thousands of whales continue to be savagely hunted and killed every year.

The karma for intertwining of humans, dolphins and whales does goes all the way back to the original shattering of the Grand Masters.

All this activity is raising concerns about the whales' health and survival.

Two wayward humpback whales have done an about-face and are headed back toward the Pacific Ocean.

The skin of whales is usually black, gray, tan and white.

Japan's whaling fleet is sailing towards Antarctica on a mission to hunt and kill over 900 whales, including up to 50 humpbacks .

Conservation department staff found that more than half went dead whales, dying whales for the rest of euthanasia.

For instance, the depth of water or the existence of a large obstruction ahead may be detected by loud noises made by baleen whales.

The good life consists of having a decent job, a decent standard of living and a nice family, not of fighting for justice or saving whales.

Stay tuned for additional articles to be brought through from the plants and trees, minerals as well as dolphins and whales in 2006.

They tested this hypothesis out on blue whales, a species for which they had data spanning three years.

Scientists believe the whales are actually training for the more rigorous chases they'll have to make later in the year, in the open sea.

Many Japanese say that hunting and eating whales are part of their traditions and should be allowed.

The whales were trapped in the end the bank for any reason, so scientists baffled.

Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all.

Still, the new studies offer the most extensive evidence yet that dolphins and whales can be sentinels for environmental contamination.

Two whales floundering between the Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay have moved several miles closer to the Pacific Ocean.

Ancient tombs and memorials for whales and dolphins can be found across the country.

On Wednesday, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said bluntly that the Japanese hunt was not science, but "the slaughter of whales. "

However, its close relative, the Colossal Squid, may grow to much greater sizes, as evidenced by the size of sucker marks on sperm whales.

By August 2005 it had collected pencil-eraser sized samples from 955 whales using a dart gun that barely made the animal flinch.

But the quota was for nine whales, and whalers killed just seven and could not find a market for the meat, he said.

Since then Gingerich and a handful of other paleontologists have filled in the story of early whales, tooth by tooth, toe by toe.

When these were no longer available, the killer whales were forced to fish farther down the food chain.

Sperm whales' heads are filled with a mysterious substance called spermaceti .

I'm going to try to take you on a journey of the underwater acoustic world of whales and dolphins.

Whales are divided into two broad groups calledbaleen and toothed whales. There was a third group but this is now totally extinct.

"That's why whales and walruses are fat, " he said.

For years, Mr. Pitman, the U. S. marine ecologist, has searched the world's rivers and oceans for rare species of dolphins and whales.

Cetacean experts do not expect whales to escape this slick completely.

Dolphins and whales are a common site in the sheltered bays, and the extensive wetlands are home to a large variety of birds.

This shows us both that the calls are detectable over hundreds of miles, and that whales routinely swim hundreds of miles.

Last November, five solar whales combust causing six of our map carving whales to die of strokes and brain hemorrhaging here upon earth.

But even if you aren't advanced enough to wreck dive, you'll find giant sharks, whales, and turtles.

Sperm whales, however, spend considerably more time at the sea surface, so they too are becoming sunburned.

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

WHALES seem to stir up strong feelings.

Some of the whales in the area were formerly captive but reintroduced to the wild after being rehabilitated.

The whales must be killed as they surface for air, while their lungs are full, otherwise they will sink irretrievably into the ocean.

Curious by nature, the whales greet dive teams as they cut dive holes into the thick Arctic ice by popping their heads out.

But it's exactly what is required for polar bears, ring seals, and the snowy-white beluga whales -- the highly vocal canaries of the sea.

That means that the other whales eat all the food and then I have to search for another place for food and then I never find food.

Divers often play with white whales who seem to show off.

Researchers discover that whales and bats each evolved with the sophisticated ability to use sonar in identifying objects from a distance.

The researchers are unsure whether the lesions are painful - and whether sunburn increases the risk of skin cancer in whales.

Off the shores of Costa Rica, scientists study a stronghold of whales that once hovered near extinction.

An examination of the functioning of the senses in cetaceans , the group of mammals comprising whales, dolphins and porpoises.

While some inhabit one particular geographical area of an ocean, others like killer whales are found worldwide.

Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food.

Although the whales are feasting on some of the smallest creatures on the planet, the dive fills them with enough sustenance to survive.

All the whales killed in the Antarctic hunt have to pass through the Tokyo-based institute.

Limit the time spent with any group of whales to less than 30 minutes at a time when within 100 to 200 meters of whales.

Another image includes Melbourne photographer Jason Edwards took what is believed to be the first images of humpback whales mating.

The blue elephants landed in the sea and their wings became fins. They are whales, the trunkless elephants of the oceans.

One could say in this that dolphins and whales held the human truth of inner awareness in the polarity of the wheel of life.

When whales die, their sunken bodies become prime habitat for a variety of sea creatures.

A world-famous singer in Shanghai organized a special concert, the audience is the sea that whales endangered.

Whales that are not beached are hauled ashore by their blowholes. Then their dorsal fins are hacked off, cutting through their arteries.

The Greenpeace activists protested against the commercial killing of the whales.

The event was sponsored by the Malibu Foundation For Environmental Education to send a message to keep the ocean clean for the whales.

They worried that icebreakers and drill ships would hurt the bowhead whales on which they depend.

People who live near the shores of quiet bays where whales visit can sometimes hear their beautiful songs even above water.

We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India.

And I'd like to switch now from this local, familiar, coastal environment to the much broader world of the baleen whales and the open ocean.

Arthur was optimistic about their chances but expressed concern about a number of other whales just off shore.

any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beak like jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw.

This month, he was shown piloting a fire-fighting plane and chasing whales with scientists in a rubber boat in the Pacific .

It isn't right to kill whales or elephants for their meat, but it's hard to stop the killing.

The whales are always in motion, swooping across the huge window.

Man has killed millions of whales and is still killing them.

Dolphins and whales have already experienced instantaneous healing within some pods of certain members destined to ascend but diseased.

Beaked whales and the narwhal are the only cetacean species with tusks, according to Baker.

Experts are unable to explain why the whales beached themselves.

large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals.

It wasn't until 1989, however, that the team found the link they were seeking to the whales' terrestrial ancestors, almost by accident.

In 19th Century Alaska, whales were caught containing tips of harpoons that had been thrown by whalers in the Atlantic.

The makers of the documentary used expert divers and hi-tech gadgets to film the slaughter of bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales.

But the reason that international whale conservation work continues is not just because whales are endangered.

Harpoon is a weapon used for hunting whales.

This label is a fiction which fools no one, as whales meat, popular with Japanese consumers, is available on the open market.

These are lands where you can glimpse an eagle, an osprey, a wildcat, a fine antlered stag or even whales and dolphins.

The great sardine run: dolphins, sharks, whales and birds competing underwater for fish.

Unable to communicate, individual whales have trouble finding each other and spend more time on their own.

The next slide will show what the impact this may have on the range at which whales can communicate.

the position of the eyes so restricts the field of vision in baleen whales that they probably do not have stereoscopic vision.

Manson Bay two foreign tourists found the stranded pilot whales, and notify the department of natural resource conservation in New Zealand.

Then humans, dolphins and whales become as lost as the creation that they are vying to pull out of distortion enough that it can go home.

Hippo males fling their faeces; flatworms have penis-jousting contests; and humpback whales sing and leap above the ocean surface.

If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Off the coast of California, dolphins, sea lions and whales are coming down with epilepsy.

Near the Azores, just below the sunlit Atlantic surface, sperm whales float in vertical repose.

The little shellfish is eaten by baleen whales, salmon, herring and various seabirds.

In addition, this year's whaling season 4 has just begun to capture the end of the two whales found no radioactive material.

Clark studies endangered northern right whales, whose habitat includes busy shipping lanes for the port of Boston.

What will that mean for the salmon, the whales and the rest of Sakhalin's beautiful but fragile flora and fauna?

Dolphins and whales then went on to cast all ocean life just like humans had cast us and all land based life.

Environmentalists are arguing that the sonar can cause whales to beach themselves and harms other marine animals.

Weighing up to 50 tons and reaching lengths of 50 feet these whales display incredible beauty and power.

The whales migrate north from Antarctica to mate from July to November off the coast of Brazil.

Crews in Australia are struggling to save a number of whales that beached themselves.

The sando's muted color palette was inspired by the typical hues of large terrestrial animals, like elephants and whales.

Never has there been such an effort to save whales from extinction.

"Often whales are seen by some communities as competitors, " says Roman. "Here, we're showing that whales can actually provide a service. "

Cape Town, South Africa, May 30, 2009--Rescuers try to push one of about 55 pilot whales that mysteriously stranded themselves back to sea.

Blue whales are still endangered, but their population is now on the rise again.

The Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska once teemed with tens of thousands of North Pacific right whales.

Creatures ranging from blue whales to turtles will be fitted with satellite tracking devices that will record their every movement.

Software Description: About An Orca Sea by CD, Hear the haunting calls of Killer Whales. This theme has sounds, icons and animated cursors .

Compared to phytoplankton that have life spans measured in days, whales and large fish live for decades.

A new study reveals that, just like humans, humpback whales in the South Pacific follow musical trends that change by the season.

Japan, Norway, and Iceland have illegally killed nearly 35, 000 whales since the inception of the moratorium.

Seals solve the problem by climbing onto land to molt, but killer whales, lacking that ability, may need to take a trip to the spa.

Whales will be killed by a lethal injection once a vet and marine mammal experts have checked the scene.

Anger hated foreigners, yoga, whales, speed limits and pineapple on pizza; he liked flogging, electrocutions and beer.

Antarctic whales follow a similar pattern, moving between Antarctic ice and warmer mid-latitudes with the seasons.

Whales And Dolphins: Cognition, Culture, Conservation And Human Perceptions.

Dark-skinned whales appear to have less damage, but they too are getting sunburned.

That in turn stands to have an effect on the food chain, since giant squid provide the meal of choice for endangered sperm whales.

Japan's government says the hunting of dolphins and whales is an important cultural tradition.

In the afternoon, we are going to see the performance of white whales.

I intend to forgive those ancestors who were involved in scientific experiments that involved dolphins, whales or nature.

Whales die in prolonged unimaginable agony as blunt tipped harpoons smash into their backsides and shred internal organs.