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Whales:     more books (79)

The Whales' Song (Picture Puffins) by Dyan Sheldon, 1997-04-01 The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals by Peter Heller, 2008-10-14 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale by Marcus Pfister Herbert, 1999-09-01 Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story by Jerry Newport, Mary Newport, 2007-11-06 Whale Done Parenting: How to Make Parenting a Positive Experience for You and Your Kids by Thad Lacinak, Jim Ballard, et all 2009-11-02 Whales and Dolphins (Eye Wonder) by DK Publishing, 2003-06-02 Just Give Him The Whale!: 20 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strengths to Support Students with Autism by Paula Kluth, Patrick Schwarz, 2008-02-14 Isabel of the Whales by Hester Velmans, 2006-07-11 A Symphony of Whales by Steve Schuch, 2002-10-01 Humphrey the Lost Whale by Wendy Tokuda, Richard Hall, 1992-12-01 Whale Song: A Novel by Cheryl Kaye Tardif, 2007-04-01 The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology by Langdon Winner, 1988-01-15 The Whale Road by Robert Low, 2007-08-21 Baby Whales Drink Milk (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Barbara Juster Esbensen, 1994-01-30

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21. IWMC.org - Victoria Times-Colonist - 07 September 1998
    Groups who historically have hunted whales want to do so again now that the whale populations have risen. Canada.  
    http://www.iwmc.org/whales/980904.htm
    
    Extractions: by Jody Paterson, City Editor M essage to whale-hunt foes: Indians can't live on nobility Everything was so much easier before the Indians slipped out of the box we'd put them in as noble and selfless keepers of the land. It turned out they wanted to feed their families and keep their home towns alive, and that meant making money from trees and fish just like everybody else in B.C. has been doing for a century or so. Now, they want whales. There are 30,000 gray whales in this part of the Pacific Ocean, and the whaling tribes of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations want a few of them. Washington state's Makah will hunt for a whale this fall, and local hereditary whaling chief Tom Mexsis Happynook is priming himself and his son for their first whale hunt sometime in the future. Happynook is the head of the World Council of Whalers, a 20-country group put together two years ago to ready people for hunts all over the world. The countries all once hunted whales and at least nine of them still do, but nobody has been doing too much of it since industrial whalers wiped out whole populations 70 or so years ago in the pursuit of oil, baleen for corsets, and ambergris for perfume. Now that whale populations are thriving again, the whalers want some, mostly to eat but maybe to sell into the whale-hungry Japanese market. The World Council of Whalers was formed to begin the public debate. "What we want people to know is that the whalers are still alive and they want to bring food to their table," says Happynook's spouse and fellow council member Kathy.

22. San Juan Cruises | Cruises Through The San Juan Islands & Whale Watching | Home
    San Juan Island and Victoria B.C. cruises leaving from Bellingham, Washington. 100ft. boat tours the islands and locates wildlife including orca whales.  
    http://www.whales.com/
    
    Extractions: Victoria San Juan Cruises tours@whales.com Toll Free Work contact us Bellingham Cruise Terminal 355 Harris Avenue, Suite #104 Bellingham WA San Juan Islands Bellingham Whales Shopping Charters About Store ... Blog More Information More Information More Information San Juan Adventure Cracked Crab Cruise Enjoy a delicious crab feast while cruising Chuckanut Bay. ... Our deluxe 3 day / 2 night tour exploring the San Juan Islands. find out more Imagine an evening sunset or cocktail cruise around Bellingham or Chuckanut Bay for your next family reunion or company party. With 3 vessels and our helpful planning staff, we can offer a truly memorable experience for your group. find out more Thank you to everyone who took one of our sightseeing tours during the 2010 summer season. We are currently closed for the winter and will be updating our website with our 2011 operating schedule shortly.

23. The WHALES Homebrewing Club, Woodbridge, NJ
    The whales Homebrewing Club of Central New Jersey has been crafting award winning beer, mead, and cider since 1996.  
    http://www.whalesbrewclub.com/joomla/

24. Welcome To WhaleNet - Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts
    whale, whales, seal, seals, dolphin, satellite tag, education, satellite tagging, whale research, argos, marine mammal, cetacea, cetacean, tagging, porpoise, sea turlte, turtle  
    http://whale.wheelock.edu/Welcome.html
    
    Extractions: Awards and Acknowledgements Clicking on a BLUE link will take you to the page of your choice. Student, Teacher, and Public pages have menus to guide you to selected information and activities. If you are seeking the answer to a specific question, use How to Find for suggestions, or Search WhaleNet . We suggest that first time users take the WhaleNet Tour J. Michael Williamson

25. WDCS - Whale And Dolphin Conservation Society
    Provides information about how you can help whales, projects and campaigns, publications, sightings and strandings, species guide, and whale watching.  
    http://www.wdcs.org/

26. Whale: Definition From Answers.com
    Bibliography. See R. Ellis, The Book of whales (1980) and Dolphins and Porpoises (1989); L. Watson, Sea Guide to whales of the World (1981).  
    http://www.answers.com/topic/whale

27. Whales And Whale Watching Tours, Cabo San Lucas, Baja, Mexico
    whales and Whale Watching Tours in Cabo San Lucas and nearby areas of Los Cabos, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.  
    http://www.loscabosguide.com/activity/whales.htm
    
    Extractions: Like all mammals, the gray whale is warm blooded, breathes air and nurses its young. Moderately large in size, they range in length from 40 to 50 feet and can weigh up to 73,000 pounds, with males smaller than females. Gray in color, hence the name, they are classified as Cetacea, marine mammals that include whales, porpoises and dolphins and belong to Mysticeti, one of the three families of great baleen whales. Grays have no close relatives; they are the single species of the family Eschrichtidae. If you want to see mothers and their calves first hand, whale-watching trips to Magdalena Bay (the closest calving area to Los Cabos) are best made with daytrip fly-in tours. Aereo Calafia offers tours during the whale watching season. This is a completely different experience than whale watching off the coast of Los Cabos as you are in a protected area of extremely calm, shallow water. Here you will be able to interact with the whales and get much closer to them than in the open ocean. The opportunity to pet whales is not uncommon. If you have more time to spend a few days in Magdalena Bay, there are several tour companies that operate from Loreto as a base camp.

28. Whales-online
    Provides information, news, and highlights of research work on the conservation of whales, dolphins and porpoises in the Southern Hemisphere.  
    http://www.whales-online.org/

29. Whales, Whale Watching, Killer Whale At LiveScience.com
    LiveScience.com explains whales,whale watching,killer whale,blue whale and killer whales  
    http://www.livescience.com/whales/
    
    Extractions: dartTag = 'general/home'; Whales are by far the largest creatures currently living on earth today, and are among the most massive to have ever existed. Members of the Cetacean order, which also includes the dolphin and the porpoise, whales are among a very unique group of mammals that spend their entire life in the sea. Whales evolved from land dwelling mammals, and are believed to have first entered the water about 50 million years ago. Differing from many other sea creatures, whales are fully warm blooded animals that breathe oxygen in the air through their lungs. Overtime, whales have adapted to their aquatic surroundings, which includes body shape as well as developing a tremendous lung capacity. Many whales can remain under water without coming up for air for as long as 2 hours! Like dolphins and porpoises, whales breathe through a blowhole, which is located on the top of the head so that the whale can breathe while continuing to keep the rest of its body fully submerged. The Blue whale is the largest of the whales, as well as the largest animal ever known to have existed on earth, measuring in at up to a whopping 94 feet long with a staggering weight of 180 tons! There are currently more than 40 discovered whale species. Most whales are either classified as baleen whales or toothed whales. Baleen whales, which include the blue whale, the humpback whale and the gray whale among others, are characterized by having baleen plates in the front of their mouth instead of teeth for filtering their food from the water. Toothed whales, like the sperm whale, the beluga whale and the beaked whale, have teeth and usually feed on fish and other smaller sea creatures.

30. Whales: The Kids' Times - Office Of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
    whales Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries whales The Kids' Times. whales. whales are the largest animals that ever lived on the Earth.  
    http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/education/whales.htm
    
    Extractions: NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources OPR Home About OPR ... OPR Site Map Whales Whales are the largest animals that ever lived on the Earth. They are even larger than the dinosaurs of prehistoric times. All whales belong to a group known as cetaceans (seh TAY shuhnz). There are two types of whales - toothed (odontocete) and baleen (mysticete). Several species of both toothed and baleen whales have been hunted close to extinction and still face threats to their survival by human activities. Learn more about whales from NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML).

31. Why Do I Support The Whaling?
    Article discussing some of the commonly given reasons for not hunting and killing whales.  
    http://luna.pos.to/whale/intro.html
    
    Extractions: Although it is true that Bottlenose Dolphin has a brain as heavy as human's and it's surface has complex folding as human's, no relationship is known between brain weight and intelligence (considering that only a part of the brain is used for intelligence, and that proportion of the part varies species to species, it is unlikely that total brain weight can give useful index of intelligence), and so is folding on brain surface. One fact worth to be noted is that whales/dolphins does echo-location to 'view' their circumstance by reflected sound from objects, with higher quality than what bats does. Because of this complex function they may require relatively larger brain than other animals which does not do it. Anyway, the reason of brain size has not been revealed yet. The study about cetacean intelligence is done only on some species of dolphins, not including large whales, and so far there is no firm evidence that they are as intelligent as human, although some people want to believe it and have tendency to interpret whales/dolphins' behavior in their wishful way. For example, dolphins have a habit of transporting large object afloat on the sea, such as wood, dead shark, etc. And when a drawn person is transported to shore by dolphins, some people believe that dolphins are so gentle and intelligent that it saved the human for good will. However, the study of dolphins' society show that there exists harassment and killing among dolphins species, and cases are reported that a swimmer was suddenly attacked by a dolphin or pushed toward the ocean. It seems that their cute face and characteristics of being easily tamed to humans, caused people to develop view about cetacean in subjective way.

32. Whales-online
    whalesonline believes individuals have the power to transform our world. whales-online provides stimulating and informative analysis of the issues that affect whales, dolphins  
    http://whales-online.org/

33. Save The Whales, Kill A Culture? - ABC News
    Dean Schabner. The Makah tribe says groups that want to stop their whale hunt are using racist arguments, but the opponents say they just want to save the whales.  
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90125

34. Answers.com - Whales Questions Including "Why Does Whaling Have To Be Stopped"
    whales Questions including Why does whaling have to be stopped and Where do most beluga whales live  
    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2915

35. Whales | Buzzle.com
    whales whales are fish. They are mammals. They are the largest living animals and are seriously endangered. Whoa! That felt like a school essay!  
    http://www.buzzle.com/articles/whales/

36. Whale - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    whales are very large marine mammals, that live in the oceans. whales are not fish; like other mammals, they breathe oxygen from the air, and have a small amount of hair, and  
    http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whales
    
    Extractions: see text for families) a Humpback Whale Whales are very large marine mammals , that live in the oceans . Whales are not fish ; like other mammals , they breathe oxygen from the air , and have a small amount of hair , and warm blood . There are two basic kinds of whale, baleen whales and toothed whales, and about 100 species People disagree about the meaning of the word whale. Some think it means all Cetaceans including dolphins and porpoises . These people say that dolphins and porpoises are also whales, because they are also Cetaceans. Other people separate out the

37. Whales In Sydney Harbour: Video, Pictures, Photos | October 2010
    A Whale of A Film. A Look at whales. The IMAX Experience. The Whale General Characteristics Whale Species. Of all the earth's animals, none is more fascinating than the whales  
    http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/whales-call-sydney-home-20101028-1

38. Hebridean Whale And Dolphin Trust
    Aims to educate the public about whales and dolphins, includes information on research, education, and conservation.  
    http://www.whaledolphintrust.co.uk/
    
    Extractions: HWDT find a shark egg case during our beach clean and survey at Ardmore Bay Read the latest updates from onboard Silurian , our research and education vessel. Read More... The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) is dedicated to enhancing knowledge and understanding of Scotland’s whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans) and the Hebridean marine environment through education, research and working within Hebridean communities as a basis for the lasting conservation of local species and habitats. MAKE A DONATION - Click to find out more Just For Kids Kids of all ages...

39. Whales
    Surfnetkids.com recommends five whale websites. whales hold several world records. whales are the largest aquatic mammals (bigger than sharks or dolphins.) Grey whales migrate  
    http://www.surfnetkids.com/whales.htm

40. Wild Whales
    Is a resource web site for the cetaceans. It focuses on humpback and killer whale research, as well as conservation and habitat stewardship.  
    http://www.wildwhales.org/

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