whales

• “The diving behavior of blue and fin whales: is dive duration shorter than expected based on oxygen stores?”

  Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III

• “The Japanese government allows about 20,000 dolphins to be caught each year, and argues that killing dolphins and whales is no different from raising cows or pigs for slaughter.”

  The Huffington Post: 'The Cove' Dolphin Hunt Village, Taiji, Japan, To Hold First-Ever Meeting Between Fishermen And Anti-Hunting Activists, Including Ric O'Barry

• “Working with whales is like working with poets," Lucy said.”

  EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 2/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar

• “If you were interested in whales and heard that the pet whale Sumi was killed, there would be a few lines of print and a couple of mentions on the newscycle and then nothing more would ever be heard.”

  Gerst Does Colbert Report (With Video) - NASA Watch

• “A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.”

  Archive 2009-05-10

• “It's not the way of ships to go around being sunk by whales, is it, captain?”

  CHAPTER XVI

• “Or in the name of whales or trees or spotted owls.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Burning Wire

• “Migrating squid drove evolution of sonar in whales and dolphins, researchers argue”

  September 5th, 2007

• “Most recently, cetologists seem to have favoured the idea that fin whales actually swim on their right side while lunge-feeding, thereby using a sort of rotated counter-shading.”

  Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III

• “Unusual loud noises have been reported from live, feeding fin whales, so what Brodie reported apparently occurs in live whales, and not just dead ones.”

  Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III

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