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Beaked whales are deep divers with extreme dive profiles They regularly dive deeper than 500 m to echolocate for food, and these deep dives are often followed by multiple shallower dives of less than 500 m. Based on currently available data, beaked whales are thought to spend much of their lives below water.
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Beaked whales are the members of the family Ziphiidae which consists of 21 species.
Beaked whales are one of the world's most extreme divers.
Beaked whales are one of the least known groups of mammals because of their deep-sea habitat, mysterious habits, and apparent low abundance.
Beaked whales are moderate in size, ranging from and weighing from.
Beaked whales are unique among toothed whales in that most species only have one pair of teeth.
Beaked whales comprise at least 21 species of small whale in the family Ziphiidae, which is one of the least-known families of large mammals: several species have been described only in the last two decades.
Beaked whales have several anatomical adaptations to deep diving: large spleens, livers, and body shape.
Beaked whales are known to congregate in deep waters off the edge of continental shelves, and bottom features, such as seamounts, canyons, escarpments, and oceanic islands, including the Azores and the Canary Islands.
Beaked whales are typically medium-to large-sized for toothed whales, three to six meters in length, but diminutive when compared with bottlenose whales and giant beaked whales.
Beaked whales may also be sensitive to noise.
Other wildlife to be found in Doubtful Sound includes fur seals and penguins, or even rare large whales ( Southern Right Whale, Humpback Whale, Minke Whale, Sperm Whale and some Giant Beaked Whales ).
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Humpback Whales, Fin Whales, North Pacific Right Whales, Blue Whales, White Whales, Cuvier's Beaked Whales, Stejneger's beaked whales, Short-Finned Pilot Whales can also be observed.
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Beaked whale species are often sexually dimorphic — one or the other sex is significantly larger.
Baird's and Cuvier's Beaked Whales, Minke Whales, Fin Whales, and Sperm Whales are also observed regularly.
Beaked salmons are fished commercially in some areas.
Grey Seals are common, and Basking Sharks, Minke Whales, Dolphins, Beaked Whale, and Leatherback Turtles have also been recorded.
* The Beaked Dolphin: one colony is visible, most mornings, from the beach at Itsandra, close to Moroni, but there are also many others.
Chundan Vallam ( Beaked Boat ), known to the outside world as Kerala snake boats, are one of the icons of Kerala culture used in the Vallamkali ( boat race.
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* Diving with Beaked Whales-A Whale Trackers documentary video.
The Beaked Gecko is reddish brown to red above, with tiny yellow, brown, and white spots.
* PLANTS Database ( Plants. usda. gov ): Beaked Hazel with pictures
It is separated from the sea by a storm beach and small dune system, and is the only natural brackish lagoon on Scilly with plants such as Saltmarsh Rush ( Juncus gerardii ) and Beaked Tasselweed ( Ruppia maritima ).
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The Beaked Clarkia, ( Clarkia rostrata ), is listed as a candidate for the Federal Endangered Species List.
* Geckos Unlimited: The Source for all your gecko needs: R. Ornata " Beaked Gecko "
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One of Messerschmidt's most famous heads ( The Beaked ) was apparently inspired by one of these encounters.
In the Canary Islands it is possible to see these and others, such as the Blue Whale, Bryde's Whale, Beaked Whale, False Killer Whale, Risso's Dolphin, Atlantic Spotted Dolphin and Rough-Toothed Dolphin.
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* MNZ MM002134 Gray's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon grayi, collected Black Reef, Cape Kidnappers, Hawke Bay, New Zealand, 18 March 1993.
The True's Beaked Whale ( Mesoplodon mirus ) is a medium sized whale in the Mesoplodont genus.
* Longman's Beaked Whale Hawaiian Stock.
* Appearance, Distribution, and Genetic Distinctiveness of Longman's Beaked Whale, Indopacetus pacificus.
# Cuvier's Beaked Whale in the Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals Thomas A. Jefferson, 1998.
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* Species Convention on Migratory species page on Baird's Beaked Whale
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******* Shepherd's beaked whale ( Shepherd's Beaked Whale ), Tasmacetus shepherdi
* Arnoux's beaked whale-The Beaked Whale Resource
* Baird's beaked whale-The Beaked Whale Resource
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Blue whales are rorquals ( family Balaenopteridae ), a family that includes the humpback whale, the fin whale, Bryde's whale, the sei whale, and the minke whale.
Dolphins are marine mammals closely related to whales and porpoises.
Orcas and some closely related species belong to the Delphinidae family and therefore qualify as dolphins, even though they are called whales in common language.
Six species in the family Delphinidae are commonly called " whales ", but genetically are dolphins.
Dolphins, along with whales and porpoises, are descendants of terrestrial mammals, most likely of the Artiodactyl order.
Sailors, scuba divers and big-game fishermen are all drawn to these clear blue Atlantic waters where whales, dolphins, marlin and turtles are all common sights.
Recent DNA analysis indicates certain rorquals of the family Balaenopteridae, such as the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, and fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, are more closely related to the gray whale than they are to some other rorquals, such as the minke whales.
Individual whales are typically identified using photographs of their dorsal surface and matching the scars and patches associated with parasites that have fallen off the whale or are still attached.
The shallow lagoon waters in which gray whales reproduce are believed to protect the newborn from sharks and orcas.
In some years, the whales have also used an offshore feeding ground in 30-35 m depth southeast of Chayvo Bay, where benthic amphipods and cumaceans are the main prey species.
Some gray whales have also been seen off western Kamchatka, but to date all whales photographed there are also known from the Piltun area.
These first whales to arrive are usually pregnant mothers looking for the protection of the lagoons to bear their calves, along with single females seeking mates.
Gray whales have been granted protection from commercial hunting by the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) since 1949, and are no longer hunted on a large scale.
Gray whales are protected under Canada's Species at Risk Act which obligates Canadian governments to prepare management plans for the whales and consider the interests of the whales when permitting development.
Western gray whales are facing, the large-scale offshore oil and gas development programs near their summer feeding ground, as well as fatal net entrapments off Japan during migration, which pose significant threats to the future survival of the population.
The second problem is hydrofoils are almost like sharp knives going through the water, normally fatally injuring any marine mammal ( e. g. whales ) they hit.
Though it is often called a whale today, the Hebrew, as throughout scripture, refers to no species in particular, simply sufficing with " great fish " or " big fish " ( whales are today classified as mammals and not fish, but no such distinction was made in antiquity ).
" Sperm whales, on the other hand, while having demonstrated the ability and occasional behavior to swallow more than a grown man whole, have not yet been observed to demonstrate the inclination to swallow humans and generally are known to use their teeth to tear their food to pieces rather than swallow whole.
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