Minke whale meat kebabs, Reykjavik

Minke whale.

Minke whale (), or lesser rorqual, is a name given to two species of marine mammal belonging to a clade within the suborder of baleen whales.

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Omura's whale is among the smallest of the rorquals ( only the two species of Minke whale are smaller ).

Several species of Cetaceans are commonly found including Common Porpoise, White-beaked Dolphin, killer whale and Minke Whale.

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The genus name Eobalaenoptera reflects the similarities between this skeleton and species in the genus Balaenoptera such as the Minke Whale ; eo-is a prefix meaning dawn.

Cetacean species native to the coast include the Orca, Gray Whale, Harbour Porpoise, Dall's Porpoise, Pacific White-sided Dolphin and Minke Whale.

When sea water freezes, the ice is riddled with brine-filled channels which sustain sympagic organisms such as bacteria, algae, copepods and annelids, which in turn provide food for animals such as krill and specialised fish like the Bald notothen, fed upon in turn by larger animals such as Emperor penguins and Minke whales.

Norwegian catches ( 1946 – 2005 ) in red and quotas ( 1994 – 2006 ) in blue of Minke Whale, from Norwegian official statistics.

Minke whales are the only legally hunted species.

For the year 2011 the quota is set at 1286 Minke whales.

Listed as honorary and contributing members at that time were A. J. Minke, Claud Davis and W. R. Motz.

Puffin, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shag and gulls nest on the island and the surrounding waters provide a livelihood for numerous seabirds, Gray Seals, dolphins, Basking Sharks, Minke, and Pilot Whales.

Before the Franks family could pay the ransom, Tony Minke, a Polish immigrant, discovered the body.

Baird's and Cuvier's Beaked Whales, Minke Whales, Fin Whales, and Sperm Whales are also observed regularly.

The " Minke " is allegedly named after a Norwegian whaler named Meincke, who mistook a Northern Minke Whale for a Blue Whale.

Distribution is worldwide: the Blue, Fin, Humpback, and the Sei Whales are found in all major oceans ; the Common ( Northern ) and Antarctic ( Southern ) Minke Whale species are found in all the oceans of their respective hemispheres ; and either of Bryde's Whale and Eden's Whale occur in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, being absent only from the cold waters of the Arctic and Antarctic.

It is the largest and the smallest types — the Blue Whale and Antarctic Minke Whale — that occupy the coldest waters in the extreme south ; the Fin Whale tends not to approach so close to the ice shelf ; the Sei Whale tends to stay further north again.

Minke whales have between 240 and 360 baleen plates on each side of their mouths.

Minke whales typically live for 30 – 50 years ; in some cases they may live for up to 60 years.

It is here that the Northern Humpback Whale, Fin Whale, Minke Whale, and the very endangered / heavily protected North Atlantic Right Whale are often observed.

With occasional sightings of Common dolphin and Minke Whale.

When sea water freezes, the ice is riddled with brine-filled channels which sustain sympagic organisms such as bacteria, algae, copepods and annelids, which in turn provide food for animals such as krill and specialised fish like the Bald notothen, fed upon in turn by larger animals such as Emperor penguins and Minke whales.

The skeleton of the killer whale is of the typical delphinid structure, but is more robust.

A whale skeleton discovered there in 1990 was proved to be a new whale species ( see Eobalaenoptera harrisoni ).

With the help of its sister city Bodenwerder, the birthplace of the Baron, the club amassed a number of " historical proofs " of presence of the Baron in Königsberg: an ancient silver thaler " returned " to Kaliningrad by Bodenwerder's mayor as a debt for a mug of beer drunk by Münchhausen, Order of Saint Anna issued to the Baron by Paul I of Russia for his " faultless service ", and the skeleton of the whale in whose belly the Baron was entrapped for a while.

The building features labs for biology, geology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics, a courtyard with a crystalline glass gazebo in the center, a Foucault pendulum designed by Alan Thorndike, as well as Gray whale skeleton named Willy.

Its initial theme of a general-purpose scenic and curiosity park led to one of its most famous attractions, a large whale skeleton, which had been washed up near the coast of The Needles in 1842, and is still a showpiece today.

A 30 foot-long skeleton of a juvenile gray whale, assembled by students from Ensenada, hangs from the ceiling.

On 6 September 2010 Karl Shuker announced that a hitherto-unknown photograph of Trunko had been discovered by German cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler on the website of the Margate Business Association, and Shuker recognised from this photo that Trunko had been nothing more than a globster, i. e. a massive, tough skin-sac of blubber containing collagen that is sometimes left behind when a whale dies and its skull and skeleton have separated from the skin and sunk to the sea bottom.

The skeleton of a Bowhead whale with the hind limb and pelvic bone structure circled in red.

* El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe — Is an interactive museum of science that resembles the skeleton of a whale.

A full whale skeleton is on display in the main atrium, as well as other numerous artifacts from Ikitsuki's history.

When she woke up the next morning, Canola realized the wind had created the music by blowing through partially rotted sinew still attached to a whale skeleton.

The Kotha Bastion contains a fine collection of sculptures, coins, inscriptions and copper plates and the skeleton of a whale.

The skeleton of a gray whale is visible in the background.

The whale skeleton was brought to Burton Constable, since as Lord Paramount of the Seigniory of Holderness, Sir Clifford was entitled to anything of interest that washed up on the foreshore.

This famous whale also came to the attention of Herman Melville, who published his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851: " at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale ... Sir Clifford's whale has been articulated throughout ; so that like a great chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his long cavities — spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan — and swing all day upon his lower jaw.

Inside the whale skeleton in the episode, Bart finds the remains of Jonah.

* Kobo whale, a blue whale skeleton

A juvenile blue whale skeleton ( Kobo whale | KOBO ) hanging in the Jacobs Family Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

But, perhaps the most important addition of the decade was the acquisition of a juvenile humpback whale skeleton, suspended in the Lagoda room.

A new blue whale skeleton, named Kobo was suspended from the ceiling.