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Any of several species of large sea mammals of the infraorder Cetacea.

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Numerous whales visit the sea-coast.

In length these whales vary between 20 ft.

Whales and seals are occasionally seen.

Whales were once numerous between Capes St Roque and Frio, but are now rarely seen.

By the introduction of a method of classification which was due to the superficial Pliny - depending, not on structure, but on the medium inhabited by an animal, whether earth, air or waterWotton is led to associate Fishes and Whales as aquatic animals.

In 1712 a Nantucket whaler, Christopher Hussey, blown out to sea, killed some sperm whales and thus introduced the sperm-oil industry and put an end to the period in which only driftand shoreor boat-whaling had been carried on - the shore fishery died out about 1760.

A day-flying bat, whales and dolphins are about the only indigenous mammals; hogs, dogs and rats had been introduced before Cook's discovery.

In addition from 13,000 to 60,000 seals and about 200 whales are killed annually off the Murman coast.

Whales of various species are frequently captured in the bays and sounds; the grampus, dolphin and porpoise haunt the coasts, and seals occasionally bask on the more outlying islets.

As regards aquatic mammals, the greater number of the Cetacea, or whales and dolphins, have, as might be expected, a very wide distribution in the ocean.

The manganese nodules afford the most ample proof of the prodigious period of time which has elapsed since the formation of the red clay began; the sharks' teeth and whales' ear-bones which serve as nuclei belong in some cases to extinct species or even to forms derived from those familiar in the fossils from the seas of the Tertiary period.

Drift whales were utilized in the earliest years of the colony, and shore boating for the baleen (or " right ") whale - rich in bone and in blubber yielding common oil - was an industry already regulated by various towns before 1650; but the pursuit of the sperm whale did not begin until about 1713.

It entered the Ross Sea too late to make a landing, and after wintering in Sydney returned in 1911-2, when a landing was effected on the Barrier in the Bay of Whales on Jan.

The " Fram " returned to the Bay of Whales on Jan.

Land, encountered the " Fram " in the Bay of Whales on Feb.

But, on the other hand, they largely help to clear the sea and other waters of refuse and carrion, and for fishes, seals and whales they are food desirable and often astoundingly copious.

Whales, walruses, various seals and dolphins are frequently met with.

Whales visit the coast for the purpose of calving.

As regards existing forms of life, the limitations of the class are perfectly well defined and easy of recognition; for although certain groups (not, by the way, whales, which, although excluded in popular estimation from the class, are in all essential respects typical mammals) are exceedingly aberrant, and present structural features connecting them with the lower vertebrate classes, yet they are by common consent retained in the class to which they are obviously most nearly affiliated by their preponderating characteristics.

The fore-limbs may, however, be modified, as in moles, for burrowing, or, as in bats, for flight, or finally, as in whales and dolphins, for swimming, with the assumption in this latter instance of a flipper-like form and the complete disappearance of the hind-limbs.

Among jumping animals it may serve as a balance, as in the case of jerboas and kangaroos, while in the latter it is also used as a support when resting; among many hoofed mammals it is used as a fly-whisk; and in whales and dolphins, as well as in the African Potamogale and the North American musquash, it plays an important part in swimming.

Even in the whalebone whales their germs are formed in the same manner and at the same period of life as in other mammals, and even become partially calcified, although they never rise above the gums, and completely disappear before birth.

Andrews has, moreover, not only brought forward additional evidence in favour of this most remarkable line of descent, but is confident - which Professor Fraas was not - that Zeuglodon itself is an ancestral cetacean, and consequently that whales are the highly modified descendants of creodonts.

In several places there are traces of shells; and sometimes skeletal remains of whales and walruses, as well as ancient driftwood, have been discovered at tolerable distances from the present coast.

The only fossils of the clay are radiolaria, sharks' teeth and the ear-bones of whales, precisely those parts of the skeleton of marine creatures which are hardest and can longest survive exposure to sea-water.

Whales are still caught with a grenade tipped harpoon fired from a cannon.

This lush coastal wilderness is home to abundant wildlife including humpback and orca whales, puffins, and stellar sea lions.

A former trade in oil and sealskin has decayed, owing to the smaller number of whales and seals remaining about the islands.

This area offers good chances of spotting humpback and minke whales.

Killer whales, actually a kind of dolphin, are found in all the world's oceans.

The number of whales, dolphins and porpoises stranded on the UK coastline has more than doubled over the last ten years.

Pilot whales have been caught in pelagic trawls in the northern North Sea.

Watch for narwhals and beluga whales in these nutrient-rich waters - and caribou can often be seen roaming the endless tundra.

Polar bears will also eat any dead walruses or whales they find.

The bones are huge and our whale watchers thought they were probably from either blue or fin whale watchers thought they were probably from either blue or fin whales.

In addition to walrus the marine sanctuary is home to sea lions, seals and migrating gray whales.

In an attempt to unravel this apparent mystery, previous accounts of northern bottlenose whales around the Scottish coast are described.

Mel's burning desire was to see the gray whales.

Lost whales For 10 days a pod of five sperm whales has been trapped in the North Sea, seeking a way out.

We'll also be on the lookout for fin, sperm, humpback and sei whales as well as several other seal species.

In 1892 four Scottish whalers from Dundee sailed south looking for right whales.

Over a large part of the central Pacific, far removed from any possible land-influences or deposits of ooze, the red-clay region is characterized by the occurrence of manganese, which gives the clay a chocolate colour, and manganese nodules are found in vast numbers, along with sharks' teeth and the ear-bones and other bones of whales.

On this latter view we may regard the tusks of the male babirusa as examples of redundant development, analogous to that of the single pair of lower teeth in some of the beaked whales.

Tubicinella trachealis, Shaw, attached to whales.

For the purposes of such zoo-geographical divisions, mammals are much better adapted than birds, owing to their much more limited powers of dispersal; most of them (exclusive of the purely aquatic forms, such as seals, whales, dolphins and sea-cows) being unable to cross anything more than a very narrow arm of the sea.

Like most other baleen whales, they spend the winters in warm waters and migrate to cold seas to feed in summer.

Bottle nosed dolphins and minke whales are other late summer visitors.

Expect the unexpected massive glacier calves and breathtaking wildlife soaring eagles and humpback whales.

As with whales and dolphins they use echolocation when exploring the surrounding environment.

From there we sail through Paradise Bay with its myriad icebergs and deep cut fjords, while having chances of seeing large whales.