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BBC News
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Super-fast pilot whales have been observed sprinting after prey, likely to include giant squid.
The rapid pursuit has brought comparisons with the fleet-footed land predator, the cheetah.
The cetaceans even use the same, highly specialised hunting s..
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USA Today
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Biologists tried unsuccessfully Thursday to use recorded siren songs of humpback whales to lure an injured female and her wounded calf from a shipping channel and back toward the Pacific Ocean 90 miles away.
When the researchers played the underwater r..
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BBC News
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Grey whales in the eastern Pacific appear to be in some trouble, with the cause far from clear, scientists say.
Researchers with the conservation group Earthwatch found that whales are arriving in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast malnourish..
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BBC News
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Iceland is likely to approve the commercial hunting of whales for this summer, the BBC has learned.
Its whaling industry is asking for a quota of about 100 minke whales and a number of fin whales too.
A government official confirmed it is "likely" t..
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BBC News
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Japan is looking for new supporters of its pro-whaling stance ahead of a major meeting on the future of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
A one-day seminar on Monday brought delegates from 12 developing countries, most of them not IWC members..
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BBC News
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The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.
Remains found in the Kashmir region of India suggest the fox-sized mammal is the long-sought land-based ancestor of whales, dolphins and porpo..
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BBC News
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A Japanese whaling fleet has set sail aiming to harpoon humpback whales for the first time in decades.
The fleet is conducting its largest hunt in the South Pacific - it has instructions to kill up to 1,000 whales, including 50 humpbacks.
The humpba..
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BBC News
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The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges all countries to stop catching..
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CNN
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Scientists were working on a plan to help two injured humpback whales return to the Pacific Ocean after a failed attempt to lure them out of a shipping channel using recorded underwater sounds.
Early Friday, the mother and her calf remained at the Port..
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BBC News
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Japan's main whaling ship has arrived back in port after an Antarctic hunt hit by setbacks including a fatal fire.
Despite being forced to end the hunting season early, the crew still killed 508 whales out of a target of 860.
The annual hunt always..
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Live Science
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Deep below the ocean's surface, blue whales are singingóand for the first time, scientists think they know why. Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography recorded the sounds and say they offer new insight into the behavior of the passenger..
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News.com.au
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THE last five long-finned pilot whales from a pod of 27 stranded on a Tasmanian beach have been moved to calmer waters where it is hoped they can be saved...
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Reuters
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Humpback whales have a type of brain cell seen only in humans, the great apes, and other cetaceans such as dolphins, U.S. researchers reported on Monday...
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