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Whales, dolphins and porpoises all belong to a single group of marine mammals known as Cetaceans. More than 80 different species are recognized by whale experts. Experts say that whale-watching has become a billion-dollar business. The migration of the largest animals on the planet is a sight to behold. For travelers, seeing the same species, perhaps even the same animal, is quite a different experience depending on where you go. Happy whale-watching!

In 1968 the first recordings of humpback whales were released

Planeta
[|Sharks, Parks and Whales]

Headlines
[|There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written] [|Whales benefit from action on ocean noise] [|Wild whale breaching] [|Whale mimicking humans 'trying to make contact'] [|Most Whale Deaths in Past 40 Years Were Caused by Humans] [|Marine sound experiments silence the whales] [|How Moby Dick Cleaned Up The Rhine]

Ambergris
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-ambergris.html

Reports
The Brazilian Humpback Whale Institute has recently issued a bilingual (Portuguese/English) Whale Watching Guide for the State of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil, which is nevertheless relevant for the entire Western South Atlantic. Free download: @http://baleiajubarte.org.br/inc/download.php?i=2283

Recommended Listening
[|Savage history of whaling] - As most of the world moves towards observing and conserving the lives of whale populations, we look back at the savage history and exploitation of these magnificent creatures.

[|Whale watching tourism] - Whale watching tourism can be very stressful to the animals.

[|A World With Whales] - The National Whale Centre opens in Picton to focus on the natural and cultural history of cetaceans and to mark 50 years since the end of commercial whaling in New Zealand.

Flickr Groups
[|Humpback Flukes]

Wikipedia
[|Whale] [|Humpback Whale]

Citizen Science
[|The Story of a fluke] [|How Flickr can help save the whales] [|Speaking of Citizen Science] __Gale McCullough__, a former nursery school teacher and old-fashioned naturalist, discovered a whale that had journeyed an unprecedented 6,000 miles from Brazil to Madagascar. The technology she used? Flickr.

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Editing
[|Tourism and Biodiversity] [|Tourism and Wildlife] [|Mexico Whales]

News
[|Whales - Newsgoogled]

Elsewhere on the Web
http://www.whalesynth.com [|The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group] [|Whale Watch - Dominion Post (New Zealand)] [] [|Atlantic Marine Ecotourism] [|A Global Effort to Protect Whales - IFAW] [|Whale Watching Web] [|Whale Watching in the Arctic - WWF] [|International Whaling Commission] [|Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society] [|Baja to Bering WhaleWatch Forum] [|Orcca: Marine Mammal Rescue and Research in Australia] [|Pacific Whale Foundation] [|Grey Whale Lagoons - Serge Dedina/Emily Young] [|The Friendly Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur - Lori Saldana] [|Whale Watching in Guerrero Negro - Baja Pages] [|Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-131-ECOL-1998 - SEMARNAT] [|Legal aspects of whale watching in North America - Mark Spalding] (PDF) http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/07/25/3553290.htm http://jupiterfoundation.org


 * Recommended Reading** - [|Artisanal Whaling in the Atlantic: A Comparative Study of Culture, Conflict, and Conservation in St. Vincent and the Faroe Islands]

> Whalers from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands hunt pilot whales and a variety of other small cetaceans for food. Vincentian whalers use harpoons, thrown by hand or fired from a modified shotgun mounted on the boat. Faroese whalers, using several dozen boats, work cooperatively to drive an entire pod of whales ashore, where shore-based whalers are waiting to complete the kill with traditional whaling knives. Vincentian whaling traces its origins to the late nineteenth century. Records of Faroese whaling date to the late sixteenth century but the practice is thought to be much older, originating perhaps as early as the tenth century.

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