Educational resources on Black Porpoise

Black Porpoise or Phocoena spinipinnis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Data Deficient . IUCN Profile of the Black Porpoise

Academic web links for the Black Porpoise.

ADW: Phocoena spinipinnis: Information
This species's tendency to turn black soon after death has earned it the nickname "the black porpoise." The presence of an eye patch surrounded by a pale grey ring is a useful
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Phocoena_spinipinnis.html

Meet the Mammals - Burke Museum
Finless Black Porpoise Family: Phocoenidae. Photo: ori2uru@flickr.com License: Creative Commons attrib ... 11 Families, 84 Species Whales, dolphins, porpoises Worldwide Pectoral appendages
www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/mammalogy/mtm_detail.php?OID=27

Poetry Midwest - Fall 2005 - Issue 14
All summer night, hot, honey-suckled, I've longed to flop and splash like a fat black porpoise in the swimming pool blue of your eyes. O my Hollywood starlet, let's get naked and slop
staff.jccc.edu/schmeer/pm/pdfs/PM_14.pdf

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Get along with you for a great ugly black porpoise!' exclaimed I, giving him a hearty push, which moved him no more than if he were a rock. Somehow, when I lay in my berth that
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Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
The common name that was used in the past, "finless black porpoise," apparently resulted from descriptions of dead animals, after post-mortem darkening.
green.env.duke.edu/species/tsn/180478

The Water-Babies
...“I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined; In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. “To her fair works did Nature
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...foremost of his boys, and lay like a black porpoise, at length on. the grass. To him crawled Mulcahy, ashen-gray, demanding. absolution. "'Wait till you're shot," said Father Dennis
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Life's Handicap, by Rudyard Kipling #21 in our series by Rudyard Kipling . Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
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Project Gutenberg's Journeys Through Bookland V2, by Charles H. Sylvester . Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the
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Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
The Doomed Ship, or, The Wreck of the Arctic Regions ([1864])
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