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Fin-Backed Whale

Educational resources on Fin-Backed Whale

Fin-Backed Whale [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Fin-Backed Whale

Academic web links for the Fin-Backed Whale.


ADW: Balaenoptera physalus: Information
The fin whale is global in distribution but is not common in tropical seas and polar seas with ice.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Balaenoptera_physalus.html

Finback Whales — Bioacoustics Research Program
Balaenoptera physalus. All finback whales in the Northern Hemisphere produce sounds with generally similar features. Most sounds are frequency-modulated (FM) down-swept infrasonic
www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/listen-to-project-sounds/fin-whales

Cornell News: Human noise and whale courtship
The artificial racket created by ships and other human sources may be interfering with whale reproduction and population recovery, marine scientists report in the latest edition
www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June02/ocean_noise.hrs.html

Only male fin whales sing loud songs
Dynamic instabilities in the inflating lung
polymer.bu.edu/hes/articles/aabmsss02.pdf

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Balaenoptera physalus: Fin-backed Whale, Fin Whale, Common Rorqual, Finback, Herring Whale, Razorback, Finner Megaptera novaeangliae: Bunch, Humpback Whale, Hump Whale
darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/h90/UK.htm

CITES Database Search Results
Fin-backed Whale, Fin Whale, Common Rorqual, Finback, Herring Whale, Razorback, Finner: Distribution: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Faeroe Islands
darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/h90/cites1.htm

History of Science: Nature: Contents
Cetacea observed during the voyage round the world of H.LM.5 Magenta, x865-68, with the description of several new or little known, species, and of a new genus of Fin-backed Whale
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=article&did=HIST...

Etchings of a whaling cruise, with notes of a sojourn on the island of ...
Fin-backed Whale. Species of Right Whale. Hunter's Remarks on the Whale Tribe. Inventions for Killing the Whale. Specimens of the Sowhelian Language.
mysite.du.edu/~ttyler/ploughboy/jrbrowneetchings.htm

www.sil.si.edu
Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit. Frederica de Laguna . SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 7
www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Anthropology/text/SCtA-0007.1.txt

web.mit.edu
9 poor oats. A. and R. a hundredfold. a hundred. Aaron's Rod. aback o' aback of. a bad. a bad. a bad break. a bad egg. a bad quarter of an hour. a badgrace. a bad halfpenny
web.mit.edu/~mcain/Public/phrase.clean







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