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Herring Whale

Educational resources on Herring Whale

Herring Whale [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Herring Whale

Academic web links for the Herring 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

OCEANIC NEKTON
This is a more diverse group and includes fish that spend their adult lives in the epipelagic but spawn in inshore waters (ribbon halfbeak, herring, whale shark, dolphin, ) or in
www.tarleton.edu/~dekeith/OceanNekton.html

Marine Discovery Lesson
...-Draw the animals on construction papers: algae/plankton, small fish, salmon (medium size fish), herring, whale/shark. -Color the animals with colored pencils and
marinediscovery.arizona.edu/lessonsF99/chautran/index.html

IEA Database
..."fin whale" means any whale known by the name of common finback, common finner, common rorqual, finback, fin whale, herring whale, razorback, or true fin whale;
iea.uoregon.edu/page.php?query=coded_all_lines&where=start&FilenameEQ=1937-Whaling&DEFNGT=0

IEA Database
..."Finback" means any whale known by the name of finwhale, herring whale or razorback. "Sei whale" means any whale known by the name of Balaenoptera borealis or Rudolphi's rorqual
iea.uoregon.edu/texts/1952-DeclaracionSantiagoZonaMaritima200Millas.EN.htm

IEA Database
..."fin whale" (Balaenoptera physalus) means any whale known as common finback, common rorqual, fin whale, herring whale, or true fin whale. "gray whale" (Eschrichtius robustus) means
iea.uoregon.edu/pages/view_treaty.php?t=1978-AmendmentsScheduleM30-1946-Whaling.EN.txt&...

IEA Database
...(e) “Finback" means any whale known by the name of finwhale, herring whale or razorback. (f) "Sei whale" means any whale known by the name of Balaenoptera borealis or Rudolphi's
iea.uoregon.edu/texts/1952-WhalingRegulations-1952-MaritimeResourcesSouthPacific.EN.htm







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