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	False Killer Whale - Pseudorca crassidens
		False killer whales are completely fl in colour, although some may have a grey patch shaped like an anchor that extends from the lower jaw to the naval and flippers.
		The false killer is a relatively new animal to scientists.
		The false killer whale is known as a flfish along with its closest relatives, the pygmy killer whale, killer whale, melonheaded whale, and the short-finned and long-finned pilot whales.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/cetacean/falsekiller.html (615 words)

	False Killer Whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lovely Whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is a cetacean and one of the larger members of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).
		The false killer whale and a dolphin have mated in captivity and produced a fertile child.
		False Killers have long caused anger amongst fishermen fishing for tuna and yellowtail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_Killer_Whale (627 words)

	Birth of a "resident" killer whale
		This note describes the birth of a wild killer whale in a well-documented "resident" pod and the unusual behavior of the group.
		The other whales identified were L4 (L55's mother, estimated at 41 years of age), L61 (a 17 year-old male and L55's probable brother), L27 (a 25 year-old female), and L27's three offspring (L62, a 10 year-old male; L68, a five year-old male, and L80, a young-of-the-year of unknown gender).
		As with Jacobsen's (1981) report of the birth of a wild killer whale in Johnstone Strait, British Columbia (a "resident" from a different population), the birth occurred amongst a group of animals that displayed considerable percussive activities.
	www.cascadiaresearch.org /robin/birthnot.htm (1737 words)

	Factsheets: False Killer Whale
		The False Killer Whale, Pseudorca crassidens is a slender dark dolphin-size whale of 6m with a small, rounded conical head.
		Its common name is slightly misleading as its main resemblance to the Killer Whale, is its strong set of large conical teeth.
		False Killer Whales have an extensive and wide distribution within tropical and warm temperate waters.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/false_killer_whale.htm (351 words)

	CMS: Pseudorca crassidens, False killer whale
		False killer whales are large members of the delphinid family, adult males reaching 6 m, while adult females reach 5 m in length.
		False killer whales have been seen travelling in line formation and one large herd of about 300 individuals was distributed over an area several miles long and half a mile wide.
		- Baird RW (2002) False Killer Whale - Pseudorca crassidens.
	www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/P_crassidens/p_crassidens.htm (1422 words)

	False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
		False Killer Whales (Pseudorca crassidens) are one of a number of species of ocean dwelling marine mammals also known as Blackfish.
		False Killer Whales are dark gray to fl with a light blaze on the sides of the head and on the belly between the flippers.
		False Killer Whales are more demonstrative at the surface than other "Blackfish" species, leaping and racing in response to the presence of moving boats.
	www.marinethemes.com /falsekiller.html (334 words)

	MEGALANIA DINOSAUR PAGE -- DINOSAUR NEWS
		The relatively large teeth show this whale belongs to one of the three species of "odontoceti," or "toothed whales," which include killer whales, false killer whales and pilot whales, he said.
		The paleontologists were able to determine from the length of the jaw that the fossil is that of a false killer whale rather than of one of the other kinds of toothed whales, Cheng noted.
		The scientists believe the whale died in shallow sea water in an area that was later raised by drastic geologic shifts.
	members.tripod.com /~megalania/chinawhale.html (373 words)

	Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby Wholphin
		The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
		The young as-yet unnamed wholphin is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
		Her slick skin is an even blend of a dolphin's light gray and the fl coloring of a false killer whale.
	www.infowars.com /articles/science/whale_dolphin_hybrid_wholphin.htm (411 words)

	False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
		There are three known mass strandings of these whales in the Gulf of Mexico, but the best known such stranding occurred on the Atlantic coast of southern Florida.
		All of the whales subsequently died and the cause of this mysterious event was never determined.
		Newborn false killer whales are about 1.5 m in length and weigh 80 kg.
	www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/pseucras.htm (190 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on False Killer Whale
		The calf was born on December 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
		The calf, left, was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin.
		...creatures illustrated on the hutâs posters: the Sowerbyâs beaked whale and the short-finned pilot whale, the northern bottlenose and the false killer whale...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/False_Killer_Whale.htm (1454 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - False killer whale, pseudorca
		False killer whales have unusual flippers - they have an 'elbow', like that of the long-finned pilot whale.
		False killer whales are mostly fl on the dorsal surface and the fins, with a white or light grey shape on chest.
		False killer whales eat a variety of fish and squid and occasionally other cetaceans.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/89.shtml (153 words)

	Stranded whale receives care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 9-foot-long, 700-pound false killer whale was receiving 24-hour intensive care and was in stable condition late Sunday.
		Officials there said this was the first time a false killer whale had been stranded in Texas and only the third of its kind found in the western Gulf of Mexico.
		The false killer whale, also known as a pseudorca, is an offshore species found mainly in tropical, subtropical and warm temperature seas.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/96/11/18/whale.html (194 words)

	False Killer Whale Photos Hawaii
		False killer whales live in tight pods that vary in size from fewer than 10 to more than 100 individuals.
		Although they eat primarily squid and large fish in deep offshore waters, false killer whales are opportunists and consume a wide variety of fish.
		There is one report of false killers attacking and killing a humpback whale calf in Hawaiian waters.
	www.sailhawaii.com /Images/album2/falsekillerwhales/index.htm (307 words)

	Irish Whale and Dolphin Group: Species Profiles (whales, dolphins and whalewatching in Ireland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The false killer whale is smaller than the killer whale and larger than other dolphin species.
		False killer whales have a reputation for taking fish from fisherman’s long lines, and have even been know to attack dolphins escaping tuna nets in the eastern tropical Pacific.
		False killer whales live in tight pods, and a typical extended family unit may contain 10-50 individuals, comprising males and females of all ages.
	www.iwdg.ie /species_profiles.asp?speciesID=2123 (678 words)

	False Killer Whale Sighted in Alaska Waters - NMFS Alaska News Release
		"It's uncommon for a false killer whale to be this far north," said Dr. James Balsiger, Administrator for the Alaska Region of NOAA Fisheries.
		False killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, are small fl whales, sometimes showing a faint gray on their head and throat.
		The Vancouver false killer whale has a clean fin with no unique markings: the dorsal fin maybe not distinctive enough to positively identify that individual out of a line-up of pseudora fin pictures.
	www.fakr.noaa.gov /newsreleases/2003/falsekiller070203.html (586 words)

	African Marine Mammals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The false killer whale is named as such for the tendency of fishermen to mistake them for killer whales as well as for its habit of using cooperative feeding techniques as it preys on smaller species of marine mammals.
		False killer whales are one of the species of cetaceans that are frequently involved in mass strandings.
		These events stem from the perception that the Japanese fishermen are in direct competition with the false killer whales for already depleted stocks of fish.
	csiwhalesalive.org /csipseudorca.html (437 words)

	Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata)
		On July 6, 1963, a school of about 50 pygmy killer whales of several sizes (lengths varying from 1 to 2.5 m or so) was sighted from a boat off the island of Hawaii in waters about 600 fathoms deep.
		The whales were aware of the approach of the boat but they did not flee; instead, they circled and dived in the same general area.
		While in captivity, the pygmy killer whale learned to feed readily on mackerel and it consumed as much as 5 kg of such food a day.
	www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/fereatte.htm (441 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		The false killer whale is one of several species of delphinids that fishermen sometimes call flfish.
		False killer whales are most commonly confused with pygmy killer and melon-headed whales, and less commonly, pilot whales.
		False killer whales are found in tropical to warm temperate zones, generally in relatively deep, offshore waters of all three major oceans.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/180463 (985 words)

	False Killer Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although its common name is the false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens is actually a member of the dolphin family.
		False killer whales are gregarious and often form herds containing more than a hundred individuals.
		It is this behavior that gives them their name, because like true killer whales (Orcinus orca), they eat other marine mammals.
	www.tmmsn.org /mmgulf/pseudorca.html (317 words)

	Oman Whales
		It is less than 3m long, slender, with a beak and a distinctive hourglass pattern on the flanks.The False Killer Whale is fairly common offshore, sometimes in large herds.
		In the Whale Hall hangs the huge skeleton of a male Sperm Whale, which was stranded at Barka in September 1986.
		The 16m-long Humpback Whale is the largest baleen whale most commonly seen in Oman's waters, particularly off Dhofar during autumn and spring, the season of birth and courtship.
	www.nizwa.net /env/whales/whales.html (769 words)

	ACS - American Cetacean Society
		Pygmy sperm whales and their close relatives the dwarf sperm whales have similarities to the great sperm whales after which they are named, but they are classified into a different family.
		Like the sperm whales, the pygmy sperm whale has teeth in the lower jaw only (the dwarf sperm whale has up to three pairs of teeth in the upper jaw as well).
		Stranded pygmy sperm whales have often been confused with sharks because the head and lower jaw are somewhat shark-like in appearance.
	www.acsonline.org /factpack/PygmySpermWhale.htm (596 words)

	False Killer Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In captivity, it tends to show less aggression than its smaller relative, which is the Pygmy Killer Whale.
		The False Killer Whale is a fast and active swimmer that will occasionally make sudden stops or sharp turn.
		The False Killer Whale eats squid, tuna, mahi-mahi and ocasionally eat a fishermen's catch.
	www.angelfire.com /mb/dolphins/falsekiller.html (202 words)

	Killer Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Residents eat fish, The Transients eat marine mammals, and there is not much information about the Offshores, however researchers believe they may eat both fish and marine mammals.
		Killer Whales, also known as Orcinus orca, are worldly distributed and are the top predators in the ocean.
		Don't be fooled by the term "whale" as the Killer Whale is actually part of the Delphinidae (Dolphin) family.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~deleuwr/cs102 (133 words)

	Pseudorca crassidens, False Killer Whale at MarineBio.org
		False killer whales use sounds similar to those of dolphins for sonar and to communicate with each other.
		The False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens, is a wide-ranging species found in all tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate seas.
		It is thought that the small Hawaiian population, estimated at 83 False killer whales, may be genetically extinct, meaning that there are so few left that they are becoming genetically similar, which causes genetic defects which will eventually lead to their total extinction.
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=351 (878 words)

	Hoax Forum Topic: False Killer Whale and Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Hybrid “Wholphin”
		Her baby female calf, yet to be named, is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths dolphin.
		03:48 PM Killer whales are in fact the largest of the dolphin "species." Meaning they are a type of dolphin.
		As Char noted they are in the same genus, as is the false killer whales which are slightly smaller and different then "true" killer whales.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoax/forum/forum_comments/2942 (899 words)

	WhaleNet Information Archive 1997: Stranding: False Killer Whale Summary
		Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 11:48:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Fred Wenzel To: williams@whale.wheelock.edu Subject: False Killer Whale Rare Whale Strands on Cape Cod (Massachusetts) On Wednesday, August 13, 1997 an 11 foot, female False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens) stranded on the south side of Cape Cod.
		Strandings of false killer whales in the North Atlantic Ocean have been reported as a "commonly occuring" in the waters around Scotland and the United Kingdom and rare along the southeastern United States, Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean islands.
		If you find a dead or alive, stranded marine mammal (whale, dolphin, seal, sea lion) and/or sea turtle, it is recommend that you follow these directions; **Do not attempt to remove the animal from the area or return it to the water.
	whale.wheelock.edu /archives/info97/0255.html (559 words)

	False Killer Whale Skull Replica
		False Killer Whale Skull - The false killer whale received its name from its similarity in appearance to the "true" killer whale, the orca.
		False killer whales are found throughout many of the worlds warm and temperate oceans.
		This species was only known from fossil records and thought to be extinct until 1861 when a pod stranded in Germany.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /False_Killer_Whale.html (126 words)

	Killer Whale
		Factoid: The orca, or "killer," whale is the largest member of the dolphin family.
		Recent studies have found that orcas are among the most contaminated marine mammals in the world.
		Pods usually consist of 5 to 30 whales, although some pods may combine to form a group of 100 or more.
	www.npca.org /marine_and_coastal/marine_wildlife/orca.asp (285 words)

	False Killer Whale Photos, Pseudorca crassidens, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography
		While its overall body shape is quite similar to the pilot whale, note that the false killer whale's melon (top of head) is smaller and "pointier".
		Two bottlenose dolphin (left) swim alongside a false killer whale.
		The middle false killer whale (with the open mouth) is consuming a dorado (mahi mahi or dolphin fish).
	www.oceanlight.com /html/false_killer_whale.html (117 words)

	UAE INTERACT ONLINE : NATURAL EMIRATES : MARINE LIFE : - Indo- False killer whale
		Description: False killer whales have been estimated to reach a length of six metres in the UAE, females being slightly smaller.
		The sight of a full grown whale leaping clear of the water, or riding wake and bow waves, matching even fairly powerful boats for speed and acceleration, is quite breathtaking.
		Comment: False killer whales may be mistaken for the short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), which occurs widely in tropical latitudes and, although it has not been recorded, possibly occurs in deeper water off the UAE
	www.arabianwildlife.com /nature/marine/mml15.html (337 words)

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