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| | CRESLI's fin whale page |
 | | Fin whales (also know as finback whales) can reach lengths of over 80 feet and weights of more than 160,000 lbs in the northern hemisphere and over 85 feet and 170,000 lbs in the southern hemisphere and are distributed around the world except for the tropics, i.e., they have an antitropical distribution. |
 | | Fin whales feed on a wide array of prey species, depending upon availability, ranging from small schooling fish such as sand eels, herring and tinker mackerel, to crustaceans such as krill and copepods, to squid. |
 | | Although fin whales are relatively common and are believed to be the dominant cetacean species during all seasons in the US Exclusive Economic Zone, scientists don't have enough data to determine the fin whale's population trends. |
| www.cresli.org /cresli/cetacean/finwhale.html (1233 words) |
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