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	Pygmy Killer Whale - Feresa attenuata
		The pygmy killer whale is a species of dolphin and is in the same subfamily as the melon-headed whale, false killer whale, killer whale, long-finned pilot whale and short-finned pilot whale.
		The cause of death: a sharp blow to the cranium by the head of the pygmy killer whale.
		Pygmy killer whales can be found in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/cetacean/pygmykiller.html (548 words)

	Whale Refrigerator Magnets
		Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic placental mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises.
		The whales' adaptions to a fully aquatic life are quite conspiciuous: The body is fusiform, resembling that of a fish.
		Whales do not possess hind limbs, small bones inside the body are the only remains of the pelvis.
	www.junglewalk.com /shop/Whale-magnets.htm (508 words)

	Melon-headed Whale
		The melon-headed whale is in a genus by itself, although prior to 1960 it was in the Lagenorhynchus genus with the dusky dolphin and the Atlantic white-sided dolphin.
		The melon-headed whale, also known as the electra dolphin, little killer whale, melonhead whale and many-toothed blackfish, is a large dolphin with an elongated body.
		The head is rounded, with a slight beak detectable in the smaller specimens.
	www.expage.com /page/melonhe (605 words)

	Order Cetacea
		The toothed whales are typically large with square heads and the baleen whales are large with tapering heads.
		The other whales, such as the blue whale and the minke whale, are baleen whales.
		Killer whales, pilot whales, harbour porpoises, and vaquitas are all examples of porpoises.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/mammal/cetacea.html (192 words)

	Minkes, Orcas (Killer Whales), and Melon-Headed Whales
		Minke whales, Orca (Killer) whales, and Melon-headed whales are some of the cetacea seen in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, but not nearly so often as Humpbacks.
		Migrating minke whales are regularly sighted in the Hervey Bay area, and come from the same cetacean family as humpbacks.
		The head is rounded, with an indistinct beak, inside of which are 10-12 pairs of large teeth in both the upper and lower jaws.
	dkd.net /whales/hbminke.html (387 words)

	Melon headed whale
		Melon headed whales are small and slender with a rounded forehead which extends to a rather pointed rostrum.
		However, melon headed whales do strand on the Australian coast.
		The dorsal fin is large, sickle-shaped and about halfway between the head and the tail.
	www.upstarts.net.au /site/non_commercial/whales/_species/melonheadedwhale.html (134 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		Not much is known about melon-headed whales, so it may be difficult to figure out when it may be mature enough to survive on its own and how to reintroduce it to the whale world.
		The 6-foot-long whale has gained about 40 pounds and is still growing on a diet of about 6-1/2 pounds of fish and squid and two quarts of formula a day.
		The next step is to continue to wean the whale off the formula and perhaps introduce a dolphin friend in a couple of weeks.
	starbulletin.com /98/05/25/news/story4.html (680 words)

	TMMSN Melon-Headed Whale
		The abundance of melon-headed whales is not sufficiently known, although mass strandings and sightings suggest that it is not rare.
		Melon-headed whales are found in the northern and southern hemispheres, usually across deep waters in the tropics and subtropics.
		Melon-headed whales are sometimes found in medium size groups of about 40 animals, but are usually found in large pods of 150 to 1500 individuals.
	www.tmmsn.org /mmgulf/peponocephala_electra.html (286 words)

	CMS: Peponocephala electra, Melon-headed whale
		At sea, the melon-headed whale is difficult to distinguish from the pigmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata), but P.
		Whales are taken by hand harpoons or, increasingly, by togglehead harpoon shafts shot from modified, rubber-powered spear guns.
		A distinct dark eye patch, broadening as it extends from the eye to the melon, is often present.
	www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/P_electra/p_electra.htm (1203 words)

	SharkFriends Melon-Headed Whale Page
		HABITAT: Melon-Headed Whales are found in the northern and southern hemispheres and tend to prefer subtropical and tropical waters, particularly those that are deep and in the open ocean.
		At sea, melon-headed whales are often difficult to distinguish from pygmy killer whales.
		DESCRIPTION: The Melon-Headed Whale is a small species, with a pointed, melon-shaped head (which gave them their name) and slender body.
	www.sharkfriends.com /mheadwhale.html (387 words)

	Ask Tumlare: I recently witnessed a pod of whales herding a small group of the large black porpoise in the Sea of Cortez and I would like to find out how to identify this whale.?
		The average length of a melon-headed whale (2.75 m) is also half that of the short finned pilot whale (6.1 m).
		You said the whales doing the herding had wide, blunt heads, were dark in color, had thick, heavy bodies back to the tails, and the overall appearance of the whale was not very "aerodynamic" at all.
		The whales doing the herding were dark in color and approximately twice the size of the dolphin/porpoise being escorted.
	phocoena.org /tumlare/Cabo.html (714 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Beached whale recovers from shark attack
		Melon-headed whales are deep-water creatures, rarely seen alone or near the Gulf coastline, and marine biologists were trying to determine what caused Memory to end up at High Island.
		The 8-foot-long, 310-pound melon-headed whale, named Memory for the Memorial Day weekend when it was found, could spend up to three months in recovery before being returned to the wild.
		A whale that beached along the Texas Gulf coast, covered in shark bites and unable to swim, is recovering in an above-ground pool and eating about 30 pounds of fish and squid a day, rescuers said.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/17/beached_whale_recovers_from_shark_attack?mode=PF (229 words)

	Melon-headed whale species is easy to love
		Since melon-headed whales form herds of up to 1,500 individuals, and break the water at a shallow angle, their forward movement creates a lot of spray.
		Melon-headed whales are avid bow wave riders, sometimes pushing away other species to get a prime spot near the boat.
		Still another source says melon comes from a colloquial French word meaning "bowler hat," referring to the whale's bulging forehead.
	www.susanscott.net /OceanWatch2003/aug29-03.html (479 words)

	African Marine Mammals
		Melon-headed whales literally have a head that looks like a melon, with a very subtle beak.
		There is a triangular "mask" on the face of these whales, as well as a cape that dips low below the dorsal fin, and a light stripe from the blowhole to the snout tip.
		These are highly social whales, seen swimming in large groups of a few hundred.
	csiwhalesalive.org /csimelon-headed.html (304 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / Rescued bottlenose dolphin dies at aquarium
		That whale stranding followed the November death of a baby melon-headed whale found Nov. 5 on Padre Island National Seashore; the baby whale also died while under around-the-clock care at the aquarium.
		Clark said it is important to know why the melon-headed whales are leaving their natural environments -- the more tropical waters of the Caribbean and the deepest parts of the Gulf of Mexico -- and apparently swimming off course after they get sick.
		No evidence exists that the dolphin's illness and the whale's illness were related, said Lance Clark, a marine biologist and TMMSN state operations coordinator in Galveston.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newslocal99/newslocal685.html (677 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Travel
		We saw four whale species: sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales; pilot whales; false killer whales and melon-headed whales; and six species of dolphins: the white-sided, bottlenose, common, striped, spotted, and Risso's dolphins.
		Farming was the mainstay of the island until the 18th century, when New England whalers first came to hunt Pico's plentiful sperm whales and recruit harpooners and rowers from among the local population.
		But soon the resourceful islanders were whale hunting on their own.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/travel/pico_azores.htm (2038 words)

	Articles - Pygmy Killer Whale
		The Pygmy Killer is of average size amongst dolphins (a little larger and heavier than a grown man) and may easily be confused at sea with other species, in particular the Melon-headed Whale.
		The Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata) is a small, rarely-seen cetacean of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).
		Until the early 1950s the Pygmy Killer Whale was only known from two skulls kept at the British Museum.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Pygmy_Killer_Whale (624 words)

	Boattalk.com - Whales
		Whales have hair, although they have a lot less than land mammals, and have almost none as adults.
		Whales, along with Dolphins, Porpoises, and Manatees belong to a highly intelligent group of mammals called cetaceans.
		Whales have mammary glands with which they nourish their young.
	www.boattalk.com /whales/index.htm (207 words)

	Lost baby whale may have starved - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Faris said the necropsy on the baby melon-headed whale did not find any evidence of damage to its hearing organs, a condition associated with military sonar in previous cases.
		Braun, who oversaw the herding of the whales out of the bay, said his concern, in part, was that the pod was behaving as if stressed, and that the weaker animals would suffer disproportionately.
		A necropsy found the 37-pound baby whale's stomach was empty and there was little fat around its abdomen and organs, as if it had not been feeding.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Jul/29/ln/ln38a.html (710 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Japan surfers save 50 melon headed whales
		Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Japan surfers save 50 melon headed whales
		Tokyo: Japanese surfers scrambled to save some 50 melon headed whales that mysteriously beached themselves on Monday early morning.
		Japan is one of the few countries that hunts whales but recently several towns along the coast have launched full-scale rescue operations for whales washed up on their shores.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/02/12/12japwhales.html (220 words)

	Melon-Headed Whale, Peponocephala electra @ MarineBio.org
		The Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra, is close in size to the Pygmy killer whale and the 2 species bear a strong resemblance from a distance.
		The calving season of the Melon-headed whale is thought to occur in early spring in the lower latitudes of both hemispheres.
		Melon-headed whales also have twice as many teeth as the Pygmy killer whale; the upper jaws have 20-25 sharp-pointed teeth, and the lower jaws have about 22-24.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=417 (864 words)

	Marine Mammals Hawaii Whale Research Foundation
		Melon-headed whales also seen occasionally, and there has been at least one unconfirmed sighting of a blue whale (may have been a fin), and occasional sightings of orcas.
		Large whales include sperm whales and (rarely) fin whales, small whales include false killer whale (pseudorca), pilot whale, various beaked whales and occasionally the pygmy killer whale, pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale.
		The North Pacific humpback whale is the focus of HWRF's research, yet the Hawaiian islands are home to many other marine mammal species.
	www.hwrf.org /marine_mammals.html (397 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / Melon-headed whale found stranded on beach
		Not much is known about melon-headed whales, which are frequently seen in large groups in tropical waters, Amos said.
		The whale is in the aquarium in a smaller tank because a bottlenose dolphin is in the annex.
		The whale is being treated in the main building of the Texas State Aquarium, Amos said.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newslocal99/newslocal620.html (380 words)

	Navy Sonar May Trigger Lawsuit Over Whale Strandings, Deaths, environment news
		A mass of 100 to 200 melon-headed whales that usually remain in deep water swam close to shore in Hanalei Bay early in the morning.
		The U.S. Navy's use of mid-frequency, high intensity active sonar is causing mass strandings and deaths of whales, according to a coalition of conservation and animal welfare groups that is threatening to take formal action against the Navy to force a change in its use of the sonar signals.
		In their letter to Secretary England, the coalition describes another incident during which mid-frequency sonar is believed to have harmed whales, this one in the Bahamas.
	www.earthhopenetwork.net /navy_sonar_whale_strandings_death.htm (1075 words)

	Boattalk.com - The Melon-Headed Whale
		Melon-headed whales often are marked with a dark strip that travels from head to fin and out to the flanks.
		The Melon-Headed Whale should not be confused with the Pygmy Killer Whale, which is an even smaller species, and the False Killer Whale, which is larger.
		Melon-headed whales are a high-energy breed, and they often socialize with dolphins.
	www.boattalk.com /whales/melonheadwhale.htm (274 words)

	Melon-headed whales aren't named after fruit
		Melon-headed whales may hang together in large groups, but individuals are not large, at least by whale standards.
		Melon-headed whales have 20 to 25 small, slender teeth, used to catch their main meals of squid and small fish.
		As they speed forward, melon-headed whales often open and close their jaws with audible clapping sounds and whip surface waters into a froth.
	www.susanscott.net /OceanWatch1998/jun01-98.html (447 words)

	Melon-headed Whale (Peponocephala electra)
		The distribution of the Melon-headed Whale is tropical to warm temperate waters in both hemispheres.
		The Melon-headed Whale (Peponocephala electra) is one of a number of species of ocean dwelling marine mammals also known as Blackfish.
		Their taxonomic name, Peponocephala electra, means "melon head" with electra referring to a mythological Greek nymph.
	www.marinethemes.com /melonheaded.html (228 words)

	Ocean-Going News 2003 Melon-headed Whale
		The Melon-headed Whale is highly gregarious, with pod sizes ranging from 50 to 1500.
		The Melon-headed Whale is a small, sleek and dynamic cetacean capable of hunting in very large groups.
		Distributed throughout the tropical and warm temperate waters of the world, Melon-headed Whales are most frequently sighted in equatorial seas.
	www.orcaweb.org.uk /ognews2003melonheadedwhale.htm (664 words)

	Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata)
		The distribution of the Pygmy Killer Whale is tropical to warm temperate waters in both hemispheres.
		The Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata) is one of a number of species of ocean dwelling marine mammals also known as Blackfish.
		Pygmy Killer Whales are not considered dangerous to humans though they can be aggressive, charging at divers and known to hunt and feed on dolphins.
	www.marinethemes.com /pygmykiller.html (261 words)

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