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	Acoustics Monitoring Program
		The minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, is the smallest of the baleen whales, and is found globally in tropical, temperate, and polar waters.
		The minke whale is a sleek animal with a sharply pointed head, flat rostrum, broad flukes, and a prominent falcate dorsal fin.
		Minke whales are primarily fl or dark steel gray in color, with lighter undersides and a pale dorsal chevron behind the head.
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /vents/acoustics/whales/whale-biology-minke.html (174 words)

	Minke Whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Minke Whale or Lesser Rorqual is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales.
		All Minke Whales are part of the rorquals, a family that includes the Humpback Whale, the Fin Whale, the Bryde's Whale, the Sei Whale and the Blue Whale.
		Whaling was mentioned in Norwegian written sources as early as the year 800 and hunting Minke Whales with harpoons was common in the 11th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minke_Whale (1150 words)

	CRESLI Minke whale page
		The minke whale is one of the smallest of the baleen whales, attaining lengths of approximately 30 feet and weights of 10 tons.
		Minke whales found along the eastern coast of the US are considered to be part of the Canadian East Stock, which is estimated to contain 4018 individuals.
		Minke whales are distributed widely throughout the world's oceans and are still being hunted by Norway and Japan.
	www.cresli.org /cresli/cetacean/minke2.html (149 words)

	Swim with Minke Whales on a Mike Ball dive Expedition on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
		Dwarf minke whales are the smallest of the baleen whales.
		Minke whales have a layer of blubber several inches thick and are quite sleek in appearance.
		Breathing for minke whales is achieved by surfacing and taking air into their lungs through the two blowholes, which are located near the top of the head.
	www.mikeball.com /minke_whales.htm (1316 words)

	Minke Whales - the Dwarf Minke Whale
		The Minke Whale Project is a combined initiative of James Cook University, the Museum of Tropical Queensland and Undersea Explorer.
		Dwarf minke whales were taken during commercial whaling in South African waters until this ceased in 1975.
		Minke whales, like all baleen whales, lack the system of air sacs and sound generating 'phonic lips' in the forehead region above the skull, that are found in toothed whales, such as dolphins.
	www.minkewhale.org (794 words)

	MINKE WHALE
		The minke whale is the smallest baleen whale with 50-70 throat grooves.
		Minke whales have a characteristic white band on each flipper (this is absent on the southern minke whales).
		Minke whale breeding occurs mostly in the late winter to early spring while near the surface and in warm waters.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/whales/species/Minke.shtml (795 words)

	Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
		Minke whales have a very narrow and pointed rostrum and a broad white band on the dorsal surface of the flippers.
		Although baleen whales are generally thought incapable of echolocation, minke whales are known to produce a variety of sounds including narrow band pulses suitable for echolocation.
		The minke whale that stranded on the Texas coast was an immature female that was alive when first observed.
	www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/balaacut.htm (467 words)

	Cetacean Species - Minke Whale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At a maximum length of 10.7m, the minke whale is the smallest member of the rorqual family of baleen (filter-feeding) whales.
		Minke whales are fast moving and may swim at speeds in excess of 20 km per hour.
		The surfacing and blow rates of minke whales tend to be less regular than those of the large baleen whales, and may be affected by the presence of vessels, time of day, activity of the animal and/or the environmental conditions.
	www.crru.org.uk /education/factfiles/minke.htm (1029 words)

	THE HUSAVIK WHALE CENTRE IN ICELAND
		The minke whale is the smallest of the baleen whales, reaching 8 - 10 metres in length, weighing up to 10 tons.
		Minke whales of the northern hemisphere have white diagonal stripes across their flippers, unlike their relatives in the South, which have mostly plain fl flippers.
		The Icelandic minke whale population is estimated to be 50,000 - 60,000 individuals.
	www.icewhale.is /?Id=553 (201 words)

	Minke Whale: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The sei whale (balaenoptera borealis) is a large baleen whale, and as such is one of the largest animals in the world....
		The blue whale (balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales....
		The international whaling commission (iwc) was set up by the international convention for the regulation of whaling on december 2, 1946 with a headquarters...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/minke_whale.htm (1992 words)

	Activities: The Mammal Society
		The minke is the smallest of the baleen (filter-feeding) whales and is found throughout the world's oceans, from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
		The minke whale is unusual in apparently not conforming to this pattern, although they seem to move further away from the shore in the autumn, perhaps for breeding purposes.
		Minke was an 18th-century Norwegian whaler, infamous for regularly breaking the rules concerning the sizes (and therefore species) of whales that he was permitted at that time to hunt.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /mammal/minke.shtml (889 words)

	Minke whale information for eco-tour adventures
		The minke whale (pronounced ‘MINK-ee’) is the blue whale’s smallest relative.
		The minke whale is found in all the world’s oceans, from the tropics to the polar seas, in coastal and offshore areas.
		Minke whales are often seen feeding with noisy flocks of seabirds.
	www.sportsmanfishing.com /minkewhale.html (606 words)

	Minke whale
		The taxonomy of the minke whale is confusing.
		The minke whale is the smallest of the rorqual whales, seldom exceeding 10 m in length.
		In Korean waters, the minke whales are usually between 5.8 and 6.5 m and weigh 2-2.7 metric tonnes.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/minke.htm (900 words)

	MINKE WHALE
		Minke whales have a snout that is distinctively triangular, narrow, and pointed (hence its nicknames "sharp-headed finner" and "little piked whale").
		Minke whales are stocky, having a layer of blubber several inches thick.
		Minke whales breathe air at the surface of the water through 2 blowholes located near the top of the head.
	www.zoomdinosaurs.com /subjects/whales/species/Minke.shtml (795 words)

	WWF \| Whales and Dolphins \| Minke Whales
		Although the smallest of the great whales, the minke may still reach 33 feet (with females tending to be larger than males) and exceed 10 tons.
		Up until the 1930s, no one in the whaling industry bothered with minke whales because their larger relatives, such as finbacks and blues, were plentiful and brought a higher profit per catch.
		Even though minkes are not endangered and are now the most abundant of the great whales, their populations have been depleted by whaling in the North Atlantic and the western North Pacific, as well as in some parts of the Southern Ocean.
	www.worldwildlife.org /cetaceans/subspecies/subspecies_mw.cfm (413 words)

	Minke whale
		Minke whales appear in all the oceans in the world but they can be usually found in colder waters.
		The meat of Minke whales which are caught as “incidental catch” (entangled in nets and suffocated) is sold at the market in Japan as well as in Korea.
		At the IUCN Minke whales are classified as "Lower Risk": they are not dependent on a protected area but there is a risk that they might became a vulnerable species.
	www.coastalguide.to /minke_whale/main.html (655 words)

	Minke Whale
		The breeding season of the minke whale is in late Winter and early Spring.
		Because the minke whale begins exhaling before it reaches the surface the blow itself is extremely low and the spout itself is very small.
		The minke whale is widespread and, in the Summer season, they migrate to the North, ranging from Florida to Labrador Sands in Greenland and from North Africa to Spitsbergen.
	www.livingforeshore.org /dolphins/dolphins_013.htm (446 words)

	Minke Whale , Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick
		The colour of the plates vary from region to region; in the North Atlantic, it tends to be creamy white; in the North Pacific, it is usually creamy yellow; and in the Southern hemisphere it is creamy white at the front and dark grey at the back.
		Minke whales can be found virtually worldwide, but are less common in the tropics than in cooler waters.
		The Minke Whale is the smallest Rorqual and has a central ridge on top of a flat head.
	new-brunswick.net /new-brunswick/whales/minke.html (847 words)

	Minke Whale
		The Minke Whale has a slender, streamlined body with a pointed rostrum which is bisected by a single longitudinal ridge beginning in front of the blow-holes.
		The upperparts are dark grey, lightening to white on the belly and the underside of the flippers.
		Minke Whales have an inconspicuous vertical blow, which is produced almost simultaneously with the appearance of the dorsal fin.
	www.orcaweb.org.uk /idminke.htm (388 words)

	Defending Whales: Baby minke whale dies in Brooklyn
		Yesterday, I wrote about an unusual story: a young minke whale had somehow found its way from New York Harbor into the notoriously polluted Gowanus Canal.
		A young whale that swam aimlessly for two days in a small bay off an industrial section of Brooklyn beached itself at an oil depot dock Wednesday and died suddenly.
		Animal activists said the minke whale, about a year old, was too young to survive on its own.
	weblog.greenpeace.org /whales/2007/04/baby_minke_whale_dies_in_brook.html (358 words)

	Minke Whale at exZOOberance!
		Minke Whale, also known as piked whale, small, nimble whale that leaps clear of the water like a dolphin and shows curiosity by venturing close to ships.
		Minke whales belong to the group of whales that have no teeth, which are called baleen whales.
		The population of minke whales subsequently began to decline, and they were included among protected species in the 1986 international ban on commercial whaling.
	www.exzooberance.com /virtual%20zoo/they%20swim/minke%20whale/minke%20whale.htm (654 words)

	Factsheets: Minke Whale
		The Minke Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata is a small streamlined baleen whale with a maximum length 10m.
		Krill is the principal prey for Minke whales, especially in the Southern Hemisphere.
		Although in the Southern Hemisphere the Minke whale is not considered a migratory species some movement of animals to lower latitudes occurs during winter when birth of young and mating takes place.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/minke_whale.htm (381 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Minke Whale
		Minke Whale: The smallest of the baleen whales, the minke is generally under 26 feet long and has a flish-gray body with a white stomach, a narrow...
		Whaling is legal in Norway, which puts a veterinarian on every whaleboat to monitor the humane hunting of the minke whale and ensure that the quota â” 790...
		Whaling is legal in Norway, which puts a veterinarian on every whaleboat to monitor the humane hunting of the minke whale and ensure that the quota -- 790 this...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Minke_Whale.htm (5718 words)

	The Minke Whale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The minke whales are the smallest of the baleen whales.
		The minke whales caught in the North East Atlantic are normally between 5 and 8 metres long.
		Minke whale stocks can also be found further west in the North Atlantic, in the North Pacific and around the Antarctic.
	www.highnorth.no /Library/Hunts/Norway/th-mi-wh.htm (420 words)

	Discovering Whales - The Minke Whale
		The Minke whale is the smallest of the rorquals.
		The Minke can be confused with the Sei, Bryde's, Fin or Northern Bottlenose whale, however, the dive sequence is distinctively different, the head is unscarred and it's mouthline is relatively straight.
		Norway and Japan are two countries that argue since the Minke is abundant it is not endangered and therefore they are harvesting (killing), albiet in small numbers, this species on a regular basis.
	www.omplace.com /omsites/discover/MINKE/minkeg.html (510 words)

	The Tales of the Whales - Whale Species - Minke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Minke is also the smallest of the rorqual whale family, with males averaging 26 ft. and females a foot longer.
		Minke Whale coloration is a bluish dark gray above and lighter on the underside, with its flippers usually displaying large white patches.
		Currently, Minke population is estimated to be approximately 900,000.
	www.whalesfilm.com /minke.htm (147 words)

	Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Minke Whale at MarineBio.org
		The Minke Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Lacépède, 1804), is the smallest baleen whale with 50-70 throat grooves.
		Minkes are the most abundant baleen whale and have a characteristic white band on each flipper, contrasting with its very dark gray top color.
		Minke whales normally swim 4.8-25 kph, but can go up to 29-34 kph in bursts when in danger.
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=230 (1304 words)

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		Antarctic minke whales summer in the Antarctic zone, especially close to the edge of the pack ice, and winter in the north, from the equator to the 35th parallel.
		The "dwarf" minke whale tends to be distributed in the lower latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere with wintering grounds from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia and the eastern coast of South America from March to December.
		Minke whales tend to be solitary or found in small groups, although they may also be found in larger aggregations in areas where prey is concentrated.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=13068 (1257 words)

	Minke Whale Entanglement -October 2002
		Upon entangling, the whale either towed the gear into more that was nearby, or further wrapped itself up in the same gear several times by thrashing, resulting in the tangle of line from which it was unable to free itself.
		One of the tasks during the necropsy was to extract the skeleton of the whale for preservation and/or future study.
		Since the circumstances of this whale's death demonstrate the importance of whale conservation and the problem of entanglement, the skeleton will complement our display, ensuring her death was not entirely in vain.
	www.whalecenter.org /conservation/baentanglementOct02/baentanglementOct02.htm (622 words)

	Minke Whale by Hagop K. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Minke whale has a sharp snout that is in the shape of a triangle.
		Other Baleen whales are noticed from their blowholes but the Minke whale exhales small amounts of water so that we can't see it very well.
		The color of the Minke whales are dark grey and fl on top with white at the bottom.
	hosmer.watertown.k12.ma.us /WWW/scole/oceans/text/reports/minke_whale.html (194 words)

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