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	Pilot whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Pilot Whale is one of two species of cetacean in the genus Globicephala.
		Pilot Whales are amongst the most common and widely-distributed of the marine mammals in the cetacean order.
		In 2006, a pilot whale was seen outside the Houses of Parliament in London [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pilot_Whale (853 words)

	Whaling Information
		Entire schools of whales are killed on the shore and in the shallows of bays with knives which are used to sever the major blood supply to the brain.
		Whale drives only take place when a school of pilot whales is sighted close to land, which is most often from a local fishing boat or ferry, and when sea and weather conditions make it possible.
		The whale is killed using a sharp knife to cut down to sever the spinal cord, which also severs the major blood supply to the brain, ensuring both the loss of consciousness and death within seconds.
	www.whaling.fo /thepilot.htm (1369 words)

	Whaling in the Faroe Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such is the importance of the drive in Faroese culture that the Faroese word for sighting a group of whales is the same as that as for the drive.
		Those in favour of whaling, such as the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) in their 1997 and 1999 report on the hunt (available in PDF here), say that this is a conservative estimate whilst those opposed to the hunt, such as the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society say it is an over-estimate.
		Once the whales have been driven close to the shore of a bay by boats forming a semi-circle behind them, the whaling foreman drops a rope into the water weighted by stones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grindadr%C3%A1p (659 words)

	ACS pilot whale Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society
		The pilot whale, like the killer whale, is a member of the dolphin family, and is second only to the killer whale in size.
		The pilot whale is extremely social, and is well known for stranding in groups of a few animals to several hundred at a time.
		Pilot whales are also being used by man as exhibition animals.
	www.acsonline.org /factpack/PilotWhale.htm (1085 words)

	search & discover:Pilot whale vertebra
		This is a vertebra of a pilot whale.
		The Long-finned Pilot Whale grows to between 5.5 m and 6.5 m long and is generally found in cool to cold waters; the Short-finned Pilot Whale is smaller, growing up to 5.9 m and is usually more common in warmer waters.
		Pilot whales are grey to fl with a white anchor-shaped mark on their underside of their bodies.
	www.amonline.net.au /sand/news/whale_vertebra.htm (224 words)

	Human Health Concerns of Whale Meat
		Whale meat or blubber is consumed in Norway, Japan, some Caribbean nations, Russia, Canada, and the state of Alaska—either for subsistence, cultural, or commercial reasons.
		Relying on whale meat as a source of protein is not just dangerous for adults, it may also be unhealthy for their future offspring.
		Whales no longer live in a pristine environment; we have polluted their habitat with poisons that concentrate in their tissues.
	www.hsus.org /ace/14438 (641 words)

	Pilot Whaling in the Faroe Islands
		Pilot whaling in the Faroe Islands is a communal, non-commercial undertaking providing local households with a welcome supply of meat and blubber.
		Pilot whaling regulations divide the Faroes into 9 whaling districts with a total of 22 authorized whaling bays all of which meet the demands made on efficient stranding conditions for the whales.
		The pilot whales found in the north-east Atlantic are of the long-finned species (Globicephala melas), and are known to the Faroese as grindahvalur.
	www.highnorth.no /Library/Hunts/Faroe_Islands/pi-wh-in.htm (1117 words)

	Pilot Whale: Marine Mammals: Audio Gallery for Discovery of Sound in the Sea
		Pilot whales are large dolphins with a long body and bulbous head with prominent melon.
		Short-finned pilot whales are typically found in warmer waters while long-finned pilot whales are found in colder waters.
		Pilot whales are known by a variety of nick-names based on their appearance.
	www.dosits.org /gallery/marinemm/11.htm (403 words)

	CMS: Globicephala melas, Long-finned pilot whale
		Pilot whales were also observed in close association with fin, sperm and minke whales, and common, bottlenose, hourglass and possibly dusky dolphins (Goodall and Macnie, 1998).
		The inshore-offshore movements of pilot whales in the western North Atlantic have been correlated with movements of their preferred prey, squid; similar observations on relative abundance of pilot whales and squid are reported from the Faroe Islands (Reyes, 1991 and ref. therein; Bernard and Reilly, 1999 and refs.
		Furthermore, pilot whales are also known to be taken incidentally in trawl and gillnet fisheries in the western North Atlantic, and in swordfish driftnets in the Mediterranean (Jefferson et al.
	www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/G_melas/g_melas.htm (3729 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		North Atlantic— In the eastern North Atlantic, long-finned pilot whales inhabit the Barents Sea and the coast of Norway; the waters surrounding the Faeroe Islands and British Isles; the west coasts of France and Spain; and the waters of the Azores Islands, Madeira Island, and Mauritania.
		In the western North Atlantic, pilot whales occupy the coasts of Iceland and Greenland; along the continental shelf and coast of North America including the coast of Newfoundland, Georges Bank, the Gulf of Maine; and south to Cape Hatteras, with rare sightings further south.
		The large tongue of the long-finned pilot whale is depressed and retracted during feeding, causing negative intraoral pressure during capture.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/552461 (1228 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Faroes' controversial whale hunt
		The last whale of the pod had been killed and now, surprisingly quickly, the corpses were tied to boats to be towed to the harbour of Torshavn.
		Whale meat is never sold on the Faroes, for the catch is divided out amongst people in the community and any surplus given to hospitals and old people's homes.
		With 800,000 pilot whales in the North Atlantic and with rarely more than 2,000 a year taken in the Faroes, the whale population was not under threat.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3104494.stm (826 words)

	Whales and Dolphins Found in Dominica - sperm whale, pilot whale, humpback whale, spinner dolphin, bottlenosed dolphin, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Whales and Dolphins Found in Dominica - sperm whale, pilot whale, humpback whale, spinner dolphin, bottlenosed dolphin, atlantic spotted dolphin.
		It is thick and robust narrowing to the tail; with fl colouring and white belly.
		It is a member of the suborder mystcetes or baleen whales.
	www.avirtualdominica.com /crystal_blue/cetacean.htm (421 words)

	Lesson Plans - Pilot Whales' Social Behavior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pilot whales are extremely social animals, living in pods that sometimes contain hundreds of individuals.
		Explain that short-finned pilot whales, which live in tropical waters, are very similar in behavior to the long-finned species.
		Ask students to pretend that they are scientists who have the opportunity to use Crittercam on pilot whales, either in the tropical waters of Hawaii or in the temperate waters of New England.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/08/g68/ccseaswhale.html (1212 words)

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		The short-finned pilot whale is a distinctive, medium-sized whale.
		The short-finned pilot whale is predominantly fl on the dorsal surface and flanks, with faint white throat and genital patches on the ventral surface.
		Herds of pilot whales appear to be highly organised; while foraging or travelling, a herd may be sub-divided into closely knit groups of adult males, juveniles, or females with young.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=13082 (1113 words)

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		The long-finned pilot whale is a medium-sized whale, with an elongated body, a bulbous forehead and a short, almost imperceptible beak.
		Individual variation in the colouration of pilot whales is known to occur; adults generally have light markings on the throat and belly and sometimes behind the dorsal fin and eye, typically a long anchor-shaped ventral patch, dorsal saddle and eye blaze are noted.
		Long-finned pilot whales occur in some temperate and sub-polar oceans, and are usually found in deep, offshore waters, although they may be seen in coastal waters in parts of the North Atlantic Ocean.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=13075 (1138 words)

	Pilot Whale Rescue - Florida Keys April 18, 2003 - Big Pine Key
		Had he not been rescued he would not have lived, and though his chances for survival in the wild may not be as strong as the older whales, he deserves the opportunity to live and learn to hunt in the wild.
		It is not know why these whales stranded themselves; indeed, it’s not known for certain why marine mammals strand, but it is believed that, being air breathers, they seek shallow water when sick or old so that they don’t have to hold themselves up to breathe.
		Pilot whales are “family oriented” and the pod members follow the sick into the shallows.
	captseaweed.com /pilot_whale_rescue.html (853 words)

	Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)
		Short-finned pilot whales may congregate in large numbers offshore — schools of several hundred have been observed — but group size usually ranges from 10 to 60.
		Pilot whales are highly communicative and make a variety of sounds, including noises described as "squealing, whistling, loud smacking, whining, and snores." They probably are excellent echolocators.
		The food habits of pilot whales are not well known.
	www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/globmacr.htm (238 words)

	New England Seabirds - Other Marine Animals Fin Whale, Minke Whale, Pilot Whale, Cuvier Beaked Whale, Sperm Whale, ...
		Pilot Whales spend the summer further offshore and are usually seen on Stellwagen Bank in late fall.
		The Fin or Finbacked Whale is the fastest of the large whales and the largest whale except for the Blue Whale.
		Eleven of these unusual whales were seen on the 2001 June CORE 3 day trip to the canyons of the Continental Shelf south of Nantucket.
	www.neseabirds.com /otherwhales.htm (200 words)

	Featured Whale
		Humpback whales that we first see as young of the year calves are a very important component of the data collected at the Whale Center of New England.
		When we meet a whale as a newborn, we know its exact age (to the year) and, since they stay with their mother for a year, to whom it is related to on its mother's side (males do not stay with a female after mating, se we do not know the father's identity).
		Because Beacon was deemed a healthy whale by all accounts during her last sighting in November, a detailed necropsy may have made the difference in finding out what caused this sudden loss.
	www.whalecenter.org /featuredwhale.htm (1431 words)

	ACS fin whale Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society
		The fin whale is one of the rorquals, a family that includes the humpback whale, blue whale, Bryde's whale, sei whale, and minke whale.
		Fin whales are found in all oceans of the world, though they seem to prefer temperate and polar waters to tropical seas.
		The fin whale's blow is tall and shaped like an inverted cone, and the dive sequence is 5-8 blows approximately 70 seconds apart before a long dive.
	www.acsonline.org /factpack/finwhl.htm (968 words)

	CRESLI's pilot whale page
		Long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melaena) are found in the waters off New York throughout the year.
		Pilot whales can be found in groups of a few individuals to larger aggregations of hundreds.
		The most recent estimate of long-finned pilot whales in the western North Atlantic is 14524 individuals.
	www.cresli.org /cresli/cetacean/pilotwhl.html (116 words)

	Whale Watching in Dominica
		Whale watching in Dominica was started commercially in 1988 by Fitzroy Armour, of Anchorage Dive Center.
		Later, our sailing trips were regularly punctuated with whale sightings and the accompanying cries of young cousins and aunts in fear of the boat being capsized.
		Pilot whales are often seen in pods of fifty of sixty.
	www.delphis.dm /crystal_blue/whale.htm (1467 words)

	56 Pilot Whales Die - CBS News
		Fifty-six of the pilot whales have died, including 31 that officials say had to be euthanized.
		Pilot whales are highly social animals that travel and feed in groups.
		In a heartbreaking turn of events for the beached Cape Cod pilot whales, more are dying as rescue attempts fail, Richard Schlesinger explains.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/07/29/tech/main516748.shtml (764 words)

	Globicephala macrorhynchus, Pilot Whale at MarineBio.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pilot whales are dark gray to fl in color with a lighter colored patch on the ventral surface, and Globicephala macrorhynchus (short-finned) pilot whales may also have a faint patch behind the dorsal fin.
		The Pilot whale is a gregarious species often found in groups of 20-90, in which there are often small families of females and their calves.
		Pilot whales have been observed hunting in groups to help concentrate their prey in the center of a pod by using their vocal communications.
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=354 (800 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| London \| Whale spotted in central London
		The 16-18ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale, which is usually found in deep sea waters, has been seen as far upstream as Chelsea.
		He said if attempts to re-direct the whale downstream failed, it might be necessary to put it down to prevent from suffering further.
		Sperm whales have been seen in the Thames Estuary and porpoises have feasted on fish near Vauxhall Bridge, in central London.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/4631396.stm (571 words)

	THE PILOT WHALE CAMPAIGN: A WARNING
		In its publications, the IWC Scientific Committee employs a 1992 population estimate for the Central and North East Atlantic pilot whale stocks of 778,000.
		A statement made to the European Parliament Intergroup on Animal Welfare (1993) by Pilot Whale Campaign leader, Gillian Stacey shows that the Pilot Whale Campaign is familiar with the new estimate.
		He maintains that the same thing is true of the other supermarket chains towards whom the Pilot Whale Campaign claims to have been successful with their boycott message.
	www.highnorth.no /Library/Movements/Pilot_Whale_Campaign/th-pi-wh.htm (606 words)

	General Information About Pilot Whales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Whaling was discontinued in 1972 because of decimated local stocks and poor
		Pilot whales have strong social cohesiveness; it is rare to see a single individual.
		Pilot whales are some of the noisiest whales in Newfbundland waters.
	www.nfld.com /nfld/other/whales/pilotinfo.html (383 words)

	Cape Breton Pilot Whale Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Whale-watchers of the area had known for at least 15 years that pilot whales could be reliably found in and around St. Lawrence Bay from late June into October and November.
		In general, different individual pilot whales are sighted from one day to the next.
		As predicted by genetic studies of hunted pilot whale groups in other locations, it appears that there are at least some somewhat stable, cohesive units of pilot whales.
	whitelab.biology.dal.ca /ao/CBreton.htm (314 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Whale swims up the Thames to Westminster
		A 19ft whale has been spotted in the River Thames in central London swimming past the Houses of Parliament.
		The animal, which is a northern bottle-nosed whale, headed upriver as far as Chelsea before lifeboats turned it round just short of the Albert Bridge.
		The whale is the first of the species in the Thames since records began in 1913.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/20/uwhale.xml (278 words)

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