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	Pygmy Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon peruvianus at MarineBio.org
		The pygmy beaked whale, Mesoplodon peruvianus (Reyes, Mead and Van Waerebeek, 1991), is one of the latest discovered and smallest members of the genus Mesoplodon, maximum known length is only 3.9 m with males thought to be slightly larger than females.
		Pygmy beaked whales have moderately long beaks, and low triangular dorsal fins with slightly falcate (curved) or straight trailing edges with small, triangular, wide-based dorsal fins that are shaped like those of harbor porpoises.
		Beaked whales are generally slender with a small dorsal fin placed towards the rear on the back.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=437 (982 words)

	Beaked whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The beaked whales are the second-largest family of Cetaceans (after the dolphins) and were one of the first groups to diverge from the ancestral lineage.
		Baird's and Cuvier's Beaked Whales were subject to commercial exploitation off the coast of Japan; and the Northern Bottlenose Whale was extensively hunted in the northern part of the North Atlantic late in the 19th and early in the 20th centuries.
		However there are now clear issues of concern: studies of stranded beaked whales show rising levels of toxic chemicals in their blubber (as a top-order predator they are, like raptors, particularly vulnerable to build-up of biocontaminants) and they frequently have ingested plastic bags (which do not break down and can be lethal).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaked_whale (691 words)

	Mesoplodont whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Longman's Beaked Whale (also known as the Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale) is also sometimes classed in the Mesoplodon genus.
		Beaked whales are typically medium to large sized for toothed whales, 3 to 6 meters in length, but diminutive when compared with Bottlenose Whales and Giant Beaked Whales.
		Gray's Beaked Whale is the exception and has numerous small and possibly functional teeth in the lower jaw.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hubb's_Beaked_Whale (466 words)

	Beaked whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The known beaked whales range in size about 3.4 metres to almost 13 metres can weigh anywhere between 1 and 15 They are found in all oceans and species rarely venture into the relatively shallow of the continental shelves.
		The beaked whales are the second-largest family Cetaceans (after the dolphins) and were one of the first to diverge from the ancestral lineage.
		Baird's and Cuvier's Beaked Whales subject to commercial exploitation off the coast Japan ; and the Northern Bottlenose Whale was extensively hunted in the northern of the North Atlantic late in the 19th and early in the 20th centuries.
	www.freeglossary.com /Beaked_Whale (988 words)

	Shepherd's Beaked Whale
		CETACEA: Whale Species:...peruvianus) Longman's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon pacificus) Northern Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) Shepherd's Beaked Whale (Tasmacetus sherpherdi...
		Genus Tasmacetus: Tasman Beaked Whale (Shepherd's Beaked Whale) Tasmacetus shepherdi.
		Whale Glossary: B:...the sharp-toothed whale, True's bearded whale, Longman's beaked whale, the lesser beaked whale, Stejneger's beaked whale, Shepherd's beaked whale, and Cuvier's...
	specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/S/Shepherd's_Beaked_Whale.shtml (1568 words)

	Mesoplodon mirus
		ADW: Mesoplodon mirus: Classification: Mesoplodon mirus (True's beaked whale).
		Genus Mesoplodon, Mesoplodont Whales: Hector's Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon hectori; True's Beaked Whale, Mesoplodon mirus; Gervais...
		: Whale Mesoplodon bidens, Blainville's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon densirostris, Gervais Beaked Whale Mesoplodon europaeus and True's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon mirus.
	specieslist.com /endangered/scientific_name/M/Mesoplodon_mirus.shtml (2859 words)

	Glacier Bay Alaska - Whale Watching Tours with Fairweather Adventures
		The humpback whales are frequently observed swimming and feeding close to shorelines along the southern coast of Alaska.
		Baleen is a comb-like structure in a whale's mouth that acts as a filter during feeding, it hangs from the upper jaw.
		Killer whale behaviors include: breaching (jumping out of the water), lobtailing (slapping their flukes on the water's surface), spyhopping (swimming vertically with their head partially out of the water), and pec-slapping (slapping their pectoral flipper on the water's surface).
	www.fishglacierbay.com /AboutWhales1-1.htm (2120 words)

	Mty Bay beaked whales
		Their giant head is filled with spermaceti, a reservoir of high-quality oil-like wax for which the whales were relentlessly hunted for "whale oil." There is only a rude ill-formed lump for a dorsal fin and the skin is textured with wrinkles and ridges.
		Compared to the 35-40 foot Baird's Beaked Whale and the 18-25 foot Cuvier's Beaked Whale, the various species of 8-15 foot beaked whales in the genus Mesoplodon are both mysterious and difficult to identify in the field.
		Observations of an unidentified beaked whale (Mesoplodon sp.) in the eastern tropical Pacific.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/MtyBaybeaked.html (1515 words)

	FIGIS - FAO/SIDP Species Identification Sheet: Mesoplodon peruvianus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The pygmy beaked whale is the most recently described member of the genus, and appears to be the smallest of the species of Mesoplodon.
		The pygmy beaked whale is known only from 10 specimens and a few possible sightings off Peru, all south of 8°S and in the eastern tropical Pacific.
		Pygmy beaked whales are taken in the driftnet fishery for sharks off the coast of Peru.
	www.fao.org /figis/servlet/species?sname=Mesoplodon+peruvianus (303 words)

	Toothed Whales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are several families of Odontoceti, or toothed whales, including sperm whales, pygmy sperm whales, beaked whales, river-dolphins (3 families) belugas and narwhals, dolphins and porpoises.
		A similar toothed whale family is the Kogiidae family which includes the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale which are significantly smaller than the sperm whale but share characteristics such as the spermaceti organ, the blunt head, and the distinctive narrow lower jaw.
		Beaked whales may be rare or simply elusive but, generally, they live in deep water far from land and are rarely seen.
	nmml.afsc.noaa.gov /education/cetaceans/toothed1.htm (560 words)

	World Council of Whalers - The United Voice of Whaling Peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Whaling peoples today are a far cry from the industrial whalers of the past century, who slaughtered entire whale populations to feed a global demand for whale oil and bone.
		Whaling communities are widespread, in many regions: the Arctic, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific.
		Other species (non-IWC whales) are hunted as well, and include the beluga, narwhal, Baird's beaked whale, pilot whale species, pygmy killer whales, false killer whalers, harbor porpoise, Risso's dolphin, and various other species of dolphins.
	www.worldcouncilofwhalers.com (400 words)

	California Diving News: CA Marine Life - Whales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Another good indicator that beaked whales are not dining with their teeth is the propensity for barnacles to grow on the teeth of some species.
		Male beaked whales evidently use those teeth as "jousting weapons." Additionally, some of these assorted marks appear to be battlescars left from shark and killer whale attack.
		The beaked whale family actually contains enough species that it is considered to be the second largest whale family in the world.
	www.saintbrendan.com /cdnaug/velde8.html (1075 words)

	Mesoplodon or beaked whales - TheWebsiteOfEverything.com
		Discovering Whales - The Beaked Whales The Superfamily Ziphioidea - Family Ziphiidae Beaked Whales The beaked whales are medium-sized whales with a distinct beak extending from the skull in all but the Gray's and Shepherd's beaked whales which have extra rows of tiny teeth erupting in both sexes.
		Baird's Beaked Whales are easily distinguishable from the Bottlenose Whales as the latter have a smaller and less pronounced beak, and a more prominant dorsal.
		Beaked whales are found in all the world oceans, yet are rarely every seen (Nowak and Paradiso, 1983).
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Cetacea/Ziphiidae/Mesoplodon (397 words)

	Longman's Beaked Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Longman's Beaked Whale commonly also called the Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale either has the specific name Indopacetus pacificus or Mesoplodon pacificus depending whether the animal is classified a mesoplodont whale or not.
		In 2002 a previously unknown whale species stranded the Japanese coast.
		Over the next forty years researchers that the skull belonged to a new and variously suggested that it may belong a sub-species of True's Beaked Whale or the Southern Bottlenose Whale.
	www.freeglossary.com /Indopacetus (535 words)

	Australia - mining banned in endangered whale nursery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Twenty seven whale and dolphin species (half the total species found in Australian waters) are found in the Great Australian Bight.
		Most notably, endangered southern right whales migrates from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic to the warmer waters of the Bight for six months over winter to have their young and start the next generation - an activity critical to the survival of the species.
		They were one of the first whale species to be hunted globally - with a sobering 45 000 killed in the first 40 years of hunting (1805-44).
	www.wdcs.org /dan/publishing.nsf/webwhalesonline/BE41865A5EC5400E80256E1500335480?opendocument (1118 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		The pygmy beaked whale is one of the most recently described members of the genus, and appears to be the smallest of the species of Mesoplodon.
		The pygmy beaked whale is known only from a handful of specimens and several sightings from the eastern tropical Pacific and Gulf of California, as well as off Peru and Chile.
		PITMAN, R. Observations of an unidentified beaked whale (Mesoplodon sp.) in the eastern tropical Pacific.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/552772 (505 words)

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		White-finned beaked whale (North Atlantic Ocean): Beaked whales are a strange, primitive group of whales, and half of the species are known only from a single specimen.
		There are probably twice as many unrecorded species of beaked whale as there are known ones, and one species which ahs no known specimen has been oftenly seen in the North Atlantic.
		Giglioli's whale (Much of the world's waters): This is the name given to a species of baleen whale, Amphiptera pacifica, which is said to posess the remarkable characterisitc of two dorsal fins, something entirely unknown in cetaceans.
	www.angelfire.com /bc2/cryptodominion/cetaceans.html (1924 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Small Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Oceanographic Surveys in the ...
		However, the association of mass strandings of beaked whales with naval exercises and, in a recent case, an LDEO seismic survey has raised the possibility that beaked whales may be especially susceptible to injury and/or stranding when exposed to strong pulsed sounds.
		In March 2000, several beaked whales that had been exposed to repeated pulses from high intensity, mid-frequency military sonars stranded and died in the Providence Channels of the Bahamas Islands, and were subsequently found to have incurred cranial and ear damage (NOAA and USN, 2001).
		A recent workshop (Gentry (ed.), 2002) was held to discuss whether the stranding of beaked whales in the Bahamas in 2000 might have been related to air cavity resonance or bubble formation in tissues caused by exposure to noise from naval sonar.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/April/Day-14/i9057.htm (11231 words)

	Ocean Ambassadors -- Whales
		Issues and threats: Commercial whaling, especially before it was regulated, hunted down whales almost to extinction (as one species became scarce, another one was quickly chosen to take its place).
		Not counting the dolphins, there are 11 whale species that have been confirmed present in Philippine waters, a report from Silliman University indicates.
		Humpback whales have been hunted to near extinction, and only a few thousand are believed to survive today.
	www.oneocean.org /ambassadors/whales (592 words)

	Environmental Issues \| GM Food \| Nuclear Power \| GREENPEACE UK
		Mexico has decreed a Mexican Whale Sanctuary in all of its EEZ (exclusive economic zone) in the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea ﾖ an area of approximately three million square kilometres.
		One of the offshoots of the campaign was the modification of the Wildlife Law in 2000 to forbid all whaling in Mexico for commercial or subsistence purposes, and the listing of all cetaceans as needing special protection.
		The fact that it was created during the week that the IWC meeting took place in Shimonoseki, Japan is a message to the entire world that Mexico is against whaling.
	www.greenpeace.org.uk /contentlookup.cfm?&ucidparam=20021120145238&MenuPoint=D-H&CFID=303291&CFTOKEN=45144815 (347 words)

	Greenpeace Whales Site
		Factory fishing not whales is the cause of low fish stocks.
		One of the offshoots of the campaign was the modification of the Wildlife Law in 2000 to forbid all whaling in Mexico for commercial or subsistence purposes, and the listing of all cetaceans as under special protection.
		The decree states that the sanctuary will support the maintenance of the environmental conditions that are necessary for the biological functions of whales, such as reproduction, calving, growth, migration, learning and feeding.
	archive.greenpeace.org /whales/news/24may2002.html (575 words)

	FAQ's
		The land animals that are closest to whales and dolphins are the Ungulates (hoofed animals).
		The pilot whale (Globicephala melaena) can dive to at least 600 meters (2000 feet) and a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) has been found entangled in a cable at more that 900 meters (500 fathoms) depth.
		Whales and dolphins can be found in almost every sea and ocean, from the Arctic ocean, through the tropics all the way to the Antarctic.
	www.idw.org /html/faq_s.html (4185 words)

	Identification - Sowerby's Beaked Whale
		As with all beaked whales, identification at sea based on current knowledge, is dependent upon observation of the head.
		Sowerby's Beaked Whale is restricted to the northern North Atlantic, with the majority of sightings being at latitudes between the Canary Islands and the Arctic Circle.
		The status of Sowerby's Beaked Whale in the European Atlantic remains poorly known, but these few records suggest that it is the most frequently occurring Mesoplodon species in the region.
	www.orcaweb.org.uk /idsowerbys.htm (371 words)

	Research Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, of the 80 or so remaining species of whales and dolphins, he says, “we know a little about 20 species that were taken commercially for their blubber and baleen; the other 60 species remain elusive.
		Beaked whales, for example, have from seven to 14 compartments, Mead explains.
		Whale reproduction is another area of research for Mead and his colleagues.
	www.si.edu /opa/InsideResearch/9892/whales.htm (1374 words)

	Taxonomy
		The baleen whales are filter feeders which sieve food from the seawater with baleen; hair-fringed plates made from keratin (the same material as fingernails are made from).
		The minke whale is the most common of the baleen whales in the Moray Firth, although other species have been recorded in these waters including the fin whale, Sei whale and, for the first time in 2001, the humpback whale.
		Of the beaked whales, only the Northern bottlenose whale has been recorded in the Moray Firth.
	www.crru.org.uk /education/factfiles/taxonomy.htm (280 words)

	Ocean Planet:Recently Revealed 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One is a new species of beaked whale; the other a microscopic animal whose body form is so unusual that it was placed in its own major group, or phylum.
		Beaked whales are difficult to study because they live offshore, dive deep, and can stay submerged for up to an hour.
		These small whales are often caught accidentally and sold in local fish markets, where Smithsonian scientist James Mead (who later identified the species) first obtained a skull.
	seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov /OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_recently_revealed2.html (253 words)

	WhaleNet Teacher Packet
		Whether you find your fluke images on WhaleNet, use the Voyage of the Mimi, adopt a humpback whale, or photograph a whale on a whale watch, you may want to photo-identify the individual.
		Record photo-identification photographs of whales taken on the cruise, as follows: date, location (lat/long), photographer's name, roll number (label each roll of film with the initials of the photographer and roll number such as: JMW/95-001), and picture number.
		If your classroom is not going on a whale watch trip but is instead using whale watch data from WhaleNet's data base, use the data sheets to copy data out of the WhaleNet archives.
	whale.wheelock.edu /whalenet-stuff/brochure.html (3607 words)

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