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    extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia. The sperm whale is a pelagic mammal with...
    148 KB (16,429 words) - 16:32, 26 May 2024
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    fictional white sperm whale and the primary antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Melville based the whale on an albino whale of that period...
    7 KB (1,020 words) - 21:15, 12 May 2024
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    historically attested bull whale Mocha Dick. Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories includes the story of "How the Whale got in his Throat". A whale features in the...
    107 KB (11,998 words) - 07:56, 4 May 2024
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    Orca (redirect from Orca Whale)
    The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. It is the only extant species in...
    139 KB (14,555 words) - 15:25, 28 May 2024
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    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab...
    117 KB (16,727 words) - 04:03, 25 May 2024
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    Mocha Dick (category Individual sperm whales)
    White Whale of the Pacific: A Leaf from a Manuscript Journal", in the May 1839 issue of The Knickerbocker. Reynolds described Mocha Dick as "an old bull whale...
    9 KB (946 words) - 15:08, 11 April 2024
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    The sei whale (/seɪ/ SAY, Norwegian: [sæɪ]; Balaenoptera borealis) is a baleen whale. It is one of ten rorqual species, and the third-largest member after...
    72 KB (8,442 words) - 05:12, 10 May 2024
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    other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and sperm whales. 73 species of toothed whales are described. They are one of two living groups...
    85 KB (9,466 words) - 07:44, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of captive orcas
    Orcas, or killer whales, are large predatory cetaceans that were first captured live and displayed in exhibitions in the 1960s. They soon became popular...
    153 KB (17,804 words) - 12:27, 29 May 2024
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    Nandi (Hinduism) (redirect from Nandi Bull)
    Nandi (Sanskrit: नन्दि), also known as Nandikeshvara or Nandideva, is the bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Shiva. He is also the guardian deity of Kailash...
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    The beluga whale (/bɪˈluːɡə/; Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean. It is one of two members of the family Monodontidae, along...
    194 KB (20,168 words) - 19:54, 29 May 2024
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    seals and walruses, hippos, camels, giraffes, elk, moose, whales, dolphins, and antelopes. Bulls are much more muscular than cows, with thicker bones, larger...
    25 KB (2,898 words) - 00:07, 21 May 2024
  • American bucking bull. He was known throughout the rodeo world as "the world's most dangerous bull". He was also known as "the greatest bull ever to buck"...
    63 KB (7,802 words) - 00:09, 24 May 2024
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    Sperm whaling (category Sperm whales)
    Sperm whaling is the human practice of hunting sperm whales, the largest toothed whale and the deepest-diving marine mammal species, for the oil, meat...
    23 KB (2,854 words) - 17:54, 28 February 2024
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    would continue his blog. After standing in for Clive Bull on LBC 97.3 for six days in August 2008, Whale covered for Nick Abbot for two weeks from 29 September...
    18 KB (2,057 words) - 00:16, 13 May 2024
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    author of the famous novel Moby-Dick about a white bull sperm whale. Herman Melville often referred to whales as "Leviathans" in his book. It is mainly known...
    53 KB (5,890 words) - 14:55, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Common minke whale
    Johan Bull's account of his 1893–95 voyage to the Antarctic, when he mentioned catching a small whale "called in the Arctic language a Mencke whale, after...
    147 KB (19,768 words) - 06:24, 27 May 2024
  • Orcas (or killer whales) are large, powerful aquatic apex predators. There have been incidents where orcas were perceived to attack humans in the wild...
    49 KB (5,836 words) - 23:49, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antarctic minke whale
    Antarctic minke whale or southern minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales. It is the second...
    66 KB (8,107 words) - 22:15, 1 December 2023
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    p. 25. Media related to John Bull at Wikimedia Commons The British Library newspaper catalogue Johnny Bull on a Whale: Geography Bewitched or, a Droll...
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