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1. Sei whale | IFAW Web Site

for months. After the blue whale populations were depleted in the 1930s, whalers directed their energies to catching the next largest species, the fin whale. When the fin whale populations declined, whalers moved on to the sei whale.It is

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2. Right whale | IFAW Web Site

Saving North Atlantic Right Whales Song of the Whale: IFAW's Research Vessel Promoting Responsible Whale Watching CITES Campaign Homepage Classification:

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3. Blue whale | IFAW Web Site

oil yield) was set for blue whales with equivalent limits for other species based on their size compared to the blue whale. This was called the Blue whale Unit (BWU): one blue whale = two fin whales = 2.5 humpback whales = six sei whales. This BWU

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4. Common minke whale / Antarctic minke whale | IFAW Web Site

Centre. 2001. Dwarf minke whale biology. Discovering whales. The minke whale. 2001. http://whales.magna.com.au . IFAW. 2001. whale kills since 1990 . IUCN. 2001. The 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. http://www.redlist.org . IWC.

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5. Fin whale | IFAW Web Site

Fin whales, also called finback whales, are second in size only to the blue whale. Like other whales from the family Balaenopteridae, fin whales have a streamlined body and broad, flat V-shaped head with a well-developed

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6. Southern Right Whale | IFAW Web Site

when killed made the right whale an easy target for early whalers, who hunted them for their thick blubber and long baleen. Unlike the North Atlantic right whale, which has failed to rebound after years of exploitation, the southern right whale

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7. Gray whale | IFAW Web Site

Protecting a Critical Gray Whale Nursery in Baja Mexico DNA Evidence of Protected Species of Whale for Sale Sanctuaries for Whales Promoting Responsible Whale Watching CITES Campaign

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8. Humpback whale | IFAW Web Site

humpback whale is more robust than minke, Bryde’s, sei, fin and blue whales (the other whales in the family Balaenopteridae ), but is not as stocky as the right and bowhead whales.Adult male humpbacks measure 13 –

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9. Sperm whale | IFAW Web Site

ship whaling for sperm whales was prohibited by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1979.Despite the moratorium on whaling, Japan recently began hunting sperm whales in the North Pacific for "scientific" purposes. In 2000, Japan

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10. Short-finned pilot whale | IFAW Web Site

of the long-finned pilot whale’s flipper, and they are shorter, being less than 15% of the body length, compared with greater than 16% in the long-finned pilot whale. The short-finned pilot whale is predominantly black on the dorsal

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