11. ANIMAL PEOPLE I JUNE 2009
begins with mature gray whales. The females are either pregnant or lactating 80% of the time. Like the mothers of many other species, whale moms stick together. To avoid oceanic predators such as sharks and orca whales, gray whale mothers
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12. Japanese Whaling AP 1100
29, targeting
10 sperm whales, 50 Bryde's whales, and 160 minke whales. In all, Japan
planned to kill up to 560 whales this year.
Although Japan began hunting minke whales in the name of research
almost as soon as it joined the
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13. ANIMAL PEOPLE I APRIL 2010
a $600 dinner that included whale meat. They collected samples. Marine Mammal Institute associate director Scott Baker identified the samples as having come from a sei whale, a species hunted by Japanese research whalers in the North Pacific.
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14. ANIMAL PEOPLE I June 07 Will Taiji again capture orcas?
from the Taiji Whale Museum, according to Dolphin Project founder Ric
O'Barry, who has repeatedly visited Taiji to witness the proceedings and
lead protests.
The Taiji Whale Museum reportedly sells
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15. ANIMAL PEOPLE I May 07 Animal obits
aquarium, in Okinawa, keeps whale sharks, who may live as long as
120 years in the wild," reported Brenda Goodman of The New York Times.
A study of 16 whale sharks kept at the Okinawa Expo Aquarium from 1980
to 1998
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16. ANIMAL PEOPLE I SEPTEMBER 2009
say officials at the Taiji Whale Museum. The town is dominated by Whale statues, Whale-tail fountains, and a dolphin-themed resort. Public buses are promoted by cutesy Whale cartoon figures."
Captivity connection
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17. ANIMAL PEOPLE I May 08 High-tech cameras help to put the Japanese spotlight ...
stalked and harassed by whalers. Despite this,
their high-tech film gear was covertly inserted
in the killing coves and extracted 16 times.
Their hidden, high-definition cameras
successfully recorded the
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18. ANIMAL PEOPLE I Jan.-Feb. 07 Mercury poisoning may save whales
to kill 945 minke whales and 10 fin whales within the designated but unguarded
Southern Oceans whale Sanctuary. This will be almost as many as the 1,253
minke whales and more than the nine fin whales that the Japanese
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19. ANIMAL PEOPLE I March 2009
office authorized Icelandic whalers to kill up to 150 fin whales and 150 minke whales per year.
Fin whales are internationally recognized as an endangered species. Icelandic whalers had killed seven since 2006.
Gudfinnasson's action
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20. ANIMAL PEOPLE I Mar. 07 Fire aboard Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru ends ...
quota of 935 minke whales, 50 humpback
whales, and 50 fin whales. The latter are both internationally designated
endangered species.
"At around 17:30 today," posted
the crew of the
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