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Whale: Encyclopedia - Whale
Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. ...
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Whale: Encyclopedia Ii - Whale - Anatomy
Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm-blooded (that is, endothermic), breast-feed their young, and have some (althoug...
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Whale: Encyclopedia Ii - Whale - Whale Intelligence
For more material in this area, focusing more on dolphins, see cetacean intelligence.
Many people believe that cetaceans in general, and ...
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Whale: Encyclopedia Ii - Whale - Whales In Culture
The King James Version of the Bible mentions whales four times: "And God created great whales" (Genesis 1:21); "Am I a sea, or a whale, t...
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Whale: Encyclopedia Ii - Whale - Whales And Humans
Main article Whaling
Most species of large whales are endangered as a result of large-scale whaling during the nineteenth and twentieth c...
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Whale: Encyclopedia Ii - Whale - Behaviour
Main article: Whale behaviour
Whales are broadly classed as predators, but their food ranges from microscopic plankton to very large fish...
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Whale: Encyclopedia Ii - Whale - Origins And Taxonomy
Whales, along with most dolphins and porpoises, are descendants of land-living mammals, most likely of the Artiodactyl order. They entere...
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