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A Cuvier's beaked whale makes a rare foray to the surface

"Some species have never been seen alive, and these are animals as big as an elephant," says Vassili Papastavrou, a whale biologist with Ifaw who is on board Song of the Whale....."


1 posted on 09/29/2008 3:42:08 PM PDT by Justice Department
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2 posted on 09/29/2008 3:43:10 PM PDT by Justice Department ("Comedy is allied to justice." Aristophenes)
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Ping!
7 posted on 09/29/2008 4:33:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Amazing creatures. I had the privilege to be in a tank with belugas last year and let me tell you, that as much as scientists know about these critters, it could fill a thimble of what there is yet to learn. I can only imagine the rarity of the beaked whales.


9 posted on 09/29/2008 5:06:17 PM PDT by Daffynition (Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, SorosÂ… use a RED crayon.)
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I wonder what they taste like?


11 posted on 09/29/2008 5:51:25 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (McCain said he was going to Washington and naming names. Here is his chance.)
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