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  2. Cetacean intelligence - Wikipedia

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    A female bottlenose dolphin performing with her trainer. They are considered one of the most intelligent cetaceans. Cetacean intelligence is the overall intelligence and derived cognitive ability of aquatic mammals belonging in the infraorder Cetacea (cetaceans), including baleen whales, porpoises, and dolphins.

  3. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    whale-road hron-rād: N,OE: Beowulf 10: "In the end, each clan on the outlying coasts beyond the whale-road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute" the sea sail road seġl-rād: OE: Beowulf 1429 b the sea whale's way hwæl-weġ: N,OE: The Seafarer 63 a; Beowulf: serpent valley-trout N: Skaldskaparmal: shield headland of swords sverða nesi

  4. Edgar Wachenheim III - Wikipedia

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    Edgar Wachenheim III (born 1937) is an American investor and CEO and chairman of Greenhaven Associates. He founded that investment company, a former branch of Central National-Gottesman, in 1987 and has worked there since as CEO.

  5. Scientists say they’ve discovered a ‘phonetic alphabet’ in ...

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    For about 20 minutes, a curious whale repeatedly responded to a recording of a humpback song transmitted from the scientists’ boat. “This particular playback (with the humpback in 2021) was an ...

  6. Cetology - Wikipedia

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    A researcher fires a biopsy dart at an orca.The dart will remove a small piece of the whale's skin and bounce harmlessly off the animal. Cetology (from Greek κῆτος, kētos, "whale"; and -λογία, -logia) or whalelore (also known as whaleology) is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the scientific ...

  7. Cetology of Moby-Dick - Wikipedia

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    Right whale (several species of the genus Eubalaena of the family Balaenidae), also known simply as the Whale, the Greenland Whale, the Black Whale, the Great Whale. Melville claims this whale was the first to be regularly hunted by human beings and is famously known for providing baleen, which was also known as "whalebone" at the time.

  8. Whale - Wikipedia

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    The whale is an albino sperm whale, considered by Melville to be the largest type of whale, and is partly based on the historically attested bull whale Mocha Dick. Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories includes the story of "How the Whale got in his Throat".

  9. Baleen whale - Wikipedia

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    The second gray whale, which was captured in 1971 from the same lagoon, was named Gigi II and was released a year later after becoming too big. [158] The last gray whale, J.J., beached itself in Marina del Rey, California, where it was rushed to SeaWorld San Diego and, after 14 months, was released because it got too big to take care of ...