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Fact sheet from the American Cetacean Society.
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ACS fin whale Cetacean Fact Sheet American Cetacean Society The fin whale is one of the rorquals, a family that includes the humpback whale, blue whale, Bryde's whale, sei whale, and minke whale. Rorquals all have a dorsal fin and throat grooves that expand when the animal is feeding....Fact sheet from IFAW.
http://www.ifawct.org/whaledb/whale3.htm
Fact sheet from Cetacea.org.
http://www.cetacea.org/fin.htm
Species account and photos from the Animal Diversity Web.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umic...ptera/b._physalus$narrative.html
Information from Long Island, New York, including publication abstracts, an animated surfacing and diving sequence, and a photo gallery.
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CRESLI fin whale page Reservations bald eagle cruise Reservations Offshore Whale and Pelagic Bird Cruise Reservations SUPPORT CRESLI CRESLI Membership CRESLI CD's and DVD's CRESLI Clothing Volunteering Weather Links to other organizations sighting reports Whale sightings Seal sightings Report a sighting Search our Site:...Information, photos, map, and an audio file of calls.
http://newport.pmel.noaa.gov/whales/finwhale.html
General information and map.
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The baleen apparatus is at its most extravagant in this species. The head is huge, in some species up to 40 per cent of body length. All seven neck vertabrae are fixed into a single unit to support the enormous...