21. State Of Oregon: Oregon Parks & Recreation Dept.: Whale Watching Center Volunteers stationed at 28 locations along the Oregon coast provide assistance in spotting whales. Includes organization profile, locations, schedule, news, http://whalespoken.org/

Search: document.write('Find'); Text Size: A+ A- A Text Only Site ... Accessibility Department Parks and Recreation, Oregon Divisions All-terrain Vehicles Employment Grants Heritage Programs ... Volunteers Offices Parks State Historic Preservation Office Commissions Commission on Historic Cemeteries Heritage Commission Historic Columbia River Hwy Advisory Committee Historic Trails Advisory Council ... Home Whale Watch Training in Brookings - Jan. 26-27 Learn how to be a volunteer and help during the Whale Watch Weeks. Information and registration Whale Watching Spoken Here People come from all over the United States to learn about the gray whales that migrate past our coast each year. The Whale Watching Spoken Here program places volunteers at great whale watching sites during Watch Weeks so they can teach others while watching the whales too. If you love whales, come and be a volunteer! What is the Whale Watching Spoken Here program? Training and Volunteering Training Dates: Jan 26-27, 2008, Brookings

22. TheExplodingWhale.com Exploding Whale The web s most comprehensive source! Watch the video, read the articles, and learn about other exploding whales and related stories. http://theexplodingwhale.com/

If this is your first exposure to the Exploding Whale , then you are on the verge of learning about an event so bizarre and fantastic that you will surely doubt its veracity at first. If you've already experienced the Exploding Whale , then you're undoubtedly back to relive this amazing and unforgettable story. In either case, we'd like to say... Welcome to the definitive Exploding Whale website on the internet! The Evidence Feedback Books More Exploding Whales ... Search TheExplodingWhale.com feeds: Entries (RSS) Comments (RSS) Bob Welch tracks down Walter Umenhofer January 14th, 2008 Bob Welch , a columnist for the Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), profiles Walter Umenhofer, the gentleman whose brand new Oldsmobile 88 was crushed by a 300-pound piece of dead whale sent skyward when the Oregon Highway Division detonated 20 cases of dynamite underneath a rotting whale carcass (see video ). Mr. Umenhofer, now 75, has long been one of the most intriguing, if reluctant, characters in the saga of the Exploding Whale. He has largely avoided interviews and little is known about his opinion of the incident. “It’s funny,” [Umenhofer] says. “That was one big piece of blubber. It hit so hard that it bent my roof down and pushed the back of the seats to the floor.”

23. Ocean Alliance - Www.oceanalliance.org The Ocean Alliance is dedicated to the conservation of whales and their ocean enviroment through research and education. http://www.oceanalliance.org/

View previous updates from the 5.5 year Voyage on PBS online. www.pbs.org/odyssey To learn more about the Voyage, click here August 17, 2005 "We Did It! The Voyage Comes Home to Boston" "Today at 10am, the Research Vessel Odyssey sailed into Boston harbor after almost five and a half years studying sperm whales and ocean pollution on all oceans around the world." Read more on PBS >> DOMETIC joins the Ocean Alliance. To read more about other partners of the Ocean Alliance, click here The Instituto de Concervacion de Ballenas in Patagonia, Argentina has been a long term part of the Right Whale Research Program Ocean Alliance, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization, was founded in 1971 by biologist Roger Payne. Led by Dr. Payne and Chief Executive Officer Iain Kerr, Ocean Alliance collects a broad spectrum of data on whales and ocean life relating particularly to toxicology, behavior, bioacoustics, and genetics. From that data we work with our scientific partners to advise educators and policy makers on wise stewardship of the oceans to: reduce pollution, prevent the collapse of marine mammal populations, maintain human access to fish and other sea life, and benefit ocean and human health. "Nobody did worse than he who did nothing for fear he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke

24. Killer Whales Information from SeaWorld, including classification, habitat and distribution, physical characteristics, senses, adaptations for an aquatic environment, http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/KillerWhale/home.html

A SeaWorld Education Department Resource Contents Scientific Classification Habitat and Distribution Physical Characteristics Senses ... Index A Film clip from Shamu TV. (8 Mb) See live killer whales on the Shamu Cam! Killer whale classroom activity appropriate for grades 4-8. Goals of the SeaWorld Education Department: Based on a long-term commitment to education, SeaWorld strives to provide an enthusiastic, imaginative, and intellectually stimulation atmosphere to help students and guests develop a lifelong appreciation, understanding, and stewardship for our environment. Specifically, our goals are... To instill in students and guests of all ages an appreciation for science and a respect for all living creatures and habitats. To conserve our valuable natural resources by increasing awareness of the interrelationships of humans and the environment. To increase students' and guests' basic competencies in science, math, and other disciplines. To be an educational resource to the world. " For in the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught . "

25. Whales-online whalesonline believes individuals have the power to transform our world. whales-online provides stimulating and informative analysis of the issues that http://www.whales-online.org/

the conduit to scientists and specialists that empowers people to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises, their cultures and their homes. other content whales-online podcast archive words from the wise archive working for whales waters of trouble ... terms and conditions sites of interest site navigation home podcasts wild things future decision makers ... search whales-online podcast what are podcasts? http://www.whales-online.org/podcast/podcast.rss Episode 32 E32: Do animals think? ... www.whales-online.org/podcast/2007-12-07.mp3 The Whales-online podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License wise contribution A killer whale social network is vulnerable to targeted removals Identifying the role that animals play in their social networks ... Marine Mammal Research Internships The Whale Center of New England involved with the study of the behavior, ecology, and natural history of the whales. We are currently looking to fill research internships for the summer and fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009. Research Scientist Positions - Cetacean and Shark Ecologists Research Scientist Positions in Cetacean and Shark Ecology (SARDI/Flinders University), South Australia. Exciting research and career opportunity. Five-year contract positions with the possibility of extension.

26. The Whalesong Project - RECORDED Sounds Of The Humpback Whales From Maui, Hawai' whalesong Live and Archived Sounds of the Humpback whales. http://www.whalesong.net/

Time on Maui, Hawaii: We are bringing Whalesongs to the World Whalesong Germany Get Realplayer: Free! L istening problems Click here for help Click the photo to listen to recorded songs: photo courtesy of Michael Nolan www.wildlifeimages.net We are preparing for our 8th season of webcasting the live songs of Hawai'i's Humpback Whales. The whales are singing between end of December until May next year! Please enjoy the songs of these mysterious, magnificent creatures in our archive until we are 'live on air'. Thank you to all of you who are making this project possible. The Whalesong Log - New humpback song playing! Whalesong is an all-volunteer grass-roots organization. You can help to support this project too! Donations help us to maintain our buoy and hydrophone, upgrade system performance, improve our web presence, reach out to schools and the community, document and record each season's songs, and cover the costs of webcasting and related hardware and software. Our work is a labor of love. Our intention in this work is to give a voice to these beautiful mysterious whales, an endangered species, and to inspire people to care for and protect the oceans. Thank you for your support! We are a 501C3 nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible.

27. Bar Harbor Whale Watching Tours Offers tours aboard four different vessels. Details rates and recent sightings, online reservations available. http://www.barharborwhales.com/

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28. Whales: The Kids' Times - Office Of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries whales are the largest animals that ever lived on the Earth. They are even larger than the dinosaurs of prehistoric times. All whales belong to a group http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/education/whales.htm

NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources OPR Home About OPR ... OPR Site Map Whales: The Kids' Times Whales Whales are the largest animals that ever lived on the Earth. They are even larger than the dinosaurs of prehistoric times. All whales belong to a group known as cetaceans (seh TAY shuhnz). There are two types of whales - toothed (odontocete) and baleen (mysticete). Several species of both toothed and baleen whales have been hunted close to extinction and still face threats to their survival by human activities. Learn more about whales from NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML). Blue whale pdf ] [350 KB] Bowhead whale pdf ] [275 KB] Fin whale pdf ] [225 KB] Gray whale pdf] [336 KB] Humpback whale pdf ] [622 KB] Northern right whale pdf ] [564 KB] Sei whale pdf ] [484 KB] Sperm whale pdf ] [190 KB] More Information Whales and Other Cetaceans Home About Us Forms ... Search

29. Lesson Exchange: Whales Reader's Theatre Based On Gail Gibbon's Book, Whales (El Reader 6 whales tails are called flukes. They don t look like fish tails. whales push themselves through the water by moving their flukes up and down. http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1128.html

chat center SUBSCRIBE MY LINKS: Click here ... Help Wanted Email: State: State AL AK AR AZ CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA DC WA WV WI WY Can UK AU/NZ Other #1128. Whales Reader's Theatre based on Gail Gibbon's book, Whales 4 Blocks, level: Elementary Posted Fri Jun 25 20:39:05 PDT 1999 by deb ( d-smith@cybersol.com coloma, south haven, MI USA Concepts Taught: readers theatre, reading, 4 blocks Whales By Gail Gibbons Isbn: 0-8234-1030-7 Reader 1: Whales live in oceans. They are not fish. They are air-breathing, warm-blooded mammals. Reader 2: Some are small, and others are huge! The world's largest animals are whales. Reader 3: The first ancestors of whales lived more than 50 million years ago. Reader 4: Their fur was replaced by blubber to keep them warm. Blubber is a layer of fat between the skin and muscles. Reader 5: Inside their flippers are bones arranged like those of a hand. Reader 6: Whales' tails are called flukes. They don't look like fish tails. Whales push themselves through the water by moving their flukes up and down. They use their flippers for balance and turning. Reader 7: Whales can't stay under water like fish. Beneath the surface they must hold their breath.

30. ThinkQuest Whales A studentbased website on various whales of interest from the humpback to the unique Finless Porpoise. Suitable for all ages. http://library.thinkquest.org/2605/

The Majestic Presence of the Whale By Andrea Vanessa Erica Students of the Advanced Technologies Academy Here are the rules of the page... 1. You may jump to another page by clicking on the words. 2. Each page will feature a different whale. Additional information on all the whales including anatomy, help, more pictures, and the history of these animals will be at the bottom of the homepage. 3. Always remember that whales are not fish! They are mammals! 1. The Blue Whale 2. The Humpback Whale 3. The Gray Whale 4. The 'Killer Whale' or Orca ... 43. The Finless Porpoise Some interesting information about whales in general What is inside a whale? What has happened to whales over the years? What can you do to save these creatures? Where can I go to see whales in natural habitats? ... Who is behind this wonderful work?

31. Acoustics Monitoring Program - Bioacoustics whale blow image. Browse spectrograms/sounds by species blue whale fin whale Browse whale biology pages blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/whales/bioacoustics.html

Monitoring marine mammals using acoustics NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmen tal Laboratory in Newport, Oregon and National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington are collaborating on a joint study to assess the potential of long-range acoustic monitoring of free-ranging populations of large cetaceans. For more details on this collaboration click here Methods: Sound Recognition Software (Ishmael) Browse spectrograms/sounds by species: blue whale fin whale minke whale humpback whale Browse spectrograms/sounds by area: Pacific Atlantic Eastern Tropical Pacific Gulf of Alaska Browse whale biology pages blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus fin whale( Balaenoptera physalus ... Links

32. ScienceDaily: Dolphin And Whale News whales and dolphins. Whale songs, beaching, endangered status current research news on all cetaceans. http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/plants_animals/dolphins_and_whales/

Dolphin and Whale News Thursday, January 24, 2008 Print Email Bookmark Latest News Agriculture and Food Beer and Wine Bird Flu ... Soil Types Animals Animals Apes Birds Cats ... Spiders Ecology Ecology Endangered Animals Endangered Plants Extinction ... Wild Animals Life Sciences Behavior Biochemistry Biology Biotechnology ... Zoology Microbes and More Bacteria Fungus Microbes and More Microbiology ... Books RSS Critically Endangered Porpoise May Be Doomed To Extinction full story Photo-monitoring Whale Sharks: Largest Fish In The Sea Appear To Thrive Under Regulated Ecotourism full story ... Whales Descended From Tiny Deer-like Ancestors Browse News Stories 1 to 10 of 104 stories view headlines only Dolphins and Whales Sea Life Marine Biology ... Whales For The Saving: Research Demonstrates Need For Speed Restrictions October 31, 2007 full story Marine Biology Sea Life Fish ... Increased Bering Sea Ice Explains Prehistoric Fur Seal Rookeries September 20, 2007 full story Dolphins and Whales Fossils Fish ... Fossil Whale Puts Limit On Origin Of Oily, Buoyant Bones In Whales September 14, 2007 full story Dolphins and Whales Extinction Fish ... Rare Dolphin Driven To Extinction By Human Activities, Scientists Fear

33. Howstuffworks "How Whales Work" whales are some of the largest living things on the planet. Learn about whales and find out how whales are able to sleep and withstand the pressures of the http://science.howstuffworks.com/whale.htm

HowStuffWorks.com RSS Make HowStuffWorks your homepage Get Newsletter Search HowStuffWorks and the web: Science Life Science Animals Mammals Mammals are defined by their warm-bloodedness and milk-producing glands. Explore the world of mammals from antelope to zebras. Related Categories: REFERENCE LINKS PRINT EMAIL How Whales Work by Tom Harris Inside This Article Introduction to How Whales Work Whale Evolution Blubber Slumber and Pressure Feeding Time ... articles Special Thanks Our thanks to the folks at Ocean Alliance and Sea World Orlando for the tremendous photos they provided for this article. In the world's great whale tales, including Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," the storytellers are preoccupied with one particular whale attribute: awesome size. Many whale species are staggeringly enormous. The blue whale, for example, can grow to 100 feet (30 m) long, about the height of a 10-story building, and can weigh as much as 150 tons (300,000 lb or 136077.7 kg). Its heart alone is the size of a small car , and there's enough room on its tongue for 50 people. It is the largest known animal in

34. In The Company Of Whales--Animals Lesson Plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com Students learn that whales live in all the oceans of the world and migrate in search of food and appropriate breeding grounds throughout the year. http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/inthecompanyofwhales/

Educator Login Passcode Login Products School Resources ... Young Scientist Challenge Enter Username Access resources you have created under your login. Teacher Tools such as: Lesson Plan Creator, Quiz Builder, and Worksheet Generator are no longer available. You can create new lesson plans and quizzes within your DE streaming account. If you don't have an account, sign up for a demo here. 6-8 > Animals Grade level: 6-8 Subject: Animals Duration: One class period Objectives Materials Procedures Adaptations ... Credit Objectives Find a video description, video clip, and discussion questions. In the Company of Whales Students will understand the following: Whales live in all the oceans of the world and migrate in search of food and appropriate breeding grounds throughout the year. Marine scientists are interested in tracking the movements of whales so that they can study the effects of environmental changes on whale behavior. Materials For this lesson, you will need: Large world map Pushpins in different colors Yarn in colors to match the pushpins Colored markers Research materials about whales, especially their migration patterns

35. Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary: Welcome This sanctuary was established to protect the humpback whales. Includes news and events, weather, education, and research. http://hawaiihumpbackwhale.noaa.gov/

Aloha and Welcome to the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary! The Sanctuary protects humpback whales and their habitat in Hawai`i. ANNOUNCEMENTS A humpback mother and its calf. Photo credit: Flip Nicklin, Minden Pictures, NOAA Fisheries Permit #987 FEBRUARY IS HUMPBACK WHALE AWARENESS MONTH! As many as 10,000 humpback whales may visit Hawaiian waters every year from November through May. The month of February is peak humpback whale season so it's the perfect time to get outside and spot humpback whales. Find out more about what's happening during Humpback Whale Awareness Month around the state. Want to find out what you can do to help protect Hawai`i's humpbacks, check out our Get Involved Flyer pdf version SAFE BOATING CAMPAIGN! In an effort to protect humpback whales and promote safe boating practices the sanctuary has launched a special Ocean Etiquette campaign. Visit the campaign webpage to download pertinent materials as well as public service announcements and advertisements. If you're a boater, learn what you can do to stay safe on the water at one of the sanctuary's statewide boater workshops. SANCTUARY OCEAN COUNT Register now for the 2008 Sanctuary Ocean Count!

36. Whales free printable templates for whale coloring pages. http://www.coloring.ws/whales.htm

Home Free Coloring Free Games Free Puzzles ... Freebies Whales Whales Themed Coloring Pages Ocean themed coloring book pages Grey Whale Humpback Whale Orca (Killer Whale) Orca (Killer Whale) Visit DLTK's ocean animals section for crafts and printables. SOME TIPS FOR PRINTING: The site has ads in various places. To print the page without printing the ad: 1) click once on the image and then click print. On most browsers this tells the computer to print only the frame with the image in it. if that doesn't work... 2) try right clicking on the image and choose OPEN FRAME IN NEW WINDOW if that doesn't work... look at the URL (the website address) in the location bar. It will end with the extension .HTM Type an L onto the end of it so that it reads .HTML and hit return. You'll now have the image without the ad. If you're still stuck, check out our Print Help section... once you sort out how to print one of our coloring pages, the method will be the same for all the rest. Visit one of Coloring.ws' Sister Sites: DLTK's Bible DLTK's Coloring DLTK's Crafts DLTK's Educational ... Search

37. Lesson: Whale Evolution Students will experience the historical discovery of fossils that increasingly link whales to earlier landdwelling mammals. This experience reveals how http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/whale.ev.html

This material may be copied only for noncommercial classroom teaching purposes, and only if this source is clearly cited. Return to List of Nat. of Science Lessons Return Home Return to List of Evolution Lessons BECOMING WHALES Experiencing Discoveries of Whale Evolution OR... "The thrill of discovery... The loss of de feet" by Larry Flammer NATURE OF SCIENCE Basic Processes EVOLUTION Geological/Paleontological Patterns SYNOPSIS Students will experience the historical discovery of fossils that increasingly link whales to earlier land-dwelling mammals. This experience reveals how scientists can make predictions about past events, based on the theory and evidence that whales evolved. Such predictions suggest the age and location of sediments where fossils of early whales would most likely be found, and even their traits. This lesson also provides confirmation, with multiple independent lines of evidence, that there is a series of intermediate forms, showing gradual accumulation of changes, linking certain terrestrial mammal groups with modern whales.

38. Index Of /pub/multimedia/sun-sounds/whales whale.cry.au 17Mar-1993 0000 60k SND whale.haunting_cry.au 17-Mar-1993 0000 84k SND whale.long_cry.au 17-Mar-1993 0000 134k SND http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/sun-sounds/whales/

Name Last modified Size Description ... INDEX 01-Jun-1994 00:00 1k humpback.au 15-Jul-1993 00:00 533k whale.cry.au 17-Mar-1993 00:00 60k whale.haunting_cry.au 17-Mar-1993 00:00 84k whale.long_cry.au 17-Mar-1993 00:00 134k whale.trumpet.au 17-Mar-1993 00:00 81k whale.whistle.au 17-Mar-1993 00:00 100k

39. The Origin Of Whales And The Power Of Independent Evidence Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) regularly trots out the bossieto-blowhole transition to ridicule the idea that whales could have http://www.talkorigins.org/features/whales/

The Origin of Whales and the Power of Independent Evidence by Raymond Sutera [posted: August 10, 2001] This article originally appeared in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, a publication of The National Center for Science Education Thewissen and others (1994) published this reconstruction of the skeleton of Ambulocetans natans (redrawn for RNCSE by Janet Dreyer). ow do you convince a creationist that a fossil is a transitional fossil? Give up? It is a trick question. You cannot do it. There is no convincing someone who has his mind made up already. But sometimes, it is even worse. Sometimes, when you point out a fossil that falls into the middle of a gap and is a superb morphological and chronological intermediate, you are met with the response: "Well, now you have two gaps where you only had one before! You are losing ground!" One of the favorite anti-evolutionist challenges to the existence of transitional fossils is the supposed lack of transitional forms in the evolution of the whales. Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) regularly trots out the "bossie-to-blowhole" transition to ridicule the idea that whales could have evolved from terrestrial, hooved ancestors. There simply are no transitional forms in the fossil record between the marine mammals and their supposed land mammal ancestors . . . It is quite entertaining, starting with cows, pigs, or buffaloes, to attempt to visualize what the intermediates may have looked life. Starting with a cow, one could even imagine one line of descent which prematurely became extinct, due to what might be called an “udder failure” (Gish 1985: 78-9).

40. WWF | Whales And Dolphins World Wildlife Fund has worked to protect endangered species through conservation programs that protect whales and dolphins and the environment of many http://www.worldwildlife.org/cetaceans/

Join WWF Member Login Take Action Donate Now Search DISCOVER Endangered Species Atlantic Salmon Corals Elephants ... Jobs EXPLORE WildFinder Camera Traps Marketing Partners Shop WWF Gear ... Photo Galleries DONATE Donate to WWF Gift Center Adoption Center Monthly Supporter ... Whales and Dolphins Whales and Dolphins Humpback whale photo: WWF-Canon / Sylvia EARLE Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the family of marine mammals known as cetaceans. Unlike fish, cetaceans are air-breathing, warm-blooded mammals that bear live young and nurse them on milk. Cetaceans play an important role in the life of the ocean, serving as flagships for the health and well-being of the whole marine ecosystem. Adopt a Hector's Dolphin (WWF-New Zealand) Completely adapted to life in the water, whales breathe through blowholes on top of their heads, which allows them to take in air without interrupting swimming. Of the great whales, the deep-diving sperm whale is the champion at holding its breath. The longest recorded dive by a sperm whale lasted over an hour, and these whales can descend to depths of more than a mile. Unlike fish, which swish their tails from side to side, whales swim by pumping their tails vertically, and using their flippers to steer. Along with hunting, collisions with ships, and the degradation of their habitat due to pollution, the greatest threat to whales, dolphins and porpoises is entanglement in fishing gear, also known as bycatch. If current trends continue unabated, several cetacean species and many populations will be lost in the next few decades. With the support of its members and international conservation partners, WWF is working to ensure that whales, dolphins and porpoises will swim in our seas for generations to come.

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