fin whale

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• You could get 50 fin whales a year and have a good industry. Times, Sunday Times
• Fairly secretive visitors among the larger rorquals are the fin whale and its slightly smaller cousin, the sei whale.
• Weighing up to 80 tons and almost twice the length of a school bus, the massive fin whale -- known as the greyhound of the sea for its swimming speed -- was the victim of decades of commercial slaughter that killed the whales by the tens of thousands each year. Joel Reynolds: Sanction Iceland, the World's Whaling Outlaw
• The 30 ft-long fin whale was in danger of being beached on a mud bank in a shallow river upstream from Oysterhaven.
• No sooner have they taken in the stranger than another strange occurrence takes place: a fin whale washes up on the shore. Times, Sunday Times
• Last time I saw a fin whale. The Sun
• Hybrids occur everywhere scientists look, from blue whales (which mix with fin whales) to the finches and iguanas on Darwin's Galapagos Islands.
• The proposal to include fin whales is inflammatory,' he said. Times, Sunday Times
• It is not unusual for fin whales to be sighted off Cornwall but only rarely are they washed ashore. Times, Sunday Times
• The proposal to include fin whales is inflammatory,' he said. Times, Sunday Times