How To Use Humpback In A Sentence
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Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
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The Makah were renowned whale hunters and stratigraphic unit V yielded the remains of at least 67 animals, mainly humpbacks and greys.
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Spend six to eight hours a day on the water with giant blue whales, finbacks and humpbacks as you assist researchers with data collection.
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Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday.
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When a humpback is corralling herring and other fishes, the net may be 150 feet wide.
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I had my base camp here" — a red square — "and I was tracking this humpback lacertilian through here" — dotted yellow meanders.
Perseus Spur
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These include the bonytail chub, humpback chub, Sonora chub, Chihuahua chub, beautiful shiner, Pecos bluntnose shiner, razorback sucker, Colorado squawfish, Pyramid Lake cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout.
North American Deserts ecoregion (CEC)
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About a dozen whales have been spotted to date, mostly humpbacks, and five have been darted.
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But the humpback gives the lie to the notion that things of great bulk move only by lumbering.
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Icicles fringed every overhang, and several outriding, smaller floes cupped a protected lagoon in which two large humpbacks idled and blew.
The Whale Warriors
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A little way along the lane is a humpback bridge that crosses a stream.
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The humpback weatherfront now hauls slow tarps of rain across our hills, but what is the pool where praise distils?
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Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.
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The body of humpback whales is usually blue-black or black overall with irregular white coloration on the throat and sides.
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The humpback has the longest flippers of any whale, and they lie substantially forward of the whale's center of mass, well placed to exert turning forces on the whale.
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Police said the Citroën Saxo was travelling along the A19 towards Selby when the driver lost control and left the road on a humpbacked bridge next to the crossroads.
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The blind went groping with the blind, the lame limped on together, and the maimed made gestures to each other with the only arm that remained; the sides of a considerable waterfall were crowded by the deaf, amongst whom were some from Pegu with ears uncommonly handsome and large, but were still less able to hear than the rest; nor were there wanting others in abundance with humpbacks, wenny necks, and even horns of an exquisite polish.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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Designed by famed architect Eero Saarinen, the arena has a soaring, humpback-shaped roof, and every seat in the 3,500-capacity rink has an unobstructed view.
Why College Hockey Arenas Are the Cathedrals of Sports
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Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., has already cloned an endangered animal: the gaur, a humpback relative of the cow from Southeast Asia.
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Similar to the patterns on humpback whale flukes, unique markings on the dolphins' dorsal fins allow for individual identification.
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We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes.
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On the shallow reef shelter schools of humpbacked and bluelined snappers, oriental sweetlips and yet more fat, docile groupers.
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The proposal appears to apply in principle to virtually any species except bowheads and blue whales, though in practice I think the government is more interested in assessing stocks of fins, humpbacks, pilot whales and several dolphins.
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The approach to James Ross is through the Antarctic Sound, a beautiful stretch of water teeming with wildlife - the ship was joined by hundreds of penguins porpoising along, as well as humpback whales and countless seabirds.
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Such amusements belong to the city, where a lady, her face a glory of powder, Sidonian lips, a tower of hair woven with pearls, earrings like stars, can shake her litter with a fit of laughter at the sight of a humpback swinging along on crutches, where mothers, barristers, doctors gasp with pleasure as two dwarves hack themselves to a butchered ruin in the Circus.
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Twelve days after the tests began, a three-month-old humpback whale calf was sighted without its mother for at least five hours and displayed unusual behaviour.
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Monterey Bay is more likely to yield up orcas, humpbacks or minkes at this time of year in what is America's largest marine sanctuary in an underwater canyon the size of the Grand Canyon.
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Two wayward humpback whales have done an about - face and are headed back toward the Pacific Ocean.
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We saw, after that, a diminutive humpbacked gallant, pretty near us, taking leave of a she-relation of his, thus: Fare thee well, friend hole; she reparteed, Save thee, friend peg.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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She described a hideous humpbacked creature with stumpy horns, and bristles down the back of a long neck.
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When you swim with humpback whales it's not their size that overwhelms you but their beauty.
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Its calls do not match those of any known species, although they are clearly those of a baleen whale, a group that includes blue, fin and humpback whales.
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Roads with unexpected humpback bridges, tightening-radius corners and reasonably free of police and radar traps.
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The householder, a shrivelled, goitrous humpback, received me kindly, removed his pot of cabbage from the fire to brew tea for his uninvited guest, and showed great gratitude (to such an extent that he nearly fell into the fire as he moved to push the children forward towards me) when
Across China on Foot
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Most commonly, humpbacks are solitary diners, eating a diet of krill - a shrimp-like crustacean - and plankton, which they filter through hundreds of sieve-like plates called a baleen.
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Whales include migratory humpback Megaptera novaeangliae (VU) and occasional blue Balaenoptera musculus (EN), rorqual Balaenoptera physalis, sperm Physeter macrocephalus (VU), Bryde's Baleanoptera edeni, killer Orcinus orca, false killer Pseudorca crassidens, pygmy killer Feresa attenuata, Cuvier's beaked Ziphius cavirostris, beaked Mesoplodon sp., shortfin pilot Globicephala macrorhynchus and melon-headed Peponocephala electra whales.
Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia
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We take cups of coffee onto the deck to view humpback whales and pods of orcas.
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Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday.
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However, a spine affected by kyphosis shows evidence of a forward curvature of the back bones (vertebrae) in the upper back area, giving the child a "humpback" appearance.
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More significant was the recognition by Larsen that new technologies (particularly the recently invented grenade harpoon gun) would allow hunting of the more difficult but more common rorqual whales (Blue, Fin, Humpback, Sei and Minke Whales) in the Southern Ocean.
Exploration of the Antarctic in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
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The Moscow-based Russian National Ballet Theatre will perform an evening of favorite scenes from “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Humpbacked Horse,” “Carmen,” “Don Quixote,” “La Bayadére” and “Paquita,” as well as complete concert works such as Fokine’s “The Dying Swan.”
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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3. Which fish is found in varieties called chinook, chum, coho, humpback and sockeye?
January 2005
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So, it looks as though the species of large whales the killer whales did eat were typically calves of other humpback whales or grey whales or minke, and grey whales have recovered and yet we see this decline of other species.
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The musicality of song birds and humpback whales makes nature more interesting.
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But, my goodness, whales were big and to prove it there was a lovely shot of a diver hanging like a toy frogman in the water next to a 40-tonne humpback.
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On the way into the harbor we were welcomed by the antics of a humpback whale breaching for almost 10 minutes outside the reef at the entrance.
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While welcoming the announcement with respect to humpback whales, Australia last night led a formal diplomatic protest - known as a demarche - in Tokyo to mark the start of Japan's 2007-08 whaling season.
The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs - Australia welcomes suspension of humpback whaling by Japan
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Humpback recovery looks strong, but threats such as boat traffic, entanglement in fishing gear, sonar noise, and disruption of habitat and food supply remain.
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The back of the male just behind the head abruptly rises, forming a hump—hence the alternate name humpback salmon, or “humpy.”
Trout and Salmon of North America
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Some of the best views of Acadia are to be had from the sea and Bar Harbor is the place to board a ship for a tour of the off-lying islands, or to whalewatch in a boat regularly jostled by 70 ft long finbacks, humpbacks and minkes.
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Sea life on the rocky walls isn't all that benefits: humpback, finback and right whales are all common here, as are dolphins and seals.
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I mean, if you've ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale [whale song], you know that it don't sound like no spring peeper [frog sound].
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She prosecuted her trade too with every attention to its diminished income; shut up the windows of one half of her house, to baffle the tax-gatherer; retrenched her furniture; discharged her pair of post-horses, and pensioned off the old humpbacked postilion who drove them, retaining his services, however, as an assistant to a still more aged hostler.
Saint Ronan's Well
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But the humpback gives the lie to the notion that things of great bulk move only by lumbering.
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Some Atlantic humpback dolphin populations are known only by a single specimen.
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Like some private soundtrack the sweet melody of humpback whales singing accompanied us as the day wore on.
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Roads with unexpected humpback bridges, tightening-radius corners and reasonably free of police and radar traps.
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We leaned over a humpbacked stone bridge looking at the trout basking in the crystal water.
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Camel trekking is an activity that matches man with a foul-tempered, humpbacked beast that sinisterly hisses and cavalierly drops to its haunches when it no longer feels compelled to carry you.
Dunes Struck
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The announcement of a humpback whale sighting meant just a quick step out the door for a look-see.
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We have six humpback whales who are individually recognisable by their tail flukes.
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The most important are humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae), fin, minke, sei, sperm, and pilot whales (Globicephala melaena).
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada
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We take cups of coffee onto the deck to view humpback whales and pods of orcas.
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You may also observe jaegers, terns, and petrels as they make their long ocean journey and be rewarded with views of flying fish and the occasional humpback whale.
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The air is thick with gannets, and over the years, I have encountered blue, sei, humpback and minke whales and orcas within a stone's throw of the rock.
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It includes minke, Bryde's, sei, fin, humpback, and blue whales.
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We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes.
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The theme, obviously, is marine animals, and the inclusions range from humpback whales to tuna fish, from great white sharks to bottlenose dolphins, and from mermaids to walruses.
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Take a whale watching tour and see more kinds of whales more often than anywhere else - playful humpbacks, giant finbacks, and maybe even the rare right whale!
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Alvord chub, Gila alvordensis tui chub, Gila bicolor humpback chub, Gila cypha bonytail, Gila elegans roundtail chub, Gila robusta northern pikeminnow, Ptychocheilus oregonensis longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus redside shiner, Richardsonius balteatus
Trout and Salmon of North America
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The spectacular humpbacks, which visit Cook Islands waters each year to breed, are about to resume their migratory journey to the Antarctic.
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It's during this time that male humpbacks emit vocalizations that sound, at least to human ears, like barks, chirps, and moans.
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Those known to visit British waters include (top to bottom) the humpback, the fin, the sei, the minke and (at back) the giant blue whale.
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And whale watching is becoming a popular attraction; sperm whales are regularly sighted off the west coast, as are humpbacks.
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Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.
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The pink salmon, also known as the humpback salmon, is the most abundant of the salmon species.
Trout and Salmon of North America
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The most frequented place at the moment appears to be in the waters off Kalbarri where humpbacks on their northern migration are frolicking about two weeks earlier than usual.
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Beneath the Cape's rugged cliff faces, washed by blue, mauve and aquamarine seas, migrating humpback whales can be heard breathing at sunrise.
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Three humpback whales breach in the distance, and closer a large green sea turtle floats blissfully in the waves.
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While we slowly drifted, the sea first reflected patches of pinkish purple then took on a golden hue, and the calm waters rippled from diving ducks and a lone humpback whale.
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For a musician it would be difficult, if not impossible, to define the sounds of the humpback whale without using musical terms.
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The humpback weatherfront now hauls slow tarps of rain across our hills, but what is the pool where praise distils?
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The boat team tracks the whales, takes photographs of the humpback's unique tail flukes and snips off small DNA skin samples or biopsies, using special darts.
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It is our hope and prayer that the humpback and other whales will be protected in the West Indies and other parts of the world.
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So animals like wolves, grizzly bears, bald eagles, millions of wild salmon, humpback whales, steller sea lions thrive here again as they have for, for thousands of years.
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It is a good place for surfing and, as well as being a prime patch for dolphin spotting, it is on the migratory route of the humpback whale.
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It's during this time that male humpbacks emit vocalizations that sound, at least to human ears, like barks, chirps, and moans.
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The ostler and humpbacked postilion, one bearing a stable-lantern and a hay-fork, the other a rushlight and a broom, constituted the advanced guard; Mrs. Dods herself formed the centre, talking loud and brandishing a pair of tongs; while the two maids, like troops not to be much trusted after their recent defeat, followed, cowering in the rear.
Saint Ronan's Well
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The humpback whale creates the most complex, long-lasting, repetitive sound patterns of any non-human animal on our planet.
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Appropriately named, the humpback chub has a small head and snout, a streamlined gray body streaked with silver, and a prominent hump along its back.
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To a soundtrack created by the whales themselves—via Roger Payne's groundbreaking and album-charting recording of the plaintive song of the humpback whale—we moved slowly towards cetacean manumission.
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The humpback whale, that mighty leviathan of the briny deep, hardly strikes one as a marvel of agility; on the contrary, it seems the very embodiment of stateliness and power.
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No whale species is more active than the humpback, causing Herman Melville in Moby Dick to call them ‘the most lighthearted and gamesome of all the whales.’
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None of these small fish species -- menhaden, alewives and blueback herring -- have the widespread appeal of your average humpback whale or giant panda, but they do happen to sit near the bottom of the food chain.
Peter Hanlon: Little Fish, Big Help
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But when the humpbacks are rounding up krill - small, shrimpy crustaceans - the net may be as small as five feet across.
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Perhaps our ancestors got confused with the songs of humpback whales amplified by the keels of their vessels.
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This humpback, which is a result of tuberculous inflammation of the spine, must not be confounded with the humpback caused by rickets.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
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Humpbacks, minkes and 18 other species of whales swim in Newfoundland waters.
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~ Some humpback whale calls deciphered -- "Australian scientists studying the sounds of humpback whales say they have begun to decode their mysterious communication system, identifying male pickup lines and motherly warnings.
Speedlinking 11/9/07
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We had been assured by two separate whale watching enterprises that the chances of actually seeing any whales were approximately nil, as the Humpbacks had apparently skee-daddled up north to the Pacific Northwest.
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The angel nun, the devil nun — Ingrid Bergman radiant in renunciation, Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils, grotesque and humpbacked, bleeding on her knees while she says the Sorrowful Mysteries.
Women of God
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Those known to visit British waters include the humpback, fin, sei and giant blue whales; and, at the other end of the size scale, the little minke or piked whale.
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It's not unusual to see dolphins cavorting near the boat when in the tropics, but during one trip we saw a humpback whale lumbering along in its own beautiful way.
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In the meat market you can buy mattaq - whale rind from a humpback whale.
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‘We want to see if we can reduce the non-native trout population through fishing, and if so, how that changes populations of humpback chubs and other native fish in the river,’ Gloss said.
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No one on Earth knows how to communicate with the probe, but upon returning to Earth, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew learn that the probe is attempting to communicate with humpback whales, which have been extinct since the 21st century.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1234
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Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother.
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As a result the destroyed vertebrae sink or rather settle down and cause a curvature of the spine, in other words a humpback.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
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Right then and there I called out,'Oh Lord, a humpbacked woman would a tragedy.
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Photo Gallery: Whales The plaintive song of the humpback whale can travel for great distances underwater.
