'Friendly' Killer Whale Damaging Boats
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GOLD RIVER, British Columbia - A "playful" killer whale who likes to frolic alongside fishermen has damaged three boats in separate incidents in recent weeks.    Luna, described by fishermen as a friendly 5-year-old whale, has made frequent contact with people and boats in waters off Vancouver Island, about 125 miles north of the U.S...
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Fire retardants used worldwide in manufacturing vehicle parts and computers have been found in Puget Sound orcas, raising new concerns about the long-term health of the region's killer whales, a new Canadian study shows.
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New Zealand's prime minister warned Japanese whalers Monday they would face international condemnation if their crippled ship caused an environmental disaster on the Antarctic coast.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds today, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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Sydney - More than a dozen large sperm whales may have died in a beaching incident on Australia&#39;s southern island state of Tasmania, local wildlife rangers said on Monday.
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Volunteers are battling to save whales and dolphins who have beached themselves off the coast of Australia. More than a hundred of them have already died after getting stuck on beaches off Tasmania over the weekend.
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Marine biologists planned to spray two lost, injured whales with fire hoses Friday in an attempt to evoke a reaction that would force the pair to head back to salt water.
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An anti-whaling group's boat and a Japanese whale-spotting vessel collided in Antarctic waters Monday during violent clashes over a pod of whales, conservationists and Japanese officials said.
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Some days, killer whales just wake up on the wrong side of the pool. A 2 1/2-ton orca that dragged a trainer underwater during a show at SeaWorld may have been put out by a spat with another whale, grumpy because of the weather or just irritable from a stomach ache, according to marine mammal experts.
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Southern right whales are coming under increased attacks from an unlikely predator: seagulls hungry for the mammals' skin and blubber.
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Environmental campaigner Greenpeace said a stricken Japanese whaler off the Antarctic coast had asked its protest ship Esperanza to stay close as fears of an ecological disaster mount.
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A study to be released this week will show that an endangered species of whales is under threat from a Royal Dutch/Shell-led energy project off Russia's Pacific coast, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday.
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Scientists hope recordings of orcas attacking a mother whale and her calf will persuade a pair of ailing humpbacks meandering in a freshwater river to head back toward the ocean.
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Rescuers have saved at least 12 pilot whales that beached themselves on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast. It has been an exhausting 24 hours for National Parks and Wildlife officers in Tasmania after mass strandings at Maria Island and King Island.
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By ERIN CONROY BOSTON - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago.
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Marine biologists said Thursday that they planned to spray two lost, injured whales with fire hoses in the next attempt to force the pair to head back to salt water.
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More than 90 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beaching incidents in Tasmania. (Photo: Mavis Burgess)ABC TV. Twenty-one whales beached at Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s east coast are back at sea and