'Friendly' Killer Whale Damaging Boats in Canada
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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.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A helicopter is not necessarily a match for an angry moose. Instead of lying down after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, a moose charged a hovering helicopter used by a wildlife biologist, damaging the aircraft's tail rotor and forcing it to the ground.
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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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Up to 80 pilot whales and bottle nose dolphins died after a mass stranding on King Island off Tasmania, Australia. The number of dead mammals is lower than that in earlier
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Photographs of a mother whale and her calf being dragged on board a Japanese ship after being harpooned in Antarctic waters have been described as sickening by Australia's environment minister.
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A Japanese whaling ship issued a distress signal from Antarctic waters on Monday, after it collided with a protest boat trying to save whales from slaughter, according to activists.
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Humpback whales are safe Â at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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There is no evidence a barge accident that spilled more than 2,500 gallons of diesel fuel near a killer whale habitat in Canada has caused any damage or harmed the orcas, officials said.
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HOBART : A second pod of 17 whales has died in a mysterious mass beaching on King Island in the Bass Strait off Australia&#39;s south coast following the fatal stranding of 80 whales and dolphins at the weekend.
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REYKJAVIK, Sep 14 (IPS) - Commercial whaling may start in Iceland again if  the owner of the Hvalur boats has his way.
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A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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Harbour porpoises are being killed in increasing numbers by bottlenose dolphins around British coasts.
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It's probably too late to save a small pod of killer whales whose numbers plummeted after the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
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An often-fatal bacterial disease that has sickened hundreds of sea lions on the Central Coast is seen as a threat to humans and other mammals as well.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.