A large albino whale recently sighted off Australia earned comparisons to this 1851 Melville beast
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Moby-Dick - Wikipedia  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 ... The white whale is modeled on the notoriously hard to catch actual albino .... Suddenly, a sea hawk grabs Ahab's slouched hat and flies off with it. ..... Moby-Dick contains large sectionsmost of them narrated by Ishmaelthat...
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Rare White Humpback Whale Spotted Off Australia's Gold Coast  Aug 10, 2015 ... Everybody is freaking out about the sighting of this albino beast. ... Rare White Humpback Whale Spotted Off Australia's Gold Coast ... A huge white humpback whale was spotted on Monday by multiple ... This beast was first spotted in 1991, and until recently was the only known albino humpback, among a...
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Rare albino whale puts on a show off Australian coast - CNN.com  Sep 27, 2012 ... Rare white whale spotted off Australia 00:54 ... The albino humpback has been nicknamed "Migaloo" by researchers who track his movements.
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jeopardy/139_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  CATCH OF THE DAY | A large albino whale recently sighted off Australia earned comparisons to this 1851 Melville beast | Moby Dick. right: Michael. Wrong:.
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Video: This rare albino whale was spotted off Australia's Gold Coast ...  Aug 10, 2015 ... Watch this impressive aerial footage which captures the beauty of this remarkable rare albino humpback whale.
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Feb 19, 2010 ... The Viking name for this tusked Arctic animal meant "whale horse" ... "alp" is believed to have evolved from the Latin "albus", meaning this color.
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HUMPBACK WHALES - Earthtrust  Assigning each organism a genus and species name is referred to as binomial ... (baleen whales) Family Balaenopteridae Genus Megaptera Species novaeangliae ... Many of these changes are related to the position and abilities of their .... This means "giant wings", which refers to their large front flippers that can reach a...
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Diverse and Abundant Fauna | Tourisme Sept-les  Brook trout and Atlantic salmon are in high demand, while there is a lesser demand ... The Harbour Seal: This small seal can measure up to 1.7 m and weigh 100 kg. ... Capelin (13 to 20 cm): These famous small fish spawn each May at high tide ... Blue Whales: The largest living creatures in the world, they can weigh more...
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beast - Geobulletin  This strange fossil mammal fed in a way unlike that of any beast alive ... too short, but I can't let the publication of a new giant sauropod pass unremarked. ... an unprecedented look at the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur: Spinosaurus. ... best guess on the purpose of spinosarus' sail was that by turning it the beast could...
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The Nature of the Beast (according to Susan McCarthy): whales  Dec 17, 2015 ... Wilson's Storm-petrel, Oceanites oceanicus. ... It looked like the same one, and we wanted to suggest to it that sleeping on land might be safer ... We had the happiness of seeing that these species were reproducing, and of ... Murres live by catching fish. .... But sometimes the distinction isn't all that clear.
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Whales - Whale facts and information - WDC  Here are some incredible facts about whales and their lives in the oceans. ... The tongue alone of a blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant and an ... A Cuvier's beaked whale has been recorded to dive to a depth of 3km for over 2 hours. ... In the wild whales live for a long time - generally the larger species living...
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Dead whale floating off Western Australian coast stumps fisherman  Aug 1, 2016 ... Western Australian fisherman discovers huge odd looking object floating past his boat ... he found an odd and unnerving object floating in the Indian Ocean. Smooth and fleshy, white and pink and as big as a boat it bobbed on the ... He was out fishing with his dad off the coast near Bunbury when he made...
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Mocha Dick - Wikipedia  Mocha Dick was a notorious male sperm whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, ... Mocha Dick was an albino and partially inspired Herman Melville's 1851 novel ... Or The White Whale of the Pacific: A Leaf from a Manuscript Journal", in the May .... Create a book  Download as PDF  Printable version...
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Blue whale - Wikipedia  The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whales (Mysticeti). At up to 30 metres (98 ft) in length and with a maximum recorded weight of 173 tonnes (191 short tons) and probably reaching over 181 tonnes (200 short tons), it is the largest animal ever known to have existed. .... Blue whales can reach speeds of 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph) over short...
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Alaska State Marine Mammal: Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus)  Find details on the Alaska state marine animal, the Bowhead Whale ... population inhabiting Beringia and remnants in the eastern Canadian Arctic and the Sea ... Bowheads are excellent navigators of ice-choked waters, although they ... The law designating the bowhead whale as the official Alaska state marine mammal is...
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Humpback whale - Wikipedia  The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale. One of the ... It is known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviors, making it ... Found in oceans and seas around the world, humpback whales typically ... and migrate to tropical or subtropical waters to breed and give birth in the winter...
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MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 ...  It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up .... No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--the ...... as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic ..... A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought a passage to...
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Whales - Whale facts and information - WDC  Whales are marine mammals, members of the cetacea order which also ... The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth; it is larger than ... The heart of a blue whale is about the size of a VW Beetle car and weighs up to 450kg. .... To put this into perspective, the continent of Africa is approximately 8,000 km...
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Moby-Dick - Wikipedia  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 .... The narrator now discusses the subjects of 1) whalers supply; 2) a glen in Tranque in the Arsacides islands full of carved whale bones, fossil whales...
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[1843] a Dead Whale or a Stove Boat - Scribd  Melville's original Ahab was such a demonic character (which was faithfully reproduced in .... leg and a barbaric-looking artificial leg carved from the jawbone of a whale. .... SPERM WHALE STR 55 CON 45 SIZ 45 DEX 3 APP 5 HP 45 Move 40...
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Beluga whale - Wikipedia  The beluga whale or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean. ... It possesses a distinctive protuberance at the front of its head which houses an echolocation organ called the ... around North America, Russia and Greenland; their worldwide population is thought to number around 150,000.