What kind of whales are seen in Hawaii?  Are they on migration path or they come to breed?
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Humpback, they are there to breed.
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Probably a male orca somewhere, there was a gray whale calf kept for a while recovering from a stranding , but I don't know whether it attained a larger size than a male orca before it was returned to the wild. Blue whales are the only whales that reach 30m and 120 t and they have never been kept in captivity
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.WHALES AND DOLPHINS:\n\nWhales and Dolphins are marine animals. They live in oceans around the world. Whales and Dolphins come from the same family, CETACEA (sey-tay-sha) . They both breath from a blowhole located at the top of their head. Whales and dolpins are mammals. They are mammals because they have lungs not gills,they have hair not scales , and they also have give live birth and don't lay eggs. There are only about 80 kinds of whales and dolphins that we know of right now.\n\nWHALES:\nWhales are very large animals. They can grow up to 100 ft. or more in length. They can weigh up to 200 tons or more. Whales live in families called pods. These pods vary in numbers and consist of family members and family friends. Whales live in these families their whole life. Group living is safer when other whales or sharks attack. It also makes it easier to find food. Whales are always migrating. They travel to find food, breed and have young.\nWhales do not have eyelids. They rely on thick oily tears to protect their eyes. Whales hear from little holes behind their eyes.\n\nWhales talk to each other by making high pitched sounds like whistles, clicks, squeaks, rattles, and groans.\n\nTo help protect the whales from extinction please DO NOT throw nets, fishing lures, or other fishing gear ocean\n\nDOLPHINS:\nDolphins live with the whales in the oceans. But dolphins come much closer to the shore. They will come as close to the shore as you or I can walk without going under water. Dolphins have teeth.\nLooking at a dolphin you would not think it as a nose, but surprise...it does! They have nostrils called blowholes. Over millions of years of evoloution whales and dolphins nostrils moved to the top of their head. This allows them to breath by surfacing instead of them sticking their whole head out of the water.\nThe first thing a newborn dolphin must do is to go to the surface to breathe. But the baby can not swim so its mother and a another dolphin will help push the baby to the surface for its first breath of air. The baby will be able to swim in about 30 min.\nDolphins are fast swimmers. When a speeding boat passes the bottlenose dolphin, it will start to race out in front . They will take off hitting the water and keep going.\nDolphins navigate by following the hills and mountains of the ocean floor, by tracking the sun, by sensing currents, and by tasting the water along the journey.\nA dolphin's sound probably originated in its nasal passages. These nasal passages are located on the top of the head. Dolphins can make sounds to see what lies ahead. This sense is called echolocations. The dolphins' sound waves hit an object and the echo bounces back. Echolocation sounds are called sprays. Sprays are so strong they can stun another whale. Dolphins don't "point" their melons at any other sealife except their enemies.\n\nSHARKS:\nOut of all the species walking, flying, slithering or swimming, there aren't many who have been around as long, survived as well, or come in so many shapes and kinds as the shark. The earliest evidences of sharks are isolated spines, teeth and scales that appeared about 430 million years ago in the Silurian Period, known as the "Age of Fishes". Sharks have a sleek, streamlined design which helps them swim without using up a lot of energy.They certainly need to conserve their energy because they never really sleep and most of them never stop swimming.\n\nSome sharks are fierce predators, and would be happy to eat you if they encountered you. Almost any shark six feet or longer is a potential danger, but three species have been identified repeatedly in attacks: the Great White Shark, the Tiger Shark and the Bull Shark . All three live world wide, reach large sizes and eat large prey such as marine mammals or sea turtles. But most sharks never grow longer than five feet and never even see anyone with legs and arms anyway. People kill thousands more sharks every year than sh
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What is the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise? I heard this question asked, on Johnny Carson. And, Johnny decided that a dolphin was a mammal, and a porpoise was a fish. Wrong. They are both mammals, and are very closely related. The porpoises have a rounded head, while the dolphins have a protruding snout. They are smaller members of the toothed whale family, to which killer whales and sperm whales belong.\n\nTo complicate things, there are a couple of fish which are also called dolphins. I assume that these are sometimes called "dolphin fish" to avoid confusion. But, the well-known dolphins are those cute mammals, like Flipper (who is a bottle-nosed dolphin).\n\nMammals have hair, breath air, give birth to live babies (platypuses and echidnas lay eggs), and feed milk to their young. Whales breath air (they can hold their breaths for long times), give birth to live babies, and feed milk to their young. Where is their hair? Evidently, they have a small amount of hair around their blow-holes, those holes, in the top of their heads, that they breath through.\n\nThe toothed whales are among the most intelligent of all animals. The killer whale (orca) apparently has a brain mass to body mass ratio (a rough measure of intelligence) which is greater than that of humans. Incidentally, while toothed whales are predators, there is no record of any killer whale ever having killed a human being.
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Yes. Some populatons live mainly on fish, others live almost exclusivly by killing and eating seals, penguins, other species of dolphins and the calves of true whales.
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Modern whaling\nAlthough whale oil has little commercial value today, whale meat has come to be considered a delicacy, particularly in Japan and Norway (though up to the 1980s, whale meat was considered to be inferior to beef in Norway.) The primary species hunted today is the minke whale, the smallest of the baleen whales. Recent scientific surveys estimate a population of 180,000 in the central and North East Atlantic and 700,000 around Antarctica.
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Hey!  I'm moving to Hawaii and I plan to do the same thing for my kids and me!  I can't wait.\n\nAbout.com has some really good information on this subject and I've been using it to pick out what I need from the pet store.  Here is a link to their salt water tank checklist,  http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/bcorsettingup/a/blqachklist_2.htm\n\nGood luck.
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Dolphins are aquatic mammals related to whales and porpoises. The name is from Ancient Greek δελφίς delphis meaning "with a womb", viz. "a 'fish' with a womb". A group of dolphins can be called a "school" or a "pod".\n\nThe word is used in a few different ways. It can mean:\n\nAny member of the family Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins), \nAny member of the families Delphinidae and Platanistoidea (oceanic and river dolphins), \nAny member of the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales; these include the above families and some others), \nUsed casually as a synonym for Bottlenose Dolphin, the most common and familiar species of dolphin. \nIn this article, the second definition is used.\n\nPorpoises (suborder Odontoceti, family Phocoenidae) are thus not dolphins in this sense. Orcas and some related species belong to the Delphinidae family and therefore qualify as dolphins, even though they are called whales in common language.\n\nThere are almost 40 species of dolphin in 17 genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (88 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (the Orca). Most species weigh about 50 to 200 kg (110 to 440 lb). They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and all are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid.\n\nThe family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacea, and relatively recent: dolphins evolved about 10 million years ago, during the Miocene.\n\nSuborder Odontoceti, toothed whales \nFamily Delphinidae, oceanic Dolphins \nGenus Delphinus \nLong-Beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus capensis \nShort-Beaked Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis \nGenus Tursiops \nBottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus \nIndo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops aduncus \nGenus Lissodelphis \nNorthern Rightwhale Dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis \nSouthern Rightwhale Dolphin, Lissiodelphis peronii \nGenus Sotalia \nTucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis \nGenus Sousa \nIndo-Pacific Hump-backed Dolphin, Sousa chinensis \nChinese White Dolphin (the Chinese variant), Sousa chinensis chinensis \nAtlantic Humpbacked Dolphin, Sousa teuszii \nGenus Stenella \nAtlantic Spotted Dolphin, Stenella frontalis \nClymene Dolphin, Stenella clymene \nPantropical Spotted Dolphin, Stenella attenuata \nSpinner Dolphin, Stenella longirostris \nStriped Dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba \nGenus Steno \nRough-Toothed Dolphin, Steno bredanensis \nGenus Cephalorynchus \nChilean Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus eutropia \nCommerson's Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii \nHeaviside's Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus heavisidii \nHector's Dolphin, Cephalorhynchus hectori \nGenus Grampus \nRisso's Dolphin, Grampus griseus \nGenus Lagenodelphis \nFraser's Dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei \nGenus Lagenorhyncus \nAtlantic White-Sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus \nDusky Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obscurus \nHourglass Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus cruciger \nPacific White-Sided Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens \nPeale's Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis \nWhite-Beaked Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris \nGenus Orcaella \nAustralian Snubfin Dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni \nIrrawaddy Dolphin, Orcaella brevirostris \nGenus Peponocephalia \nMelon-headed Whale, Peponocephalia electra \nGenus Orcinus \nKiller Whale, Orcinus orca \nGenus Feresa \nPygmy Killer Whale, Feresa attenuata \nGenus Pseudorca \nFalse Killer Whale, Pseudorca crassidens \nGenus Globicephala \nLong-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala melas \nShort-finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus \nFamily Platanistoidea, River Dolphins \nGenus Inia \nBoto (Amazon River Dolphin), Inia geoffrensis \nGenus Lipotes \nChinese River Dolphin (Baiji), Lipotes vexillife \nGenus Platanista \nGanges River Dolphin, Platanista gangetica \nIndus River Dolphin, Platanista minor \nGenus Pontoporia \nLa Plata Dolphin (Franciscana), Pontoporia blainvillei \nSix animals in the family Delphinidae are commonly called "whales"
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Japan.\n\nThey still send out whaling ships to kill whales.\n\nKeep in mind, that just because it is illegal in some countries to kill whales and dolphins, it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. People just don't get caught. Or, sometimes they are accidentally killed in fishing nets.
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Whales do not have body hair. In utero they have sparse hairs that are lost further along in development. they do not have any actual hair on their body, not even little ones that we cannot see with the naked eye.Hairs along the body would severely interfere with their hydrodynamics and increase drag, thus reducing their efficiency in the water, so it would not behoove them to maintain hairs.
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Neither. Killer whales do not attack or eat people. They only eat fish and (i think) some variety of seal.
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It's a baleen whale like the humpback and blue whale. It was called the Right Whale because it was the perfect whale for whalers to capture. It floated to the surface after being killed by harpooning and it had plenty of blubber that could be rendered for whale oil which was used to light lamps in the days before electric lights and other uses and its flesh was used as food.
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They are big boned, literally that is part of the reason.  Relitive to thier size they arent "fat" you dont see whales with huge stomachs... they're just HUGE
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Polynesians, from Tahiti and the Marquesas, were the original peoples to populate Maui. The Tahitians introduced the kapu system, a strict social order that affected all aspects of life and became the core of Hawaiian culture. Modern Hawaiian history began in the mid-1700s. King Kamehameha I took up residence (and later made his capital) in Lāhainā after conquering Maui in the bloody Battle of Kepaniwai in 1790 in the Īʻao Valley.\n\nOn November 26, 1778, Captain James Cook became the first European explorer to discover Maui. Cook never set foot on the island because he was unable to find a suitable landing. The first European to visit Maui was the French admiral Jean François de Galaup de La Perouse, who landed on the shores of what is now known as La Perouse Bay on May 29, 1786. More Europeans followed: traders, whalers, loggers (e.g., of sandalwood) and missionaries. The missionaries began to arrive from New England in 1823, choosing Lāhainā because it was the capital. They clothed the natives, banned them from dancing hula, and greatly altered the culture. They tried to keep whalers and sailors out of the bawdy houses. The missionaries taught reading and writing, created the 12-letter Hawaiian alphabet, started a printing press in Lāhainā, and began writing the islands' history, until then existing only as oral accounts. Ironically, the work of the missionaries both altered and preserved the native culture. The religious work altered the culture while the literacy efforts preserved native history and language for posterity. They started the first school in Lāhainā, which still exists today: Lāhaināluna Mission School. The Mission school opened in 1831 and was the first secondary school to open West of the Rockies.\n\nAt the height of the whaling era (1840-1865), Lāhainā was a major whaling centre with anchorage in Lāhainā Roads; in one season over 400 ships visited Lāhainā and the greatest number of ships berthed at one time was about 100. A given ship tended to stay months rather than days which explains the drinking and prostitution in the town at that time. Whaling declined steeply at the end of the 19th century as crude oil (petroleum) replaced whale oil.\n\nKamehameha's descendants reigned in the islands until 1872. They were followed by rulers from another ancient family of chiefs, including Queen Liliʻuokalani who ruled in 1893 when the monarchy was overthrown. One year later, the Republic of Hawaiʻi was founded. The island was annexed by the United States in 1898 and made a territory in 1900. Hawaiʻi became the 50th state in U.S. in 1959.\n\nMaui was centrally involved in the Pacific Theatre of World War II as a staging centre, training base, and for rest and relaxation. At the peak in 1943-44, the number of troops stationed on Maui exceeded 100,000. The main base of the 4th Marines was in Haiku. Beaches (e.g., in Kīhei) were used for practice landings and training in marine demolition and sabotage.\n\n\n\nMaui is a volcanic doublet: an island formed from two volcanic mountains that abut one another to form the isthmus between them. The older volcano, Mauna Kahalawai, is much older and has been eroded considerably; it is now called the West Maui Mountain. The larger volcano in the East, East Maui Volcano (more commonly called Haleakalā after its famous summit depression) — rises above 10,023 feet (3,050 m). The last eruption occurred around 1790, and the lava flow can be viewed between ʻĀhihi Bay and La Perouse Bay on the southwest shore of East Maui. Both volcanoes are shield volcanoes and the low viscosity of the Hawaiian lava makes the likelihood of large explosive eruptions negligible.
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No, it is not yet extinct.\nAs a subject it is more difficult to photograph, etc. than other whale species.\nIt "sounds" or dives to great depths compared to some of the other types.\nI'm not sure of this, but perhaps, it's less sociable than smaller whale species.
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have a whale of a time
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Whales are fat primarily because they eat massive amounts of  food that contains a lot of fat.\n\nAnd before anybody tells you that whales aren't fat, let me assure you that they are. A wild whale has about the same body fat as a fattened domestic pig. \n\nWhales need that fat because it streamlines their body, making it easier to swim, and to keep them warm in the cold waters in which they live.\n\nFemale whales need a lot of fat because they often go without eating for 3 months or more when they give birth as they swim to warm water breeding grounds where there is no food.