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Rorquals - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walkers_mammals_of_the_world/cetacea/cetacea.bala

All rorquals have been hunted by people for oil, meat, baleen, and other products. The most intensive exploitation has taken place in antarctic waters, where large numbers of most species gather for part of the year to feed on plankton.

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Balaenopteridae - rorquals - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/cetacea/balaenopteridae.

This family includes 6 species placed in 2 genera. It includes minke, Bryde's, sei, fin, humpback, and blue whales. These range in size from the relatively small minke whale, about 8-10 m in length, to the giant blue whale, at 20 - 28 m length and almost 200,000 kg weight.

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Glacier Bay Alaska - Whale Watching Tours with Fairweather Adventures - English
URL: http://www.fairweatheradventures.com/AboutWhales1-1.htm

Fairweather Adventures, located in Gustavus, Alaska offers their guests a unique kayaking and photography tour guided by Captain Jim Kearns.

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Baleen Whales - English
URL: http://www.warsaw.k12.in.us/Eisenhow/Grace/whales/newpage1.htm

Mysticeti or baleen whales - blue whales, humpback whales, gray whales and right whales. These "great whales" are among the largest animals on earth. Baleen whales are larger than the toothed whales and have two blow holes. Female baleen whales are larger than the males. Many baleen whales are endangered from over-hunting.

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Cetaceans - English
URL: http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/Biol459/f2000/protected/cetaceans.html

Description and systematics.

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ASK Archive 1998: Humpback whales; whaling, predation, populations - English
URL: http://whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask98/0237.html

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