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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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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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