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Short-finned Pilot Whale - Globicephala macroryhynchus - English
URL: http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/tmmsn/29Species/shortfinnedpilotwhale.html

Other Names: Pothead Whale, Shortfin Pilot Whale, Pacific Pilot Whale. Habitat: Inshore and offshore.

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Globicephala macrorhynchus: Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/globicephala/g._macrorhynchus$nar

Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean: The Pacific, or short-finned, pilot whale lives throughout the tropical and warm temperate waters of several oceans and associated seas and bays.

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Globicephala - English
URL: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/mammalia/cetacea/delphinidae/globicephala/

List of species.

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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) - English
URL: http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/globmacr.htm

Short-finned pilot whales may congregate in large numbers offshore — schools of several hundred have been observed — but group size usually ranges from 10 to 60. They are seen inshore at infrequent intervals and occasionally become stranded by severe storms.

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Globicephala melas (Long-Finned Pilot Whale): Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/globicephala/g._melas$narrative.h

This species is a gregarious species and usually travel in a small group of 4 to 6 individuals. They are occassionally see in herds of 50 or more and, on some occasions, they will gather by the hundreds. They are not particularly friendly with ships and do not ride the bow waves of vessels. They have an inborn fear of the killer whale and will come into shallow water and beach themselves of other escape routes are not available.

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Globicefalo (Globicephala Melas) - Italian
URL: http://www.whale-watch.org/whales.nsf/pages/globicefalo

Alimentazione: Nonostante sia prevalentemente teutofago, possiede una dentatura robusta.

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Globicephala: Pilot Whales, or Blackfish - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walkers_mammals_of_the_world/cetacea/cetacea.delp

Pilot whales sleep by day and feed by night. They normally swim at about 8 km/hr but can attain speeds of 40 km/hr (Banfield 1974; U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service 1978). A radio-tagged individual was tracked to a depth of 610 meters, and a captive was used in a U.S. Navy experiment to recover objects about 500 meters below the surface.

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Short-Finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus - English
URL: http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/mammals/whales/accounts/shortfin.htm

Features, photo.

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Globicephala melas (Long-Finned Pilot Whale) - English
URL: http://www.cetacea.org/lfpilot.htm

Cetacea - the world's whales, dolphins and porpoises all on one site. The Long-Finned Pilot Whale can be found in all cold temperate and subpolar waters of all oceans except the North Pacific. It is not thought that Long-Finned Pilot Whales migrate.

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Globicephala macrorhynchus (Short-Finned Pilot Whale) - English
URL: http://www.cetacea.org/sfpilot.htm

Cetacea - the world's whales, dolphins and porpoises all on one site. The Short-Finned Pilot Whale can be found in all tropical, subtropical and warm temperate oceans. Apart from following prey, it is not thought that Short-Finned Pilot Whales migrate.

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