Except for the sperm whale, most toothed whales are smaller than the baleen whales.

They are fatal for small toothed whales ( Odontocetes ) and sperm whales, as well as other marine mammals and fish such as sharks, sea birds and sea turtles.

In his book Historia animalium (History of animals), Aristotle was careful enough to distinguish between the baleen whales and toothed whales, a taxonomical separation still used today.

It's actually about humpback whales.

Whales feed on small fish.

While Japan has suspended its plan to kill humpback whales, its Japanese whaling fleet will still kill about 1,000 other whales, mostly smaller minke whales. Japan justifies its whaling as research, because the International Whaling Commission s rules allow member nations to kill whales for such purposes.

These humpback whales were getting killed.

So harpooned whales typically die slowly and painfully.

And I was thinking of humpback whales breaching and dolphins.

Greenpeace was thrilled. The whales were happy. That's a quote.

Whales also have contact calls like I described for the dolphins.

Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty elsewhere.

I did not argue that whaling should stop because whales are endangered.

But there is no essential human need that requires us to kill whales.

Last month, Australia led international protests against Japan s plan to kill 50 humpback whales.

But no amount of science can tell us whether or not to kill whales.

Eating whales is not necessary for the health or better nutrition of the Japanese.

Gray whales were once called devil fish because of their fighting behavior when hunted.

In one episode, a trainer fell into the pool and Tilly and two other whales drowned him.

Thirty years ago, Australian vessels, with the government s blessing, killed sperm whales off the West Australian coast.

In 1991, about 4 million people in 31 countries watching whales and other cetaceans generated 317.9 million.

Indeed, Japan s desire to continue to kill whales is no less motivated by emotion than environmentalists opposition to it.

Kerosene saved the whales (which had been hunted almost to extinction to provide supposedly renewable whale oil for lighting).

The killer whale ( Orcinus orca ), also referred to as the orca whale or orca, and less commonly as the blackfish or grampus, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family.

I've been working on whales and dolphins in Ireland for 20 years now, and they're kind of a bit more dramatic.

The definition of fish was often extended to marine and semi aquatic animals such as whales, barnacle geese, puffins and even beavers.

According to Saudi Arabia, these deaths include 57 bottlenose dolphins, 13 humpback whales, one finless porpoise, 14 dugongs and eight unidentified cetaceans.

Thank you so much. I'm going to try to take you on a journey of the underwater acoustic world of whales and dolphins.

And I'm happy to say that there are several very promising developments in this area, looking at the impact of shipping on whales.

They claim that Western countries object to whaling because, for them, whales are a special kind of animal, as cows are for Hindus.

He said that there could be no doubt that the methods used to kill whales were inhumane he even described them as most horrible.

In the book, Linton says she formed a special bond with a girl named Zimba, a gap toothed child with HIV whose greatest joy was to sit on my lap and drink from a bottle of Coca Cola.

So, here you see the cast. These are all of the people in The Whale Hunt and the two whales that were killed down here.

You can go to ORCATech.org it has nothing to do with whales, it's the Oregon Center for Aging and Technology to see more about that.

If there were some life or death need that humans could meet only by killing whales, perhaps the ethical case against it could be countered.

Members of the order are notable for having toothed or bony tongues, and for having the forward part of the gastrointestinal tract pass to the left of the oesophagus and stomach (for all other fish it passes to the right).

These whales are about 40 feet long, and weighing over 40 tons. And they provide the food source for the community for much of the year.

Whales cannot be humanely killed they are too large, and even with an explosive harpoon, it is difficult to hit the whale in the right spot.

This is a blue whale. We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India. You can see them off Kerala.

The smell from the meat and dairy works was, by all accounts, appalling, and the annual slaughter of whales in the 1950s and 1960s made matters worse.

An older study, examining whales captured by the New Zealand whaling fleet in the Cook Strait region, found a 1.69 1 ratio of squid to fish by weight.

For example, dolphins and whales are completely dependent on the marine environment for all stages of their life, whereas seals feed in the ocean, but breed on land.

The high seas, where whales, tuna and dolphins travel the largest, least protected, ecosystem on Earth, filled with luminous creatures, living in dark waters that average two miles deep.

These baleen whales come here between May and December, for mating and giving birth, because the water in the gulf is quieter and warmer than in the open sea.

They wanted to put an end to it. And one of the ways they wanted to do it was to put a tracking chip inside one of these humpback whales.