Lost whales respond to fire hoses
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Encouraged by the response of two injured, wayward whales to the spray of a fire hose, marine scientists plan to use more hoses when they resume efforts next week to herd the pair back out to the Pacific Ocean.
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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 30 -- Some days, killer whales just wake up on the wrong side of the pool.
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The evolution of whales from four-legged land dwellers into streamlined swimmers has been traced in fossilised ears, Nature reports.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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SYDNEY - Nineteen whales died and 24 were rescued after 43 whales beached themselves on Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s southeast coast Sunday, the second beaching in Australian waters in 24 hours, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia. Ninety-seven pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins died off King Island over the weekend, and several others have died off Maria Island.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 3--For a pip-squeak of a fish, Delta smelt are becoming a whale of a threat to California's water supply.
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By Marcus Wholsen, Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- Two whales lost on the Sacramento River swam 14 miles toward the ocean on Sunday after lingering for a week near a bridge about 70 miles from the sea, officials coordinating the rescue said.
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Scientists hope recordings of orcas attacking a mother whale and her calf will persuade a pair of ailing humpbacks meandering in a freshwater river to head back toward the ocean.
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The blue whale, once on the verge of extinction, is making a comeback.
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A MAJOR rescue effort was under way last night to save the survivors of a second mass whale stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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The rugged coastline of Tasmania was littered with the carcasses of more than 100 whales and dolphins yesterday after two separate beachings that have baffled scientists.
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SYDNEY : Rescue teams struggled Monday to prevent a pod of about 20 whales beaching in an area off Australia&#39;s south coast where 80 whales and dolphins died after stranding themselves at the weekend.
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More than 120 whales and dolphins died after swimming on to beaches on two southern Australian islands, where rescue teams were yesterday desperately trying to prevent others becoming stranded.
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Wildlilfe authorities in Australia are concerned by the beaching of dozens of whales in two separate incidents in waters off the state of Tasmania.
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A Japanese whaling ship is on fire and one crew member is missing off the coast of Antarctica after a blaze broke out below decks, New Zealand maritime authorities said on Thursday.
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The number of beluga whales swimming in Cook Inlet appears to be increasing, but biologist say it's too soon to know whether the winsome white whales are finally making a comeback.