humpback in English

noun
1
a baleen whale that has a hump (instead of a dorsal fin) and long white flippers. It is noted for its lengthy vocalizations or “songs.”.
Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday.

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1. Humpback whales.

2. Specifically, humpback whales.

3. The Flipper of the Humpback Whale

4. This humpback mother whale still loves her freaky albino baby.

5. What can aircraft designers learn from the humpback whale?

6. The humpback whale is a species of Baleen whale.

7. No, it's an underwater recording of humpback whales singing.

8. Humpback whale and an aerial view of Loango

9. How can the humpback whale be so nimble?

10. 8 synonyms for Crookback: humpback, hunchback, Crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked

11. Did the flipper of the humpback whale come about by evolution?

12. A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean.

13. In one recorded session, a humpback whale sang for 22 hours.

14. In 1804, Lacépède shifted the humpback from the family Balaenidae, renaming it B. jubartes.

15. Let's just say that no humpback born in captivity has ever survived.

16. THE adult humpback whale is bigger and heavier than a city bus.

17. You probably saw the humpback whale footage we got a month or two ago off County Wexford.

18. Here's a blue whale call at 50 miles, which was distant for the humpback.

19. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) wintering in Hawaiian waters engage in strenuous aggression toward con-specifics.

20. And humpback whales have been observed to reduce their singing in response to noise 200 kilometers away.

21. Humpback whale breath at water surface - Blow hole stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

22. Now you are listening to a recording made by Chris Clark, 0. 2 miles away from a humpback.

23. The oboe d’amore begins by playing a transcription of the humpback whale song, while the tape part begins as an Accompanimental background made out of altered recordings humpback whale song, sperm whale clicks, musician wren song, and one grey seal “rup” call

24. Maybe they’re chattering with loggerhead turtles or with the humpback whales that are known to splash around Boa Vista’s shallow waters

25. There is an abundance of wildlife attached to this area including several endangered species such as humpback and fin whales, and the sooty shearwater and razorbill Avifaunae

26. Biomechanics expert John Long believes that someday soon “we may well see every single jetliner with the bumps of humpback whale flippers.” 11

27. The potential impact of this tapeworm on humpback chub was studied by exposing the closely related bonytail chub (Gila elegans Baird and Girard, 1853) to the parasite under a range of conditions that included potential stressors of humpback chub in their natal waters, such as abrupt temperature change and a limited food base.

28. And the differences in scale between this tiny sea dragon and this enormous humpback whale was like something out of a science-fiction movie.

29. The family dramA you see playing out here in the Pacific Ocean near Maui, Hawaii, is a humpback whale calf getting a little nudge from its mom.

30. The deep-sea Anglerfish, also known as the Humpback Anglefish, is a medium-sized (7 inch / 18 cm) Anglerfish that lives deep in the ocean

31. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google+ The deep sea Anglerfish, also known as the humpback Anglerfish, is a medium sized (7 inches/18 cm) Anglerfish that lives in the bathypelagic zone of the open ocean

32. Augusta whale watching in Flinders Bay is fantastic from June to August as it is the first stopping point for many southern right and humpback whales that come to feed, breed and play

33. Bas relief, LLC is the work of Ba Rea exploring natural history, especially her books on the monarch butterfly, the invertebrate community in the milkweed patch and the ecosystems, puffins, and humpback whales of the Kenai Fjords National Park.

34. Alaska is home to a rich array of wildlife, from the famous Big Five animals that live in Denali National Park — grizzly bears, wolves, moose, Dall sheep and caribou — to bald eagles and humpback whales that migrate through the Inside Passage

35. 2005, Ramu et al. 2005 and Wolkers et al. 2004) indicate that PentaBDE is widespread in peregrine falcon (Falco peregrine), merlin (Falco columbarius), goshawk (Accipiter gentiles), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), buzzard (Buteo buteo), beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas), irrawaddy dophins (Orcaella brevirostris), and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis), all protected by the Bonn convention.