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whale

any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head.

Whale Evolution
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/4/l_0 ...
See e.g. ''Seismic testing and the impacts of high intensity sound on whales'', Lindy Weilgart, Department of Biology Dalhouise University (PDF format)
http://www.sustainability.ca/Docs/Impact%20of%20Se ...
a BBC report about the Nature article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3173942. ...
Greenpeace work defending whales
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/our-oceans/whaling
Oldest whale fossil confirms amphibious origins
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/239966.stm
Talpalar & Grossman, 2005
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= ...
news.bbc.co.uk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1974869.stm
Cetacea
http://www.cetacea.org/
home.businesswire.com
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/in ...
Table of sound decibel levels
http://www.makeitlouder.com/Decibel%20Level%20Char ...

whaling (v): to hunt for whales.
Synonyms: whaling, whales, whaled, whale, whaled