Critter News

MARCH 3, 2009

The Vancouver-based animal rights group Lifeforce wants the Vancouver Aquarium to free Daisy the porpoise. Here is a video from the group. Tags: porpoise captivity canada aquariums vancouver.

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Porpoises Groups Canada Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

Self-awareness, suffering and a social culture along with high mental abilities are a hallmark of cetaceans, an order grouping more than 80 whales, dolphins and porpoises, say marine biologists.

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Whales Whaling Marine Life Humane 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book’s twelve chapters can be divided into groups of 5, 5, 1 and 1. The first five chapters focus on natural history and evolutionary thought. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Here and there the occasional Cape Gannet can be seen plunge-diving in the distance, while Kelp Gulls in loose groups fly past on their way out to the trawling grounds.

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