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Canadian Group Wants to Free Captive Porpoise

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

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To bird or not to bird…

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There are Harbour Porpoises right next to the ferry! Naturally, I am thinking of Shakespeare’s play while the ferry approaches Helsingør’s Kronborg Castle (Elsinore). The sea is frothing with Great Cormorant and Herring Gull , with more than 100 birds diving into the water. What’s that? A fin, another one.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

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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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Driven to Distraction

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The bird rears up, calls and splashes, it thrashes around on the surface and dives and porpoises about. At its core the goal is the same, to say to a predator “I’m hurt, and an easy meal, come and get me.&# It would be a hard act to ignore. Its squeak call is loud and it moves about, attempting to lead the predator away.

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Whales Share Some Human Traits, Study Shows

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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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Saving Marine Animals that Are NOT Cute

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They don't invoke the pathos of the tragic salmon or the merriment of a playful porpoise. People want to save the dolphins and the sea otters, but what about the bluefin tuna? So what happens to them?

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California’s Autumn Seas

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California Sea Lions porpoised through the clear water. Thousands of phalaropes and shearwaters were on the water, as were a handful of other seabirds. Under the surface we could sea Oceanic Sunfish and Blue Sharks. And there where whales. the highlight was at the end of the excursion, when we stopped in front of two Blue Whales.

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