noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird/whale/royal etc watcher
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Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.
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Industry-watchers hailed the takeover as a triumph.
humpback whale
killer whale
pilot whale
sperm whale
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beached
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At one point they also passed a beached whale squirming in the desert.
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The beached whales are quite obviously very distressed, constantly calling out.
blue
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You wouldn't really have thought it to look at her but Linda Reeve and the Great Blue whale had something in common.
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More immediate than that, Linda, like the Blue whale , was largish with nice eyes.
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They penetrate south to varying degrees, blue and minke whales often appearing well south of the pack ice edge.
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Krill are the principal food of the baleen whales , such as the blue whale and minke.
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It becomes impossible to add another and to evolve a beast that preys on blue whales , or on lions.
gray
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From late December to April, scores of California charter boats search out migrating gray whales for tourists.
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Sea World freed three gray whales in 1988 which had been tangled in drift nets.
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In 1988 Sea World freed three gray whales that had become tangled in drift nets.
great
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You wouldn't really have thought it to look at her but Linda Reeve and the Great Blue whale had something in common.
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This question is the great white whale of graduate school finance courses.
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Elizabeth: I was the great white whale .
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Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale .
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Worldwide, over a million great whales have been killed this century for their oil and meat.
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A whale is killed-a great sperm whale.
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Meanwhile, the indestructible burial mound would shrug off the tempest like a great , ageless whale .
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So, Ishmael argues, if you really wish to know what a great whale looks like you should go whaling.
grey
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Trade in the grey whale has been outlawed since 1949 because uncontrolled whaling had put it on the verge of extinction.
large
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A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.
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Thankfully, most large whales are now fully protected.
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If so, why is it that the largest known fish is smaller than the largest whale ?
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The much larger killer whales can porpoise only if the surrounding water is laminar, or at most half turbulent.
small
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Over 6000 dolphins and small whales were killed on Iki between 1976 and 1982, two thirds of them bottlenose dolphins.
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However, many of the smaller whales , such as dolphins, are not.
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My first two carvings were produced from this branch: a small whale and an orangutan.
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During that time, 24 sets killed 97 dolphins, 11 small whales , and 10 turtles.
toothed
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Whales are divided into two main groups, toothed whales and baleen whales.
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Several toothed whales , of which only dolphins have been thoroughly studied, have evolved sophisticated echo-sounding equipment in their heads.
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Over half the species of toothed whales are dolphins or the closely related porpoises.
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The cetaceans are divided into two groups: the baleen whales which have whalebone instead of teeth and the toothed whales.
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Echolocation, too, plays an important role in food hunting for dolphins and toothed whales .
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Top predators, such as toothed whales and dolphins, can accumulate large quantities in their tissues if they keep eating contaminated prey.
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The toothed whales have a set of teeth which they use to grasp large and quick-moving prey, mainly squid or fish.
white
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Susan felt like a fat white whale surrounded by sharks.
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This question is the great white whale of graduate school finance courses.
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Elizabeth: I was the great white whale .
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The shorts under his work pants are coal black satin covered with big white whales with red eyes.
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A white cat, like an albino human or white whale , has a biochemical quirk.
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She lay on the bed like a white , stranded whale .
■ NOUN
humpback
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Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales .
killer
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Nearby is Sea World, the home of sea lions, killer whales and other marine animals which perform before entranced audiences.
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The killer whale was in motion, swimming slowly around the raft to take a closer look.
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Species such as Risso's dolphin and false killer whales are killed in smaller numbers.
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He starts to travel north, but suddenly a killer whale is on his tall.
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The altered gene has also been found in mink, cattle-and a single killer whale .
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As the ferry nears Vengsøya I talk to Tor about our chances of seeing an orca, a killer whale .
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This range includes all dolphins, porpoises, narwhals, pilot and killer whales .
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Blake's mathematical models predict that dolphins, killer whales and even some penguins can porpoise.
meat
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The three countries are preparing to resume the slaughter of whales for profit and restart the international trade in whale meat .
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There are some, Ishmael tells us, who, like Stubb, find whale meat a great delicacy.
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Both species are being exploited increasingly as a substitute to whale meat .
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No, he Says, let some one else savor the whale meat .
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The whales were being killed for sport because the islanders did not require whale meat for survival, she added.
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Some, however, continue to end up as whale meat in restaurants.
minke
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In fact the Minke whale , the smallest species, has always been hunted with a non-explosive grenade.
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They penetrate south to varying degrees, blue and minke whales often appearing well south of the pack ice edge.
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The Minke whales , which are numerous, should be culled because they are impeding the recovery of the endangered Blue Whale.
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The region is one of the chief feeding grounds of the sperm, baleen and minke whales .
oil
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There are, in fact, other powerful reasons for making jojoba a universal substitute for whale oil .
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Thus the importance of the whale oil is attested to.
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Here he found remains of structures for rendering blubber into whale oil .
pilot
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In 1987, 1422 whales were killed, and in 1988, the toll rose to 1690 pilot whales.
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Blackfish was what the islanders had named pilot whales .
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In 1989 the reported kill figures were 735 pilot whales and 2 rare bottlenose whales.
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The stranding had left at least 28 pilot whales dead.
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These records show that strandings, especially of pilot whales , have increased over the past 25 years.
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Gillian Stacey, organiser of the campaign, claimed that the Faroese needlessly slaughtered 1,500 pilot whales every year.
population
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Both countries claimed the proposals would not endanger whale populations .
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In part, these acknowledged the continuing difficulty in establishing whale populations .
sperm
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It is only the second time this century that a school of sperm whales has been seen in the waters around Orkney.
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Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale .
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A whale is killed-a great sperm whale.
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Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
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There he found the skeleton of a whale , a sperm whale, which had become a shrine for the natives.
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The sperm whale at Tranque, Ishmael says, was about right for a large-sized whale of this type.
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The great herds of sperm whales such as the Pequod encounters are known as schools.
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Ishmael ponders the brow of the sperm whale .
■ VERB
catch
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We had driven them to the beach, and my leg was caught between two whales .
hunt
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Whaling, Reiniger said from his Palo Alto hotel room, radicalized the black sailors, who traveled the world hunting whales .
kill
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In fact the Faroese are killing more whales than ever.
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Since both his father and brother had been killed by whales , Starbuck had developed a useful attitude toward the whale.
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An explosive harpoon is being developed, not only to damage less meat, but to kill whales quickly and humanely.
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We first see him as a gentle jolly fellow set against the perilous task of killing whales from a small oar-manned boat.
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He is on the ship to kill whales for a living.
save
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These measures were more for the maintenance of the industry than to save whales .
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Plant protection? Save the gay black whale ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he forgot his natural talents such as hunting and speaking to other whales.
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Echolocation, too, plays an important role in food hunting for dolphins and toothed whales.
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In fact the Minke whale , the smallest species, has always been hunted with a non-explosive grenade.
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So these particular species of bat or whale are living and working in a sonar world.
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The Minke whales, which are numerous, should be culled because they are impeding the recovery of the endangered Blue Whale.
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The only trouble was, the whales sank when killed.
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There the whales deliberately tilt the floes so that seals slide off into the water and into the jaws of their attackers.
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Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale .