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populations (1770), 344

shark attacks on, 7

ship collisions with, 71, 76

slaughter of, xvii;
see also
whaling

sonar as traumatic to, 142, 162, 163, 165–66, 176, 178, 255, 270–71, 273, 283–85, 287, 288–89, 293, 302, 331, 350–51, 372n13

strandings of, 6, 15, 23, 68–69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 106–7, 111, 183, 265, 308, 350–51;
see also specific sites

surveys of, 6, 60–61, 66, 198, 346, 350

tagging of, 40–41, 251, 312–13

and tourism, 90–91, 92

undersea pressure waves as assaults to, 15, 162

volunteer groups for rescue of, 69–70, 93

as warm-blooded mammals, 10

see also individual species

Whales ’93, 367n10, 373n15

“Whales and Porpoise Voices” (recording), 54

whale-watching trips, 198, 211, 219–20

mass stranding (2003) witnessed by, 310–11

Whaley, Janet, 261, 263

whaling:

antiwhaling movement, 226

commercial, ban on, 77, 198, 220, 228

factory ships, 39, 198, 344

massacres in, 91–92, 197–98

and Mitsubishi, 93–94

as mortal threat, 288, 344, 375n1

steam-powered ships in, 197

and whale behavior studies, 200

Wheeler, John, 370n6

White, Ben:

and animal rights activism, 176, 177, 222, 223

and Balcomb, 228–30

and press conference, 229–30, 247–48, 249, 250

and publicity, 222, 223, 229, 245, 375n4

tree-sitting campaigns of, 222

White-beaked Dolphin (
Lagenorhynchus albirostris
),
329

Whitehead, Hal, 121, 165, 174, 289, 374n2

White House strategy meeting (2007), 325–27

White-sided Dolphin (
Lagenorhynchus acutus
),
317

Whitworth, Jerry, 154, 242

Wide World of Sports,
228

Wilson, Stephen, 124

Winter, Donald, 318, 327

Wizerella (sheepdog), 55

Wood, Forrest, 234–35

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 17, 47

dolphin research in, 201

Ketten as researcher in, 105, 106

and Navy, 49, 71, 142, 154, 268

Pittenger as director of, 142, 144, 145

whale dissection in, 261

whale heads in secure custody at, 192, 221

Woodward, Bob, 83

Worcester, Peter, 371n9

World Trade Organization, and turtles, 222

World War I:

glycerin bombs in, 197–98

U-boats in, 46

World War II:

active sonar in, 46–47

animals used in, 199–200

D-day landings, 155

and defense spending, 147

Navy mapping in, 140

passive sonar in, 47

U-boats in, 46, 47

underwater weather forecasting in, 154–55

whale oil in, 93

whales killed in, 198

Worzel, J. Lamar, 47, 48–49

Wright Brothers, 200

Wunsch, Carl, 371n9

Zedillo, Ernesto, 97

Ziphiidae
species, 29

Ziphius cavirostris, see
Cuvier’s beaked whales

Zippy (dolphin), 202

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