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Our infield played in to cut the run off (one run is everything in this game), and their second hitter blooped a humpback infield pop that landed almost on second base.
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By day, take a hike with a cultural guide, visit ancient Haida village sites, and find spots to view orcas, bears, puffins, and humpbacks.
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While humpbacks and other species spend at least some time in warmer waters, bowheads spend their entire lives among the Arctic ice.
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The incident prompted Australia to carve out extra protections for humpback whales that are more than 90 percent white — which, as far as anyone knows, is a category that includes just Migaloo and one other humpback.
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Recently, more female humpbacks in the Southern Ocean are giving birth to more calves, reports Karen Weintraub for The New York Times.
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Modern baleen whales include many of the world’s largest cetaceans, such as blue, fin, humpback, right, bowhead, and minke whales.
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Others called rorquals, such as humpbacks and blue whales, use gulp-feeding, taking in vast mouthfuls of water and krill and then squeezing the water out.
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But the blue whale, which is the largest animal to ever live and would dwarf an 18-wheeler, is a close relation to the sei, and relatively distant from the humpback, according to the study, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
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First Known Use of humpback
1697
HUMPBACK Defined for Kids
Definition of humpback for Students
1
: a humped or crooked back
2
: humpback whale
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humpbacked
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