Examples of minke whale in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To gauge how thorough this baleen record is, Riekenberg and a team of scientists in the Netherlands recently examined baleen from five whales: three juvenile fin whales, one adult humpback whale and a minke whale of undetermined age. — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021 A few years earlier, in 2007, a young minke whale was spotted swimming near the mouth of the canal after a historic rainstorm. — Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021 London residents were transfixed when a juvenile minke whale swam up the Thames last week and was injured on a lock. — James Hookway, WSJ, 16 May 2021 Interspersed between our expeditions (and pivotal to the routine) was the captain’s gentle voice, cutting off conversations to share the sighting of a humpback whale waving its fluke or a minke whale coyly nudging up against the bow. — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 1 July 2020 The calls of minke whales, on the other hand, increased only marginally in the presence of loud noise. — Katherine Kornei, Science | AAAS, 18 Feb. 2020 Whale-watching income far outweighs the income from hunting fin and minke whales. — Joe Roman, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020 Over Labor Day weekend, another dead minke whale washed up in Duxbury. — USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019 The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which sets the conservation status of species, doesn’t judge minke whales to be at risk. — Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019 See More

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