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Melon Headed Whales Off of Kauai's Shore

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pueo
 
Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2004 04:28 pm
never heard of melon-headed whales before this story
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2004 04:32 pm
Sounds like it looks more like a dolphin/porpoise than a whale. I'd never heard of them either. Actually, it sounds an awful lot like a pilot whale (black fish).
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2004 04:38 pm
Aha!

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Classification: The Melon-Headed Whale was initally thought to be a Lagenorhynchus dolphin until two North Pacific specimens were examined in the 1960s. In 1966, Nishiwaki and Norris created the new genus Peponocephala ('melon-head') specifically for this species. Not closely related to other cetaceans, the Melon-Headed Whale is generally accepted as an 'outcast' member of the 'Blackfish'.
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pueo
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2004 04:39 pm
outcast whales?
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2004 04:41 pm
Maybe they were a late family split along the evolutionary chain. I think pilot whales are moslty housed in the Atlantic
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pueo
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2004 04:44 pm
could be, family squabbles are always nasty.....made the other side move all the way over to kauai...........
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quinn1
 
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Reply Tue 6 Jul, 2004 12:32 pm
Wow-Large pods...bound to be some squabbling at some point I would think.
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 6 Jul, 2004 08:37 pm
Excellent point!
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pueo
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:13 pm
picture, but not a very good one

http://www.cetacea.org/melon.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jul, 2004 10:46 pm
Seems there might be a song there,
the melonheaded whales
at Pine Trees... males
gathered round,
made sounds

oh, never mind.
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