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...through an art museum which in its modesty could only exhibit two Picassos, half a dozen Klees, a Raphael, a Degas, and a Breughel, scattered among thirty rooms. In fact, I was becoming impatient as I looked at that garish wave, and demanded that Huntley lead me to the whales. So he pointed out the picture of a breaching blue whale...
...sharks. He joins the youngsters at the children's tidal pool -where they are encouraged to reach in and touch starfish, tiny crabs and harmless sea urchins. Finally, as he approaches the highest level, he walks under an awesome 35-foot-long skeleton of an Atlantic right whale...
...superintendent of the Channel Islands National Monument, National Park Service, stated that "I defy anyone to go out and find a whale, seal or fish killed by oil. The animals along this coast have lived with oil all their lives, oil from natural seeps...
...herd of 150 small whales nosed their way onto a beach near Fort Pierce, Fla., last week. Boaters and state conservation agents dragged the cetaceans, of the species Pseudorca crassidens, the false killer whale, back into deep water. But the whales doggedly finned themselves onto the sand again, and 125 died. Scientists were at a loss to explain the mass death wish: perhaps a leader gone berserk, or a quirk of weather or topology that disoriented the whales' biological sonar systems. To those who see omens, it seemed that the whales were trying to tell us something. To those...
Near the shore hunters might trap a wounded whale...