List of individual cetaceans

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Dawn the humpback whale in the Sacramento River in 2007

porpoises. This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional individuals are indicated by their source. It is arranged roughly taxonomically
.

Baleen whales

Rorquals

Blue whales

KOBO

Fin whales

  • Moby Joe, a fin whale who became trapped in
    Newfoundland, the subject of Farley Mowat's 1972 book A Whale for the Killing.[2]

Humpback whales

Gray whales

Toothed whales

Beaked whales

Northern bottlenose whales

The River Thames whale being calmed by rescuers
The River Thames whale being calmed by rescuers

Dolphins

Bottlenose dolphins

prosthetic
tail

Orcas

Tilikum at SeaWorld Orlando
Katina with trainer Dawn Brancheau
Morgan in August 2010
Scarlet and her mother, J-16

Risso's dolphins

  • Casper, an albino or leucistic Risso's dolphin inhabiting Monterey Bay, California.[10]
  • Pelorus Jack

Sperm whales

Belugas

Hvaldimir

Legendary

Because these individuals are legendary or mythic, their classification is unclear. As well, for some it is unclear whether they are even whales since whales were historically considered fish in Western culture.[12]

Jonah in the jaws of the whale
Jonah in the jaws of the whale

See also

References

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  7. ^ "Flipper (1963)". IMDb. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  8. ^ Riley, Christopher (8 June 2014). "The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  9. ^ ""The Angry Beavers" Moby Dopes/Present Tense (TV Episode 2000)". IMDb. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  10. ^ Popęda, Agata (2 November 2021). "Casper the all-white dolphin pays a visit to Monterey Bay—just in time for Halloween". Monterey County Weekly. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  11. ^ Mullen, Chris (2016-06-29). "A Whale of a Tale: An Ode to Monstro | The Walt Disney Family Museum". Walt Disney Family Museum. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  12. ^ DeCou, Christopher (8 October 2018). "When whales were fish". Lateral Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  13. ^ "The Story of Paikea and Ruatapu". Te Ao Hou: The Maori Magazine. Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa - National Library of New Zealand. September 1962. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  14. ^ Haami, Bradford (2006-06-12). "Te whānau puha – whales". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. pp. Summary, 1–2, "Paikea, Waipapa marae, University of Auckland". Retrieved 2020-08-08.