• Thumbnail for Melon-headed whale
    The melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), also known less commonly as the electra dolphin, little killer whale, or many-toothed blackfish, is a toothed...
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  • Thumbnail for Melon (cetacean)
    The melon is a mass of adipose tissue found in the foreheads of all toothed whales. It focuses and modulates the animal's vocalizations and acts as a sound...
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  • Thumbnail for Pygmy sperm whale
    young individuals. Like other toothed whales, the pygmy sperm whale has a "melon", a body of fat and wax in the head that it uses to focus and modulate the...
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  • Thumbnail for False killer whale
    are Risso's dolphin, the melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), the pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata), pilot whales (Globicephala spp.), and...
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  • Thumbnail for Globicephalinae
    bredanensis), the false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens), the melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), and the...
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  • Thumbnail for Orca
    Orca (redirect from Orca Whale)
    The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale and the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. It is the only extant species in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Pygmy killer whale
    especially where the frontal head shape of the animals encountered remains unseen. Unlike the melon-headed whale, pygmy killer whales do not normally lift the...
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  • Thumbnail for Whale barnacle
    pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata), common dolphins (Delphinus spp.), dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus), melon-headed whale (Peponocephala...
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  • Thumbnail for Mesoplodon
    Mesoplodont whales are 16 species of toothed whale in the genus Mesoplodon, making it the largest genus in the cetacean order. Two species were described...
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  • Thumbnail for Atlantic white-sided dolphin
    2008, sightings of Atlantic white-sided dolphins, as well as the melon-headed whale, were documented off South Carolina after a few strandings had taken...
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  • Thumbnail for Beluga whale
    calls; and the melonhead, though that more commonly refers to the melon-headed whale, which is an oceanic dolphin. The beluga is adapted to life in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Baird's beaked whale
    beaked whale (Berardius bairdii), also known as the northern giant bottlenose whale, North Pacific bottlenose whale, giant four-toothed whale, northern...
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  • Thumbnail for Cetacea
    Cetacea (redirect from Whale pod)
    Long-finned pilot whale Melon-headed whale Minke whale Narwhal Orca Pacific white-sided dolphin Pygmy killer whale Pygmy sperm whale Risso's dolphin Rough-toothed...
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  • Thumbnail for Cuvier's beaked whale
    age. Their head is short and blunt, with a gradually sloping forehead, a small, poorly defined beak, and a slight melon. All the beaked whales have this...
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  • onitis) Pilot whales (Globicephala) Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata)...
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  • Thumbnail for Minke whale
    minke whale (/ˈmɪnki/), or lesser rorqual, is a species complex of baleen whale. The two species of minke whale are the common (or northern) minke whale and...
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  • Thumbnail for Gervais's beaked whale
    Gervais's beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus), sometimes known as the Antillean beaked whale, Gulf Stream beaked whale, or European beaked whale (from which...
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  • Thumbnail for Risso's dolphin
    pilot whales (Globicephala spp.), pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata), melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra), and false killer whales (Pseudorca...
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  • Thumbnail for Right whale dolphin
    Right whale dolphins are cetaceans belonging to the genus Lissodelphis. It contains the northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis) and the southern...
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  • Thumbnail for Northern bottlenose whale
    while mature females and juveniles have rounder melons. Melon coloration can vary, though it appears the head of most males becomes more white or buff colored...
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  • Thumbnail for Bowhead whale
    The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of the genus...
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    Narwhal (redirect from Unicorn Whale)
    related beluga whale, with which it overlaps in range and can interbreed. It is a stocky cetacean with a relatively blunt snout, a large melon, and a shallow...
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  • Venezuela and Mexico but do not appear to be common in the region. The melon-headed whale is distributed worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters. The rare...
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  • Thumbnail for Arnoux's beaked whale
    Arnoux's beaked whale (Berardius arnuxii), also called the southern four-toothed whale, southern beaked whale, New Zealand beaked whale, southern giant...
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  • Thumbnail for Pygmy beaked whale
    body of the pygmy beaked whale is the rather typical spindle shape of the genus, although the tail is unusually thick. The melon is somewhat bulbous and...
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  • Thumbnail for Whale
    the orca, or killer whale, the melon-headed whale, the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale, and the two species of pilot whales, all of which are...
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  • Thumbnail for Southern right whale
    The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Southern...
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  • Thumbnail for Dwarf sperm whale
    The dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) is a sperm whale that inhabits temperate and tropical oceans worldwide, in particular continental shelves and slopes...
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  • Thumbnail for Bryde's whale
    Bryde's whale (/ˈbrʊdəz/ BRUU-dəz), or the Bryde's whale complex, putatively comprises three species of rorqual and maybe four. The "complex" means the...
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  • Thumbnail for List of cetaceans
    comprises the 94 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. It is divided into toothed whales (Odontoceti) and baleen whales (Mysticeti), which diverged...
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