Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having long fins, as a fish, or flippers, as the finner whale.
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The IUCN estimate is that there are approximately 200,000 short-finned pilot whales, and that the number of long-finned pilot whales are much less.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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The IUCN estimate is that there are approximately 200,000 short-finned pilot whales, and that the number of long-finned pilot whales are much less.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Furthermore, the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN states that the species is "data deficient" and the actual number of long-finned pilot whales that exist in the ocean today is unknown.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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The IUCN estimate is that there are approximately 200,000 short-finned pilot whales, and that the number of long-finned pilot whales are much less.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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The IUCN estimate is that there are approximately 200,000 short-finned pilot whales, and that the number of long-finned pilot whales are much less.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Furthermore, the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN states that the species is "data deficient" and the actual number of long-finned pilot whales that exist in the ocean today is unknown.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Furthermore, the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN states that the species is "data deficient" and the actual number of long-finned pilot whales that exist in the ocean today is unknown.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Furthermore, the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN states that the species is "data deficient" and the actual number of long-finned pilot whales that exist in the ocean today is unknown.
Deborah Bassett: "Whale Murder" in the Faroe Islands: 100 Pilot Whales Slain for Cultural Tradition Deborah Bassett 2011
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Other species of small whales and dolphins present are the dusky dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus (DD), Peale's dolphin L. australis (DD), Commerson's dolphin Cephalorhynchus commersonii (DD) and long-finned pilot whale Globycephala melas.
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Add to this the long-finned costumes of Tatiana Noginova, the fantastically elaborate sets of George Tsypin and the subaqueous rear projections of Sven Ortel and you get a nonliteral evocation of marine life that is not merely plausible but downright uncanny.
'Little Mermaid' 2008
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