Porpoise

Mammals of the family Phocoenidae comprising four genera found in the North Pacific Ocean and both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean and in various other seas. They differ from ...

porpoise

Language; Dictionaries

Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish ...

porpoising

Aviation; Aeronautics

An unstable flight condition in which an aircraft continually oscillates along its longitudinal axis. Porpoising is caused by the aircraft possessing neutral dynamic longitudinal ...

Iceberg

Animals; Whales

Iceberg is a white adult orca whale spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. White whales are unusual in almost all whale species, and Iceberg is the first white ...

blubber

Animals; Whales

A thick layer of fat that lies under the skin of whales, seals, and certain other sea mammals.

Beluga whale

Animals; Whales

Beluga whale (also called white whale) is a kind of cetacean which lives in the Artic and the sub-Artic oceans. Male belugas can length up to 6.5 meters and weight up to 1600kg, ...

blue whales

Animals; Whales

Blue whales are marine mammals, and they are the largest animals that have ever existed. They length 30m and they weight around 180tons (although it is very difficult to weight ...

gray whale

Animals; Whales

A gray whale is often called the Devil Fish because it fights really hard when hunted. An adult whale can grow as long as 52 feet and can reach a weight of 36 tons. Its ...

sperm whale

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A member of the genus Physeter, the sperm whale is a toothed whale having the largest brain of any animal. Its name comes from the term spermaceti, which is the milky-white waxy ...

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Paella

Valencian rice dish that originated in its modern form in the mid-19th century near lake Albufera, a lagoon in Valencia (east cost of Spain). Many ...