How to Use minke whale in a Sentence
minke whale
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This was the first time anybody had ever put a tag on a minke whale.
—Rebecca Kessler, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2014
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So why did a fleet from one of the countries that signed on to the agreement just kill over 300 minke whales?
—Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
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The minke whale is the smallest baleen whale in Alaska waters.
—Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
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Hours later, the fleet that left the northern post of Kushiro brought back their first catch: two minke whales.
—Fox News, 2 July 2019
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The calls of minke whales, on the other hand, increased only marginally in the presence of loud noise.
—Katherine Kornei, Science | AAAS, 18 Feb. 2020
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The two minke whales that were harpooned are the first to be killed by Japan for commercial purposes in more than 30 years.
—Ivan Watson and Michelle Lou, CNN, 2 July 2019
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Modern baleen whales include many of the world’s largest cetaceans, such as blue, fin, humpback, right, bowhead, and minke whales.
—National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
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Five small boats set out from Japan’s northern port of Kushiro on Monday with a simple aim: to find and kill minke whales.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
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Scientists are hoping to try the tag on other whales, such as humpbacks, minke whales and fin whales.
—Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
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A few years earlier, in 2007, a young minke whale was spotted swimming near the mouth of the canal after a historic rainstorm.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
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Whale-watching income far outweighs the income from hunting fin and minke whales.
—Joe Roman, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2020
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Experts say another minke whale has been found dead in state waters.
—USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
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Over Labor Day weekend, another dead minke whale washed up in Duxbury.
—USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2019
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Moments later, a minke whale passed a mere few feet in front of us, lifting its head and fins above the water in yet another close encounter.
—Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
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Other filter-feeding baleen whales like blue, fin and minke whales produce much simpler songs that are more or less the same every year.
—Will Dunham, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2018
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London residents were transfixed when a juvenile minke whale swam up the Thames last week and was injured on a lock.
—James Hookway, WSJ, 16 May 2021
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Despite the global outcry against Japan’s whale hunt, minke whales are not threatened with extinction.
—Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
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Back in Kachemak Bay, the minke whale’s breach was followed by a lunch of halibut tacos for Herbst and his family, who were in Alaska for his mother’s 85th birthday.
—Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022
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For the first time in over 30 years, two minke whales were harpooned by Japanese whaling boats and brought back to port for commercial purposes.
—Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2019
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The conventional thinking has been that minke whales mainly chase krill, Eisert said.
—Nick Perry, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
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Iceland, too, hunts minke whales for profit—even though Icelanders are eating less whale meat than ever before.
—Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
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Rescuers freed an 18-foot minke whale entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Cape Ann last week and managed to keep it away from a great white shark that was lurking in the area, officials said.
—Alyssa Lukpat, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
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Japanese hunters caught and killed 122 pregnant minke whales during the annual summer hunt off the coast of Antarctica last year, a report has found.
—Casey Quackenbush, Time, 31 May 2018
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Type A killer whales look similar to typical orcas (which are found worldwide), but mainly feed on minke whales; type Bs are smaller and many eat seals; type Cs go after fish.
—Douglas Main, National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which sets the conservation status of species, doesn’t judge minke whales to be at risk.
—Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
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This is happening even as ice-dependent minke whales struggle, and Adelie and chinstrap penguin numbers plummet at nearby colonies.
—Craig Welch, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2017
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The highlight of our week was a whale-watching expedition on day two: Being surrounded by swimming seals and spotting minke whales in the distance felt far away from jostling other New Yorkers on the subway.
—Ryan Craggs, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2018
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During the summer, Reykjavík sees higher numbers of minke whales and dolphins, while orcas congregate in West Iceland along the Snaefellsnes peninsula during the first half of the year.
—Brandon Presser, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2023
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To gauge how thorough this baleen record is, Riekenberg and a team of scientists in the Netherlands recently examined baleen from five whales: three juvenile fin whales, one adult humpback whale and a minke whale of undetermined age.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
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Japan is now openly taking minke whales in its coastal waters for commercial sales—which the commission would not have allowed—and then selling whale products domestically.
—Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
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