Cetacean

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cetacean : any of an order (Cetacea) of aquatic mostly marine mammals that includes the whales, dolphins, porpoises, and related forms and that have a torpedo-shaped nearly hairless body, paddle-shaped forelimbs but no hind limbs, one or two nares opening externally at the top of the head, and a horizontally flattened tail used for locomotion — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

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Encyclopedia

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals that includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body shape, often large size and exclusively carnivorous diet. They propel themselves through the water with powerful up-and-down movement of their tail which ends in a paddle-like fluke, using their flipper-shaped forelimbs to maneuver. — Wikipedia

Cetacean (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Cetacean Fact Sheets (American Cetacean Society)

Cetacea: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (One Zoom)
Cetacea (Catalogue of Life)
Cetacea (WolframAlpha)

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Adventures

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Inspiration

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Wildlife Protection Solutions (YouTube Channel)
Wildlife Protection Solutions (Official Website)

Articles about Cetacean (Big Think)

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Innovation

Science

Cetology is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the scientific order Cetacea. — Wikipedia

Mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems. Mammalogy has also been known as “mastology,” “theriology,” and “therology.” The major branches of mammalogy include natural history, taxonomy and systematics, anatomy and physiology, ethology, ecology, and management. — Wikipedia

Mammalogy (Encyclopædia Britannica)

The Science of Mammalogy (The American Society of Mammalogists)

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Preservation

Conservation

Conservation (American Cetacean Society)

Library

DDC: 599.5 Cetacea (Library Thing)
Subject: Cetacea (Library Thing)

Subject: Cetacea (Open Library)

LCC: QL 737.C43 Cetacea (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Cetacea (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QL 737.C43 Cetacea (Library of Congress)
Subject: Cetacea (Library of Congress)

Subject: Cetacea (WorldCat)

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Participation

Cetacean Curriculum (American Cetacean Society)

Education

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Community

Occupation

Cetologists , or those who practice cetology, seek to understand and explain cetacean evolution, distribution, morphology, behavior, community dynamics, and other topics. — Wikipedia

How to Become a Marine Mammal Scientist (The Society for Marine Mammology)

Careers in Mammalogy (American Society of Mammalogists)

Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

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