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cetacean

noun as in aquatic mammal

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Some scientists have guessed that the unusual cetacean may be a hybrid of whale species, while others have wondered if it may be deaf.

However much the cetacean acrobatics look like mirth, we would be wrong to put that idea onto what we’re seeing.

Regardless of the purpose of their soulful howls, whale songs are a cost-effective way to study cetaceans.

Firstly, a range of cetacean behaviors are interpreted as displays of notable intelligence.

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That would put mole-rats on the ever-expanding list of animals known to have such dialects, a list once limited to songbirds and cetaceans.

He went and stood on the bank, in the interest of science, and studied the habits of the cetacean, but he got no results.

He ran away through the woods around the north shore, and I ran after, to see him study the habits of the cetacean.

In his agony, the great cetacean, instead of sounding, threw himself blindly toward the boat.

The enormous cetacean disappeared and reappeared as the waves rose and fell, showing its black back like a rock in open sea.

One must harpoon him like a cetacean with questions to make him talk at all.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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