Large marine mammals of the order CETACEA. In the past, they were commercially valued for whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in ANIMAL FEED and FERTILIZERS, and for baleen. Today, there is a moratorium on most commercial whaling, as all species are either listed as endangered or threatened.
    

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A narwhal and large sperm whale. Engraving.

Jonah and the whale. Engraving after P. Brill.

A beaked whale blowing a fountain of water through its snout. Coloured engraving, ca 1815.

A whale stranded on the coast at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk; five men in the foreground, ship in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.

Pilot Whale Campaign.

A common whale, a dolphin and a porpoise. Coloured engraving by P Dixon, ca 1824.

The belly and side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout and underside. Coloured engraving.

Om nordhvalen (Balaena mysticetus L.) navnlig med hensyn til dens udbredning i fortiden og nutiden og til dens ydre og indre særkjender / af D.F. Eschricht og J. Reinhardt.

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A whale stranded on the coast at Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk; five men in the foreground, ship in the background. Wood engraving, 1857.

A common whale, a dolphin and a porpoise. Coloured engraving by P Dixon, ca 1824.

The belly and side of a large, flat whale coloured black with a white snout and underside. Coloured engraving.

A narwhal and large sperm whale. Engraving.

Om nordhvalen (Balaena mysticetus L.) navnlig med hensyn til dens udbredning i fortiden og nutiden og til dens ydre og indre særkjender / af D.F. Eschricht og J. Reinhardt.