41. For example, there are only an estimated 2, 500 fin whales and far fewer blues whale left. 42. Payne says the discovery makes sense because fin whales , like blue whales, do not have breeding grounds. 43. In recent years Japan has resumed taking North Pacific fin whale and sei whales in their research whaling. 44. The fin whale species is endangered. 45. Cruise ships en route to and from the Antarctic Peninsula sometimes encounter fin whales in the Drake Passage. 46. It is a fin whale which was 7 years old when it died after grounding on a beach. 47. Besides being smaller than fin whales , the new species has fewer baleen plates in its mouth, Yamada says. 48. Olavsen admitted being awed last year when eight 90-foot-long fin whales crowded his boat off the Svalbard archipelago. 49. Excellent articles for examples-but confirm taxonomy * Blue whale * Fin whale * Orca * Pinniped * Sea Otter 50. Other countries are mulling smaller sanctuaries, including Italy, which wants to protect fin whales in the Mediterranean's Ligurian Sea.
