War of the Whales: A True Story

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by Joshua Horwitz


  Watkins, Bill, 53–54, 212, 264, 372n13, 373n15

  Watlington, Frank, 224, 225, 226

  Webb, Doug, 367n10

  Weilgart, Lindy, 121, 164–65, 174

  Weir, Gary, 366n5, 386, 397

  Weiss, Rick, 272–73, 283

  West Pacific gray whales, 92, 306

  Wetzler, Andrew:

  and Cravath, Swaine, 87

  and lawsuit against Navy, 295, 296, 299, 303, 315

  and NRDC, 87–88, 180, 335

  and NRDC v. Winter, 333

  whale meat, as protein source, 94

  Whale Museum, Friday Harbor, 219

  whale oil, 93, 197–98, 226

  whales:

  “A deaf whale is a dead whale,” 165–66, 175, 183

  albums of songs of, 54, 225–26

  body temperature maintained by, 10

  in captive vs. wild settings, 227

  communications of, 54–55, 96, 164, 170, 179, 212, 224–26, 350, 374n1

  conservation of, 198

  deconstruction of, 39–40

  and echolocation, xvii, 26, 31, 46, 199, 200, 212, 278–79

  as entertainers, 198, 212, 214–17

  evolution of, xvii, 26–28, 30, 31, 103

  extinction threatened, 197, 225, 302, 344

  forensic evidence on, 24–25

  God and country vs., 291

  heads removed as evidence, 29–32, 64–65

  hunting of, see whaling

  mass strandings in Outer Banks (2005), 308

  migrations of, 6, 40, 264, 306, 344, 350

  necropsies of, 29–32, 71–72, 126–29, 293, 298

  populations (1770), 344

  shark attacks on, 7

  ship collisions with, 71, 76

  slaughter of, xvii; see also whaling

  sonar as traumatic to, 142, 162, 163, 165–66, 176, 178, 255, 270–71, 273, 283–85, 287, 288–89, 293, 302, 331, 350–51, 372n13

  strandings of, 6, 15, 23, 68–69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 106–7, 111, 183, 265, 308, 350–51; see also specific sites

  surveys of, 6, 60–61, 66, 198, 346, 350

  tagging of, 40–41, 251, 312–13

  and tourism, 90–91, 92

  undersea pressure waves as assaults to, 15, 162

  volunteer groups for rescue of, 69–70, 93

  as warm-blooded mammals, 10

  see also individual species

  Whales ’93, 367n10, 373n15

  “Whales and Porpoise Voices” (recording), 54

  whale-watching trips, 198, 211, 219–20

  mass stranding (2003) witnessed by, 310–11

  Whaley, Janet, 261, 263

  whaling:

  antiwhaling movement, 226

  commercial, ban on, 77, 198, 220, 228

  factory ships, 39, 198, 344

  massacres in, 91–92, 197–98

  and Mitsubishi, 93–94

  as mortal threat, 288, 344, 375n1

  steam-powered ships in, 197

  and whale behavior studies, 200

  Wheeler, John, 370n6

  White, Ben:

  and animal rights activism, 176, 177, 222, 223

  and Balcomb, 228–30

  and press conference, 229–30, 247–48, 249, 250

  and publicity, 222, 223, 229, 245, 375n4

  tree-sitting campaigns of, 222

  White-beaked Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris), 329

  Whitehead, Hal, 121, 165, 174, 289, 374n2

  White House strategy meeting (2007), 325–27

  White-sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus), 317

  Whitworth, Jerry, 154, 242

  Wide World of Sports, 228

  Wilson, Stephen, 124

  Winter, Donald, 318, 327

  Wizerella (sheepdog), 55

  Wood, Forrest, 234–35

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 17, 47

  dolphin research in, 201

  Ketten as researcher in, 105, 106

  and Navy, 49, 71, 142, 154, 268

  Pittenger as director of, 142, 144, 145

  whale dissection in, 261

  whale heads in secure custody at, 192, 221

  Woodward, Bob, 83

  Worcester, Peter, 371n9

  World Trade Organization, and turtles, 222

  World War I:

  glycerin bombs in, 197–98

  U-boats in, 46

  World War II:

  active sonar in, 46–47

  animals used in, 199–200

  D-day landings, 155

  and defense spending, 147

  Navy mapping in, 140

  passive sonar in, 47

  U-boats in, 46, 47

  underwater weather forecasting in, 154–55

  whale oil in, 93

  whales killed in, 198

  Worzel, J. Lamar, 47, 48–49

  Wright Brothers, 200

  Wunsch, Carl, 371n9

  Zedillo, Ernesto, 97

  Ziphiidae species, 29

  Ziphius cavirostris, see Cuvier’s beaked whales

  Zippy (dolphin), 202

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