War of the Whales: A True Story
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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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