Minke Whale
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assessment. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for possible further reports on the species.
BC Cetacean Sightings Network species information
See information from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
April 2011 interview with leading minke researcher, Jonathan Stern about the NE Pacific minkes.
http://www.northeastpacificminke.org/index.htm - Northeast Pacific Minke Study group with good general information on Minke whales. Click "About Pacific Minke Whales.”
Evidence of further abuses of whaling regulations by Japan (Sept 2009) - hunting an depleted stock of Minkes.
Voices of the Sea - website where you can hear the sounds of Minke whales, see the spectrogram of their sounds, see video clips and learn cool facts from scientists! Click on the humpback whale and then click on the Minke whale at the bottom of the page.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/05/03/EDGF4PJOJA1.DTL An explanation of the arguments used by pro-whaling nations about why whaling should be "okay." A perspective by Dr. Jonathon Stern. (May 2007)
http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/publications/whalesdpbook/default_e.htm -Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises of British Columbia, Canada
Pacific Wildlife Foundation’s species information.
http://www.mi.mun.ca/mi-net/fishdeve/cetacea7.htm - DFO page
http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/School_Programs/whales/s-minkewhale.html Royal British Columbia Museum's fact sheets
Video and article of a Minke’s adapted feeding behaviour as a result of having been entangled.
http://www.killerwhale.ca/animals-minke.html - Information from Environment Canada 2004
http://www.projectminke.com/biology.htm - Scottish Minke project Not a Canadian page
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/minke.shtml - very good fact sheet on the Minke Not a Canadian page
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/minke.htm Not a Canadian page
http://www.whales.org.au/discover/minke/index.html Not a Canadian page
http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/A59B71D6C8A9EB17802568F800443577 - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society's species information Not a Canadian page
http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/mammals/whales/accounts/minke.htm - Information from the University of Guelph, Ontario. Be sure to explore all the pages, links given on the left.
http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/biodiversity/minke.html - Bamfield Research Station’s fact sheet
•Whaling of Minkes http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/lec04/b65lec04.htm#Norway's_Minke_Whale_Hunt ; http://www.davidsuzuki.org/About_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/Article_Archives/weekly06220101.asp; http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/cites-factsheet-minke-whales.pdf
http://www.dosits.org/gallery/intro.htm -click your species name to hear its sounds! and http://www.dosits.org/animals/intro.htm - study how marine mammals make sound and how sound effects them.
http://www.ukogorter.com/portfolio/cetaceanslides/index.html - great illustration, use the drop down menu under the right whale to find your animal
http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/MinkeWhale.htm - American Cetacean Society's Fact Sheet Not a Canadian page
http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/marine_mammals.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=71 - lots of detail about identification some information about behaviour and threats. An international webpage.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/BRP/SoundsMinkeWhale.html - Minke whale vocals of an ATLANTIC population. We don't know what sort of sounds Pacific Minkes make!
http://www.dosits.org/gallery/marinemm/2.htm - click baleen whales and then Minke whale for acoustic samples. Note not the Pacific population of Minkes!
http://www.whaledolphintrust.co.uk/whales_dolphins/information-on-species.asp - detailed facts Not a Canadian page
http://www.vanaqua.org/aquanews/archive.html - enter the species name in the search field to get any AquaNews bulletins posted by the Vancouver Marine Sciences Centre
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Balaenoptera_acutorostrata.html
http://www.cetacea.org/minke.htm - Site is currently down. Will be up again in the summer of 2007. Especially valuable for its "influence of man" section
www.oceanlink.island.net - Bamfield Research Station’s detailed marine biology page search for your species
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Balaenoptera_acutorostrata.html - Animal Diversity Web fact sheet Not a Canadian page
http://www.vanaqua.org/education/aquafacts/ - Vancouver Aquarium’s web data base of frequently asked questions about marine ecosystems
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=5 - Click "marine mammals" and do a search for your animal. Excellent on-line field guides Not a Canadian page
www.racerocks.com/racerock/marmam/mammals.htm and http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/archivemammals.htm
- involvement of Lester B. Pearson School in a fantastic marine mammal project. Search the site at http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/web/sitemap.htm
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/fungames/animations/swim-with-the-whales - click your species for information about whaling and also watch the animated video of relative whale sizes (“Diving With Whales”)
http://netvet.wustl.edu/marine.htm - net vet marine mammals; search links for information that may be relevant to your species Not a Canadian page