Dorincard: CIA - The World Factbook. The Faroe Islands (Faroese: Føroyar, Danish: Færøerne). I show you WWF maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards with The Sowerby's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon bidens), The Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus), The North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) and The Northern Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus)

What do YOU know about The Faroe Islands?
Yeah, me neither.
~~I am pretending, just to make YOU feel good. :)~~
Read about Faroe (or any other country or territory) at: CIA - The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fo.html
Disclaimer: all this info here about Faroe was NOT obtained thru Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, like waterboarding, Procustian bed stretching, Catherine's Wheel meat tenderizing, borderline impaling, purification by fire, etc. Don't make me go into all the gory and classified details of TORT law. :)
Only at Gitmo are terror suspects given a special kind of Room & Board...

UL (upper-left): The Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens), also known as

the North Atlantic/North Sea beaked whale.

Originally called BIDENS (no, not Joe BIDEN) because of 2 teeth (BI-DENS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mesoplodon_bidens1.jpg

See the teeth, one on each side of the lower jaw?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowerby%27s_beaked_whale

UR: The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus).

" It is also known as Greenland right whale or Arctic whale.

The bowhead is perhaps the longest-living mammal, and has the largest mouth of any animal."

[MY NOTE: and you thought that your girlfriend has the biggest mouth on Earth...when she bad-mouthes you...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowhead_whale

LF: The North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis).

The Biggest Loser of fat/blubber? No, The Smallest (Littlest?) Loser of blubber.

"Forty percent of a right whale's body weight is blubber, which is of relatively low density.

Consequently, unlike many other species of whale, dead right whales float."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Right_Whale

Fitness advice for ya': "Float like a butterfly...not like a North Atlantic Right Whale!"

LR: The Northern Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_bottlenose_whale

The following is NOT from an incident report, written by an airport screener, describing a suspicious passenger:

"two large, fatty structures, the spermaceti organ and the junk.

The junk is structurally the same as (homologous to) the melon."

Instead, the above text is from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_(whale)

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Expand your cultural horizon, from your neck-of-the-woods...to lands far, far, FAR(OE) away...

Føroyar
Færøerne


Flag	Coat of arms

Anthem: Tú alfagra land mítt
Thou, my most beauteous land

Capital
(and largest city)

Tórshavn

62°00′N 06°47′W

Official language(s)

Faroese, Danish^[1]

Ethnic groups

91.7% Faroese
5.8% Danish
0.4% Icelandic
0.2% Norwegian
0.2% Poles

Demonym

Faroese

Government

Parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy

Autonomous constituent country
within the Kingdom of Denmark

Unified with Norway^[a]

1035

Ceded to Denmark^[b]

14 January 1814

Home rule

1 April 1948

Area

Total

1,399 km² (180th)
540 sq mi

Water (%)

0.5

Population

July 2010 estimate

48,917 ^[2] (205th)

2007 census

48,760

Density

35/km²
91/sq m

"The Faroe Islands (Faroese: Føroyar, Danish: Færøerne) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Great Britainand Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, along withDenmark proper and Greenland. The total area is approximately 1,400 square kilometers with a 2010 population of almost 50,000.

The Faroe Islands have been an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1948. Over the years, the Faroese have been granted control of some matters. Areas which remain the responsibility of Denmark include military defence, police, justice, currency and foreign affairs.

The Faroe Islands were politically associated with Norway in 1380, when Norway entered the Kalmar Union with Denmark and Sweden, which gradually evolved into Danish control of the islands. This association ceased in 1814, when Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden while Denmark retained control of Norwegian colonies including the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. The Faroe Islands have two representatives on the Nordic Council as members of the Danish delegation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe