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I bet you never heard of these 4 species of WHALES. I show you WWF maximum cards from REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: BRYDE'S WHALE (Balaenoptera edeni), MINKE WHALE ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata), PYGMY RIGHT WHALE (Caperea marginata) and CUVIER'S BEAKED WHALE (Ziphius cavirostris)
UL (upper-left): "Bryde's whales (
/ˈbruːdə/ brew-də) are baleen whales, one of the "great whales" or rorquals. They prefer tropical and temperate waters over the polar seas that other whales in their family frequent. They are largely coastal rather than pelagic. Bryde's whales are very similar in appearance to sei whales and almost as large.
/ˈbruːdə/ brew-də) are baleen whales, one of the "great whales" or rorquals. They prefer tropical and temperate waters over the polar seas that other whales in their family frequent. They are largely coastal rather than pelagic. Bryde's whales are very similar in appearance to sei whales and almost as large."Bryde" is sometimes misheard as "brutus whale". The name comes from the Norwegian consul to South Africa,Johan Bryde, who helped set up the first whaling station in Durban, South Africa in 1908.
They inhabit tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.
Bryde's whales are considered medium-sized for balaenopterids, dark gray in color with a white underbelly."
/ˈmɪŋki/), or lesser rorqual, is a name given to two species of marine mammal belonging to aclade[1] within the suborder of baleen whales. The minke whale was given its official designation[2] by Lacepède in 1804,[3] who described a dwarf form of Balænoptera acuto-rostrata.[4] The name is a partial translation ofNorwegian minkehval, possibly after a Norwegian whaler named Meincke, who mistook a northern minke whale for a blue whale.[5]"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minke_whale
LL: "The pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) is a baleen whale, the sole member of the family Neobalaenidae.[3]First described by John Edward Gray in 1846, it is the smallest of the baleen whales, ranging between 6 metres (20 ft) and 6.5 metres (21 ft) in length and 3,000 and 3,500 kg in mass. Despite its name, the pygmy right whale may have more in common with the gray whale and rorquals than the bowhead and right whales.[3]
LR: "Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)[1] is the most widely distributed of all the beaked whales. It is the only member of the genus Ziphius. Another common name for the species is goose-beaked whale because its head is said to be shaped like the beak of a goose. Georges Cuvier first described it in 1823 from part of a skull found in France in 1804. He thought it represented an extinct species — it wasn't until the 1870s that it was realized the type specimen represented a living species."
The pygmy right whale is found in the Southern Ocean in the lower reaches of the Southern Hemisphere, and feeds on copepods and euphausiids. Little is known about its population or social habits. Unlike most other baleen whales, it has rarely been subject to exploitation."
Blue waters of South Africa...
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Happy Blue Monday! (meme)
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See videoclip of OSCAR LEONARD CARL PISTORIUS (REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA). "Known as the "Blade Runner" and "the fastest man on no legs", Pistorius, who has a double amputation, is the world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres (sport class T44) events and runs with the aid of Cheetah Flex-Foot carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs by Ossur." CM atletism: omul fără picioare, în semifinale la 400 de metri | VIDEO - EVZ.ro. Also, I show you the symbolic USPS stamp "HOPE FOR THE CRIPPLED"
CM atletism: omul fără picioare, în semifinale la 400 de metri | VIDEO - Alte sporturi > EVZ.ro
 Pistorius taking part in the Landsmót ungmennafélags Íslands in Kópavogur, Iceland, the largest sporting event in the country, on 8 July 2007 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Blade Runner; the fastest man on no legs; "Oz" Pistorius[1] |
| Born | 22 November 1986 Sandton, Johannesburg,Transvaal Province (nowGauteng Province), South Africa |
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 1⁄4 in) in prosthetics[2] |
| Weight | 80.5 kg (177 lb) (2007)[3] |
| Website | www.oscarpistorius.co.za |
| Sport | |
| Country |  South Africa |
| Sport | Running |
| Event(s) | Sprints (100, 200, 400 m) |
| Achievements and titles | |
| World finals | 2005 Paralympic World Cup: 100 m (T44) – Gold; 200 m (T44) – Gold |
| National finals | 2007 South African Senior Athletics Championships: 400 m (T44) – Gold |
| Paralympic finals | 2008 Summer Paralympics: 100 m (T44) – Gold, 200 m (T44) – Gold; 400 m (T44) – Gold 2004 Summer Paralympics: 100 m (T44) – Bronze; 200 m (T44) – Gold |
| Highest world ranking | 400 m: 1st (2008)[6] |
| Personal best(s) | 400 m (T44): 45.07 |
| Updated on 14 September 2008. | |
Other awards and accolades
In 2006, Pistorius was conferred the Order of Ikhamanga in Bronze (OIB) by the President of South Africa for outstanding achievement in sports.[1] On 9 December 2007, Pistorius was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award, which is conferred for outstanding courage and achievement in the face of adversity.[74]
In May 2008, Pistorius made the "2008 TIME 100" – Time magazine's annual list of the world's most influential people – appearing third in the "Heroes & Pioneers" section. Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to climb Mount Everest, wrote in an essay that Pistorius was "on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius
See other videos of him from his website:
http://www.oscarpistorius.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=10&Itemid=110
See other videos of him from his website:
http://www.oscarpistorius.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=10&Itemid=110
World Athletics 2011: Oscar Pistorius misses out on 400m final
Blue tracks for athletes to run.
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