"Isbister of the Eastmain Post, there is reference to a river called ""Wapameg-Us-Sosh"" (meaning White Whale River), where a multitude of beluga is found. It mentions that the river is located a short distance south of the Gulph (that is Richmond Gulf or Lac Guillaume-Delisle in French). The English name of the river was first recorded in 1744 in the logbooks of Hudson's Bay Company employees Thomas Mitchell and John Longland, while exploring the bay's coast. On July 29, Mitchell made mention of Little White Whale River. For the 1750 mining attempt see Richmond Gulf. From 1853 to 1890, the"
"Beluga whale The beluga whale () or white whale (""Delphinapterus leucas"") is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean. It is 1 of 2 members of the family Monodontidae, along with the narwhal, and the only member of the genus ""Delphinapterus"". This marine mammal is commonly referred to as the beluga or sea canary due to its high-pitched twitter. It is some times also called a melonhead, though that more commonly refers to the melon-headed whale, which is an oceanic dolphin. It is adapted to life in the Arctic, so has anatomical and physiological characteristics that differentiate it from other cetaceans. Amongst"
"a white whale off the coast of Peru. Since 1991, there have been sightings reported of a white humpback whale near Australia, nicknamed Migaloo. In 2012, a white humpback, nicknamed Willow the White Whale, was filmed off the coast of Norway. Sightings of white sperm whales have been recorded off Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea in 2006 and 2015. Mocha Dick Mocha Dick was a male sperm whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, usually encountered in the waters near Mocha Island, off the central coast of Chile. American explorer and author Jeremiah N. Reynolds"
"name comes from the Russian белуха (""belukha""), which derives from the word белый (""bélyj""), meaning ""white"". The name ""beluga"" in Russian refers to an unrelated species, a fish, beluga sturgeon. The whale is also colloquially known as the sea canary on account of its high-pitched squeaks, squeals, clucks, and whistles. A Japanese researcher says he taught a beluga to ""talk"" by using these sounds to identify three different objects, offering hope that humans may one day be able to communicate effectively with sea mammals. A similar observation has been made by Canadian researchers, where a beluga which died in 2007"
"Salle along with two U.S. Navy destroyers dispatched from the U.S. east coast on a six-month rotating basis were routinely on patrol in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and the general Indian Ocean regions. The LaSalle was considered by the Navy to be isolated duty and anything but a plum assignment by its crew. To symbolize its relatively minor status as a fighting ship at this time, the La Salle's nickname, emblazoned on T-shirts sold in the ship's store and wryly smiled about by those many of the ship's crew who wore them, unofficially became ""The Great White Whale"". By"
"and George Heinsohn (1987), though a white-flippered form in the Southern Hemisphere had been noted earlier. The former described a ""diminutive form"" based on specimens caught off Durban, South Africa, while the latter named a ""dwarf form"" based on specimens and sightings from Australia. This unnamed subspecies has a prominent white flipper and shoulder blaze and a dark throat patch, whereas what was called the ""dark-shouldered"" or ""ordinary"" form of minke whale (now known as a separate species, the Antarctic minke whale, ""B. bonaerensis"") lacked these contrasting markings. Until recently, all minke whales were considered a single species. However, the"
"Gray whale The gray whale (""Eschrichtius robustus""), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of , a weight of , and lives between 55 and 70 years. The common name of the whale comes from the gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin. Gray whales were once called devil fish because of their fighting behavior when hunted. The gray whale is the sole living species in the genus Eschrichtius, which in turn is"
"White perch The white perch (""Morone americana"") is not a true perch but is, rather, a fish of the temperate bass family, Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish in eastern North America. In some locales it is referred to incorrectly as ""silver bass"". The name ""white perch"" is sometimes applied to the white crappie. Generally silvery-white in color, hence the name, depending upon habitat and size specimens have begun to develop a darker shade near the dorsal fin and along the top of the fish. This sometimes earns them the nickname ""black-back"". White perch have been reported up"
"Haliotis sorenseni The white abalone, scientific name Haliotis sorenseni, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones. The white abalone is an endangered species in the United States; it may now have the smallest population of all eight of the abalone species on the west coast of North America. Historically the white abalone ranged from Point Conception, California to Baja California, Mexico, and was found especially on the offshore islands. In the most northerly part of the California range, white abalone were reported as being more common along the mainland coast."
"Fin whale The fin whale (""Balaenoptera physalus""), also known as finback whale or common rorqual and formerly known as herring whale or razorback whale, is a marine mammal belonging to the parvorder of baleen whales. It is the second-largest species on Earth after the blue whale. The largest reportedly grow to long with a maximum confirmed length of , a maximum recorded weight of nearly , and a maximum estimated weight of around . American naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews called the fin whale ""the greyhound of the sea ... for its beautiful, slender body is built like a racing yacht"
"for a mythical bird and the specific ""alba"" is Latin for ""white"". Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that the white tern is more closely related to the noddies than it is to the other terns. This implies that ""white noddy"" would be a more appropriate English name. The white tern has the following subspecies: The subspecies ""G. a. microrhyncha"", the little white tern, is sometimes considered as a separate species, ""Gygis microrhyncha"". Related to the noddies, the white tern is small bird with a wingspan of . It has white plumage and a long black bill. Nesting on coral islands,"
"White tern The white tern (""Gygis alba"") is a small seabird found across the tropical oceans of the world. It is sometimes known as the fairy tern although this name is potentially confusing as it is the common name of the fairy tern (""Sternula nereis""). Other names for the species include angel tern and white noddy. The white tern was first formally described by the Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman in 1786 under the binomial name ""Sterna alba"". The genus ""Gygis"" was introduced by the German zoologist Johann Georg Wagler in 1832. The name ""Gygis"" is from the Ancient Greek ""guges"""
"Narwhal The narwhal (""Monodon monoceros""), or narwhale, is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large ""tusk"" from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. It is one of two living species of whale in the Monodontidae family, along with the beluga whale. The narwhal males are distinguished by a long, straight, helical tusk, which is an elongated upper left canine. The narwhal was one of many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his publication ""Systema Naturae"" in 1758. Like the beluga, narwhals are medium-sized whales. For both sexes, excluding the"
"1865, naming it in honour of physician and zoologist Daniel Frederik Eschricht. The common name of the whale comes from its coloration. The subfossil remains of now extinct gray whales from the Atlantic coasts of England and Sweden were used by Gray to make the first scientific description of a species then surviving only in Pacific waters. The living Pacific species was described by Cope as ""Rhachianectes glaucus"" in 1869. Skeletal comparisons showed the Pacific species to be identical to the Atlantic remains in the 1930s, and Gray's naming has been generally accepted since. Although identity between the Atlantic and"
"black or blue plumage with contrasting shoulder or wing colour. They replace each other geographically across northern Australia and New Guinea. Its species name is derived from the Latin words ""albus"" ""white"" and ""scapulae"" ""shoulder-blades"". Alternative names for the white-shouldered fairywren include the black-and-white fairywren, black-and-white wren, black-and-white wren-warbler and white-shouldered wren. Six geographically isolated subspecies are currently recognized. They are differentiated by the differences in female plumage as the males of all six are indistinguishable. The adult male is all shiny black except for their white shoulders (scapulars), but unlike the better-known Australian fairywrens there is no eclipse male"
"White-winged snowfinch The white-winged snowfinch (""Montifringilla nivalis""), or snowfinch, is a small passerine bird. Despite its name, it is a sparrow rather than a true finch. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the white-winged snowfinch in his ""Ornithologie"" based on a specimen but without specifying where it had been collected. He used the French name ""Le pinçon de neige ou la niverolle"" and the Latin ""Fringilla nivalis"". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766"
"White hawk The white hawk (""Pseudastur albicollis""), a bird of prey breeding in the tropical New World, belongs to the family Accipitridae. Though it is commonly placed in the subfamily Buteoninae, the validity of this group is doubtful and currently under review. The adult white hawk ranges from 46–56 cm long with very broad wings and has a white head, body and underwings. The upper wings are black, and the very short tail is black with a broad white band. The bill is black and the legs are yellow. The sexes are similar, but females are larger and heavier (840"
"White squall A white squall is a sudden and violent windstorm at sea which is not accompanied by the black clouds generally characteristic of a squall. It manifests as a sudden increase in wind velocity in tropical and sub-tropical waters, and may be a microburst. The name refers to the white-capped waves and broken water, its meager warning to any unlucky seaman caught in its path. A white squall was allegedly behind the sinking of the brigantine ""Albatross"" on May 2, 1961. White squalls are rare at sea, but common on the Great Lakes of North America. White squalls are"
"experts consider the fin whales of the North Pacific to be a third, as yet unnamed subspecies—this was supported by a 2013 study, which found that the Northern Hemisphere ""B. p. physalus"" was not composed of a single subspecies. The three groups mix at most rarely. Clarke (2004) proposed a ""pygmy"" subspecies (""B. p. patachonica"", Burmeister, 1865) that is purportedly darker in colour and has black baleen. He based this on a single physically mature female caught in the Antarctic in 1947–48, the smaller average size (a few feet) of sexually and physically mature fin whales caught by the Japanese"
"Afrikaans) later used a calque of the English word, and now also call it a ""white"" rhino. This suggests the origin of the word was before codification by Dutch writers. A review of Dutch and Afrikaans literature about the rhinoceros has failed to produce any evidence that the word ""wijd"" was ever used to describe the rhino outside of oral use. An alternative name for the white rhinoceros, more accurate but rarely used, is the square-lipped rhinoceros. The white rhinoceros' generic name, ""Ceratotherium"", given by the zoologist John Edward Gray in 1868, is derived from the Greek terms ""keras"" (κερας)"
"more closely related to the white whales, and that these two families constitute a separate clade which diverged from the rest of Delphinoidea within the past 11 million years. Fossil evidence shows that ancient white whales lived in tropical waters. They may have migrated to Arctic and sub-Arctic waters in response to changes in the marine food chain during the Pliocene. Narwhals are medium-sized whales, and are around the same size as beluga whales. Total length in both sexes, excluding the tusk of the male, can range from . Males, at an average length of , are slightly larger than"
"it to the species in question. The name was really derived from the Norwegian ""blåhval"", coined by Svend Foyn shortly after he had perfected the harpoon gun; the Norwegian scientist G. O. Sars adopted it as the Norwegian common name in 1874. Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: ""B. m. musculus"", the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, ""B. m. intermedia"", the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, ""B. m. brevicauda"", the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic ""B. m. indica"","
"Bowhead whale The bowhead whale (""Balaena mysticetus"") is a species of the family Balaenidae, in parvorder Mysticeti, and genus ""Balaena"", which once included the right whale. A stocky dark-coloured whale without a dorsal fin, it can grow in length. This thick-bodied species can weigh from . They live entirely in fertile Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, unlike other whales that migrate to low latitude waters to feed or reproduce. The bowhead was also known as the Greenland right whale or Arctic whale. American whalemen called them the steeple-top, polar whale, or Russia or Russian whale. The bowhead has the largest mouth"
"19 March 2018. A popular albeit widely discredited theory of the origins of the name ""white rhinoceros"" is a mistranslation from Dutch to English. The English word ""white"" is said to have been derived by mistranslation of the Dutch word ""wijd"", which means ""wide"" in English. The word ""wide"" refers to the width of the rhinoceros's mouth. So early English-speaking settlers in South Africa misinterpreted the ""wijd"" for ""white"" and the rhino with the wide mouth ended up being called the white rhino and the other one, with the narrow pointed mouth, was called the black rhinoceros. Ironically, Dutch (and"
"Pacific populations cannot be proven by anatomical data, its skeleton is distinctive and easy to distinguish from that of all other living whales. Many other names have been ascribed to the gray whale, including desert whale, devilfish, gray back, mussel digger and rip sack. The name ""Eschrichtius gibbosus"" is sometimes seen; this is dependent on the acceptance of a 1777 description by Erxleben. The gray whale has a dark slate-gray color and is covered by characteristic gray-white patterns, scars left by parasites which drop off in its cold feeding grounds. Individual whales are typically identified using photographs of their dorsal"
"whales"" because pods were believed to be ""piloted"" by a leader. They are also called ""pothead whales"" and ""blackfish"". The genus name is a combination of the Latin words ""globus"" (""round ball"" or ""globe"") and ""kephale"" (""head""). ""Melas"" is Greek for ""black"" and ""macrorhynchus"" comes from the Greek words ""macro"" (""enlarged"") and ""rhynchus"" (""snout"" or ""beak""). Pilot whales are mostly dark grey, brown, or black, but have some light areas such as a grey saddle patch behind the dorsal fin. Other light areas are an anchor-shaped patch under the chin, a faint blaze marking behind the eye, a large marking"
"White-eye The white-eyes are small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Guinea. Discounting some widespread members of the genus ""Zosterops"", most species are endemic to single islands or archipelagos. The silvereye, ""Zosterops lateralis"", naturally colonised New Zealand, where it is known as the ""wax-eye"" or ""tauhou"" (""stranger""), from 1855. The silvereye has also been introduced to the Society Islands in French Polynesia, while the Japanese white-eye has been introduced to Hawaii. White-eyes are"
"Naturae"" of 1758, would have known this and may have intended the ironic double meaning. Herman Melville called this species ""sulphur-bottom"" in his novel ""Moby-Dick"" (1851) due to an orange-brown or yellow tinge on the underparts from diatom films on the skin. Other common names for the blue whale have included ""Sibbald's rorqual"" (after Sibbald, who first described the species), the ""great blue whale"" and the ""great northern rorqual"". These names have now fallen into disuse. The first known usage of the term ""blue whale"" was in Melville's ""Moby-Dick"", which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute"
"the vernacular name for the bird in Setswana ""mogale"" or from the Sesotho word ""mohale"", a brave or fierce person, which suggests the bird's name may refer to its angry scolding. Other common names used in English include black-billed mahali weaverbird, black-billed sparrow weaver, Kismayu sparrow-weaver, stripe-breasted sparrow-weaver, white-browed weaver bird, and white-crowned weaver bird. There are four recognized subspecies of the white-browed sparrow-weaver: It ranges from in length and is characterized by a broad, white eyebrow stripe and white rump visible in flight. While the male white-browed sparrow-weaver sports a black bill, the female's bill is horn-colored (light gray);"
"for food and space. Many states have enacted laws forbidding possession of live white perch. Additionally, these states recommend not releasing captured white perch back into the water to help control its spread. White perch The white perch (""Morone americana"") is not a true perch but is, rather, a fish of the temperate bass family, Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish in eastern North America. In some locales it is referred to incorrectly as ""silver bass"". The name ""white perch"" is sometimes applied to the white crappie. Generally silvery-white in color, hence the name, depending upon habitat and"
"great white shark as a ""ferocious man eater"". Humans are not the preferred prey of the great white shark, but the great white is nevertheless responsible for the largest number of reported and identified fatal unprovoked shark attacks on humans. The great white shark was one of the many amphibia originally described by Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his ""Systema Naturae"", its first scientific name, ""Squalus carcharias"". Later, Sir Andrew Smith gave it ""Carcharodon"" as its generic name in 1833, and also in 1873. The generic name was identified with Linnaeus' specific name and the current scientific"
"White crappie The white crappie (""Pomoxis annularis"") is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two species of crappies. Alternate common names for the species include goldring and silver perch. is named for the fish. The genus name ""Promoxis"" refers to crappies' sharp operculum, while the species name ""annularis"" means 'having rings'. White crappies are morphologically similar to black crappies. They have 5–10 dark vertical bars along their bodies, rather than the randomly scattered spots like the black crappie. The white crappie has a silvery color with green or brown shades along its back, with dark lateral"
"Cittarium pica Cittarium pica, common name the West Indian top shell or magpie shell, is a species of large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. This species has a large black and white shell. This snail is known as ""wilk"" or ""wilks"" (or sometimes as ""whelks"") in the English-speaking Caribbean islands of the West Indies, where this is a popular food item. The word ""will"" or ""wilks"" can used both as a singular form and a plural. This species is however not at all closely related to the species that are known as whelks in"