Word: mammals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of an international conservation group called Greenpeace, which was founded a decade ago and has been protesting whaling operations throughout the world. Whenever a fin whale rose up from the depths to blow out air in a watery spray, the inflatable would run brazen interference for the giant mammal, interposing itself between the whaler and its quarry. With growing frustration, Captain Thordur Eythorsson, 36, stood by his ominous-looking harpoon gun atop the whaler's bow, unable to make his kill...
...carved up. Back on shore, Greenpeace Leader David McTaggart, 47, a dedicated environmentalist who had sailed a ketch into France's South Pacific nuclear proving grounds in an effort to halt atomic testing, addressed his companions: "What we saw today was disgusting ... disgusting. The whale is a mammal. It makes love. It is warm-blooded. It has been here 40 million years longer than we have...
...genetic duplicate), by a doctor named "Darwin," was alive and well. Had Lippincott checked with any of the reputable scientists quoted in the book or even with the editors in its own medical book division, it would have known that the story was probably fraudulent; experts agree that no mammal has yet been cloned. Instead, the publisher depended entirely on the word of Author David Rorvik, a little-known freelancer whose credentials include naive articles about psychics and faith healers, and newsletters supporting the quack cancer drug Laetrile...
...land mammal, man, has been waging war on the sea mammals, Cetacea, for centuries. Archeologists believe Alaskan Eskimos have been whaling for over 2000 years. But some groups have been working to even the odds for the whales. In recent years controversy has arisen over whether the Eskimos should be allowed to continue killing the bowhead whale...
...echolocution--to compensate for an inability to see underwater. The noises they make sound like clicks and whistles and meaningless barks to the human ear. However, some observers have noticed that whales put these sounds together in startling ways. Cummings and Philippi, who worked on the Navy's marine mammal research program, found that in the right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly that listeners could predict the appearance of the next type of signal." Carl Sagan noticed that the same phenomenon occurs in the humpback whale...