(1) Blackfish was what the islanders had named pilot whales.

(2) In 1989 the reported kill figures were 735 pilot whales and 2 rare bottlenose whales.

(3) Pilot whales are endearing creatures(sentence dictionary), as anyone who has been involved in their rescue will testify.

(4) These records show that strandings, especially of pilot whales, have increased over the past 25 years.

(5) The stranding had left at least 28 pilot whales dead.

(6) Caption :The body of a stranded pilot whale is seen on a beach in the coastal region of Bustamante Bay in Argentina.

(7) But a pilot whale was noted as having six minutes of REM in a single night.

(8) In 1987, 1422 whales were killed, and in 1988, the toll rose to 1690 pilot whales.

(9) Gillian Stacey, organiser of the campaign, claimed that the Faroese needlessly slaughtered 1,500 pilot whales every year.

(10) The 17 sea mammals on gruesome display included porpoises, white dolphins, common dolphins, aa pilot whale, a beaked whale and a pilot whale.

(11) New Zealand Department of Conservation spokesman Trish Grant said, the pilot whale stranding South Island tourist city located about 150 km west of Nelson's farewell Sha Tsui.

(12) It also stated that pregnant orbreast-feeding women should refrain from eating any pilot whale meat at all.

(13) Now research has put up a surprising candidate to join this high-speed predatory club: the short- finned pilot whale.