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Humpback in sentence

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In some cases, religion drives many Africans to extraordinary length: to attack other human beings, to commit ritual killing, targeting those living with albinism, those with a humpback, and as I recently learned, those with a bald head.
You probably saw the humpback whale footage we got a month or two ago off County Wexford.
And you always think you might have some legacy you can leave the world behind, and I was thinking of humpback whales breaching and dolphins.
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean.
In one recorded session, a humpback whale sang for 22 hours.
This isn't about Reddit itself, it's actually about humpback whales.
This means that humpback song is a form of animal culture, just like music for humans would be.
Now you are listening to a recording made by Chris Clark, 0.2 miles away from a humpback.
The next recording you're going to hear was made of the same humpback song 50 miles away.
Now after I play back these humpback calls, I'll play blue whale calls, but they have to be sped up because they're so low in frequency that you wouldn't be able to hear it otherwise.
Here's a blue whale call at 50 miles, which was distant for the humpback.
And the differences in scale between this tiny sea dragon and this enormous humpback whale was like something out of a science-fiction movie.
For instance, Earth will tell you that a tropical sea is an ideal nursery for a young humpback whale, because there are few predators.
But that’s bad news for leopard seals and Adelie penguins, humpback and blue whales, and many other species, because most organisms in the Antarctic marine ecosystem eat either krill or something that eats krill.
Last month, Australia led international protests against Japan’s plan to kill 50 humpback whales.
The Japanese think that humpback whale numbers have increased sufficiently for the killing of 50 to pose no danger to the species.
In the bed on the left, Zacharie, the eldest, a youth of one-and-twenty, was asleep with his brother Jeanlin, who had completed his eleventh year; in the right-hand bed two urchins, Lénore and Henri, the first six years old, the second four, slept in each other's arms, while Catherine shared the third bed with her sister Alzire, so small for her nine years that Catherine would not have felt her near her if it were not for the little invalid's humpback, which pressed into her side.
Isn't it true, Alzire, that we have all had some?""Sure enough, mother," replied the little humpback, who under such circumstances could tell lies with the self-possession of a grown-up person.
During our crossing I saw numerous baleen whales belonging to the three species unique to these southernmost seas: the bowhead whale (or "right whale," according to the English), which has no dorsal fin; the humpback whale from the genus Balaenoptera (in other words, "winged whales"), beasts with wrinkled bellies and huge whitish fins that, genus name regardless, do not yet form wings; and the finback whale, yellowish brown, the swiftest of all cetaceans.