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    Cetology (from Greek κῆτος, kētos, "whale"; and -λογία, -logia) or whalelore (also known as whaleology) is the branch of marine mammal science that studies...
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  • The cetology in Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick, is a running theme that appears most importantly in Ishmael's zoological classification of whales...
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    a cold Christmas Day, the Pequod leaves the harbor. Ishmael discusses cetology (the zoological classification and natural history of the whale), and describes...
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    Apiology Arachnology Arthropodology Batrachology Bryozoology Carcinology Cetology Cnidariology Entomology Forensic entomology Ethnozoology Ethology Helminthology...
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    robustus: its distribution and migration" (PDF). Japan Cetology. 20 (20): 21–29. doi:10.5181/cetology.0.20_21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04...
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    whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology." A manatee called Wardell appears in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons...
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    In cetology, the study of whales and other cetaceans, a blowhole is the hole (or spiracle) at the top of the head through which the animal breathes air...
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  • branches of zoology include: anthrozoology, arachnology, archaeozoology, cetology, embryology, entomology, helminthology, herpetology, histology, ichthyology...
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    taxonomically oriented disciplines such as primatology (study of primates), and cetology (study of cetaceans). Like other studies, mammalogy is also a part of zoology...
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    "mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing" at the end of "Cetology" (Ch. 32) echo the famous phrase in Macbeth: "Told by an idiot, full of...
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