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= Narwhal =

A Narwhal lives in cold Arctic Ocean near Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Russia. Although over 90% of the narwhal population is found in Baffin Bay in between Canada and Norway.

Narwhals eat a lot of things that stay close to the bottom of the sea. Things like Green Land Halibut, Arctic and Polar Cod, Gonatus Squid and Shrimp. They are also hunted by polar bears, walruses, killer whales, and people.

Narwhals mating period is March-May. Females can only give birth every 3 years and their gestation period is up to 10-16 months. When mating the males joust with their long tusks to mate with the one female they chose.

An interesting fact about the narwhals is the long sword like tusk at the front of their body that is what they're known for. But the one thing is the long tusks are the males. The males tusks can get up to about 8 feet long. Females tusks only get up to about 2 feet long. So if you ever see a narwhal you can automatically see weather it's a female or male by their tusk.

The IUCN stands for status for the Narwhal is threatened. That means that the narwhal isn't endangered but close too it. There are organizations that are trying to help the narwhals. Like The Save the Whales foundation. They save all kinds of whales by doing the following... Things I could do to save the narwhals is by a page where people can adopt a narwhal by paying for medical bills, food anything in that type of nature
 * Prevents Navy "Ship Shock"
 * Stops the salt mining operation
 * Supports rescue effort
 * Campaigns against whaling
 * Stops marine mammal capture and captivity

Bibliography http://www.savethewhales.org/about.html www.iucnredlist.org/details/13704/0 http://collections,ic,gc,ca/arctic/species/marine/html http:tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3500/narwhal.html http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=narwhals&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=Eq4yuAdA9oHQ1M&tbnid=WJlyOYFrzFtmkM:&ved=0CAQQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howstuffworks.com%2Fnarwhal.htm&ei=gnWSUefTAfHb8gGZpIGIBA& media type="custom" key="23050774" align="center"