1.   Full-grown female whales are about one-third the size of an average male.

2.   He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds.

3.   FEMALE whale song will be used today -- weather permitting -- in an attempt to entice six male sperm whales out of the confines of Scapa Flow.

4.   SCIENTISTS yesterday played the sound of female whales to the six male sperm whales trapped in Scapa Flow, Orkney.

5.   A second female whale, nicknamed Staccato, died last spring off Cape Cod after she was struck by a ship.

6.   Each killer whale has a specific trainer, Rubincam explained while a female whale named Umma practiced swimming on her side, waving a fin.

7.   Female whales migrate to a calving ground off the coast of northern Florida and southern Georgia before guiding their young whales up the coast.

8.   Female whales sometimes abandon or become separated from their young.

9.   Female whales are believed to live in the Gulf in packs, while males may migrate to mate.

10.   Scientists said the female whale, nicknamed Staccato, had five broken vertebrae as well as a broken jaw, all injuries consistent with a collision with a ship.