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What are your chances of encountering one?

Any stretch of the imagination. but it's warming up. there's a big difference. and they are threatened. alaa has its fair share of endangered animals, but at the top of the list are six species of whales. starting in the early 1900s commercial whaling, which is the hunting of whales for profit, nearly depleted alaska's whale population before it was internationally banned in 1986. but long before commercial whaling existed, bare error -- barrow's native tribes hunted whales in a tradition called subsistence whaling, which is the harvesting of whales for the survival of the community. this way ...