A Japanese tourist poses with a 15 meter long inflatable humpback whale
and calf on the background in Sydney Harbour May 10, 2002. The
life-size model, dubbed Venus, was used by the Interanational Fund for
Animal Welfare to launch the 2002 whale season when thousands of whales
leave the cold waters of Anarctica and head north to the warm waters of
Australia to breed and give birth. REUTERS/Mark Baker

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