Ad
related to: right whales names
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
North Pacific right whale in Half Moon Bay, California, 20 March 1982, photo by Jim Scarff. The right whales were first classified in the genus Balaena in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, who at the time considered all of the right whales (including the bowhead) as a single species. Through the 19th and 20th centuries, in fact, the family Balaenidae has ...
Right whales have rotund bodies with arching rostrums, V-shaped blowholes and dark gray or black skin. The most distinguishing feature of a right whale is the rough patches of skin on its head, which appear white due to parasitism by whale lice .
Like other right whales, the North Atlantic right whale, also known as the northern right whale or black right whale, [2] is readily distinguished from other cetaceans by the absence of a dorsal fin on its broad back, short, paddle-like pectoral flippers and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. Its coloration is dark grey to black ...
Naming and cataloging right whales helps researchers more easily recognize individuals and aides in their research.
The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.
Three North Atlantic right whales -- Spoon, Tux and a whale listed in the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog as #3550 -- on Feb. 20 were spotted echelon feeding in the Great South Channel, an area ...
An unusual journey. In her 26 years working with right whale sighting networks, Albert has seen right whales travel into the Gulf fewer than a half-dozen times.
With a population estimated at between 300-350 individuals, [19] the North Atlantic right whale is the most critically endangered great whale. The Northern Pacific right whale is also endangered with only about 500 individuals extant. [16] [17] The Southern right whale (~7500 individuals in 1997) and the Bowhead whale (20,000 to 40,000) have ...