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Right Whales
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Description of the research tagging program of the New England Aquarium and NOAA.
http://www.rightwhale.noaa.gov/
Description of the Balaenidae and its two species from Walker's Mammals of the World by Ronald Nowak.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/w.../cetacea/cetacea.balaenidae.html
Information from the National Marine Mammal Laboratory.
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Northern and Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) and (Eubalaena australis) Eubalaena glacialis glacialis) and (Eubalaena glacialis australis) What is really cool about right whales? Right whales were called right whales because whalers found the whales to be the right whales to hunt. Whalers liked catching right whales because they are...Description of Caperea marginata from Walker's Mammals of the World.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/w...tacea.neobalaenidae.caperea.html
Extensive information from the western North Atlantic, including sighting reports, Right Whale recovery plans, and whale watch guidelines, and reports on entangled whales.
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WhaleNet Right Whale Data Net supported in part by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust. NEA-EWS NMFS-SAS CCS-Rescue NMFS MSR Right Whale NEWS WhaleNet Home Page...General information, illustrations, and map.
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The baleen apparatus is at its most extravagant in this species. The head is huge, in some species up to 40 per cent of body length. All seven neck vertabrae are fixed into a single unit to support the enormous...Photos and information from the Valdes Peninsula.
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The Southern Right Whale Argentina's Natural Monument Patagonian nature ecology and tourism in a top travel destination in Argentina The Peninsula Valds, this great hilly promontory located in the Province of Chubut in the Argentinean Patagonia, nominated World Heritage Site, constituted by a series of gulfs, rocky...Report from the Environmental News Network.
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CNN Report: Northern right whale on path to extinction March 18, 1999 Northern right whale on path to extinction The right whale population is currently estimated at about 300 March 18, 1999 Web posted at: 5:45 p.m. EST (2245 GMT) The North Atlantic northern right whale is headed for extinction unless human...News and information about the biology and conservation of Right Whales and other large whales around the world.
http://www.eubalaena.org/