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Whale Songs Cetacean Information Bryde's Whale  Most common in tropical and subtropical areas- between 30 degrees N and 30 degrees S Local pockets of abundance off South Africa, Japan, Sri Lanka, Fiji and western Australia Migration of short distances for offshore animals No known long distance...

Centre For Dolphin Studies Bryde's Whale  Ocean and can be seen anywhere along the south-eastern Cape coast. But as with most baleen whales, the best sites are capes or promontories, such as Robberg. This is especially so during autumn and early winter, when shoals of small...

Bryde's whale  This species was first described in 1878 based on a specimen stranded in Burma. The common name, Bryde's whale, was given in honor of Norwegian consul Johan Bryde, who built the first whaling stations in South Africa. In 1913, the...

 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...