
	Where results make sense

Topic: Northern Right Whale

Related Topics

Right whale

Atlantic Ocean

Grand Banks

Pacific Northern Right Whale

In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Right whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Right whales are easily distinguished from other whales by the large number of callosities on their heads, a thick back without a dorsal fin, and a long drooping mouth that begins high above the eye and then arches round beneath it.
		Right whales are slow swimmers, reaching only 5 knots (9 km/h) at top speed, but are highly acrobatic and frequently breach (jump clear of the sea surface), tail-slap and lobtail.
		Whaling in small wooden boats with hand harpoons was a hazardous enterprise, even when hunting the "right" whale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantic_Northern_Right_Whale (3843 words)

	Species Corner: Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Right Whales, so named because they were the "right" whales to slaughter, have a high blubber content which yields large quantities of oil and gives them a tendency to float when dead.
		Northern and southern populations are isolated from one another by the tropics.
		Right whales are usually found in groups of 12 or less, although they may aggregate in larger groups to breed and feed.
	www.tmmsn.org /mmgulf/eubalaena.html (434 words)

	RIGHT WHALE
		Right whales were named by whalers who considered them the "right" whales to hunt, since they were rich in blubber, they were easy to catch (they are relatively slow swimmers) and they floated after being killed.
		Right whales (like all baleen whales) are seasonal feeders and carnivores that filter feed plankton and tiny crustaceans like copepods, krill, pteropods, etc., from the water.
		Northern right whales are near extinction due to past hunting pressures and are an endangered species; it is estimated that there are 500-1,000 northern right whales alive and they are near extinction.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/whales/species/Rightwhale.shtml (819 words)

	Northern Right Whale Tagging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The northern right whale satellite telemetry project will tag large, mature whales with dart-like satellite transmitters to monitor their movements off the southeastern coast of the United States, the southern most range of their habitat occupied during the animal's calving season.
		The National Right Whale Recovery Team, established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to identify the human-induced risks to the right whale, acknowledges the largest risk to the endangered northern right whale to be 'collision with ships'.
		Although population growth of the right whale is slow at best, it is hoped that with each passing year, additional conservation and education measures will decrease the effect humans have on the animal's population, enabling it to thrive in the coastal waters of the Eastern United States.
	www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov /articles/art3.html (1440 words)

	Right Whales, Fundy Whales, New Brunswick
		Right Whales were regarded by Nineteenth century whalers as the 'right' whales for their industry.
		All Right whales are protected internationally under the convention for the regulation of whaling and have not been actively hunted since 1935.
		The Right whale is an inquisitive and playful whale and has been observed poking, bumping or pushing objects around that are in the water.
	new-brunswick.net /new-brunswick/whales/rightwhale.html (643 words)

	Detailed Information about Right Whales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Northern and Southern hemisphere right whale sub-species are separated by the "tropical belt" roughly between the latitudes of 20
		Right whales have distinguishing callosities which are the best identification both for the species and for individual right whale.
		Right whales die of natural causes and are sometimes preyed upon by killer whales.
	nmml.afsc.noaa.gov /education/cetaceans/right2.htm (569 words)

	Animal Info - North Atlantic Right Whale
		Right whales are " skim feeders", moving slowly through the water with their mouths partially open, continuously straining the food items with their long baleen.
		The North Atlantic right whale occurs in the Atlantic Ocean: during the summer from Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the Norwegian Sea south to Massachusetts and the Bay of Biscay; during the winter it ranges south to Florida and the Golfo de Cintra (23°N), Western Sahara.
		Right whales are "skim feeders", moving slowly through the water with their mouths partially open, continuously straining the food items with their long baleen.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/cetacean/eubaglac.htm (1595 words)

	Northern Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
		Right whales were so named by early whalers because they were the "right" whale to kill — they are slow swimmers and were thus easily caught, floated when dead, and produced large quantities of oil and baleen.
		Right whales spend spring, summer, and autumn at high latitude feeding grounds and migrate to more southerly, warmer waters in winter for mating and calving.
		Right whale sounds appear to differ with changing behavior and, thus, may be important in communication.
	www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/eubaglac.htm (338 words)

	The Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Right whales are no longer seen in certain inshore areas (where they once were common) such as Delaware Bay, Long Island, and in the Strait of Belle Isle between Newfoundland and Labrador.
		The right whale is particularly susceptible to the dangers posed by ships and equipment because of its habits of resting near and on the surface as well as surface courtship and skim-feeding.
		Six percent of known right whale deaths between 1970 and 1994 were caused by entanglements, and 57 percent of right whales have scars which are believed to be from fishing gear.
	www.netpets.com /fish/legislation/biodv-12.html (1034 words)

	Right Whales - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Distinguishing features for right whales include a stocky body, generally fl coloration (although some individuals have white patches on their undersides), lack of a dorsal fin, a large head (about ¼ of the body length), strongly bowed margin of the lower lip, and callosities (raised patches of roughened skin) on the head region.
		Right whales are the rarest of all large whale species and among the rarest of all marine mammal species.
		In U.S. waters, right whales were determined as in danger of extinction in all or a significant portion of their range due to commercial over-utilization, and were listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Conservation Act in June 1970, the precursor to the ESA.
	www.nmfs.noaa.gov /pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/rightwhale (2367 words)

	The Disappearance of the Northern Right Whale
		Sixty-five years relief from “whaling pressure,” essentially no natural predators, an animal that matures between 5 and 8 years of age, one that is supposedly capable of producing a calf every three years...with numbers like that, the right whale population should have made a comeback over the last six decades.
		The right whale obviously evolved when there were “lush plankton forests” and, by growing so large, was always “pushing the envelope” for a plankton feeder.
		The right whale can also easily be compared to the “canary in a coal mine.” When the environment gets hazardous to life, the canary will die first and warn the miners of the danger...
	www.fisherycrisis.com /rightwhale.html (841 words)

	Northern Right Whale
		The breathing of Right Whales is often very visible from a distance because they produce a V-shaped blow that is 15 feet high.
		The animals were labeled as "right whales" by whalers because they are slow swimmers, often found in coastal waters, float when dead, and they yield large amounts of oil and baleen, which makes them the "right" whale to hunt.
		The Northern Right Whale is largely facing a high possibility of extinction due to human impacts on the species and it is the most endangered large whale.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/lbeers/right_whale.htm (348 words)

	Animal Encyclopedia: Northern Right Whale
		They're not the fastest swimmers, but northern right whales pull off some surprisingly gymnastic maneuvers, considering that they can weigh more than 200,000 pounds.
		Right whales live in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific oceans--but scientists say the total population could be as low as 500.
		Hunted by the tens of thousands up through the 1800s, right whales were in danger of extinction by 1860.
	www.animaland.org /asp/encyclopedia/northernrightwhale.asp (256 words)

	Jeffreys Ledge: Right Whales
		Right whales have been observed to give birth as early as five years of age, but seven to ten appears to be more common.
		Right whales can live extremely long lives; one whale photographed back in 1935 with a calf was re-photographed as recently as 1995, making her the oldest non-human mammal ever confirmed.
		Right whales were hunted as early as the 11th century, and were probably endangered by the mid-1800's.
	www.jeffreysledge.org /egtext.htm (863 words)

	History of Whale Watching
		Whale watching is of particular importance to developing countries as coastal communities start to profit directly from the whales' presence, significantly adding to popular support for the full protection of these animals from any resumption of commercial whaling.
		Whale watching today is carried out from the water from crafts from kayaks, motorized rafts, and sailboats through to out-of-use fish or whaling boats and custom-built craft carrying as many as 400 people.
		Upon the resumption of whaling in Iceland in August 2003, pro-whaling groups, such as fishermen who argue that increased stocks of whales are depleting fish populations, suggested that sustainable whaling and whale watching could live side-by-side.
	www.pinnacle-travel.org /WhaleWatching/history.htm (1385 words)

	Dolphin Feature - Northern Right Whale Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Borealis is from the Latin language and means "from the North." The scientific name was given to the Northern Right Whale Dolphin by Titian Peale in 1848 to distinguish it from the Southern Right Whale Dolphin, which had been known for many years.
		The Northern Right Whale Dolphin can be found in temperate waters of the Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Japan to the Middle California Coast.
		The appearance of the Northern Right Whale Dolphin is sleek and smooth.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/dolphins/38789 (284 words)

	The Northern Atlantic Right Whale
		The right whale gets its name because according to hunters it was the right whale to kill.
		It is estimated that only 300 right whales are left in the Atlantic Ocean.
		The Northern Atlantic Right Whale migrates between the coastal waters off the southeast United States and the Atlantic coast of Canada.
	www.bayoffundy.com /rightwhale.aspx (322 words)

	Northern Right Whale articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jan 12, 2005-->A 40-foot-long Northern right whale was found dead yesterday off the coast of Georgia, the second carcass of the endangered species discovered off the Eastern...
		He cited the northern right whale and the gray whale as examples of how marine brucellosis might be causing havoc.
		Jan 13, 2005-->According to NOAA, the northern right whale populations are believed to be close to extinction, while the southern populations are doing better, with the...
	www.glowingpets.com /pets/animals/Northern_Right_Whale.html (223 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Northern Right Whale
		As evidence, they point to a northern right whale that was clipped by a yacht off Georgia's coast in March and is now believed to be in poor health off the...
		A 40-foot-long Northern right whale was found dead yesterday off the coast of Georgia, the second carcass of the endangered species discovered off the Eastern...
		According to NOAA, the northern right whale populations are believed to be close to extinction, while the southern populations are doing better, with the...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Northern_Right_Whale.htm (1288 words)

	Northern Right Whale Dolphin - Dolphins And Whales Window
		The Northern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis) and the Southern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis peroni) are two of the easiest cetaceans to identify at sea.
		The Northern Right Whale Dolphin is widely distributed in the temperate North Pacific in a band running from Kamchatka and mainland Japan in the west to British Columbia down to Baja California in the east.
		The northern right whale dolphin Lissodelphis borealis in the eastern North Pacific S. Leatherwood and A. Walker (1979) in "Behaviour of Marine Mammals" Vol 3.
	dolphins.jump-gate.com /differnt_dolphins/northern_right_whale.shtml (597 words)

	Our Whaling Pasts: National Marine Sanctuaries Maritime Heritage Program
		Whaling is a complex topic, for we as a nation were intimately tied to the whaling industry in a number of important and complex ways.
		Whaling was the economic boon which lit our cities and yet decimated the ocean’s marine mammals.
		The American period of historic whaling is but one part in the broader tapestry of whales and their complex significance (historical, cultural, etc.) to a number of different seafaring cultures at a number of different times.
	www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov /maritime/whaling.html (1035 words)

	Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Right whales are also killed by commercial fishing gear: the gear wraps around the whale as it swims through the ocean, eventually strangling the whale or preventing it from feeding.
		Right whales are often struck and killed by boats.
		Because much is still unknown about the migratory habits of the northern right whale, the Center identified both currently occupied and currently unoccupied marine habitats as critical for the North Pacific population.
	www.biologicaldiversity.org /swcbd/species/right/nprw1.html (552 words)

	CNN - Report: Northern right whale on path to extinction - March 18, 1999
		The North Atlantic northern right whale is headed for extinction unless human intervention improves survival, according to a study published Wednesday in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
		Several thousand right whales once existed in the North Atlantic Ocean, but commercial hunting at the turn of the century severely depleted whale populations.
		Most right whales are killed by collisions with ships, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
	www.cnn.com /NATURE/9903/18/right.whales.enn (723 words)

	Eubalaena glacialis, Northern Right Whale at MarineBio.org
		The Northern Right whales measure between 13.5-18 m, and weigh in the region of 55,000-95,000 kgs.
		Right Whales are, despite their massive bulk, incredibly active cetaceans, with breaching, lob-tailing and flipper-slapping all relatively common.
		The Northern Right Whale was classified along with the closely-related Southern Right whale, Eubalaena australis under the genus Eubalaena, which literally means 'right whale', referring to the belief that these were the 'right' whales to kill.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=191 (882 words)

	Identification - Northern Right Whale
		Confusion is possible with other large whales which have deceptively variable blows and may sometimes surface so that their dorsal fin remains below the water.
		North Atlantic Right Whales are slow swimmers and are inquisitive and approachable.
		In winter, the whales return to breed in temperate to sub-tropical waters as far south as Florida and sub-Saharan Africa.
	www.orcaweb.org.uk /idnrightwhale.htm (380 words)

	CRS Report: 95-493 - The Northern Right Whale - NLE
		At most, a few hundred right whales exist off the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada; however, this report focuses exclusively on the Atlantic population, which is reproductively isolated from that of the Pacific.
		However, the lowest estimated number of California grey whales was 8,000 while the right whale population may have included only three breeding females 75 years ago (Hans Neuhauser, Institute of Area and Community Development, the University of Georgia, personal communication).
		The right whale was so named by early whalers, who found that its coastal distribution, slow swimming speed, tendency to float when killed, and other characteristics made it the "right whale to hunt."
	cnie.org /NLE/CRSreports/Biodiversity/biodv-12.cfm (2517 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		The northern right whale dolphin and its Southern Hemisphere relative are the slenderest of all small cetaceans.
		Northern right whale dolphins are primarily fl, with a white band from the throat to the fluke notch that widens to cover the entire area between the flippers, and a white spot just behind the tip of the lower jaw.
		Northern right whale dolphins are fast swimmers, sometimes creating a great surface disturbance with their low-angle leaps and belly flops.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/180454 (681 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)