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	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 dropping mouth that begins high above the eye and the arches round beneath it.
		Right whales were named because whalers thought they were the 'right' whale to hunt, for several reasons.
		Hunting of right whales began as early as the 11th century in the Bay of Biscay, and continued throughout the centuries until the Atlantic population was commercially extinct.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Right_Whale (1498 words)

	pacific northern right whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The right whales are marine mammals belonging to the family Balaenidae.
		Right whales are easily distinguished from other whales by the large number of callositities on their heads, a thick back without a dorsal fin, and a long dropping mouth that begins high above the eye and the arches round beneath it.
		However, different authorities have disagreed over whether to categorise the other right whales as a single worldwide species, as two species (one found only in the northern hemisphere, the other found in the Southern Ocean), or as three species (splitting the northern species into Pacific and Atlantic populations).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Pacific_Northern_Right_Whale.html (844 words)

	Pacific Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The right whales are marine mammals belonging to thefamily Balaenidae.
		Right whales are easily distinguished from other whales by the large number of callositities on their heads, a thick backwithout a dorsal fin, and a long dropping mouth that begins high above the eye and the arches round beneath it.
		Hunting of right whales began as early as the 11th century in the Bay of Biscay, and continued throughout the centuries until the Atlanticpopulation was commercially extinct.
	www.therfcc.org /pacific-northern-right-whale-157231.html (882 words)

	Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The northern right whale is an extraordinary creature who's existence on earth has been threatened since as early as 800 years ago when it was given its common name of the "right " whale to hunt.
		This commercial hunting caused the Right Whale to be noted as scarce as early as the nineteenth century and by 1935, the species had declined so much in numbers that the League of Nations had most whaling nations agree to stop hunting the whale.
		This means that the right whale has the smallest total population of all the great whales with exceptional of the Bowhead whale.
	www.orecity.k12.or.us /ochs/departments/science/species/northern_right_whale.html (1204 words)

	Right Whale Fact Sheet
		Right whales are quite rare to see and are physically very different from other species of whale.
		Right whales strain plankton with baleen plates which may reach 7 feet in length.
		Right whales are found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/riwhfs.html (698 words)

	Right Whale Calf Sighted in Bering Sea
		“The North Pacific right whale population is in danger of extinction.
		Right whales were hunted extensively by whalers in the early 1900s because they were easy to catch, and floated after they were killed.
		There was one report of a right whale from the western North Pacific population being caught in Russian gillnets in the 1980s.
	www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov /releases2002/sep02/noaa02122.html (854 words)

	School Programs-Whales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Right Whale got its name from whalers who thought it was the "right" whale to hunt.
		The Northern Right Whale's body is fl or charcoal grey, except for a white region on the belly.
		Northern Right Whales rarely dive deep, but they can be very acrobatic, breaching and smacking the surface with tails or flippers.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /programs/whales/s-northernrightwhale.html (287 words)

	Northern Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) Whales, Right Whales, Baleen.
		Northern Right Whales were once found from the Azores in the eastern Atlantic north and across to the eastern Atlantic from Canada south to Florida.
		Prior to their complete protection in 1937 Southern Rights were hunted close to extinction due to their being the “right” whale to hunt; slow moving, shore hugging whales which floated when dead.
		Some speculate that Northern Right Whales can be distinguished from the Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) by a larger amount of callosity material on the head and less on the edge of the lower lip.
	www.marinethemes.com /northright.html (773 words)

	SchoolWorld Endangered Species Project: Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The head, as with other right whales, is huge and accounts for one quarter of the body length of the animal.
		The upper jaw of this whale is curved down and combined with the long sweep of the lower jaw line this gives the right whale the look of a creature with a vast mouth opening.
		Whales like other animals have lungs, they breathe air through a single nostril, or a pair of nostrils, on the top of the head but contrary to a popular image, they do not spout water when they exhale.
	www.schoolworld.asn.au /species/rightwh.html (1552 words)

	Animal Encyclopedia: Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	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)

	Right Whale Dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		However tens of thousands of the northern species were killed in the 1980s due to them becoming caught in oceanic drift gillnets introduced at that time.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Right-Whale-Dolphin.htm (691 words)

	Northern Right Whale, Eubalaena glacialis @ 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 (1135 words)

	Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Right whales are struck and killed by ships travelling in and out of ports.
		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.
		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)

	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)

	Whales on the Net - Endangered Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mariners are requested to post a lookout for Right Whales as they approach these areas and to minimize their exit and entrance speeds to the extent possible to maintain safe handling of the vessel, preferably 5 knots or less, in the channels and precautionary areas to avoid ship-whale collisions.
		Intentional approach to Right Whales is prohibited and may result in a violation of federal or state laws.
		Right Whale sightings in these areas should be reported to Coast Gaurd Group Mayport via VHF-FM radio or to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (800-272-8363).
	whales.netfirms.com /alert/right (664 words)

	nr-whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Right Whales have been protected internationally since 1935, and have been protected as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act.
		Right whales are often struck and killed by boats.
		In the meantime, scientists used genetic evidence to prove that the Pacific “population” of the Northern right whale was in fact a separate species, E.
	www.biologicaldiversity.org /swcbd/species/right/index.html (564 words)

	The North Pacific Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) - the World's Most Endangered Whale
		Taxonomically, the right whale "family", Balaenidae, consist of the right whales (Eubalaena spp.), the bowhead whale of the high Arctic (Balaena mysticetus), and the poorly known pygmy right whale of the Southern Hemisphere ().
		Right whales resemble bowhead whales, so much so that whalers, and even scientists, prior to the late 19th century thought they were were the same species.
		This estimate is downward biased because (a) the Russian territorial waters (12n miles zone), where right whales are known to occur, were not surveyed; (b) the probability of detection on the track line...was assumed equal to one; and (c) the survey was conducted in closing mode.
	www.sfcelticmusic.com /js/RTWHALES/nprightw.htm (2674 words)

	RIGHT WHALE NEWS VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2 MAY, 1998
		Population size estimates for southern right whales were based on adult females, of which the three largest populations were Argentina (330 females in 1990), South Africa (453-613 females in 1996) and Australia (220 females in 1995); making allowance for poorly surveyed areas, a total southern population of some 1,600 adult females was estimated for 1997.
		The concept of a Southern Hemisphere Right Whale Consortium, similar to that existing for the North Atlantic, was recommended by the Workshop for the Commissionís consideration.
		During the past two season (1996-97 and 97-98), all right whales sighted in the southeast have been in water temperatures of 20.5(C or colder, and all but one were in waters of 20(C or colder.
	www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov /rtwh/rwmay98.html (5152 words)

	Hope for the Right Whale
		Northern right whales, one of the most endangered large whale species, are found primarily in the western North Atlantic and the northern Pacific.
		A rare sighting of a right whale in the southeastern Bering Sea.
		• Right whales feed by swimming into dense swarms of crustaceans with their mouths open, trapping the food in the fine strands of baleen.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2001/nov/rightwhale/factsheet.html (190 words)

	NPR - All Things Considered: Hope for the Right Whale?
		The animals earned their common name -- right whales -- from whalers who determined they were the "right" whale to catch.
		Right whales have thick bodies and huge heads that account for about one-third of their length.
		At first her team saw nothing, but one day, in the fading twilight, one scientist spotted the trademark V-shaped spray of the right whale shooting 30 feet into the air.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2001/nov/rightwhale (799 words)

	Habitat patterns of small cetaceans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The northern right whale dolphin is endemic to the North Pacific, ranging from approximately 30°N to 50°N in the eastern Pacific (Leatherwood and Walker, 1979) and 35°N to 51°N in the western Pacific (Sleptsov, 1961; Nishiwaki, 1967; Kasuya, 1971).
		From 1 June to 30 September, 1990 and 1991, 800 of the driftnet operations monitored in the central North Pacific (37°N to 46°N and 170°E to 150°W) resulted in the catches of northern right whale dolphin, Pacific white-sided dolphin or Dall's porpoise.
		The LSM estimates for northern right whale dolphin, Pacific white-sided dolphin and Dall's porpoise were based on the life history investigations of Ferrero and Walker (1993), Ferrero and Walker (1996) and Ferrero and Walker (1999), respectively.
	nmml.afsc.noaa.gov /cetaceanassessment/habitat.htm (3363 words)

	School Programs-Whales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Northern Right-whale Dolphins avoid boats, sometimes moving speeding away in a series of low leaps over the surface of the water.
		The Northern Right-whale Dolphin is considered one of the most abundant oceanic dolphins in the North Pacific.
		Restricted to the North Pacific Ocean where it ranges from Baja California to British Columbia in the eastern Pacific and to Japan in the western Pacific.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /programs/whales/s-northernrwdolphin.html (201 words)

	biology - Baleen whale
		The distinguishing feature between this suborder and the toothed whales is that baleen whales have baleen plates instead of teeth in the upper jaw, which enables them to filter food from water.
		Baleen whales are generally larger than toothed whales, and the females are larger of the two sexes.
		Known for their acrobacy are the Humpback Whales, but other baleen whales also break through the water surface with their body or beat it loudly with their fins.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Mysticeti (504 words)

	Taxonomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Its closest relatives are Eubalaena australis, Balaena mysticetus and the Northern Pacific Eubalaena glacialis, formerly known as Eubalaena japonica (Rosenbaum, et al.
		The diet of the Northern Right Whale consists of crustacean and zooplankton, such as krill, copepods, and euphausiids (Pearson, 2003; Crane and Scott, 2002).
		The Right Whale is a filter feeder, who skims the surface of the ocean in search for large quantities of plankton or crustacean.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/m/a/mat287/taxonomy.htm (274 words)

	ASK Archive 2001: Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Northern right whales grow up to 56 feet in length and are mostly fl with
		Right whales are currently found in the northern and southern hemispheres,
		Right whales swim through patches of zooplankton with their
	whale.wheelock.edu /archives/ask02/0287.html (239 words)

	Species at risk - North Atlantic Right Whale
		There are two stocks of the North Atlantic Right Whale that have been provisionally recognized by the International Whaling Commission — one in the eastern North Atlantic, where there have been sporadic sightings in coastal waters from the Canaries to Norway since the 1920s, and one in the western North Atlantic.
		Right Whales are particularly susceptible to being struck by ships, and to becoming entangled in fishing gear.
		There were at least three right whales entangled in fishing gear in 2000-2001 in Canadian waters, but the exact location where they were entangled is not known.
	www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca /search/speciesDetails_e.cfm?SpeciesID=780 (1709 words)

	Right Whale Calf Sighted in the Bering Sea - NMFS Alaska News Release
		Right Whale Calf Sighted in the Bering Sea - NMFS Alaska News Release
		For the first time in over a century, marine mammal scientists have confirmed the sighting of a northern right whale calf in the eastern North Pacific Ocean.
		A minimum of six clearly-identified individual right whales and as many as seven more individuals were seen from the F/V McArthur this summer in the Bering Sea.
	www.fakr.noaa.gov /newsreleases/2002/rightwhale.htm (892 words)

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