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	Whale Bio's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Whale "lice", which are little crustaceans, are present on the skin of most species of whales, particularly visible on humpbacks, and above all, right whales where they aggregate on the animal's callosities (hard, rough patches of lightly coloured skin found only on and around the head area of right whales).
		The southern right whale is a skimmer, which means that it ploughs through the water (often at the surface) with its mouths open, filtering and sifting the concentrated swarms of plankton.
		The Bryde's whale is a relatively slender baleen whale with a pleated throat (a "rorqual").
	www.dsa.co.za /whaleroute/whalebios.html (7680 words)

	ACS pygmy right whale Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society
		The pygmy right whale, rarely seen at sea, is the smallest and most mysterious of the baleen whales.
		Pygmy right whales have a unique skeletal structure: there are 17 pairs of broad, flat ribs - more than any other baleen whale - that extend 2/3 of the body length towards the tail.
		COLOR Pygmy right whales are dark gray on the upper (dorsal) side of the body which may become increasingly darker as the animal ages.
	www.acsonline.org /factpack/PygmyRightWhale.htm (856 words)

	right whale. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Baleen, or whalebone, is the substance forming the fringed, triangular plates that hang from the roof of the whale’s mouth and serve as a filter for plankton.
		Right whales are distinguished from rorquals by the lack both of a dorsal fin and of neck furrows.
		Right whales are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Cetacea, family Balaenidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ri/rightwha.html (395 words)

	Pygmy Right Whale
		The whale, which lives in the Southern Hemisphere, was first described by Gray in 1846, and is the sole member of the genus Caperea and the family Neobalaenidae.
		The whale is typically seen alone or in a pair, with occasional sightings of groups upto 10 strong and one report of 80 animals grouped closely in oceanic waters.
		The Pygmy Right Whale is perhaps the least studied of all cetaceans on account of its sparse population (as of 1998 fewer than 20 encounters in the open sea have been recorded worldwide - the whale prefers sheltered shallow bays).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/pygmy_right_whale (641 words)

	Discovering Whales - The Pygmy Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Pygmy Right whale is the smallest and least known of all the baleen whales.
		The Pygmy Right whale's back is grey or dark grey, with variable pale streaks extending to the shoulder and dark streaks from the eye to the flipper, lightening on the sides to white on the belly and lower jaw.
		This excludes the whales presence south of the Antarctic Convergence and the cold waters of the Antarctic.
	www.omplace.com /omsites/discover/PRIGHT/prightg.html (489 words)

	Southern Right Whale - Sharkshots.com - Spectacular Marine Animal Images by Photographer Mike Parry
		Southern right whales are known to use their flukes (tail fin) as sails This appears to be a form of play as they will often swim back to the starting point and do it again.
		The callosities are occupied by barnacles, whale lice, and parasitic worms.
		It is the whale lice that colour the callosities white, pink, yellow or orange.
	www.sharkshots.com /rightWhaleText.html (1165 words)

	ADW: Caperea marginata: Information
		Pygmy right whales live in a pelagic aquatic habitat, in the cool to cold ocean waters surrounding Antarctica.
		The pygmy right whale is 5-6 meters in length.
		The pygmy right whale is the smallest known baleen whale.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /accounts/caperea/c._marginata.html (457 words)

	Baleen Whales: Physical Characteristics
		The forelimbs of baleen whales are pectoral flippers.
		In right whales, all seven vertebrae are fused, and right whales are incapable of side-to-side head movement.
		Rorqual, gray, and pygmy right whales have ventral throat grooves that extend from the throat to the flipper area or farther.
	www.seaworld.org /infobooks/Baleen/phycharbw.html (1529 words)

	Cetacea - Pygmy Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Pygmy Right Whale was described and assigned to a new genus in 1846 by John Edward Gray, Keeper of the British Museum's Zoulogy Department.
		Little is known about the Pygmy Right Whale's extact distribution, but sightings and strandings around Australian, South African and Tasmanian coasts in the spring and summer suggest that this small cetacean moves into inshore waters during this time of year.
		Pygmy Right Whales have been rarely observed at sea, and therefore information about their behaviour and habitat is sketchy.
	www.cetacea.org /new/species/pright.php (362 words)

	Pygmy right whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pygmy right whales are the smallest of the baleen whales.
		Unlike southern right whales they have a dorsal fin which is strongly hooked and placed well back on the body.
		Pygmy right whales are seldom identified at sea, probably because they spend little time at the surface.
	www.upstarts.net.au /site/non_commercial/whales/_species/pygmyrightwhale.html (196 words)

	Ch07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Baleen whales are batch feeders, taking in great quantities of water in a single gulp, and then using the fringes on their baleen plates to filter small schooling fish or invertebrates from the water.
		Distinctive Characteristics: The northern right whale is one of the stockiest of all whales.
		Right whales might also overlap with bowheads, but usually the 2 species are separated by their ecological preferences.
	www.fao.org /docrep/T0725E/t0725e07.htm (4606 words)

	ACS pygmy right whale Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society
		Many reported sightings have probably been incorrectly identified minke whales; the small size, dark color, and curved dorsal fin make it almost impossible to tell the two species apart when they are seen at the water's surface.
		Pygmy right whales tend to be solitary or to travel in pairs, although small groups of up to 80 animals have been recorded.
		Underwater observation of one pygmy right whale revealed an entirely different swimming technique: the animal flexed its entire body in waves of motion from head to tail to move through the water rather than moving just the tail area and flukes as other cetaceans do.
	69.5.22.59 /factpack/PygmyRightWhale.htm (856 words)

	ACS right whale Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society
		The right whale may have received its name from whalers who thought that it was the "right" whale to kill because it was correct commercially (oil came from whales in those days), or because it was considered "proper" or "true" which meant typical of whales in general.
		Right whales are "grazers of the sea," often swimming slowly with their mouths open.
		Right whales are commonly found alone or in small groups of 1-3 animals, but they may form groups of up to 30 whales for social, possibly courtship, behavior.
	www.acsonline.org /factpack/RightWhale.htm (1075 words)

	Pygmy right whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The pygmy right whale was classified as a member of the right whale family (Balaenidae).
		The pygmy right whale is the smallest of the baleen whales.
		Pygmy right whales have never been hunted commercially; some animals were killed by Russian whalers for scientific purposes.
	www.freeweb.hu /arnys/whale/caperea.htm (241 words)

	WhaleTimes Fishin' for Facts~pygmy right whale
		The estimated size of a pygmy right whale is 5.5 to 6.
		The tongue and the inside of a pygmy right whale’s mouth are white.
		Because of its shared characteristics with two different whale groups the pygmy right whale is an interesting example of the challenges scientists have when trying to trace an animal’s family tree.
	www.whaletimes.org /pygrtwha.htm (978 words)

	habitat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The pygmy right whale lives in the Pacific ocean and likes water of the temperature of 5to 20 degrees in the southern hemisphere.
		The pygmy right whale is kind of like a scavenger and moves very swiftly through the water as it hunts for food or just to get exercise.
		Their habitat also needs to have at least one under sea cave for the pygmy right whales to live in if the cave they choose is either taken they either fight for the cave or they swim away and find a new cave to live.
	pilgrims.net /plymouth/schools/Science/Stellwagen/nicholeo/habitat.htm (166 words)

	Pygmy Right Whale (Caperea marginata) Whales, Right Whales, Baleen, Cetaceans. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pygmy Right Whales belong to the Balaenidae family of Right Whales though some have placed them in a separate family.
		Pygmy Right Whales are only found in the southern hemisphere in all temperate oceans with water temperatures up to 20 degrees Celsius.
		The Pygmy Right Whale (Caperea marginata) has attributes of both Right Whales and Rorquals with a dorsal fin, narrow pectoral fins and rudimentary throat grooves but with the curved mouth of right whales.
	www.marinethemes.com /pygmyright.html (260 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Pygmy right whale
		Right whales are named as such because whalers considered them the right whales to hunt.
		Pygmy right whales are similar to minke whales and the larger right whales.
		Pygmy right whales inhabit the Southern hemisphere in temperate and polar seas.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/54.shtml (118 words)

	Baleen Whales: Scientific Classification
		This large order is further divided into three suborders: the toothed whales or Odontoceti (killer whales, dolphins, porpoises, beluga whales, and sperm whales), the baleen whales or Mysticeti (blue whales, humpback whales, gray whales and right whales), and the Archaeoceti (which are all now extinct).
		Right whales have no dorsal fin, no throat grooves, and extremely long baleen plates contained in a hugely arched jaw.
		The relationship between early whales and modern whales is unclear due to a poor fossil record.
	www.seaworld.org /infobooks/baleen/sciclassbw.html (441 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)

	The Whale-Watching Web: IWC
		"pygmy right whale" (Caperea marginata) means any whale known as southern pygmy right whale or pygmy right whale.
		This measurement shall be at the mid ventral point of the mammary gland perpendicular to the body axis, and shall be logged to the nearest centimetre; that is to say, any gland between 9.5cm and 10.5cm shall be logged as 10cm.
		However, notwithstanding these criteria, a whale shall not be considered a lactating whale if scientific (histological or other biological) evidence is presented to the appropriate national authority establishing that the whale could not at that point in its physical cycle have had a calf dependent on it for milk.
	www.helsinki.fi /~lauhakan/whale/iwc/interpre.html (594 words)

	Project Immersion: Mysticetes (Baleen Whales) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The blue whale is the most massive of the baleen whale group and is, in fact, the largest animal (that we know of) ever to have lived on Earth.
		These whales have a large gap in the baleen, located in the front of their mouth, where water enters.
		There are four species of right whales, including the Northern and Southern right whale, the pygmy right whale and the bowhead whale.
	www.whalecenter.org /curriculum/pimystic.htm (352 words)

	Resources on the Right Whale from academic institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alaska Sea Grant ASJ Right Whales Return:...review of the photographs taken on this research cruise confirmed that the calf researchers first claimed to have spotted was in fact a juvenile right whale.
		The Northern Right Whale: The Northern Right Whale.
		Whales: On the Trail of the Northern Atlantic Right Whale The New England Aquarium and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has initiated a...
	mongabay.org /conservation/Right_Whale.htm (1096 words)

	Pygmy Right Whale, Caperea marginata @ MarineBio.org
		The Pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, averages 6.1-6.4 m in length, and weighs a maximum of 4,500 kg.
		The Pygmy right whale is classified in its own Family (Neobalaenidae) though it shares many characteristics (such as mouth shape) with other right whales: the Northern and Southern right whales and the Bowhead whale.
		Pygmy right whales, Caperea marginata, primarily feed on copepods, but examination of the stomach contents of stranded whales shown that krill is also part of their diet.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=326 (1052 words)

	Pygmy Right Whale
		The whale, which lives in the Southern Hemisphere, was first described by Gray in 1846, and is the sole member of the Neobalaenidae family.
		Analysis of the stomach contents of dead Pymgy Rights indicates that it feeds on copepods and euphausids.
		The Pygmy Right Whale is perhaps the least studied of all cetaceans on account of its spare population (as of 1998 fewer than 20 encounters in the open sea have been recorded worldwide - the whale prefers sheltered shallow bays).
	www.ukpedia.com /p/pygmy-right-whale.html (583 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Pygmy Right Whale, or Caperea Marginata is one of the least known cetaceans.
		It is very small for a right whale.
		Little is known about the natural history of the pygmy right whale.
	library.thinkquest.org /2605/pygright.htm (206 words)

	The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans - Pygmy right whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Observed swimming with pilot whales, dolphins, Sei Whales and minke whales.
		Pygmy right whales and minke whales are difficult to distinguish when sighted at sea.
		New records of the pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) from South Africa, with comments on distribution, migration, appearance and behaviour.
	deh.gov.au /coasts/publications/cetaceans-action-plan/whaleap5a12.html (887 words)

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