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	Right whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The right whales are the baleen whales belonging to the family Balaenidae.
		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 at top speed, but are highly acrobatic and frequently breach (jump clear of the sea surface), tail-slap and lobtail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Right_whale (3731 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)

	Pygmy Right Whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The whale is typically seen alone or in a pair, with occasional sightings of groups up to 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).
		On account of its relatively small size and sparse distribution the Pygmy Right Whale was not the target of a whalers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pygmy_Right_Whale (638 words)

	Species Corner: Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whaling decimated populations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		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.
		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)

	Journey North Right Whale
		Right whales are one of a group of whales that don't have teeth.
		Finding right whales throughout the year is a task that has proven difficult because of the low number of whales, the enormous size of their range, and the tremendous distances they swim during the year.
		Right whales were hunted heavily along the east coast of North America as far back as the 16th century.
	www.learner.org /jnorth/search/RightWhale_notes1.html (2686 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)

	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)

	Right Whale Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Right whales are distinguished from rorquals by the lack both of a dorsal fin and of neck furrows.
		There are three subspecies of fl right whales, inhabiting the N Atlantic and N Pacific oceans and the Southern Hemisphere, respectively.
		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)

	CRESLI right whale page
		Right whales were "protected" from legal hunting in 1935, but have not been able to recover.
		Right whales calve in winter off the coast of Georgia and Florida, and can sometimes be seen in the waters of f New York during their migration to and from their typical feeding grounds (the Great South Channel, the Gulf of Maine, the Scotian shelf).
		Genetic analysis of 16th-century whale bones prompts a revision of the impact of Basque whaling on right and bowhead whales in the western North Atlantic.
	www.cresli.org /cresli/cetacean/right.html (460 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)

	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)

	Wildlife of Sydney - Fact File - Southern Right Whale
		The Southern Right Whale was once abundant in the waters of southern Australia but numbers were drastically reduced during intensive whaling in the 1800s.
		It was called a 'right whale' as it was the right whale to catch because of its meat and high oil content.
		Whaling continued in Australia until 1978 and a world moratorium on whaling was declared in 1986.
	faunanet.gov.au /wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=314 (199 words)

	CRS Report: 95-493 - The Northern Right Whale - NLE
		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.
	cnie.org /NLE/CRSreports/Biodiversity/biodv-12.cfm (2517 words)

	Northern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Southern Right Whale
		Right whales though slow swimmers are quiet acrobatic in the water, breaching quiet often (jumping 1/2 out of the water), waving their flippers and they also go sailing by putting their head under the water and using their broad tail flukes as sails to capture the wind.
		The Southern right whales are a type of "Baleen" whale which means they filter their food through baleen plates (like giant hairy combs) which are of a lightweight but tough "plastic" type material.
		Basically the right whale migrates from its summer eating grounds near Antarctica to their breeding grounds of the southern continent like Australia, South America and Africa in Winter.
	home.iprimus.com.au /readman/whale.htm (702 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.
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=191 (879 words)

	Southern Right Whale
		The name came from whalers because they believed it was the 'right' whale to catch since it was a slow swimmer, yeilded high bludder and oil and it even floated when dead so they went after it.
		The whales mate and give birth in warmer water, but there is no food in these warmer waters for the mothers, who must fast while they raise their young.
		LFA testing off the Island of Hawaii in 1998 caused humpback whales to leave the test area, apparently resulted in separation of whale and dolphin calves from their mothers, and injured a snorkeler in the water.
	www.acess.250x.com /_framed/250x/acess/southernr1.htm (776 words)

	Southern right whale
		In the early history of New South Wales, the southern right whale was a mainstay of the colony's export industries.
		It was though that they were the 'right' whale because it swam slowly, floated when killed, and yielded high quantities of oil and baleen (whalebone).
		The whales were plentiful, and ships would stay for a while after bringing convicts to the colony, to let their captains hunt southern rights.
	www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /npws.nsf/Content/Southern+right+whale (663 words)

	The Tales of the Whales - Whale Species - Right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Large and a slow swimmer, the Right Whale's body is so rich in oil, it floats when dead (unlike the rorquals which have to be inflated to prevent them from sinking).
		The body of the Right Whale is somewhat rotund and lacks a dorsal fin.
		Current Right Whale population distribution is concentrated in Newfoundland, Patagonia, Tristan da Cunha, South Africa, New Zealand, Western and Eastern Australia, Japan and Alaska.
	www.whalesfilm.com /right.htm (207 words)

	Northern Right Whale
		The Northern Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) belongs to the baleen family of whales and is considered very endangered with a population estimated at less than 300.
		The name "right whale" supposedly comes from early whalers determining that it was the "right" whale to hunt, and, because of this, the Northern Right Whale faces extinction and is the most endangered large whale in the world.
		The life-span of the Northern Right Whale is unknown.
	www.canadianfauna.com /northernrightwhale.php (442 words)

	WhaleTimes Fishin' for Facts~pygmy right whale
		The estimated size of a pygmy right whale is 5.5 to 6.
		The pygmy right whale is the smallest baleen whale and, considered by many, the rarest baleen whale.
		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)

	The Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They were considered the "right" whale to hunt because of their distribution, surface feeding habits, slow swimming, and the fact that they float when dead.
		Most of the whales spend the spring and early summer off the coast of New England, then, in the latter part of the summer and fall, they move to the southern part of Canada.
		The Right Whale was considered to be the "right" whale to hunt because of their where they are found, feeding habits on the surface of the water, slow swimming speed and the fact that they are buoyant when they are dead.
	www.orecity.k12.or.us /ochs/departments/science/species/right.html (1042 words)

	Factsheets: Southern Right Whale
		The common name refers to the fact that it was the favoured target of the early whalers, the 'right ' whale to hunt.
		The Southern Right Whale inhabits the southern and sub-antarctic oceans except during the winter breeding season.
		Like all the baleen whales, Southern Rights are essentially filter feeders, using their finely meshed long narrow plates to catch their prey, usually copepods or krill.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/right_whale.htm (375 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)

	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)

	Whale Watching Sites in Nova Scotia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of all the large whale species, the northern right whale is the most endangered.
		However, its numbers remain low, even though the California grey whale population has almost tripled under the same laws.(3) Scientists surmise that right whale recovery may be impeded by habitat degradation, propeller and fishing gear injuries and fatalities, and competition for food.
		Often times, the whales are not killed outright but are fatally injured by propeller blades, and eventually die because of impairment or loss of appendage function.
	www.valleyweb.com /whalewatch (1046 words)

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