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	Right whale dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The right whale dolphins, 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 the Baja California peninsula 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Rightwhale_Dolphin (638 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.
		The right whale gestation period is about 12 months and the calf is born tail first (this is normal for cetaceans) and near the surface.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/whales/species/Rightwhale.shtml (810 words)

	Dolphins
		Dolphins once were hunted commercially, especially for the small quantity of valuable oil extracted from parts of the head and used to lubricate delicate watch mechanisms.
		Because of the ability of dolphins to learn and perform complex tasks in captivity, their continuous communications with one another, and their ability, through training, to approximate the sounds of a few human words, some investigators have suggested that the animals might be capable of learning a true language and communicating with humans.
		The bottle-nosed dolphin is classified as Tursiops truncatus, the common dolphin as Delphinus delphis, and the tucuxi dolphin as Sotalia fluviatilis.
	www.crystalinks.com /dolphin.html (3622 words)

	Whale and Dolphin watching in Western Australia
		Southern Right Whales have a "vee shaped" blowhole with spray exiting the vent in 2 streams at an angle of 45 degrees from the perpendicular.
		The Southern Right Whale's nearest relative is the Northern Right Whale.
		Southern Right Whales are considered "Skim Feeders" - a term which refers to the fact that this whale searches for its food by swimming through clouds of teeming plankton located at or very near to the ocean surface.
	www.travellingwa.com /data/watours/11528.htm (1814 words)

	Hourglass Dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indeed by 1960, despite decades of whaling in the Southern Ocean, only three specimens had been brought to the attention of scientists.
		The Hourglass Dolphin is coloured fl and white and for this reason was colloquially known by whalers as the "sea skunk".
		The Right Whale Dolphin doesn't have a dorsal fin and so the two species are trivially distinguished from one another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hourglass_Dolphin (620 words)

	Centre For Dolphin Studies - Southern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Southern rights are willing performers for onlookers, and often breach several times in succession, the impacts sounding like a series of cannon blasts.
		Southern rights feed mostly on krill and plankton, which they sift from the Antarctic waters by slowly swimming through the drifting shoals with their massive, highly arched mouths opened wide.
		The right whale was finally protected in 1935 after an estimated 200,000 of these gentle animals met their death at human hands.
	www.dolphinstudies.co.za /species/eubalaena_australis.html (968 words)

	Whale Matters, Southern Right Whales Simons Town
		The term "right" whale refers to the fact that in the nineteenth century these whales were regarded as the "right" whales to catch, because they were particularly rich in oil, being slow swimmers they were easy to catch, and because their carcases were easy to handle as they floated when dead.
		The gestation period (pregnancy) of the southern right is twelve months, she bears her calf in the spring in the warmer waters of southern African bays.
		Southern right whales are regarded as an endangered species as their numbers have been considerably reduced in the last 200 years.
	www.simonstown.com /tourism/whales/whales.htm (2300 words)

	Tasmania PWS - Wildlife - Whales
		Whales and dolphins belong to a group of mammals collectively known as cetaceans and are believed to share a common ancestry with the ungulates, a diverse group of hoofed mammals that includes modern-day horses, pigs, sheep, deer, antelopes and camels.
		Whales must come to the surface to breath, although species such as the sperm whale have been known to remain submerged for over 1 1/2 hours and dive to depths in excess of two kilometres.
		Southern right whales travel north from June to September to the waters of southern mainland Australia and return southward between September and late October.
	www.parks.tas.gov.au /wildlife/mammals/whales.html (1030 words)

	Lil Dolphin's Cove/Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dolphins can be as long as 13 feet, and weigh as much as 450 pounds.
		A dolphin's sonar is so complex it can tell the distance, direction, speed, size, and the configuration of the object the clicks bounced off.
		A Blue Whale's tongue is about the size and weight of a full grown AFRICAN ELEPHANT, and its heart is compared to the size of a volkswagon beetle.
	www.geocities.com /lildolphin88/facts.html (663 words)

	Right Whale Dolphin
		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 Southern species are typically larger (upto 250cm) and heavier (upto 100kg compared with the Northern's maximum of 80-90kg.
		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.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/right_whale_dolphin (667 words)

	African Marine Mammals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The most slender of all the cetaceans, the southern right whale dolphin, has a very striking appearance with fl and white coloration.
		It is found in large schools and are frequently associtated with dusky dolphins and pilot whales.
		Southern right whale dolphins were occasionally taken by whalers for meat, but now may be vulnerable to capture in pelagic gillnet fisheries.
	csiwhalesalive.org /csisouthrightwhaledolphin.html (241 words)

	Right whale dolphin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The right whale dolphins, the Northern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis) and the Southern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis peroni), are two of the easiest (Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals) cetaceans to identify at sea.
		Both these (additional info and facts about oceanic dolphin) oceanic dolphins are coloured fl and white and have no (Unpaired median fin on the backs of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates that help to maintain balance) dorsal fin.
		They are sighted in the (An arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand) Tasman Sea in particular.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/right_whale_dolphin.htm (680 words)

	Wal- und Delphinarten: Südlicher Glattdelphin
		Right whale dolphins are easy to identify at sea because of their distinctive fl and white colour and lack of dorsal fin.
		Habitat: Southern right whale dolphins are observed most often in cool, deep, offshore waters with temperatures of 1-20°C. They are sometimes seen nearshore, especially where deep water approaches the coast (Jefferson et al.
		Direct catch: Southern right whale dolphins are reportedly infrequently caught off the coasts of Peru and Chile, where they are used for human consumption or crab bait (Jefferson et al.
	www.marine-mammals.de /species/whale/lissoperon.htm (1030 words)

	CMS: Berardius arnuxii, Arnoux´s beaked whale
		Arnoux's beaked whales are usually very shy creatures; like their northern congeners, they are capable of diving for an hour or more, hence are difficult to observe and positively identify (in the southern hemisphere, identification could be confused with H.
		Water depths in the locality of the whales in Robertson Bay ranged from 136 to 200 fathoms, and the surface water temperature was - 0.80C.
		The feeding habits of Arnoux's beaked whales are assumed to be similar to those of their Northern Hemisphere relatives, Baird's beaked whales, thus consisting of benthic and pelagic fishes and cephalopods (Jefferson et al.
	www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/b_arnuxii/b_arnuxii.htm (966 words)

	Right Whale
		It is resting and foraging ground for loggerhead sea turtles and is a winter calving ground for the endangered northern right whale.
		A sighting of a rare southern right whale near Gisborne has prompted a call for the public to keep an eye out for the huge creatures.
		Meanwhile, a commercial fisherman reported seeing a rare southern right whale near Gisborne on the east coast of the North Island on Monday, prompting DOC to...
	conservation.mongabay.com /Right_Whale.htm (1066 words)

	Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis @ MarineBio.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Southern Right whales do not have any dorsal fins, nor do they have the grooved throat that is typical of the balaenopterids.
		Southern right whales are also commonly seen breeching—turning in midair and falling into the water with the side or back of the body.
		Southern Right whales, so named because they were historically considered the "right" whale to catch, reach reproductive maturity at approximately 10 years of age.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=166 (1416 words)

	Right Whale Dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis @ MarineBio.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Northern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis, and the Southern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii are small cetaceans in the dolphin family with the most slender body of all small cetaceans.
		Southern right whale dolphins are often found with other marine mammal species, especially Dusky dolphins and Pilot whales.
		The Northern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis, is often caught by the North Pacific squid driftnet fisheries in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=352 (1101 words)

	Southern right whale dolphin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Southern right whale dolphins, or Lissodelphis peronii, are not as slender as their northern counterparts, and have more white coloration on their underbellies.
		Like the northern right whale dolphin they also lack a dorsal fin.
		These dolphins are found predominantly in deep waters, feeding on lantern fish and squid in herds up to around 1,000 animals.
	www.geocities.com /painkiller2/whales/southern_right_whale_dolphin.html (64 words)

	Breaking the Surface - National Wildlife Magazine
		Dolphins inhabit all of the world’s oceans, from the poles to the equator, and some are even found in freshwater habitats.
		Like all toothed whales (a group of 71 cetacean species that also includes porpoises and several whales), every kind of dolphin has teeth and a fluid-filled swelling on the forehead called a melon.
		Several dolphin species were identified by scientists only within the last 50 years, and it’s possible that new ones still will be discovered swimming the high seas.
	www.nwf.org /nationalwildlife/printerFriendly.cfm?issueID=73&articleID=1027 (828 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Southern right whale dolphin
		Southern right whale dolphins feed on deep sea fish, shrimps and squid.
		Southern right whale dolphins live in schools of 2-100.
		Southern right whale dolphins are classified as Data Deficient by the IUCN Red List.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/84.shtml (115 words)

	Southern Right Whale Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) belongs to the misticets group of cetaceans with baleen plates.
		Southern Right Whales are relatively solitary in their behavior, as are most of the whales that form their
		These dolphins feed mainly on krill and other crustaceans and their baleen filters the food out from the water.
	cethus.tripod.com /camp_ballenasEN.htm (215 words)

	The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans - Southern Right Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Southern hemisphere, circumpolar generally between about 30° and 65°S (low latitudes (to 12°S) off western South Africa and South America related to the cold currents).
		The Southern Right Whale dolphin Lissodelphis peronii (Lacépède) in Australasian waters.
		Southern right whale dolphins, Lissodelphis peronii off the Pacific coast of South America.
	deh.gov.au /coasts/publications/cetaceans-action-plan/whaleap5n.html (826 words)

	Whale Classification - Enchanted Learning Software
		Toothed whales have teeth, are predators that eat fish, squid, and marine mammals, have a single blowhole, and use echolocation.
		Baleen whales are larger than the toothed whales, are filter feeders that use baleen to sieve food (baleen is a comb-like structure that filters the baleen whales' food from the water), and have 2 blowholes.
		Suborder Archaeoceti (archaeocetes or zeuglodonts) - extinct, primitive whales from the Eocene
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/whales/classification/index.shtml (510 words)

	Articles - Cetacea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cetology is the branch of marine science associated with the study of cetaceans.
		Cetaceans are nearly hairless, and are insulated by a thick layer of blubber.
		There are many misconceptions about cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), the most common of which is the idea that cetaceans are fish.
	www.bird-center.net /articles/Cetacea (1344 words)

	Whale Watching spots Hermanus, Falsh Bay
		The north side is encompassed by a 35km long stretch of sandy beach reaching from Muizenberg right around to Strand and Gordon's Bay on the western end of the Bay.
		Known as the "heart of the Whale Coast", Hermanus is arguably the best Whale Watching area in the country.
		Built along the shores of Walker Bay near the Southern most tip of Africa, magnificent mountains watch over this town which is home of the Southern Right Whale.
	cybercapetown.com /WhaleWatching/whalewatching.shtml (805 words)

	Dolphin Fun Facts @ RainbowDolphin.com
		Dolphins have colonized all oceans and seas of the planet, from polar to tropical regions, true mammals they must get oxygen from air and not from water such as fish, their infants are born underwater and must be brought up to the surface immediately to survive.
		In the Pacific Tunas and Dolphins follow the same routes, for years they were both captured in the nets aimed at the Tunas, the Dolphins were either drowned or slaughtered.
		Dolphin respiration is not a reflex such as with human being, it is a voluntary act.
	www.rainbowdolphin.com /dolphins/facts.shtml (2763 words)

	Whale Web: Dolphins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dolphins are the largest group of cetaceans, and many people identify more easily with dolphins than with whales, especially bottlenose dolphins.
		Dolphins are characterized by their conical teeth, and many have a playful personality.
		Most dolphins also have a falcate, or curved back, dorsal fin, though some species have a triangular or rounded dorsal fin, while a few have a dorsal fin that's barely noticeable.
	www.whale-web.com /dolphins (80 words)

	Answer 119 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The southern right whale dolphin is one of two species of ocean dolphin that lacks a dorsal fin.
		The southern species has a circumpolar distribution in the southern seas of the world and can be seen in pods ranging from several hundred to more than a thousand individuals!
		Neither species of right whale dolphin is in danger of extinction and both are considered to be secure populations.
	www2.canisius.edu /~noonan/sow/answer_119.htm (176 words)

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