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North Pacific right whale in Half Moon Bay, California, 20 March 1982, photo by Jim Scarff. The right whales were first classified in the genus Balaena in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, who at the time considered all of the right whales (including the bowhead) as a single species. Through the 19th and 20th centuries, in fact, the family Balaenidae has ...
The right whale's callosities provide habitat for large colonies of cyamids or whale lice, which feed on the right whale's skin as these small crustaceans cannot survive in open water. [13] The relationship between cyamids and right whales is symbiotic in nature but is poorly understood by scientists.
In the North Pacific, the pattern of right whales seeking out areas of high food is the same, but female right whales and calves in the North Pacific do not show the clear pattern of concentrating in nearshore aggregations. The distribution of North Pacific right whales in winter remains a major mystery.
Water samples collected in the path of the right whales showed a combination of the microscopic crustaceans the whales love to eat, said Christy Hudak, a researcher with the center. One of the crustaceans is Calanus finmarchicus, an oil-rich species that is critical to whale health, Hudak said.
Sashimi of whale meat The fluke (oba) which are thinly sliced and rinsed (sarashi kujira). Topped with vinegar-miso sauce Whale bacon Whale bacon on pizza Icelandic fin whale meat on sale in Japan in 2010 A beluga whale is flensed in Buckland, Alaska in 2007, valued for its muktuk which is an important source of vitamin C in the diet of some ...
Three North Atlantic right whales -- Spoon, Tux and a whale listed in the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog as #3550 -- on Feb. 20 were spotted echelon feeding in the Great South Channel, an area ...
Right whales have rotund bodies with arching rostrums, V-shaped blowholes and dark gray or black skin. The most distinguishing feature of a right whale is the rough patches of skin on its head, which appear white due to parasitism by whale lice .
Fossils have revealed an ancient marine reptile with a loosely connected jaw that allowed its throat to balloon out to a massive size so it could filter feed the way right whales do today.