right whale in English

noun
1
a baleen whale with a large head and a deeply curved jaw, of Arctic and temperate waters.
Bowheads, also known as Greenland right whales , are baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates that they use to strain food from gulps of water.

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1. The Bowhead whale, formerly known by Yankee whalers as the Greenland right whale, is a taxonomic relative of the right whale

2. We have costumed re-enactors, this delightful southern right whale.

3. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.

4. New-born right whale dolphins are about half the length of their parents.

5. Another charismatic megafauna species that I worked with is the story I did on the right whale.

6. And the acoustic habitat of the North Atlantic right whale has been reduced by up to 90 percent.

7. The Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an arctic baleen, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length

8. ‘The mutual curiosity that exists between an adolescent right whale and a Boatful of human observers makes whale-watching an activity of an entirely different nature than, say, bird-watching - or even people-watching.’

9. A baby boom has given a lift to the endangered North Atlantic right whale, with a near-record number of births in the just-ended calving season, according to researchers at the New England Aquarium.