EndangeredNorth Atlantic Right Whale
Eubalaena glacialis
One of the 7 whales on WAnimals
Mammals · Artiodactyla · Balaenidae
Eubalaena japonica
At very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future.
The North Pacific right whale is probably the rarest great cetacean in the world. It is a robust baleen whale, with no dorsal fin, its head covered in callosities and baleen plates up to three metres long with which it filters copepods and krill. It was decimated by nineteenth-century commercial whaling and, when it was already protected, illegal Soviet whaling in the 1960s finished off the eastern population. Today the Bering Sea subpopulation is counted in dozens of animals.
Weight
50 t – 90 t
Size
15 m – 18 m
Life expectancy
70 years
Diet
Carnivore
Feeds mainly on other animals.
Activity
Irregular activity
Active at irregular times, by day or night depending on circumstances.
Social structure
Solitary
Lives and hunts alone, joining others only to breed.
Sighting difficulty
Hard
Estimated population
A few hundred in all; the eastern subpopulation (the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska) is estimated at about 30 individuals
Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eubalaena_japonica
Best time: May to August in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska; with fewer than a hundred individuals in the eastern subpopulation, a sighting is exceptional.
The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented.
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with North Pacific Right Whale — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
The north pacific right whale is classified as endangered. Organisations such as the IUCN, WWF and the Wildlife Conservation Society work specifically on its conservation and that of its habitat; looking into their programmes is a good starting point if you want to get involved.
It's documented in 3 protected areas — one reason why protecting these places matters for its conservation.
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