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right whale
noun
: any of several large baleen whales (family Balaenidae and especially genus Eubalaena) that lack a dorsal fin and have very long baleen plates, an extremely large head with a V-shaped blowhole, a smooth throat, short, broad, rounded flippers, and whitish protuberances of thickened skin about the head
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From coastal Virginia to Maine in the far northeast, the region has in fact witnessed unusual mortality among Atlantic Minke whales, Atlantic humpback whales and endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
Pregnant female whales, accompanied by assorted other right whales, migrate along the Atlantic Coast each winter from Maine and Nova Scotia to the coast of Florida and Georgia for a calving season.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
This has a wide range of applications– one, according to Fielding, is making sure container ships don’t run into endangered right whales.
—Allison Beck, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Their concerns include a possible threat to the endangered North Atlantic right whales that frequent the area, says Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which asked EPA to deny the permits.
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 14 Aug. 2024
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Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
Pregnant female whales, accompanied by assorted other right whales, migrate along the Atlantic Coast each winter from Maine and Nova Scotia to the coast of Florida and Georgia for a calving season.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
This has a wide range of applications– one, according to Fielding, is making sure container ships don’t run into endangered right whales.
—Allison Beck, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
Their concerns include a possible threat to the endangered North Atlantic right whales that frequent the area, says Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which asked EPA to deny the permits.
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 14 Aug. 2024
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“Right whale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right%20whale. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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