Southern right whale dolphins
OK, while I’m on dolphins I can’t help but mention the extraordinary Southern Right Whale dolphin which remarkably lacks a dorsal fin.
This from Te Ara (as is the photo above):
Southern right whale dolphins
Southern right whale dolphins are seen only occasionally, being a mainly offshore species. Like right whales, they lack a dorsal fin. Instead, their stability comes from their unusual body shape, which is wider than it is deep. They are normally black and white, but entirely black individuals have also been seen.
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February 22nd, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Do you realize that the Japanese kill 20,00 [yes thats twenty thousand ]whales a year. That includes many species of dolphins, pilot whales, and many species of whales around their own coast and Ocean. In a 3 year period they cut the population of one species of dolphin by 60% on their northerm pacific coast. Why? ” They eat OUR fish” & ” they are a nuisence”. I wonder if the creator actually stocked this planet just for us arrogant humans? I don’t believe so. The Japanese are grossly over-expoiting many species from all over the worlds oceans. Another undeclared war that maybe only another couple of atom bombs will stop. After all their population has increased and we could encourge ’scientific’ bomb dropping! [ but maybe not eat the left over meat after scientic studies.] They have not produced one peer reviewed scientific study after killing 20,000 whales since the late 1980’s.
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