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Bookmark or Share- An enigmatic little whale’s habits, from its own mouth - NatureReaching just 6.5 metres long, the pygmy right whale ( Caperea marginata) lives off the coast of Australia. Almost everything researchers know about this secretive animal comes from the...
- Pygmy right whale - Whale and Dolphin ConservationPygmy right whales are the smallest of all filter-feeding whales. But weighing up to 4,500kg, they are no featherweights! Contrary to their somewhat misleading name, pygmy right whales aren’t actually 'right whales' and are placed in a separate family altogether. IUCN conservation status: Data Deficient.
- Pygmy right whale - WikipediaThe pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) is a species of baleen whale. It may be a member of the cetotheres, a family of baleen whales which until 2012 were thought to be extinct; C. marginata has otherwise been considered the sole member of the family Neobalaenidae and is the only member of the genus Caperea.
- The true origins of the world’s smallest and weirdest whaleThe pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the weirdest whale you’ve probably never heard of. It is the smallest of the living baleen whales and restricted to the Southern Hemisphere. Its...
- Pygmy Right Whale - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bioPygmy Right Whale. 13 languages. Kingdom. Animalia. Phylum. Chordata. Subphylum. Vertebrata. Class. Mammalia. Order. Artiodactyla. Infraorder. Cetacea. Family. Cetotheriidae. Subfamily. Neobalaeninae. Genus. Caperea. SPECIES. Caperea marginata. Population size. Unknown. Life Span. 20-80 years. Weight. 3500. kg lbs. Length. 6-6.5. m ft.
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