right whale
Noun
Meaning
The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Hypernyms
Examples
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.
But to North Atlantic right whale researchers, it’s a gift.
Exploitation of maritime resources The Falkland Islands were used as a base for whaling ships hunting the southern right whale and sperm whale from the 1770s until British authority was established over the islands and surrounding seas.
Durbin E et al (2002) North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, exposed to paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins via a zooplankton vector, Calanus finmarchicus.
A Facebook post from the group says there have been sixteen confirmed deaths of the endangered North Atlantic right whale population this year off the coasts of Canada and the U.S., many of those in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
A new interactive mapping tool has been introduced by the federal government in an effort to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.