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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.
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Meaning of "right whale" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RIGHT WHALE

Perhaps so named because it was right for hunting.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RIGHT WHALE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIGHT WHALE

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Right whale is a noun.
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WHAT DOES RIGHT WHALE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Right whale

Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale, the North Pacific right whale and the southern right whale. They are classified in the family Balaenidae with the bowhead whale. Right whales have rotund bodies with arching rostrums, V-shaped blowholes and dark gray or black skin. The most distinguishing feature of a right whale is the rough patches of skin on its head which appear white due to parasitism by whale lice. Right whales can grow up to 18 m long and weigh up to 100 short tons, significantly larger than humpbacks or grays, but smaller than blues. All three species are migratory, moving seasonally to feed or give birth. The warm equatorial waters form a barrier that isolates the northern and southern species from one another. In the Northern Hemisphere, Right whales tend to avoid open waters and stay close to peninsulas and bays and on continental shelves, as these areas offer greater shelter and an abundance of their preferred foods. In the Southern Hemisphere, right whales feed far offshore in summer, but a large portion of the population occur in near shore waters in winter.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RIGHT WHALE

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Right Honourable
right of abode
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Right Reverend
right to life
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WORDS THAT END LIKE RIGHT WHALE

baleen whale
black whale
blue whale
exhale
Greenland whale
grey whale
hale
humpback whale
inhale
killer whale
minke whale
narwhale
pilot whale
sei whale
shale
sperm whale
toothed whale
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whalebone whale
white whale

Synonyms and antonyms of right whale in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «right whale» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RIGHT WHALE

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The translations of right whale from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «right whale» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

露脊鲸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ballena franca
570 millions of speakers

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right whale
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सही व्हेल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الحوت الصحيح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

baleia franca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডান তিমি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

baleine noire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ikan paus kanan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Glattwal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

セミクジラ
130 millions of speakers

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85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paus tengen
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cá voi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வலது திமிங்கிலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उजव्या व्हेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

doğru balina
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

balena franca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prawo wieloryba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кит
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

balena dreapta
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

σωστή φάλαινα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

noorkapper
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Translator English - Swedish

rätval
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Translator English - Norwegian

retthval
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about right whale

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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.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIGHT WHALE»

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The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads
In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of twenty-five right whales. Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlasntic right whale was extinct or nealy so.
Scott D. Kraus, Rosalind Rolland, 2007
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The search for the right whale
Follows a team of New England Aquarium scientists as they follow and study migrating North Atlantic right whales and speculates about the future survival of this endangered species.
Scott D. Kraus, Kenneth Mallory, 1993
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North Pacific Right Whale Calling Behavior and Habitat ...
V. Seasonal and interannual variability of North Pacific right whale occurrence and oceanography on the southeastern Bering Sea middle shelf: a conceptual model Abstract We investigated occurrence of North Pacific right whale ( Eubalaena ...
Lisa Marie Munger, 2007
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Spatial Ecology of the North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena ...
Despite decades of protection, the endangered North Atlantic right whale ( Eubalaena glacialis) has failed to recover, primarily due to interactions with fishing gear and ship strikes. Right whales range along the U.S. east coast, foraging year ...
Caroline Paddock Good, 2008
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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
The effects of pollution and contaminants on right whale dolphins in general are currently unknown. Given the nature of the pelagic habitat of the northern species , the effects of pollution are probably minimal. However, seasonal shifts in ...
William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J. G.M. Thewissen, 2009
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Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition
Hut now torget all about blinds and whiskers tor a moment, and, standing in the Right Whale's mouth, look around you atresh. Seeing all these colonnades ot bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think you were inside ot the great ...
Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, 1988
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Wild Mammals of North America: Biology, Management, and ...
In modern usage, the name right whale has been applied only to the animals formerly known as Nordkaper (a Norwegian term, in reference to North Cape, Norway), Biscay(an) whale (referring to the Bay of Biscay off Spain, where Basque ...
George A. Feldhamer, Bruce C. Thompson, Joseph A. Chapman, 2003
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Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World
The plates of baleen in a right whale's mouth are some of the largest of any cetacean. Strange whitish bumpy areas called callosities are found on the head area, and these are frequently covered with barnacles. Distinctive features In the open ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001
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In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, ...
... novaeangliae humpback whale, hunchback, bunch whale, knucklehead, hump whale glacialis right whale,1 black right whale, Biscayan right whale, scrag whale , great right whale, nordcaper australis right whale, black right whale, southern ...
Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, Karin Gleiter, 2007
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Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide
Right whales The three right whales — the bowhead, southern right whale, and northern right whale — form the family Balaenidae. They were named "right" by medieval whalers who considered them the best whales to catch; right whales ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIGHT WHALE»

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High-tech gadgets used in hunt for right whales
"The fact that there were so many whales and they just deserted the whole area was ... The project comes as the North Atlantic right whale population inches up ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
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Super-Sized Mother's Day For Endangered Right Whales
Scientists at the Boston-based center say 17 new North Atlantic right whale calves have been born, adding to one of the most endangered whale populations on ... «CBS Local, May 15»
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Mariners urged to again be on the lookout for right whales
(April 20, 2015) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is urging boaters to avoid the area southwest of Nantucket or travel through it at slow ... «Nantucket Island Inquirer, Apr 15»
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Feds urge the public to keep away from right whales
COCOA BEACH — Scientists tagged three right whales this past winter — the first in a new program to figure out how best to tag the endangered whales for ... «USA TODAY, Mar 15»
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Organization calls whale crash that killed Canadian unprecedented
A global organization promoting responsible whale watching is calling the death of ... In a video from 2010 off the coast of South Africa, a southern right whale is ... «The Globe and Mail, Mar 15»
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NOAA urges mariners to avoid right whales off Nantucket
BOSTON, FEB. 27, 2015….Federal regulators have asked vessel operators to avoid an area southwest of Nantucket to protect 10 right whales recently sighted ... «wwlp.com, Feb 15»
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First right whale of season spotted off Cumberland Island with calf …
A crew aboard a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission survey plane spotted the right whale mother and her new calf 16 miles off Cumberland ... «Florida Times-Union, Dec 14»
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Southern right whale washes up dead on Peel Island with deep …
A Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service spokesperson confirmed the dead southern right whale that washed up was an eight-metre-long female sub-adult and ... «ABC Online, Aug 14»
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Endangered right whales to be tracked using autonomous gliders
The North Atlantic right whales are known to travel into the Bay of Fundy in the summer to feed with their calves. Most make the long trek from their breeding ... «CBC.ca, Aug 14»
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Southern right whale gives kayakers a lift off Argentina
Southern right whale gives kayakers a lift off Argentina ... of lifetime recently off Argentina, when their kayak was lifted out of the water by a southern right whale. «Pete Thomas Outdoor, Jul 14»

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