Right+Whale

media type="custom" key="3680841" By: Paige Heaton

There are about 500 to 1,000 Right Whales left in the world. They are endangered because of ship collisions. Also, they are getting tangled in fishing nets. Sometimes people shoot the Right Whale for fun. People used to kill the whale for its blubber, teeth, and skin. They used the blubber for to make butter and oil. The teeth are used for jewlery and decorations. The skin is used to make coats, rugs, and curtains. People sometimes mistake whales for sharks and kill them.

The Right Whale is usually black or dark grey with white patches on its stomach. The northern Right Whale female can grow to be fiffty feet long. The males grow to be to be forty-nine feet long. They each wiegh about 120,000 pounds (60 tons). Right Whales have no throat grooves and no dorsel fin they have large flippers instead. These whales have two blow holes. Up to three- hundred hairs are found on the tip of the whales jaw. One-hundred are found on the upper jaw. Also, callosites are found on the chin, behind the blow hole, on the lower lip, on the rostrum, and above the eyes. Right Whales are found in the Hudson Bay, Vancouver Island, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia Island, and other other places in Canada. They are also found at the Great South channel, the Massachusetts Bay, and Cape Cod Bay. Some other places that they are found at are Coastal Florida and Geogia.

The gestation period for a Right Whale is 12 months. A newborn calf is about 16 to 19 feet long. When the calf turns it is taken of its mothers milk. When a calf is one it is roughly twenty- eight feet long. Right whales may live for sixty years. These whales are carnivores. They fillter feed plankton, krill, pteropods, and copepods from the water. They catch their food by swimming slowly with their mouths open constantly eating. They are also known to be bottom feeders. Their long fine baleen hairs filter out very tiny prey. The Right Whale is endangered and we need to make changes to save this majestic animal.