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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Balaenopteridae — therorqual whales .
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And what is it with the name Balaenoptera musculus?
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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And what is it with the name Balaenoptera musculus?
Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III Darren Naish 2006
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Yes | No | Report from ingebrigtsen wrote 29 weeks 5 days ago sjsmarais oh how the uninformed think they know something: P both norway and japan mainly hunt Balaenoptera acutorostrata with norway exclusively .. those are fish eaters also exclusively .. so dont u go making up any facts!!!
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Yes | No | Report from ingebrigtsen wrote 29 weeks 5 days ago sjsmarais oh how the uninformed think they know something: P both norway and japan mainly hunt Balaenoptera acutorostrata with norway exclusively .. those are fish eaters also exclusively .. so dont u go making up any facts!!!
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Yes | No | Report from sjsmarais@gmail.com wrote 29 weeks 5 days ago ingebrigsten, I checked out Balaenoptera acutorostrata and see that they do eat small fish, as well as krill.
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Yes | No | Report from sjsmarais@gmail.com wrote 29 weeks 5 days ago ingebrigsten, I checked out Balaenoptera acutorostrata and see that they do eat small fish, as well as krill.
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Several species of baleen whales, among them the fin and humpback whales Balaenoptera physalus (EN) and Megaptera novaeangliae (VU), and toothed whales, including sperm Physeter catodon (VU), pilot and killer whales are regularly seen.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009
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Whaling of minke (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and fin whales (B. physalus) in Greenland is subject to a variety of political pressures and regulations.
Candidate vulnerability case studies for climate change in the Arctic 2010
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Also, I didn't get to see the carcass of the fifteen-foot, one-ton juvenile Northern Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) that washed ashore last week at Matunuck, and now it's been towed away and buried in the dunes.
"Until all these shivers subside, just look in my eyes." greygirlbeast 2008
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Fin whale Balaenoptera physalus (R) and common porpoise Phocoena phocoena have also been sighted.
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