Here are some facts about the northern right whale:
- Average Length: (Adult) 36-59 ft (Newborn) 15-20 ft
- Average Weight: (Adult) 30-80 tons (Birth) 1 ton
- Population: Northern ~ 300-400
- Diet: Krill or other crustaceans
- Threats: Fishing gear entanglements and ship strikes
- Right whales were originally named by whalers because they were considered the "right" whales to hunt- full of oil and easy to catch
- Southern Right whales sometimes raise their flukes at right angles to the wind and use them as sails, allowing themselves to be blown along through the water
- Right whales often breach, sometimes up to 10 times or more in a row
- The Northern Right whale is the most endangered whale in the ocean; about 300 in the N.Atlantic and possibly a handful in the N. Pacific
- The Right whale's baleen is 12 inches long
- Lifespan is unkown but it to be said they life more than 70 years
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