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• Strikes by ships and entanglement in some types of fishing gear are the biggest threats to the endangered right whales.
• Numbering well under 50, the eastern North Pacific right whale --which can reach up to 18 metres (60 feet) in length -- falls below theIUCN's threshold of likely viability as a species.
• But they have never seen something so deeply embedded or tried to remove a line at sea from the notoriously powerful Right whale which can be dangerous when angry.
• In chapter 15, "The Right Whale's Head," the narrator says that the Right Whale is a Stoic and the Sperm Whale is a Platonian, referring to two classical schools of philosophy.
• Right whales in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans were hunted nearly to extinction before coming under international protection in 1949.
• Marine Mammal - In 1985, Georgia adopted a state Marine Mammal, the Right Whale.
• Today the biggest threat facing right whales is collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing gear.
• Right whales are large baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates, which they use to strain food from large gulps of water.
• Sea life on the rocky walls isn't all that benefits: humpback, finback and right whales are all common here, as are dolphins and seals.
• The remaining indigenous mammals are all marine, comprising whales and seals, and include Southern right whale (Balaena glacialis), rare sightings of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), orca (Orcinus orca), the most common whale observed at Macquarie Island, and long fin pilot whale (Globicephala melaena), the only other whale to be seen in any numbers around Macquarie Island. MacQuarie Island, Australia