There are three species of Right Whale: the North Pacific, the Southern and the Atlantic, with all being so similar in appearance that only genetic analysis can be used to determine species. Once populations numbered over 20,000, now whaling has reduced her population down into an Endangered categorisation and she is the most endangered whale on Earth. She is a large baleen whale, measuring up to 19 m in length. For something so large, her diet consists primarily of copepods, which are sifted through her baleen constantly, with the water cascading out over her lower lip. She must devour millions of these every day.
(The lumps on her head are known as callosities, roughened patches of epidmeris covered in clusters. These are concentrated around her blowholes and rostrum.)
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