Dead Southern Right Whale Calf (IMAGE)

NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region

Dead Southern Right Whale Calf

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This is a right whale calf washed up at Peninsula Valdes, Argentina. New research indicates a likely connection between the deaths of hundreds such calves starting in the mid-2000s and blooms of the toxic algae Pseudo-nitzschia.

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Andrea Chirife, Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program

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CREDIT: Andrea Chirife, Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program

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