{"id":68216,"date":"2026-10-06T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=68216"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:58:40","slug":"southern-right-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/southern-right-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Right Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Southern Right Whale Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, dozens of southern right whale calves have been found dead on Argentina&#8217;s Patagonian coast and scientists are probing a possible bacterial infection after an unusually deadly season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Southern Right Whale<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is <\/span><b>a baleen whale<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one of three species classified as right whales.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Appearance<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is readily distinguished from <\/span><b>others by the callosities on its head<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a broad back <\/span><b>without a dorsal fin,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its skin is <\/span><b>very dark grey or black,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> occasionally with some white patches on the belly.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">live <\/span><b>across the Southern Hemisphere,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> generally <\/span><b>ranging between 20\u00b0S and 60\u00b0S latitude.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They usually live in sheltered bays, but in summer they can be found in the cold water around Antarctica.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Southern right <\/span><b>whales visit the South African<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coast from <\/span><b>May to November each year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Characteristics<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They feed <\/span><b>just beneath the water&#8217;s surface,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> holding their mouths partly open and skimming water continuously while swimming.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They strain the <\/span><b>water out through their long baleen plates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to capture their prey.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They <\/span><b>are carnivores<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (plankrivores) and eat small plankton, including copepods, and pelagic larval crustaceans.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status: IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least Concern<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/scientists-puzzled-as-baby-whales-wash-up-dead-in-argentina\/article71543684.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Right Whale is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales. 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