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unusual facts about Southern Right Whale



Hermanus

Zakes Mda wrote 2005 the novel The Whale Caller (ISBN 0-312-42382-9) in which the Whale Crier of Hermanus is the main character, a man who gets enthralled by a Southern Right whale he names Sharisha.

Puerto PirĂ¡mides

During a survey of the area in 1972, famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau observed that calving southern right whale mothers in a Golfo Nuevo location near Puerto PirĂ¡mides had little interest in raising offspring there, despite preferring to give birth at the site.

Whangarei Harbour

Southern Right Whales used to gather in the harbour historically, but today small cetaceans such as dolphins and Orca, the Killer Whales can be observed in the harbour.


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