rorqual

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She’d like to see a different family of whales examined for comparison, as the three individuals studied were all juvenile rorqual whales.

From National Geographic • Feb. 21, 2024

New research provides a fuller understanding of this species, focusing on a foraging behavior called lunge-feeding that it shares with the other members of its cetacean group, the rorqual whales.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023

Dozens of rorqual species have arisen and died off since the advent of lunge feeding.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2020

Like other rorqual whales, humpbacks’ throats expand in rubbery pleats reaching down to their navels.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2018

Finbacks, a species of rorqual, were always pretty numerous, and as if they knew how useless they were to us, came and played around like exaggerated porpoises.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.