North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)

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North Pacific right whale

© Robert Pitman, NOAA Fisheries
North Pacific right whale, showing closed blowholes, callosities and abnormal barnacles probably aquired from association with humpbacks

© Jim Scarff
North Pacific right whale showing paired blowholes

© Jim Scarff
North Pacific right whale, back and blowholes

© Jim Scarff
Tail flukes of a North Pacific right whale, showing unusual barnacles probably aquired from association with humpbacks

© Jim Scarff
Rare image of a North Pacific right whale breaching

© Jim Scarff