Sentences with phrase «whale scientific name»
John Gray gave the Gray Whale the scientific name of Eschrichtius robustus after zoologist Daniel Eschricht.
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The whale spotted on Christmas, a 2 - year - old female right whale cataloged as Eg 3911 (Eg for the species» scientific name, Eubalaena glacialis), tangled with a fishing trap line sometime between February and December 2010.
Those that you can dive with from Australia's Great Barrier Reef are dwarf minke whales, a possible 3rd subspecies yet to receive an official scientific name.
GRAY WHALE (Eschrichtius robustus) meaning of scientific name: Eschrichtius - named after the Danish professor who worked with these animals; robustus - strong
The scientific name for Gray Whales is Eschrichtius robustus.
The hunts have gone on for years in the name of scientific research, using a loophole in the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling under the International Whaling Commwhaling under the International Whaling CommWhaling Commission.
Since the global moratorium on commercial whaling was introduced in 1986, Japan has defied the ban and killed more than 15,000 whales in the name of scientific research.
Garrett said this week Australia's center - left government had been clear about its opposition to Japanese scientific whaling and recently named an ambassador for whale conservation.