Brydes Whale
"Brydes
whale is a relatively common whale..."
It is a baleen whale that belongs to the group of rorquals.
It is now considered a single species, Balaenoptera edeni, although its different populations used to be classified as three different species (B. edeni, B. brydei, and B. Omurai).
It lives in tropical and temperate waters in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and most of them are found along the coasts.
It is up to 17 meters long, and weighs around 40 tonnes.
Females are slightly larger than males. It is a dark coloured animal, with dark grey-deark-blue to black skin, a relatively large head and eyes.
It dives for about 15min, to about 300m depth. It eats krill, crustacians, small fish and plankton.
It is unique among baleen whales with some populations that don't migrate.
It wasn't hunted much during the old whaling days and there are about 100,000 individuals in the world.
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