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 Translation for 'southern right whale' from English to French
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baleine {f} (noire) australe [Eubalaena australis]
southern right whale
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baleine {f} franche australe [Eubalaena australis]
southern right whale
Partial Matches
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baleine {f} à bec de Gray [Mesoplodon grayi]
southern beaked whale
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baleine {f} franche de l'Atlantique Nord [Eubalaena glacialis]
black right whale
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baleine {f} boréale [Balaena mysticetus]
Arctic right whale
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baleine {f} boréale [Balaena mysticetus]
Greenland (right) whale
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baleine {f} noire de l'Atlantique nord [Eubalaena glacialis]
black right whale
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baleine {f} de Biscaye [Eubalaena glacialis]
black right whale
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baleine {f} de Biscaye [Eubalaena glacialis]
northern right whale
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baleine {f} du Groenland [Balaena mysticetus]
Greenland (right) whale
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baleine {f} franche de l'Atlantique Nord [Eubalaena glacialis]
northern right whale
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baleine {f} du Groenland [Balaena mysticetus]
Arctic right whale
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baleine {f} noire de l'Atlantique nord [Eubalaena glacialis]
northern right whale
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baleine {f} pygmée [Caperea marginata]
pygmy right whale
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baleine {f} franche de l'Atlantique Nord [Eubalaena glacialis]
North Atlantic right whale
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baleine {f} de Biscaye [Eubalaena glacialis]
North Atlantic right whale
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baleine {f} franche du Pacifique Nord [Eubalaena japonica]
North Pacific right whale
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baleine {f} noire de l'Atlantique nord [Eubalaena glacialis]
North Atlantic right whale
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dauphin {m} du Nord [Lissodelphis borealis]
northern right whale dolphin
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du sud {adj}
southern
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sud {adj} [côte]
southern
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méridional {adj} [au/du sud]
southern
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Usage Examples English
  • The Falkland Islands were used as a base for whaling ships hunting the southern right whale and sperm whale from the 1770s until British authority was established over the islands and surrounding seas.
  • Soon after the first colonists arrived in Tasmania in 1803, and established Hobart at the head of the Derwent Estuary, they discovered the estuary was a breeding ground for the Southern Right whale.
  • A whaling station was constructed along the coast, influenced by the rising price of whale bone overseas, the abundant southern right whale population during the summer breeding season and the vantage point of Gulf St Vincent from Witton Bluff.
  • An area where the southern right whale ("Eubalaena australis") comes to calve and mate along its migratory route (June – October).
  • Cetaceans such as southern right whale, humpback whale, and bottlenose dolphins are known to use the bay to feed, calve or to take rests.

  • Signature marine fauna include the southern right whale, the Magellanic penguin ("Spheniscus magellanicus"), the killer whale, and elephant seals.
  • Southern Right Whale Project/Chile”, a project that has been conducted since 2003 with the official support of the Chilean Navy and the cooperation of leading right whale conservation organizations from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
  • The southern right whale can be seen in large numbers, especially from the rocky shores of De Kelders on Walker Bay.
  • Various species of whales and dolphins can be seen around Tristan from time to time with increasing sighting rates, although recovery of baleen whales, especially the southern right whale, were severely hindered by illegal whaling by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the 1960 volcanic eruption.
  • Other right whale species can reliably be found on their feeding grounds (North Atlantic right whale), or on their wintering grounds (both North Atlantic and Southern right whale).

  • The southern right whale has made Hermanus, South Africa, one of the world centres for whale watching.
  • The four species of the Balaenidae are found in temperate and polar waters; "Eubalaena glacialis" (North Atlantic right whale), "Eubalaena japonica" (North Pacific right whale), "Eubalaena australis" (southern right whale), and "Balaena mysticetus" (bowhead whale).
  • Blue whales and southern right whales rest in this area during migration.
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