First Southern Right Whale Count Reveals Slight Increase This Year

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Fig. 1. Southern right whale mother with calf around False Bay encountered during one of the annual aerial southern right whale photo-identification surveys for estimating the species abundance. Surveys are conducted by the Mammal Research Institute (MRI) of the University of Pretoria.

Southern Right whale numbers are better than they have been in the past few years, but are still significantly lower than expected. This is attributed to feeding challenges these animals are facing in the Southern Ocean.

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