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minke whale
Sign in to saveAlso known as Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Common minke whale
species of mammal
A minke whale is a small species of whale that lives in oceans around the world. These marine mammals are important to understand because they help scientists learn about ocean ecosystems and whale populations.
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Species
Least Concernbagwhale
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetartiodactyla
- FamilyBalaenopteridae
Maximum longevity: 50 years (wild) Observations: These animals have been estimated to live up to 50 years in the wild (Bernhard Grzimek 1990).
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Research
309 papers- Killer whale predation on an Antarctic minke whale in the northern Antarctic Peninsula.Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias · 2024Seyboth E, Bassoi M, Lima RC et al.DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202420230731
- Multiaxial movements at the minke whale temporomandibular joint.Journal of morphology · 2020Werth AJ, Ito H, Ueda KDOI: 10.1002/jmor.21107
- Minke whale genome and aquatic adaptation in cetaceans.Nature genetics · 2014Yim HS, Cho YS, Guang X et al.DOI: 10.1038/ng.2835
- Minke whale feeding rate limitations suggest constraints on the minimum body size for engulfment filtration feeding.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Cade DE, Kahane-Rapport SR, Gough WT et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-01993-2
- Characterization of Common Minke Whale (Balaenoptera Acutorostrata) Cell Lines Immortalized with the Expression of Cell Cycle Regulators.Advanced biology · 2024Sekine A, Yasunaga G, Kumamoto S et al.DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202300227
- Cellular Composition of the Brain of a Northern Minke Whale.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Avelino-de-Souza K, Patzke N, Karlsson KÆ et al.DOI: 10.1002/cne.70089
- The genome sequence of the minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804.Wellcome open research · 2024Brownlow A, Davison NJ, Morin PA et al.DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23367.1
- Lombard effect: Minke whale boing call source levels vary with natural variations in ocean noise.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020Helble TA, Guazzo RA, Martin CR et al.DOI: 10.1121/10.0000596
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Encyclopedic overview
The common minke whale or northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales.
It is the smallest species of the rorquals and the second smallest species of baleen whale. Although first ignored by whalers due to its small size and low oil yield, it began to be exploited by various countries beginning in the early 20th century. As other species declined, larger numbers of common minke whales were caught, largely for their meat. It is now one of the primary targets of the whaling industry. There is a dwarf form in the Southern Hemisphere.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “minke whale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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