ETP cetaceans
Among
large baleen whales, only the
Bryde's Whale Balaenoptera edeni
(above)
was regularly encountered. "Bryde's" is a Scandinavian name, and on the
ship we pronounced it "brew-dah's" Whale. Here we see a blow (left) on
a whale headed straight way, and the other shot (above) we've just missed
the head and are starting to see the back of a very close whale. These
whales change direction randomly underwater and are hard to follow. We
always tried to get close enough to see the three rostral ridges that separates
it from the similarly sized Sei Whale
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