China releases stunning underwater footage of Bryde's whale species
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Bryde's Whale Dying from Plastic Bag Ingestion
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BRYDE'S WHALE SURFING FRASER ISLAND'S SHORE BREAK
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A Bryde's whale with a good appetite visits S China's Shenzhen
Bryde's whale or the Bryde's whale complex putatively comprises two species of rorqual and maybe three. The "complex" means the number and classification remains unclear because of a lack of definitive information and research. The common Bryde's whale is a larger form that occurs worldwide in warm temperate and tropical waters, and the Sittang or Eden's whale is a smaller form that may be restricted to the Indo-Pacific. Also, a smaller, coastal form of B. brydei is found off southern Africa, and perhaps another form in the Indo-Pacific differs in skull morphology, tentatively referred to as the Indo-Pacific Bryde's whale. The recently described Omura's whale, was formerly considered a "pygmy" form of Bryde's, but is now recognized as a distinct species.