A pilot noticed a new child pygmy blue whale calf swimming with its mom and captured some beautiful photographs which have the scientific group (and animal lovers) excited. The pilot, Tiffany Klein of Ningaloo Aviation, was trying to find this species as a part of a research project to tag and observe pygmy blue whales. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the Centre for Whale Analysis (CWR) are heading up the analysis challenge.
Scientists imagine this calf, which is probably going simply weeks previous based mostly on its dimension, is the youngest pygmy blue whale documented in Australian waters. Klein noticed the mom and calf pair swimming aspect by aspect offshore from the Ningaloo Reef.
According to NOAA, pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) dwell principally in waters off Australia, Madagascar, and New Zealand. Pygmy blue whales are a subspecies of blue whale. They develop to a max of about 80 toes lengthy, in comparison with different subspecies, just like the Antarctic blue whale, which might develop to be 110 toes lengthy.
Blue whales are the most important animals on Earth. They’re additionally the most important animals which have ever lived on Earth, so far as scientists know.
Take a look at some photographs of this monumental bundle of pleasure right here:
