New record of mother-calf pair of southern right whale, <i>Eubalaena australis</i>, off the Peruvian coast

Abstract

1992; 1998). Basedon behavioral cues and relative body sizes, the whaleswere a mother-calf pair. The mother measured anestimated 15m in length and the calf was less than halfthe length of the adult. This sighting, by naked eye fromshore, some 100m away from the individuals from 14:00until 14:30 hrs is the second case of a mother-calf pair ofsouthern right whales documented in Peruvian waters.The other previous record in September 1996 was madeby Van Waerebeek