Body Size in White Whales, Delphinapterus leucas

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Authors: Sergeant, D. E., Brodie, P. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1969
• Subjects: Arctic; Hudson Bay; Okhotsk; White Sea; Greenland; Hudson; Lawrence River; Delphinapterus leucas; okhotsk sea; Orca; Orcinus orca; Sakhalin; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f69-251; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f69-251

Measurements of length, girth, and weight show that male white whales grow larger than females. The smallest white whales come from western Hudson Bay, the White Sea, and Bristol Bay, Alaska. Animals of intermediate size inhabit all other arctic Canadian localities sampled and also the St. Lawrence...