Body weights of some species of large whales

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Author: Lockyer, C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1976
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Bryde; Flensing; Antarc*; baleen whales; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/36/3/259; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/36.3.259

Body weight data for the large species of Cetacea: right, gray, blue, fin, Bryde, sei, humpback and minke whales, have been compiled from various sources, and used to formulate body weight/length relationships. All the cetacean body weights examined can be related to body length in the formulation W...