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Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda)

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A smaller subspecies of the Indian Ocean and southern Pacific whose migrations are the best documented of any blue whale, because it is the population that has been satellite-tagged most successfully. Eleven animals tagged off Western Australia were tracked for between 8 and 308 days, covering a mean of 3,009 km (SD 892) with individual tracks ranging from 832 km to 14,101 km, moving between Australian waters and Indonesian waters. The contrast with the Antarctic subspecies is the point: the two subspecies overlap in the southern Indian Ocean, but the pygmy blue whale does not go as far south, and its route is known in far more detail simply because tagging it has proved easier.

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  2. A smaller subspecies of the Indian Ocean and southern Pacific whose migrations are the best documented of any blue whale, because it is the population that has been satellite-tagged most successfully. Eleven animals tagged off Western Australia were tracked for between 8 and 308 days, covering a mean of 3,009 km (SD 892) with individual tracks ranging from 832 km to 14,101 km, moving between Australian waters and Indonesian waters. The contrast with the Antarctic subspecies is the point: the two subspecies overlap in the southern Indian Ocean, but the pygmy blue whale does not go as far south, and its route is known in far more detail simply because tagging it has proved easier.
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  4. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
  5. Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda)
  6. Connections
  7. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
  8. Pygmy blue whale movements between Australia and Indonesia are published
  9. Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)
  10. Rorqual Lunge Feeding
  11. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
  12. Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda)
  13. Northern Indian Ocean Blue Whale (putative B. m. indica)
  14. Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
  15. Whale-Mediated Iron Recycling
  16. Vessel Collision with Large Whales
  17. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
  18. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
  19. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
  20. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
  21. Blue whale song frequencies are observed falling worldwide
  22. The energetics of blue whale lunge feeding are modelled
  23. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
  24. Evidence
  25. Eleven pygmy blue whales tagged off Western Australia were tracked for between 8 and 308 days, covering a mean distance of 3,009 km (SD 892) with individual tracks from 832 km to 14,101 km, moving between Australian and Indonesian waters. V55 verification basis: these figures were returned in the search result carrying the paper's abstract and attributed to it.
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