beaked whale

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English

A Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)

Noun

beaked whale (plural beaked whales)

  1. Any of at least 20 species of whales in the family Ziphiidae, known to dive to great depths, but not well understood generally.
    • 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic‎:
      When the beaked whales surfaced near the Sea Shepherd boat, the scientists scrambled to make observations, take photographs, and deploy acoustic-recording buoys: Beaked whales are notoriously skittish.

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