beaked whale

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English

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A Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)

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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[1]:
      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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