The Right Whale - Eubalaena glacialis (northern) or australis (southern) - is a baleen whale (one that has overlapping plates hanging from the upper jaw) with a bow-shaped lower jaw and a head so big it measures up to a quarter of its entire body length. This whale is hairier than most, with up to 300 hairs on the tip of the lower jaw and 100 on the upper jaw. They also have a series of horny growths behind their 2 blowholes, on the chin, above the eyes, on the lower lip, and on the rostrum (the beak-like upper jaw) - called callosities.

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