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Kōrero: Whales

Pygmy whale calf

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Pygmy whale calf

A Massey University researcher, Padraig Duignan (left), and a Department of Conservation ranger, Malcolm Smith, examine a pygmy whale calf, which was stranded at Māhia in northern Hawke’s Bay. Strandings are reasonably common there, and Padraig Duignan was working with others to investigate their cause.

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Massey University

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Gerard Hutching, Whales – Sperm whale, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7100/pygmy-whale-calf (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Gerard Hutching, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.