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TRUE'S beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus True) has hitherto been recorded from fourteen specimens stranded between the Outer Hebrides and Florida, and has been considered a North Atlantic species1. Talbot2 reported the stranding of an adult male True's whale at Wilderness, South Africa, in 1959. He suggested that this extension of range could indicate a southern variety of the species, though Moore1 regards this specimen as a stray.
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Moore, J. C., in Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (edit. by Norris, K. S.), 32 (Univ. Calif. Press, Berkeley, 1966).
Talbot, F. H., Nature, 186, 406 (1960).
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ROSS, G. Evidence for a Southern Breeding Population of True's Beaked Whale. Nature 222, 585 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222585a0
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