Rorquals (/ˈrɔːrkwəlz/) are the largest group of baleen whales, which comprise the family Balaenopteridae, containing ten extant species in three genera. (wikipedia.org)
Rorquals are slender and streamlined in shape, compared with their relatives the right whales, and most have narrow, elongated flippers. (wikipedia.org)
Rice's whale has the smallest distribution of rorquals and possibly baleen whales in general, being endemic to a small portion of the Gulf of Mexico west of the Florida peninsula and south of Alabama and the Florida panhandle, although it likely formerly had a much wider distribution in the Gulf. (wikipedia.org)
This placement makes the pygmy right whale genome an interesting target to update the complex phylogenetic past of baleen whales, because it splits up an otherwise long branch that leads to the radiation of rorquals. (lu.se)
Apart from that, genomic data of this species might help to investigate cancer resistance in large whales, since these mechanisms are not as important for the pygmy right whale as in other giant rorquals and right whales. (lu.se)
Scientists at the University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates its signature lunge-feeding behaviour - and may help explain their enormous size. (ubc.ca)
Rorquals are a subgroup of baleen whales - including blue, fin, minke and humpback whales. (ubc.ca)
Conveniently, the three species of baleen whales (gray whales aside) most commonly observed during OPAL surveys are all part of the rorqual family, a.k.a Balaenopteridae: humpback whales, blue whales and fin whales (Figure 1). (oregonstate.edu)
Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) are easily differentiated from other rorquals because of their long pectoral fins (up to one third of their body length! (oregonstate.edu)
New research provides a fuller understanding of this species, focusing on a foraging behavior called lunge-feeding that it shares with the other members of its cetacean group, the rorqual whales. (foxnews.com)
All the rorqual whales - the blue, fin, sei, Bryde's, minke and humpback - feed by accelerating rapidly, opening their mouths and engulfing a large volume of seawater containing prey such as shrimp-like krill and tiny fish. (foxnews.com)
Some other baleen whales feed differently than the rorquals. (foxnews.com)
[13] Some recent studies place gray whales as being outside the rorqual clade , but as the closest relatives to the rorquals. (wikipedia.org)
Balaenoptera1
[14] But other recent DNA analyses have suggested that certain rorquals of the family Balaenopteridae , such as the humpback whale , Megaptera novaeangliae , and fin whale , Balaenoptera physalus , are more closely related to the gray whale than they are to some other rorquals, such as the minke whales . (wikipedia.org)
Orca and Rorqual4
I have seen complaints about Orca and Rorqual. (eveonline.com)
I propose that both Orca and Rorqual gets 8 high slots. (eveonline.com)
Orca and Rorqual have zero turrets that makes these high slots utility slots. (eveonline.com)
Orca and Rorqual could also receive huge boost to drone mining yield so they could be more effective in mining also. (eveonline.com)
Sibbald's Rorqual1
Text reads, "Sibbald's Rorqual or Blue Whale. (amnh.org)
Whale4
Rorquals take their name from French rorqual, which derives from the Norwegian word røyrkval: the first element røyr originated from the Old Norse name for this type of whale, reyðr, probably related to the Norse word for "red", and the second from the Norse word hvalr meaning "whale" in general. (wikipedia.org)
Most rorquals are strictly oceanic: the exceptions are the gray whale, Bryde's whale, Eden's whale, and Rice's whale (which are usually found close to shore all year round) and the humpback whale (which is oceanic but passes close to shore when migrating). (wikipedia.org)
So today, let's turn our eyes to the sea horizon and talk about some other members of the baleen whale community: rorquals. (oregonstate.edu)
Most rorquals are strictly oceanic: the humpback is an exception, which is oceanic but passes close to shore when migrating. (whaling-pirates.org)
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[32] Gray 1864 realized that the rib and scapula of the specimen was different from those of any known rorquals, and therefore erected a new genus for it, Eschrichtius . (wikipedia.org)
Species2
To do so, we constructed a multi-species coalescent tree from fragments of a whole-genome alignment and quantified the amount of introgression in the early evolution of rorquals. (lu.se)
Humpbacks are one of the larger rorqual species, with adults ranging in length from 12 16 m (39 52 ft) and weighing around 25 30 metric tons (28 33 short tons). (whaling-pirates.org)
Megaptera1
Le 25 mars 2018, l'échouage d'un rorqual à bosse (Megaptera novaeangliae) juvénile vivant sur une plage des Îles-de-la-Madeleine a été rapporté au Réseau québécois d'urgences pour les mammifères marins (RQUMM). (healthywildlife.ca)
Gameplay2
Now that's out of the way, let me show you the monstrosity of an industrial ship that we're dealing with, and how fucking cancerous the current rorqual gameplay is. (gardshusetvinschafive.se)
This blog will go into detail on the changes to mining foreman gameplay, including the Mining Foreman Bursts, changes to the Rorqual and Orca, and the new Porpoise -class industrial command ship. (eveonline.com)
Prey2
As well as other methods, rorquals obtain prey by lunge-feeding on bait balls. (wikipedia.org)
It probably helps rorquals feel prey density when initiating a lunge. (ubc.ca)
Belts2
Nerfing the Rorqual will do nothing to halt this decline in prices as long as it is still profitable to use Rorquals to strip mine belts. (gardshusetvinschafive.se)
Queston remains why would anyone want to bring Orca or Rorqual to belts? (eveonline.com)
Maybe it was a battle Rorqual that exhausted all of its drones attempting to kill the defenseless Ueberlisk! (lowseclifestyle.com)
Lunge2
NB: Illustrations of lunge-feeding and the location of the sensory organ, photos of the researchers at work at the Icelandic whaling station and a comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions are available at http://nmnh.typepad.com/pyenson_lab/nature-rorquals-organ.html . (ubc.ca)
Because the physical features required to carry out lunge-feeding evolved before the extremely large body sizes observed in today's rorquals, it's likely that this sensory organ - and its role in coordinating successful lunging - is responsible for rorquals claiming the largest-animals-on-earth status," Shadwick adds. (ubc.ca)
Enormous1
Given the recent enormous rise of solo rorqual Mining I'm considering starting 2-4 rorqual toons to pull in a simply ridiculous amount of ore and isk. (gardshusetvinschafive.se)
Waters1
Most rorquals breed in tropical waters during the winter, then migrate back to the polar feeding grounds rich in plankton and krill for the short polar summer. (wikipedia.org)
Resistance2
However, many unanswered questions remain, especially about the early radiation of rorquals and how cancer resistance interplays with their huge number of cells. (lu.se)
Give it shields like the rorqual and resistance like a hulk and call it a day! (eve-search.com)
Reaches1
Rorqual (O.R.E. You forgot their RR reaches further than fax, makes fighting subcaps on a grid with rorqs aids aswell. (gardshusetvinschafive.se)
Results1
Conclusions: Our results suggest that the evolution of rorquals is best described as a hard polytomy with a rapid radiation and high levels of introgression. (lu.se)
Long1
90% of Rorqual pilots I tackle have no idea what they're doing, and that fact has gone a long way to allowing the ship to exist in its broken state for so long. (gardshusetvinschafive.se)
Make2
As you can see from the earlier tanking numbers, this doesn't even make the rorqual sweat. (gardshusetvinschafive.se)
And futhermore make fitting or running the industrial core disable the use of any ewar modules on the rorqual. (eveonline.com)
Give1
In fact, they give rorquals the ability to open their mouths so wide that they would be capable of taking in water at volumes greater than their own sizes. (wikipedia.org)
Center1
EVE Forums » EVE Technology and Research Center » Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center » [March] Rorqual and Mining change. (eveonline.com)
Station2
I have a question can Rorqual dock to station? (eve-search.com)
Restarting the client will no longer cause guidance to be lost or stuck while en route to the Career Agent station. (eveonline.com)
Features1
Rorquals have a number of anatomical features that enable them to do this, including bilaterally separate mandibles, throat pleats that can expand to huge size, and a unique sensory organ consisting of a bundle of mechanoreceptors that helps their brains to coordinate the engulfment action. (wikipedia.org)
Capital1
Rorqual also gets boost to capital remote shield booster range (eats high slots). (eveonline.com)
Range1
The Rorqual landed outside of the docking range and Ueber undocked in his vindo. (lowseclifestyle.com)