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With fewer than 500 remaining, the North Atlantic right whale is on the brink of extinction. The biggest threat to these animals was - and still is - man. Right whale populations were depleted to near extinction by whaling - they were slow moving whales that lived close to the shore and floated when killed, so they became known as the “right whale” to hunt.

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