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A Southern Right whale breaches out of the Indian ocean in False bay, Cape Town, South Africa Monday 18 September 2006. Southern Right whales use the sheltered bays of South Africas cape coast for calving at this time of year providing spectacular nature viewing for tourists but to see them breaching out the water is rare. They travel 2000 km from the Southern Ocean to the Antarctic for the rest of the year. Southern Right whales can grow up to 18 m (60 feet) long and weigh up to 100 tonnes. Their rotund bodies are mostly black, with distinctive white callosities (skin abrasions) on their heads. They are called 'right whales' because whalers thought the whales were the 'right' ones to hunt, as they float when killed and often swim within sight of the shore. Populations were vastly reduced by intensive harvesting during the active years of the whaling industry. Now they are an endangered species. (KEYSTONE/EPA/NIC BOTHMA)