Berardius+Bairdii

Berardius Bairdii (Baird's Beaked Whale) Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Animalia Chordata  Mammalia  Cetartiodactyla  Ziphiidae

Western North Pacific Sea of Japan, Okhotsk Sea, and Pacific Ocean 0-26 Celsius

In 2000 the IWC had not made any rules for catching Baird beaked whales but the annual amount caught has dropped. But they do need to research the species to get it populated again.

The Baird’s Beaked Whales are found between Japan and the west cost. There located in the western North Pacific Which is the Sea of Japan, Okhotsk Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. They have been seen coming close up to shore where there is deep water but they usually are near the continental slope & near oceanic seamounts. In water as deep as 1,000 to 3,000 meters, deep off the cost of Japan the whales are found in waters that are 23°C to 29°C. On the other hand the whales have been spotted in the northern Okhotsk Sea in places that are only 500 meters deep. The currents are North Pacific to the west coast than North Equatorial to Japan and than North Pacific Back to the west cost. Its warm currents from Japan hit the west coast and become cold currents and when it goes back to Japan it’s warm again.

The Baird’s Beaked Whale doesn’t travel, there population is about 7000 but that is an educated guess because they can dive for long periods of time per each dive. It's about 10 meters long and it looks like a very long bottlenose dolphin that is because it is the ancestor of the bottlenose dolphin & they weigh about 19800lbs.

The Berardius Bairdii reaches sexual maturity when they are 9.4 meters long for males and the female reach that at 10 meters. The gestation period is 10 months and the pregnancies is 17 months. The mother takes care of the young for only about 3 years but they live for 70 years. The reason why they can stay underwater for so long is because of there lungs and it helps them dive deeper too. The venous plexuses pools large amounts of blood into the lung to save the oxygen tha they take in so they can stay deeper and underwater even longer. Inside the stomach it can be split up into 3 majors parts which is useful for storing more food.

They feed on squid but mostly gonatus fabricii, some other things they eat are octopus, lobster, crab, rockfish, herring, sometimes they eat starfish & sea cucumbers. They dont really have a predators or things that eat them but we has people effect them the most by catching them for profit and the pollution is killing them too.

Japan kills them mainly just to get rid of them they raised there quote to 66 whales per year but there are incidentally caught.

Pollution kills them and sound we use sound waves to navigate the oceans and to communicte it effects mainly in the deeper parts of the sea where the Berardius Bairdii dive to get food.

They are being portected by only letting japan catch 66 whales per year and the U.S. is tryting not ot catch them some sometimes they are incidentally caught.

Solutions to it is just to stop Japan from catching them just don't let them catch them anymore i don't really see a point in letting them catch them to kill them. They can stop fishery from fishing near where they live cause that is how they get incidentally caught. (the area where they live)