Evidence for a Southern breeding population of true's beaked whale

Abstract

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. © 1969 Nature Publishing Group.