Assertion: whale's population | /r/HasProperty | separate
Facets:
value: genetically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: It was previously thought that blue whales in the North Pacific belonged to at least five separate populations; however, evidence from movement data derived from satellite tags, photograph-identification, and acoustic data supports two populations in the North Pacific—the Eastern and Central and Western North Pacific populations, with divisions according to acoustic calls being estimated by Monnahan et al.
text: Although the Western Australia/Indonesia population and the Eastern Australia/New Zealand population are morphologically similar and not genetically separated, there are no photograph-identification matches between the two populations, and mitochondrial DNA haplotype frequencies suggest a high degree of genetic isolation of the New Zealand population.
text: In 2000, two studies of DNA samples from each of the whale populations concluded the northern and southern populations of right whale should be considered separate species.