The most exciting part, for me, is the methods involved:
The female whale was spotted and photographed twice - once at its regular breeding ground in Brazil, then later off the coast of Madagascar. The shortest distance between these two locations is 9,800km.The internship I did this summer contributes to these types of studies, so it's exciting to see how data like the ones I collected is used and has an impact.
This explains it quite well:
The team is involved in a long-term study, collecting and examining the pictures of the whale flukes in an effort to develop a "big picture" of humpback behaviour and their migration patterns.
