Brief description, with photographs, of a technique called photo-identification,

Authors

Source

Down East

Date

9-1-1995

Pages

42-43

Abstract

Brief description, with photographs, of a technique called photo-identification, which allows whale-watchers to recognize and name individual animals by the distinctive markings and colorations on their flukes and fins. Biologists at Allied Whale in Bar Harbor were among the pioneers of the technique. Allied Whale has amassed images of more than 7,000 individual cetaceans, the largest collection of information of photo-identified humpbacks and finbacks in the world.

Subjects

Allied Whale Bar Harbor, Whales

Recommended Citation

"Brief description, with photographs, of a technique called photo-identification," (1995). Maine News Index - Down East Magazine. 2178.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_downeast/2178