Whale portraits
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2018 / 07 / 13
Trou
From the bulletin Whale Portraits, July 17, 2018 By Camille Begin-Marchand Bp059 is nicknamed “Trou” (Translator’s note: “hole” in French) in the Marine Park due to the p...
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2018 / 06 / 28
Bp918
Identifying marks His truncated dorsal fin forms a straight line. Behind his dorsal fin, his back shows a small protuberance. History Bp918 is a fin whale that was first observed in 2000. It has been ...
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2018 / 06 / 21
Orion
Taken from the newsletter Portrait de baleines, July 11, 2013 On July 10, aboard the Bleuvet, a team composed of GREMM and Fisheries and Oceans Canada researchers placed a telemetry tag on the fin wha...
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2018 / 06 / 01
Bp955, a.k.a. “Ti-Croche”
Distinctive traits It hook-shaped dorsal fin is strongly curved toward the rear. However, it is the resemblance of Bp955’s dorsal fin with that of the late Capitaine Crochet that earned it the n...
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2017 / 10 / 20
Bp913
Taken from the newsletter Portrait de baleines, October 20, 2017 By Marie-Sophie Giroux Bp913 was photographed in early September this year. Despite what his faithfulness to the Estuary might sugges...
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2017 / 10 / 12
H725, a.k.a. “High Heels”
Taken from the newsletter Portrait de baleines, October 13, 2017 This animal is seen on September 6. Her “face” remains a mystery until she passes under the watchful eye of a member of th...
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2017 / 10 / 05
H753, a.k.a. “Bad Chemistry”
Taken from the newsletter Portrait de baleines, October 6, 2017 Identified by the Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS) team and the third humpback after Tic Tac Toe and Tingley to make an incursion in...
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2017 / 10 / 05
Giant Losses
Each of them had their own story. Researchers at the New England Aquarium knew each of their distinctive markings, their family tree, and their favourite hangouts. Here is the story of nine of the car...
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2017 / 09 / 29
Caïman
From the bulletin Portrait de baleines, September 29, 2017 With the notch at the base of her dorsal fin, Caïman has several look-alikes, including U2 and Bp086. It is the irregular contours of the t...
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2017 / 09 / 21
Ba001, a.k.a. “Béatrice”
Taken from the newsletter Portrait de baleines, September 22, 2017 In 2011, Mériscope begins compiling all the minke whale photos it has shot since 2001 in order to catalogue them. An enormous under...