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After arousing curiosity last summer in the estuary, a deceptively similar fin whale has once again been turning heads. By comparing photos taken in 2012 and 2024, and thanks to a biopsy performed on the individual in 2016, researcher Julien Delarue and the team from the <\/a>Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS)<\/a> were able to confirm the species. Half-fin, half-blue, a hybrid rorqual is swimming in the St. Lawrence!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After arousing curiosity last summer in the estuary, a deceptively similar fin whale has once again been turning heads. By comparing photos taken in 2012 and 2024, and thanks to a biopsy performed on the individual in 2016, researcher Julien Delarue and the team from the Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS) were able to confirm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12839,"featured_media":66565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFirst Hybrid Rorqual in the St. Lawrence - Baleines en direct<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After arousing curiosity last summer in the estuary, a deceptively similar fin whale has once again been turning heads. 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