By Cynde McInnis, Year of the Right Whale Project Co-Coordinator
Do you ever wonder why scientists study individual whales?
What can that teach us?
This is a perfect introduction for you into just one aspect of their life that research has unveiled.
Scientists have been actively studying individual right whales since 1980. Throughout that time, literally thousands of pictures and pages of data have been collected. Complete this activity to see what we can learn from this!
Learning About Lifetimes Activity (without answers)
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One of the whales that we reference in this lesson is Calvin. She’s a whale that many people are familiar with–some more than others. Click here to learn about The Calvineers!!
