{"id":56280,"date":"2020-12-12T10:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T11:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?p=56280"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T11:48:15","slug":"one-more-north-atlantic-humpback-whale-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/one-more-north-atlantic-humpback-whale-match\/","title":{"rendered":"One more North Atlantic Humpback Whale match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It often seems to us biologists, an inglorious job the hours that we spend in front of our computer trying to compare photos, in our photo-identification work<\/a>, whether with Sperm whale flukes, the pigmentation of a Blue whale or even the scars on the dorsal of a Risso’s dolphin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spend many hours trying to find another photo of the same animal, either in the waters of S\u00e3o Miguel Island or Pico Island, or even through the various partnerships we have with different research groups all over the North Atlantic. We first compare the photos in our database and often find the same animal for several days or weeks. This is what happened to a humpback whale that we saw on March 14, 2019<\/a>, it was very active on this day, with some acrobatic behaviors such as lobtailing. The next day we went back to the sea and there it was again, showing one more time its fluke <\/a>with a very characteristic cut on the left side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n