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At the time Bill was tagged, almost nothing was known about where the New Zealand whales went outside the breeding season. The best information available, perversely, was records from the old whaling ships, which showed frequent kills in waters north and east of New Zealand.
Lead scientist Emma Carroll was therefore astonished when Bill and the other tracked whales headed in the opposite direction, towards Australia.
“It’s changed the way we think about the whales’ ecology,” she says. “It suggests that north-eastern foraging ground isn’t as commonly used as it was historically.”
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-whales-are-back/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2021.
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Lead scientist Emma Carroll was therefore astonished when Bill and the other tracked whales headed in the opposite direction, towards Australia.
“It’s changed the way we think about the whales’ ecology,” she says. “It suggests that north-eastern foraging ground isn’t as commonly used as it was historically.”
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-whales-are-back/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2021.
Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.
ALL IMAGES TAKEN UNDER PERMIT FROM THE NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION.
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