Whales don’t become eligible for names until they’re a few years old. While calves are born with callosity patterns, "these patterns are not clear right away and often shift as they grow up ...
Scientists at the New England Aquarium announced Monday the names of 20 North Atlantic right whales. Every right whale in the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog has a number assigned to it, and ...
The whale takes her name from Nauset Lighthouse due to her “lighthouse-shaped callosity pattern,” Clearwater researchers said. Marine biologists encourage boaters to report right whale ...
Researchers can identify right whales by the unique patterns on their heads, called callosity patterns, said Montie. Callosities are white growths on the right whale’s head that appear shortly ...
“Using these photographs, we can identify individuals because each individual has a unique callosity pattern, the classify pattern on their head,” Professor Salgado Kent said. She hopes the ...