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❛Charlotte❜
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Title: ❛Charlotte❜ View count: 7359 Rating: 4.97 (154 ratings) Description: The Oceania Project's 19th Whale Research Expedition August 2008: http://oceania.org.au/expedition/expedition.html DVDs & Downloads: http://iWhales.org ❛Charlotte❜ is a young whale we encountered during the first week of our 2007 research expeditions. We named her after Charlie, in the foreground, who came all the way from London with her sister Dani to join us as interns. Help protect Humpback Whales: http://www.stopwhaling.com.au Your community can adopt a Humpback Whale: http://www.stopwhaling.com.au/site/c.ouI0KeMXIvF/b.3263881/k.7A44/Adopt_a_Whale.htm To celebrate the annual return of the Humpback Whales, fifty Australian communities are participating in the Humpback Icon Project. Each of these communities has adopted a known individual Humpback Whale from The Oceania Project's Fluke Catalogue: http://www.stopwhaling.com.au/site/c.ouI0KeMXIvF/b.3263879/k.590F/Humpback_Icon_Project.htm Established in 1988 by Trish & Wally Franklin, The Oceania Project is an independent, non-profit research organization dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales, dolphins and the oceans. The first phase of a long-term study of the Australian Humpback Whales has been the major work of The Oceania Project. This research continues to be made possible by individuals who participate in The Oceania Project's Internship Program. To date, more than 1,300 interns have joined the annual whale research expeditions. Presently, there are five ongoing research programs. One of which is a Photo Identification survey commenced in 1992 to provide data for the study of the behavior, social dynamics and ecology of the Australian Humpback Whales. Trish Franklin's observations and photo-id data have already made a significant contribution to documenting the recovery of the Australian Humpbacks following their near extinction due to commerical whaling in Antarctica. Trish has taken and analysed over 40,000 Photo Identification data images. Her Fluke Catalogue consists of over 3,000 individuals, the largest digital data archive on Humpbacks in the Southern Hemisphere. This research has enabled Trish to document the life histories of nearly 600 individual Humpback Whales; many of whom we have come to know extremely well as they migrate annually up the east coast of Australia. Information obtained from these research programs adds to the body of knowledge about Humpback Whales and also directly contributes to the Australian Cetacean Management and Monitoring Program. --------------------------------------- Tags: cetacea, oceania, project, research, the, whale, Author: TheOceaniaProject |
