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    Re: Pepper and Shuffleboard
    From: UNK
    Date: 2014 Oct 22, 08:14 -1000
    Hello All,
    A bit of info I've learned while crewing whale watches. Each Humpback has a unique pattern of white on it's tail, as unique as our fingerprints.  Since the '70s on Stellwagen Bank/Gulf of Maine they have been photographed, named and catalogued.  The names are non-gender based as until a female shows up on Stellwagen with a calf, the gender is not known.  The listing is called the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog.  As I understand it the names are from people's suggestions and sometimes come from a sort of Rorschach Test of the tail pattern.  There is one whale named Nile who's pattern resembled the path of the river.  Hope this helps.
    Fair winds,
    Tom Sullivan 


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    On Oct 22, 2014, at 7:53 AM, André Duval <NoReply_AndreDuval@fer3.com> wrote:

    Frank, how confident can you be that you have identified such individual whales? They don't appear much different to me.

    For anyone: who names these whales?! Is there a dataset on the web where I may see a list of identified humpback whales?

    Thank you. André.

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