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December 2009 issue |
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FEATURE: BLUE WHALES
Blue shifts
Richard Sears has spent three decades watching the planet’s largest animals — and they still keep him guessing
Photography by Dan Bortolotti with story by John DeMont
As soon as Richard Sears saw the photograph, he recognized a long-lost friend. In early June 2009, the
biologist opened his e-mail to find a digital image of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) sent by a colleague working
off the Gaspé Peninsula in eastern Quebec. The left side of the whale’s back was unusually pale, with a distinctive dark
patch that looked like an old-fashioned telephone.
“Right away, I knew who it was,” says Sears, “because that
image had been etched in my mind.”
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