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December 2009 issue	In this issue Table of Contents Feature: Black-footed ferret Feature: Wildlife management Feature: Blue whales The Inside Story Editor’s Notebook Reverberations À la carte Mosaic Reviews

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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