Most Humpback Whales in the North Pacific identified
Our project has taken some interesting twists and turns and just this week achieved a major milestone: we've published a paper in the Nature journal Scientific Reports: A collaborative and near‑com...
...this long silence doesn't mean nothin's cooking!
We've been quiet over here in the mad science labs of Happywhale but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy and productive. In the North Pacific Ocean we've now documented over 30,100 individual hu...
Relationship Tracking Blueprint
Currently Happywhale contains at least one sighting of over 64,000 individual humpback whales, and for some individuals, hundreds of sightings over their lifetimes. Our goal for this study is to us...
All in the family: a mother humpback whale with her calf of the year and her three year old
All in the family! Last weekend, the well known California humpback whale Chompers was seen with her calf by frequent contributor Mark O'Brien. Surprise... Chomper's 3 year old calf was right there...
Funding goal reached! We love you 😍🐋. And now we continue...
Our campaign has just reached our first funding milestone, so we will receive the full matching contribution. THANK YOU everyone who has contributed 🥰.And now dreams get to turn into reality :-). O...
Whale family trees and social relationships! The remarkable case of humpback whale "Heather" CRC-13712
Whale family trees and social relationships! The remarkable case of humpback whale "Heather" CRC-13712 Here you see the family tree of the famous pioneering whale Heather, one of the early explorer...
