As soon as photos of the right whale mother and calf started circulating, scientists at the New England Aquarium right whale research center knew the whale by name. Since there are only 350 North Atlantic right whales left, all the endangered whales have been sighted, photographed and named by researchers. The scar on the underside of her tail gave her the name "Boomerang". Corpus Christi Bay along the Texas coast is the farthest west sighting ever of a rare right whale. Boomerang was last sighted off the Florida coast. She and her calf were not seen in the bay today so researchers are hopeful that she has made her way out of the bay and into the Gulf of Mexico.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Boomerang in Corpus Christi Bay
As soon as photos of the right whale mother and calf started circulating, scientists at the New England Aquarium right whale research center knew the whale by name. Since there are only 350 North Atlantic right whales left, all the endangered whales have been sighted, photographed and named by researchers. The scar on the underside of her tail gave her the name "Boomerang". Corpus Christi Bay along the Texas coast is the farthest west sighting ever of a rare right whale. Boomerang was last sighted off the Florida coast. She and her calf were not seen in the bay today so researchers are hopeful that she has made her way out of the bay and into the Gulf of Mexico.
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