Tagging expedition: revealing the delicate nursing behavior of humpback whale calves

BLOG LINK: We have recently commenced an exciting new project that aims to quantify the nursing behavior of humpback whale calves on their Maui breeding grounds. The project is a collaboration between the Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Goldbogen Lab at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, and the Friedlander Lab at University of California, Santa Cruz. For ten days in February 2020, we (Martin van Aswegen, Will Gough and Lars Bejder) deployed non-invasive suction-up CATs cam tags onto seven humpback whale calves.