1. Thar She Blows.
- Author
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Nobel, Justin
- Subjects
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BLUE whale , *WHALES , *TOYS , *DISEASES - Abstract
The article focuses on research conducted by marine biologist Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse to find out what illnesses afflict blue whales. After Acevedo-Whitehouse had trouble capturing spray spouted from blues' blowholes with a pole extended from a research vessel, she decided to take to the air. She attached petri dishes to the landing gear of a three-and-a-half-foot hobby helicopter, and collected mucus by hovering the chopper over several blues in the Gulf of California in Mexico.
- Published
- 2009