This website is designed to provide information on minke whales in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The first minke whale study was started by Ellie Dorsey in 1980. Using the new technique of photographic identification (well, new at the time), Ellie began a study of these elusive
i.e. 'slinky' whales.
Rus Hoelzel and Jon Stern joined Ellie in what would become the first long-term study of free ranging minke whales.
Subsequently, other populations of minke whales were studied by
various researchers.
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