Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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What's it like to be a whale researcher? Here's a look at Pacific Whale Foundation's humpback whale research team in Hervey Bay, Queensland (Australia) at work in the field. Not shown are the countless hours in the lab, where the researchers work with the data they've gathered, organizing photo-identification images and identifying resights of previously identified humpback whales. Learn more about Pacific Whale Foundation's Australia research at pacificwhale.org/content/australia-research