Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The Aquarium's Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life scientists helped identify the deceased North Atlantic right whale that was found off Georgia earlier this week.
In collaboration with the researchers at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, Aquarium scientists identified the whale as a 1-year-old female, first sighted off Florida in December 2022 with her mom "Pilgrim" (Catalog #4340). This calf was the only known calf of Pilgrim, and they were spotted together several times last Spring in Cape Cod Bay.
This yearling marks the second North Atlantic right whale female that has died in the last month.
Learn more in our press release: bit.ly/3UDWxKz
📸: The yearling + her mother "Pilgrim" in Cape Cod Bay in April 2023. Video courtesy of New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Taken under NOAA permit #21371
The Aquarium's Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life scientists helped identify the deceased North Atlantic right whale that was found off Georgia earlier this week.
In collaboration with the researchers at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, Aquarium scientists identified the whale as a 1-year-old female, first sighted off Florida in December 2022 with her mom "Pilgrim" (Catalog #4340). This calf was the only known calf of Pilgrim, and they were spotted together several times last Spring in Cape Cod Bay.
This yearling marks the second North Atlantic right whale female that has died in the last month.
Learn more in our press release: bit.ly/3UDWxKz
📸: The yearling + her mother "Pilgrim" in Cape Cod Bay in April 2023. Video courtesy of New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Taken under NOAA permit #21371
