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Right Place, Right Time, Researchers Spot 60 Right Whales Off The Cape

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BOSTON (CBS) – Researchers from New England Aquarium were out surveying earlier this week when they came across quite a sight.

Watch The Video (Courtesy of New England Aquarium)

They estimate seeing about 60 endangered Right whales in Cape Cod Bay. Half of them were spotted within a single square nautical mile.

“There were whales everywhere we looked, in all different directions and distances,” the researchers said on the aquarium’s blog.

Only about 400 Right whales are thought to inhabit the Atlantic Ocean.

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  • http://whalingmuseumblog.org/2011/09/26/right-place-right-time-right-whales/ Right Place, Right Time, Right Whales « Whaling Museum blog

    [...] Our friends and colleagues from the New England Aquarium have taken, and shared via CBS News, this video of approximately five dozen endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay.  This represents nearly  13% of the estimated population of this species. [...]

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