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Topics include: Beluga whales
Researchers at Assiniboine Park Zoo are interested in the social structure and natural history of the beluga that visit the Churchill River in Northern Manitoba, Canada. During the summer thousands of beluga whales visit the estuary and at that time. www.Explore.org runs a live streaming underwater video from a zodiac that people around the world can view. During the beluga season (July and August) we ask viewers to capture snapshots when they see the undersides of beluga and when they see marked beluga. From those photos we can tell if the animal is male or female. We can tell the approximate age - if it is an calf, a subadult (grey), or an adult (white). Using marks (scars or pigments) we identify individual whales. However each season thousands of photos are captured and we are looking for help classifying them for analysis.