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Using drones, researchers assess the health of humpback whale mother-calf pairs across the Pacific Ocean

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Recent declines in North Pacific humpback whale reproduction and survival of calves highlight need to understand how mother-calf pairs expend energy across their migratory cycle.

Researchers used drone imagery to measure calf growth and maternal body condition days after calf birth in Hawaii and Southeast Alaska .

The research shows that larger females produced larger, faster-growing calves.

Humpback whale health database comprises 11,000 measurements of 8,500 individual whales in the North Pacific .

These studies will be used to better predict the resilience of large baleen whale species in the face of threats, including disturbance, entanglement, vessel collision, and climate change.

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