Prime Suspect @1437

Prime Suspect is believed to be the whale that breached on Tom Mustill and Charlotte Kinloch and is featured in the BBC documentary Humpback Whales: A Detective Story. Prime Suspect is known as the 2008 calf of CRC-11645 from research conducted by Cascadia Research Collective and collaborators. Also formerly HW-MN0500504. Known as male from a biopsy sample collected by PRIMMA 01/09/2023 and analyzed at Dr. Omar Chassin’s lab (UMSNH).

Monterey Bay · North Pacific