it's exclusive to humpback and bryde�*s whale species. hi, guys! how did it go? hey! hey, marc!rt of whales did you manage to get samples from there? so that sighting was with two humpback whales. it was actually a mom and a calf. a lot of our tissue samples are actually telling us some information on the pregnancy rates of humpbacks. we know that the pregnancy rates are high, the population is increasing, and we're also seeing more calves in the water. using the crossbow to collect those samples, it looks like it's pretty vicious. does it injure or upset the animals at all? no, absolutely not. so, in terms of injury, you know, we can immediately say no. we've been using this type of sampling method as a lab group for about two decades. but it's been used scientifically even longer than that. the way we like to describe it is maybe like a flick or more of a shock factor, but frequently we don't see any response at all. how important is it that you get those samples back and into the freezer quite quickly? it's actually pretty important, so we should probably head out now. 0k. we