yeah, i just hold back despite appearances, this is no conventional whale hunt, matthew, dennis hasan and his colleagues from the memo research institute at the university of pretoria. i'll try to take scientific samples for the benefit of whale kind. so in the arrow, the some, bob's a hook and that some of the skin or blood. so the skin is the blush part and then blah, blah, the key parts we use it for different that is not painful. i mean it feels like a bee sting or something just like a quick, sharp pain. sometimes they just flip the tail up, but generally as we saw, they normally just dive down and then within a few minutes, they don't really care. the bay of admonish, just east of cape town, is a winter base for many southern ride whales. they migrate thousands of kilometers from their feeding grounds of antarctica to carve in the sheltered waters. but the numbers coming to south africa have been dropping for some time. now. the researchers are trying to find out why back on land. the scientists returned to the lab to process and labeled the skin samples and linked the mothers w