What do you get when you adopt a whale? -An 8 X 10 inch color photograph of your whale ADOPT A -A brief history of your whale and a record of its sightings. FINBACK -A packet of information about finback whales and whale research -Your personal Certificate of Adoption WHALE -Subscription to our biannual newsletter -Your tax-deductible contribution supports whale research. YES, I WANT TO ADOPT A FINBACK WHALE FOR ONE YEAR $30.00 (U.S. funds) Single Whale $50.00 (U.S. funds) Mother/Calf, (2 photos) Your Name: Address: Help protect the second Phone: largest mammal ever Gift Adoption: to inhabit the earth. (Both your address and your gift recipient's needed) For: Name: When you adopt a Address: finback whale, your Phone: contribution assists Please send to me researchers working to Send to recipient address understand the life-history Check enclosed of this endangered animal. Charge VISA MC Card no. Exp. Date MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: THE FINBACK CATALOGUE College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 207-288-5644 Support Some of the techniques research while developed by our staff learning are used by whale about finback biologists worldwide whales In 1981, biologists from throughout the North Adopt a finback for one year, Allied Whale (a marine Atlantic. In 1986, the and you will receive a color mammal research group North Atlantic Marine photograph of your whale, a based at the College of the Mammal Association, a history of its sightings, and a Atlantic in Bar Harbor, group comprising over 100 packet of information about Maine) and Maine Whale- marine mammal research- finback whales and whale watch (a whale watching ers from the United States, research. Your donation sup- organization in Northeast Canada, and Western ports research which will answer Harbor, Maine) began a Europe, selected Allied important questions such as: project to identify individual Whale to organize the col- Where do finback whales go in finback whales photogra- lection of photographs of the winter? Where are their phically. This technique finback whales from the calves born? How long do they enables scientists to follow North Atlantic. The North live? What are their habitat an individual anywhere it Atlantic Finback Whale requirements? In order to pro- may travel throughout its Catalogue is now housed in tect these mysterious whales this life by comparing fin our lab in Bar Harbor. information is essential. shapes, natural color pat- Adopt a Finback Whale is Finback whales, reaching terns, and any acquired the primary funding source lengths of over 80 feet, occur in scars that appear in for the catalogue. Your all oceans of the world. photographs. adoption helps continue the Although listed as an endan- Allied Whale works with important work of this gered species in the United other research groups con- ocean-wide collaborative States, they are still hunted in ducting similar research project. some parts of the world, includ- ing the North Atlantic Ocean. Finback whales that spend part B of the year feeding off the U.S. coast could be threatened by Unlike other whale foreign whalers if they leave our waters. Threats to their habitat, adoption programs, we are such as pollution, offshore dril- ling, ocean dumping, shipping the research group as well and coastal development also endanger the lives of these as the adoption agency magnificent creatures. There is no expensive already been given a name middle man in our adoption that is usually based on program. Except for the some physical or behav- cost of producing the adop- ioral characteristic recog- tion materials, your contri- nizable by the researchers bution goes directly into the who study them at sea. research effort. Adopting a finback We have chosen whales whale is your investment in for adoption that are favor- the growing understanding ites with whalewatchers of this endangered species. and biologists, or that have You are an important part a long history of resight- of the effort to save them ings. Each individual has for future generations.