Smithsonian Curator A. Remington Kellogg, Japanese Baleen, and the Blue Whale скачать в хорошем качестве

Smithsonian Curator A. Remington Kellogg, Japanese Baleen, and the Blue Whale

This talk briefly outlines the amazing career of whale scientist and conservationist Remington Kellogg. The second part of the talk describes an incredible collection of Antarctic blue and fin whale baleen collected from post-WWII Japan. This collection fell into neglect and was forgotten. It was re-discovered by the Smithsonian Marine Mammal Program and over a period of a years archival data was re-associated with the collection. Then it was cataloged and made available to researchers. It is now one of the Smithsonian’s most valuable marine mammal collections. The third part of the talk describes Kellogg’s despondence at the international failure to control out-of-control whaling which had brought a number of large whales to the brink of extinction. This culminated in his 1963 dedication of the blue whale model in the Life in the Sea exhibit.