I mean it seems economical, but I don’t know if it’s particularly scientific. Usually in science they want specific numbers. Values. Things they can measure directly.
What specifically constitutes a single “sighting”? What if a whale surfaces multiple times around the same group. How would they know if that’s multiple different whales breaching or just one whale that’s breaching multiple times? Either one of those scenarios seems like an opportunity for data to get skewed doesn’t it?
I’m not asking because I think I know any better. I am genuinely curious how they quantify a “sighting”.
More sightings means more whales. It’s a concept similar to bird banding
I mean it seems economical, but I don’t know if it’s particularly scientific. Usually in science they want specific numbers. Values. Things they can measure directly.
What specifically constitutes a single “sighting”? What if a whale surfaces multiple times around the same group. How would they know if that’s multiple different whales breaching or just one whale that’s breaching multiple times? Either one of those scenarios seems like an opportunity for data to get skewed doesn’t it?
I’m not asking because I think I know any better. I am genuinely curious how they quantify a “sighting”.