The trust described it as “incredibly difficult” to get a high-enough quality photo of the underside of a whale to visually confirm their gender, and usually the presence or absence of a calf was a guide. <\/p>\n
Cowen said: “It’s actually, as you might expect, very difficult to figure out a whale’s gender. <\/p>\n
“Normally, you’d have to get quite close to them, either diving underneath them or waiting for them to flip upside down and take a photo at just the right second.<\/p>\n
“The chances of that are basically one in a million.”<\/p>\n
They said it was “incredibly lucky” that the local wildlife watcher was flying a photography drone and managed to take an image of Pi flipping on her back. <\/p>\n
“That photo, hopefully not too much to Pi’s embarrassment, has now been passed around an international group of cetacean experts,” Cowen said. <\/p>\n
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