{"id":5019,"date":"2016-09-02T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T18:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2016-09-06T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:34:06","slug":"dearborn_whale_skeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/2016\/09\/02\/dearborn_whale_skeleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dearborn Leads Whale Skeleton Recovery on Sheep Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2010\/06\/dearborn_mug1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2343\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2343 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2010\/06\/dearborn_mug1-137x150.jpg\" alt=\"dearborn_mug\" width=\"137\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Prof. Don Dearborn lead a team of students and local helpers in a mission to recover a nearly complete skeleton of a humpback whale named &#8220;Harmonic&#8221; from Sheep Island for relocation to a museum on Grand Manan Island. Dearborn, who spent the summer as interim director of the Bowdoin College field station lab on Kent Island, was interviewed by CBC radio about the recovery project. That interview\u00a0 and a related news article can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/whale-bones-grand-manan-1.3690839\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. More photos of the recovery effort can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stilltv.com\/grandmanan\/2016\/whale-on-sheep\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/09\/dearborn-whale-bone.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5020 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/09\/dearborn-whale-bone-357x300.jpg\" alt=\"dearborn-whale-bone\" width=\"357\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/09\/dearborn-whale-bone.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2016\/09\/dearborn-whale-bone-200x168.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Don Dearborn lead a team of students and local helpers in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5024,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions\/5024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}