Skeletal exhibit construction underway in Maine of humpback whale found on Cape Cod
The story of Vector, who was well-known in New England waters, isn’t over, College of the Atlantic Allied Whale senior scientist Dan DenDanto ’91 says to the Boston Globe, who will be using the remains of the 45-foot humpback whale as part of a new exhibit.
By Sabrina Schnur | Boston Globe
Dan DenDanto, a research associate at College of the Atlantic and founder of Whales and Nails, has taken Vector, the 40-ton female whale who washed up dead on East Sandwich May 5 after 34 years of annual visits to the Cape.
DenDanto is part of the network of stranding agents coordinated under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that are performing a necropsy on Vector because she showed no obvious cause of death. He will be using her bones in a re-articulation alongside a humpback whale calf he acquired more than a year ago.
“Since that time last year I’ve had this dream, aspiration, to connect that calf skeleton in a meaningful exhibition,” DenDanto said. “Baleen female whales are bigger than males; [I’d like to] set that dichotomy of size.”