The discovery of this unusual long-distance movement between these discrete breeding areas was the result of a large-scale international collaboration involving:
- Bios.CV
- The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group working in the Cape Verde Islands
- BREACH
- the National Marine Mammal Lab of NOAA in the French West Indies.
The resighting was made by researchers from the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog, a central database for humpback whale identification photographs from across the ocean basin, curated by Allied Whale.
