A citizen science platform called Happy Whale used artificial intelligence to match the whale's tail into a new global database, launched two weeks prior to our incident. How old it was, who its mother was, where it was born, and we have been able to follow its life ever since. And figuring that out wasn't the only thing scientists were able to discern from the video. Recent technological breakthroughs have transformed our understanding of animals. Think back to the 1830s when Darwin sailed around the world on the HMS Beagle. He could only perceive what his senses could perceive; he could only go where his body could go. But instead, tens of millions of people watched a video of a whale that

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