North Atlantic Right Whale #2030
Discover Right Whale #2030’s journey to the Museum while exploring the story of evolution and why whales have hip bones. Learn about the extinction of species like the Right Whale due to humanity’s impact on the world. Learn more about the Museum’s whale’s tragic death in a short film by Ithaca filmmaker David O. Brown.
North Atlantic right whales are nearly extinct, a victim of intense whaling in the 19th century and since then of shipping and other human activities. The film Right Whale, Wrong Time tells the story of right whale #2030, an adult female right whale that died tragically after getting entangled in fishing gear. The film includes an interview with Dave Matilla and Charles Mayo of the Center for Coastal Studies (Provincetown), whose team had tried to free of her of the ropes. It also includes Warren Allmon, Director of the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth, where the skeleton of #2030 is on display and its story told through information on whale ecology, evolution, and conservation.