Support Research - Adopt a Whale Today!

Your whale adoption supports photo-identification research at Allied Whale, College of the Atlantic's marine mammal research group (see * below).

With your adoption you will receive:

• A 5x7 inch color photograph of your whale.

• A brief history of your whale and its sightings.

• The beautiful seventy page book Discovering Whales of the East Coast full of information and photos about whales and whale research.

• Your personal Certificate of Adoption.

• Subscription to our annual newsletter.

• The Allied Whale Guide to Marine Mammals of the North Atlantic.

• An exclusive Bar Harbor Whale Museum mug.

• Krill: A Whale of a Game playing cards.

* Allied Whale currently maintains the North Atlantic Fin Whale Catalog and the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog, which house photographs of thousands of individual whales. These catalogues allow researchers to follow individual whales' life histories and investigate migration patterns, calving rates and fidelity to feeding grounds.