Hi, Dr. Taylor.

Hello, how are you?

Good.

Thanks so much for speaking with us.

It's a pleasure.

Could you please tell us your name and what you do?

My name is Dr. Barbara Taylor.

I work for NOAA, the National Marine Fisheries Service here in La Jolla,

California. I'm a marine conservation biologist, and I used to run the Marine Mammal Genetics

group. And I also do all the listings for whales, dolphins, and porpoises on the IUCN red list.

That's the list globally that tells how endangered species are.

Cool.

When and how did you get interested in the wakita?

Well, I started out doing corpus research in a and how did you get interested in the wakita?

Well, I started out doing porpoise research in Alaska, so I was already interested in porpoise. And then I went back to graduate school, and I wrote a paper, one of the chapters of my

doctor's thesis that was on Bakita's and how difficult

it was going to be able to see what the status of a really rare, naturally rare marine mammal

was. So I started over 35 years ago studying Bakita and then eventually I was lucky enough to get to go

out in the field and see them. Can you tell us more about your experiences with Bakitas?

Yeah, I thought I'd share a really wonderful experience and a pretty hard experience. So I, back in 1997, long time ago,

we did the very first survey to see how many bequitas there were in the world. And I remember

one day, one afternoon, we started seeing bequita and then we saw another

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