When whales blow, it’s not necessarily just water you see flying into the air. It’s a lotta snot as well.
Members of the London Zoological Society and Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute have been given the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering for inventing an efficient way to gather whale snot.
Their paper was called A Novel Non-Invasive Tool for Disease Surveillance of Free-Ranging Whales and Its Relevance to Conservation Programs.
They used a remote-controlled helicopter.
And if that’s snot good news, then I don’t know what is!
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements and improbable research that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Even actual Nobel Prize winners participate in the ceremonies.
I kid you not!
I will never look at the spray from a whale the same way again. Haw!
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