Name: Happywhale - Humpback whale in Indian Ocean
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Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Citation

Happywhale. 2026. Happywhale - Humpback whale in Indian Ocean. Version 1.5.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.82144/591826ed.

Published

July 15, 2026 at 18:26

First registration

October 12, 2020 at 23:38

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1763

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1763

Contacts

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

14,610

total submitted occurrences

14,610

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	14,610		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	14,610		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		14,610	100.0%
ON_LAND		12	0.1%

Happywhale - Humpback whale in Indian Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data