Resighting of a narwhal (Monodon monoceros) instrumented with a satellite transmitter.(Report)

ABSTRACT. On 9 August 2001, a male narwhal (Monodon monoceros) was instrumented with a satellite transmitter attached to the dorsal side of the tusk in Creswell Bay on Somerset Island in the Canadian High Arctic. The whale was identified five years later, on 22 June 2006, in a photo of a group of narwhals taken from the ice edge in Lancaster Sound. Examination of the position of the transmitter on the tusk showed that the tusk had grown approximately 17 cm in the five-year period. The transmitter was still located on the dorsal side of the tusk and this fact, together with the…