When it comes to determining the size of a whale, most of us would be content with the description “very, very big.”
But that’s not quite good enough for whale researcher Grace Russell. With the help of drones, she’s figuring out the proportions of our planet’s largest animals down to the millimetre – to help us better understand their migration patterns.
Reporter: Ruby Cornish
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