Feature: Passion for whales takes Cape Town residents to citizen science


by Xinhua writer Lyu Tianran, Fred Barker

CAPE TOWN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Just around 7:50 a.m. on a normal day in July, messages of sighting whales along Cape Peninsula, southwestern end of the African continent, started coming in Alex Vogel's phone.

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