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The Centre for Whale Research (Western Australia) Inc. is a non-profit research institute 73A(6) established in 1993 to conduct scientific research into marine mammals in the order Cetacea, the whales, dolphins and porpoises. Studies conducted by it's researchers in NW Australia since 1990 have yielded new information regarding the behaviours and migratory characteristics of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off Western Australia such as the discovery of this populations calving grounds. Similar research into the migratory characteristics of pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) began in 1999.