According to reports, scientists with Ocean Alliance are looking forward to use a method to take important samples from whales and will ensure that the gentle behemoths do not notice this. Sir Patrick Stewart is also very excited to attain this.

According to Captain Iain Kerr, an Ocean Alliance researcher and also a friend of Steward, they were looking forward to ways to gather biological data without creating trouble for the animals.

The researcher added that blow samples, or snot, could reveal a lot of information. He said that using them, DNA could be sequenced and stress and pregnancy hormone levels could also be measured. According to him, it is also possible to find out virus and bacteria loads, and conduct some other experiments.

As per Stewart and Kerr, current research methods include lots of unnecessary troubles and this could lead to potentially imprecise data.

According to the project's team, "Imagine if everything your doctor knew about your health came from chasing you around the room with a large needle while blowing an air-horn. The chart would say something like, 'elevated stress levels, prone to shrieking.' It's inaccurate".

Kerr is expecting that with use of Snot Bot, whales will not be able to notice even the presence of researchers. As per reports, the drone was purportedly designed in an association with Olin College of Engineering. It will hover over a surfacing whale and will wait to collect whale snot released from a blow hole with an absorbent tissue.