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Sightings soar on Australia’s ‘humpback highway’ as 40,000 whales return for winter - Annual migration sees whales journeying ...
4 JUNE 2025: The world's first interactive map of whale migration routes has revealed the growing dangers whales face in the ...
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Discover Magazine on MSNRare Humpback Whale Calf Sighting Makes Migration Routes More Mysterious Than Once ThoughtLearn more about the migrations of East Australian humpback whales, which were traditionally thought to travel from polar to tropical waters to give birth.
Humpback whales are now migrating north to their warmer breeding waters — but some of them will give birth as far south as ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNHumpback Whales Give Birth Much Farther South Than Previously Thought, Study FindsResearchers in Australia found records of humpback whale calves more than 900 miles farther south than expected ...
Whale researchers have new data about humpback whales giving birth along a busy “humpback highway” off Australia.
It turns out humpback whales' epic migrations to tropical waters aren't as essential as previously thought for giving birth: ...
A humpback whale stays by the side of a whale entangled in fishing gear. He spent more than five hours by her side, swimming ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNHumpback Whales Can’t See as Well as Scientists Thought, and It Might Explain Why They Keep Getting Tangled in Fishing GearDespite having big eyes, the whales can't make out details of objects more than a few body lengths away, according to a new ...
Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae) are master migrators. Some populations of this baleen whale species travel upwards of 5,000 miles per year from colder waters to feed, towards warmer tropical ...
As Australia's east coast tourism industry dives into a new whale migration season, a UniSC study has revealed the emotional ...
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