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Two humpback whales were tracked crossing more than 14,000 kilometres between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil — one of them shattering every migration record ever recorded for the species

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Two humpback whales have done something the species was not supposed to do often: they turned up on opposite sides of the planet, at breeding grounds normally treated as separate populations. In a study published in Royal Society Open Science, Cristina Castro Ayala and colleagues report the first documented bidirectional exchange between humpback whale breeding populations in eastern Australia and...
Two humpback whales were tracked crossing more than 14,000 kilometres between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil — one of them shattering every migration record ever recorded for the species | Huntaegis