A male humpback whale made one of ... it was trying to find a mate or food. The whale's lengthy voyage set a record for the longest known migration between breeding grounds. Sightings were tracked ...

The exact reason behind this particularly long migration remains unclear. But it is understood that humpback ... where researchers, whale watchers and members of the public map the movement ...

Others are born on the way. That’s what a study in Frontiers in Marine Science seems to suggest, anyway, after showing that hundreds of East Australian humpback whales are actually born mid-migration, ...

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Humpback whales tend to follow the same longitudinal (north-south) migration patterns, usually visiting the same cold feeding grounds and warm breeding grounds, according to the study. This whale ...

Questions remain about the whales' migration, including how the humpback mothers use different marine environments along their migration route and why they continue to travel north after giving ...

A male humpback whale has made an extraordinary journey from South America to Africa — traveling more than 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) — the longest migration recorded for a single whale ...