Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Epic 10,000km Voyage of a Humpback Whale

From Ed Yong - here:
"I
n 7 August 1999, a lucky photographer snapped a female humpback whale frolicking off the east coast of Brazil. Two years later, on 21 September 2001, the same whale was caught on camera again, by a tourist on a whale-watching boat. But this time, she was a quarter of the world away, off the eastern coast ofMadagascar. The two places where she was spotted are at least 9800 kilometres apart, making her voyage the longest of any mammal."

The message is:

"Her travels tell us how much we still have to learn about these enigmatic animals."




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