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A humpback whale circled a boat near Sydney for nearly an hour on August 16 leaving the 21 passengers stuck in place until it left. A humpback whale circled a boat near Sydney for nearly an hour ...
A curious humpback whale approached a research boat and swam around it for several minutes off the coast of New York in October. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was conducting whale ...
A whale strikes a boat off coast of Rye, N.H. on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, toppling two boaters into the water, who were rescued moments later by the boaters in the foreground.
Migaloo jumping photographed by Jonas Liebschner onboard Whale Watching Sydney Part of a Song by Migaloo recorded in 1998. Migaloo ("whitefella" in some Aboriginal languages) is an all-white humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) that was first sighted on the 28 June 1991 at the Australian east coast near Byron Bay.
A father and son were fishing for striped bass and tuna off the Jersey Shore near Belmar on Wednesday when they hooked a prize memory: A massive humpback whale breached the sea inches from them.
Humpback whale breach sequence. A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water, also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead defines a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. [2]
Delta and Dawn, also known as the Delta whales, are two humpback whales, a mother and her calf, who entered San Francisco Bay in early May 2007. They swam up the Sacramento River approximately 90 nautical miles (170 km) upstream from the Golden Gate , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] about 20 miles (32 km) further inland than Humphrey the Whale had gone two decades ...
The humpback spotted splashing in the East River earlier this week has seemingly left the busy channel as quickly as it came — but not without leaving a whale-sized mark on the Big Apple.