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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMysterious Whale Swarms Perplexing Scientists
A "super-group" of humpback whales observed from an aircraft off the coast of Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
Why are all of these humpback whales all suddenly hanging out? No one really knows.
In a new study, scientists report spotting as many as 200 humpbacks at a time gathering off South Africa. That's bizarre for a species previously believed to be loners.
It's "unlike anything I have seen in working with humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere," says study leader Ken Findlay, a marine biologist at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa.
"These are animals that normally are in groups of up to maybe three of four. To see 200 together in an area the size of a football field is remarkable." (Related: "The Rare Beauty of Dozens of Migrating Humpback Whales."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/humpback-whales-swarms-south-africa/
So long, and thanks for all the fish...
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Mysterious Whale Swarms Perplexing Scientists (Original Post)
ehrnst
Mar 2017
OP
They are amassing and preparing to take back their planet from the evil self-destructive
democratisphere
Mar 2017
#2
Javaman
(62,510 posts)1. party at the end of the world. nt
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. They are amassing and preparing to take back their planet from the evil self-destructive
and other species destructive barbaric humans.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)3. No one studied the whales before they were nearly hunted to death
They may have done this for hundreds of thousands of years.