#humpback whale

[bluewillowvisions]

cape cod girl i miss you down

[milaispissed]

I absolutely adore the marine mammals

[hydrias]

oh to live life like ursa’s calf

[chipper1401]

Magical day on the water seeing this majestic humpback.

[gentlemensarts]

A humpback whale’s tail flukes.

[poltrack]

On this August 1st in 2023 we were on a Whale Watch out of Provincetown

On This Day - August 1st (2023)

[mustelidian]

NYTimes: A drone has captured a humpback whale giving birth to a calf in waters off Australia’s east coast, in what may be a world first.

[wildwondersdaily]

The Humpback Whale's Song. Nobody Knows Why It Changes.

There is a detail in Roger Payne’s original 1971 paper in Science that stopped me cold the first time I read it. Payne, the biologist who first recorded and analyzed humpback whale songs with Scott McVay, noted that every male humpback in a given ocean basin sings the same song. Not a similar song. The same song, with the same phrases, in the same order. And then, over the course of months, the…

The Humpback Whale's Song. Nobody Knows Why It Changes.