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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]
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Humphrey the Whale is a humpback whale that twice deviated from his Mexico to Alaska migration by entering San Francisco Bay. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This behavior is unusual for a humpback whale, and Humphrey attracted wide media attention when entering the bay in both 1985 and 1990.
Three humpback whales jumped out of the water in unison in Cape Cod in front of stunned onlookers on Monday, 24 July. Extraordinary footage captured by Robert Addie shows the huge creatures ...
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Melon-headed whales are fast swimmers; they travel in large, tightly packed groups and can create a lot of spray when surfacing, often porpoising (repeatedly leaping clear of the water surface at a shallow angle) when travelling at speed, and are known to spyhop and also may jump clear out of the water. [12] Melon-headed whales can be wary of ...
The pygmy right whale is among the least studied cetaceans; until 2008, fewer than 25 sightings of the species had been made at sea. [6] The species lives in the Southern Hemisphere and is believed to be circumpolar, living in a band from about 30°S to 55°S [3] in areas with surface water temperatures between 5 and 20 °C (41 and 68 °F). [19]
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