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Bubble-net feeding is a cooperative feeding method used by groups of humpback whales. This behavior is not instinctual, it is learned; not every population of humpbacks knows how to bubble net feed. [4] Humpback whales use vocalizations to coordinate and efficiently execute the bubble net so they all can feed. [4]
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Large baleen whale species Humpback whale Temporal range: 7.2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
Original – Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf off Moʻorea, French Polynesia Reason High quality large image. Illustrates article well with high EV. FP on Commons. Articles in which this image appears Humpback whale FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals Creator Charlesjsharp
In 1998–1999, Harvard researchers published their DNA identifications of samples of whale meat they obtained in the Japanese market, and found that mingled among the presumably legal (i.e. minke whale meat) was a sizeable proportion of dolphin and porpoise meats, and instances of endangered species such as fin whale and humpback whale.
The whales eat amphipod crustaceans like tiny shrimp and worms, which they consume by sucking up water and sediment from the seafloor, where such creatures live, then using their baleens to filter ...
Photographers have captured two male humpback whales having gay sex in what experts say is the first time the species has been documented exhibiting any sexual activity.
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