October 16, 2007

Satellite Tags on Humpback Whales Expose Unknown Migration Routes

An international group of scientists is learning new things about the migration routes and daily habits of South Pacific humpback whales from satellite tags the group recently placed in the thick blubber of 20 whales. Tagged off New Caledonia and the Cook Islands, individual whales are taking divergent and circuitous routes to the austral summer feeding grounds of the Antarctic, the data show.
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