Most species of baleen whale travel between 1,800 and 3,000 miles each way. Southern populations of humpback whales leave ... so they have a shorter migration as they feed in temperate waters ...

The exact reason behind this particularly long migration remains unclear. But it is understood that humpback ... where researchers, whale watchers and members of the public map the movement ...

from 42 humpback whales tagged off Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador. Their goal was to track each individual during their migration to the Southern Ocean in Antarctica and to understand what ...

This interaction comes amid migration season. Humpback whales travel up the coast of Australia to reproduce. Thus, seeing a humpback close to the shore is not entirely surprising, though finding ...

Local tour boat operators are experiencing an unexpected tourism surge thanks to annual visitors that have been making the journey long before humans arrived on the islands – humpback whales.