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You can swim with humpback whales on the Fraser Coast and Sunshine Coast from June to October, and minke whales in Tropical North Queensland in June and July.

Swim with dwarf minke whales in Tropical North Queensland or with humpback whales on the Sunshine Coast.

Experience a life changing event on the Great Barrier Reef and book a tour to swim with giant Humpback whales on the southern reefs or snorkel with Dwarf Minke Whales from Port Douglas on a day tour or join a liveaboard dive trip to the Ribbon Reefs and spend some extra time in the water with these highly inquisitive animals

Venture offshore to see the Humpback Whales on an intimate, small group whale watching cruise.

Accesable by road, or event better, walk the rugged headland where you will see sheltered rainforest gullies, and stunning ocean views and great spots for watching dolphins, turtles, surfers and even humpback whales on their annual migration from June to November.

An outstanding vantage point for viewing a diverse range of marine life, including turtles, dolphins and the humpback whales on their annual migration.

While sightings can never be guaranteed, there is a good chance to spot grey and humpback whales on small day - long cruises.

Our location is possibly one of the best place in the world if you want the chance to see both Killer Whales (Orca) and Humpback Whales on one trip.

From July to September, you can catch glimpses of humpback whales on their annual pilgrimage.

We saw Humpback whales on the way to Molokini.

The village of Māʻalaea sits on Maalaea Bay, the first stop for the humpback whales on their way into Hawaiian waters every winter to breed and give birth.

Come face to face with grey whales in San Ignacio Lagoon, see highly endangered Guadalupe fur seals and observe blue, sperm, Bryde's and humpback whales on this trip of a lifetime on board the Sear...

The visiting scientists took photographs to identify the individual humpback whales on the archipelago's Socorro and Clarion Islands.

A woman from Hancock, Maine, discovered that a tourist snapshot of a humpback whale on Flickr matched with photos documented in the Allied Whale research catalogue, providing proof that this whale had traveled 6,000 miles, the longest documented distance of any humpback.

Hop off the boat and take a dip with a humpback whale on a specialty tour that gets you up close and personal.

Not exact matches

A study on humpback whales by ecologists from Denmark and Australia has revealed that baby whales communicate with their mothers in whispers to avoid the risk of attention from predators and other mating whales.

New research shows that humpback whales are basically the ocean's superheroes, regularly intervening on behalf of other animals to protect them from killer whales.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

A dead humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Friday, the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society said.

Monk seals sunbathe on the shore, humpback whales breach off the coast, and snorkelers there may spot the Hawaiian state fish, the humuhumunukunukuapua'a.

The story begins on 7 August 1999, when a female humpback whale smiled for the camera off the coast of Brazil.

«Though humpback whales are found in all oceans of the world, the North Pacific humpback whales should probably be considered a sub-species at an ocean - basin level — based on genetic isolation of these populations on an evolutionary time scale,» said Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center and lead author on the paper.

Unlike other whale species such as humpbacks or gray whales, fin whales carry on a loner's life.

For example, researchers can recognize individual humpback whales because each whale has a unique black - and - white pattern on the underside of its tail flukes.

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

Humpback whales commonly feed on large prey shoals by accelerating to high speeds and «lunging» at their prey, engulfing a large volume of water and filtering out the prey through their filter feeders.

The research results build on previous regional studies of genetic diversity and will help scientists to better understand how humpback whale populations evolve over time and how to best advise international management authorities.

- The endangered humpback whale is on the rebound, with 18,000 of them swimming around the North Pacific Ocean, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

«Humpback whales feeding on fish showed more variability in their lunge strategies, and, despite prey being much faster, actually lunge more slowly,» says Dr Goldbogen.

Humpback whale with a scrape on its jaw.

If you go on a whale watching tour, you might be lucky enough to catch humpback whales feeding.

New Caledonian humpback whales stop for days on end at underwater mountains when they migrate between breeding and feeding grounds.

The microphones record data at a sample rate of 8kHz, so the group listens up to 4kHz — for scale, the highest note on a normally tuned, standard piano is 4.186 kHz — to include signals produced by large whales like fins, humpbacks, bowheads and killer whales, as well as pinnipeds such as bearded seals and walrus.

Palumbi and Roman base their figures on analysis of mitochondrial DNA in blood samples taken from more than 312 humpbacks, 370 fin whales, and 87 minke whales, mostly in the North Atlantic.

New NOAA - led research on tagged humpback whales in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary reveals a variety of previously unknown feeding techniques along the seafloor.

Music mania is sweeping the ocean, and all the young male humpback whales are in on the latest trend.

They usually eat fish, but a group of dusky sharks have been seen ganging up on a baby humpback whale, suggesting attacks may be more common than we thought

But during the 6 weeks the researchers spent on the Gould documenting the interaction between humpbacks and krill in Wilhelmina Bay and nearby waters, they counted 306 humpbacks parked on the huge krill swarm, and a total of 500 throughout the unusually ice - free bay at the record - setting density of 5.1 whales per square kilometer.

The discovery of the krill and whale «super-aggregations» sheds light on an important but overlooked foraging ground for the endangered humpbacks — one that may be threatened by the region's rapidly changing climate.

During breeding season, which takes place over the winter months, groups of male humpback whales will display for potential mates by singing their famously haunting songs, breaching, and performing a host of other competitive displays that depend on speed, strength and size.

Of the great whales, humpbacks have had a hell of a lot of scientific work done on them, yet here's this really basic bit of information about them that's just coming out now.

Field research on marine mammals is one of the most challenging of biological studies, primarily because scientists are often unable to follow ocean - going species such as whales across their full range; the humpback whale in particular undertakes some of the longest migratory movements of any mammal.

Research shows that humpback diets reflect their surroundings, with the truck - sized whales filter - feeding on vast amounts of krill when cold upwelling waters prevail, but switching to schooling fish such as anchovies when warmer waters take over and the fish grow abundant.

A massive genetic study of humpback whale populations will help inform ongoing conservation reassessments of humpback whale populations, and reaffirms the highly distinct nature of a small, non-migratory population of humpback whales living in the Arabian Sea in need on continued protection.

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti worked with researchers and wildlife experts to collect billions of data points, taken from digital tags on humpback whales, magnetic fields tracking badgers, QR codes mapping an individual ant, and more.

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Also on display is the vertebra of a blue whale and jars containing strange pickled humpback whale fetuses at different developmental stages.

It feeds entirely on tiny animals called plankton, as do humpback whales.

«The present study is the first on apes to show by means of networking analysis that habits travel along paths of close relationships,» he says, adding that a similar idea was shown not long ago for humpback whale hunting techniques.

«It's neat — we can predict exactly when humpback whales will be close to shore off Palmer Station just based on the tides,» Bernard said.