In 2013, photographers recorded a humpback whale off the coast of Colombia.
Nine years later, the same whale was photographed in a shockingly distant location.
An international team of researchers has identified one of the longest individual humpback whale migrations ever documented.
A humpback whale (not the one from the study) near the California coast.© Robert Schwemmer/NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The researchers, including scientists from the Macuaticos Colombia Foundation, identified the humpback whale as an adult male.
He was first photographed off the coast of Colombia on July 10, 2013.
In other words, the whale could have embarked on a trans-oceanic journey for sex.
Humpback whale fluke photo from August 22, 2022. © Ekaterina Kalashnikova, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Happywhale
When he showed up, was it like, Oooh, sexy foreigner with a cool accent?
joked Ted Cheeseman of Southern Cross University, who co-wrote the study, as quoted by theGuardian.
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