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The things whales do for love. A humpback whale has stunned scientists with a journey that spanned three oceans and more than 8,000 miles, setting the record for the longest known migration between breeding grounds. Scientists behind the research, published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, suggest that the odyssey may be linked to climate change — which is affecting ocean conditions and depleting food stocks — or possibly a shift in mating strategies.
But it is understood that humpback whales travel annually from cooler feeding grounds in the summer where there is an abundance of food to warmer breeding grounds in the winter that are “more suitable for giving birth, but relatively scarce in food,” said Luke Rendell, a lecturer in biology at the U.K.’s University of St Andrews. The new findings are based on photos submitted to the citizen science website, happywhale.
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