Humpback Whale Research
Several organizations in the area have been conducting research on the whales of the Gulf of Maine for 30 or more years. The basis of this research is a database catalog of identified Humpback Whales.
Humpback Whale PhotoOne focus of WCS's Ocean Giants program is humpback whales in the South Atlantic and Indian oceans.©Tim Collins ...
The Humpback Whale
The head of a humpback whale is broad and rounded when viewed from above, but slim in profile. The body is not as streamlined as other rorquals, but is quite round, narrowing to a slender peduncle (tail stock).
Humpback whales are found in all of the main oceans worldwide, but the humpback whales tend to stay in three main herds, the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean herds.
Humpback whales are very active and acrobatic swimmers. They leap out of the water, slap the water with their flukes, and do underwater acrobatics like rolls and swimming upside down. They also like to sing.
Humpbacks are renowned aerialists. They can throw themselves completely out of the water, usually landing on their back or side. This action is called breaching. They often swim on their back or side, waving one or both long flippers in the air.
Humpbacks cooperate in hunting and have developed a method of rounding up highly concentrated masses of prey that is called bubble-net feeding.
Humpbacks typically submerge for 6-7 minutes at a time with occasional dives of 15-30 minutes. The blow may be up to 3 m high and is not a slender plume but rather bushy. When diving, humpbacks arch the back steeply, thus the common name.
Humpback whales are known for their magical songs, which travel for great distances through the world's oceans. These sequences of moans, howls, cries, and other noises are quite complex and often continue for hours on end.
Humpbacks sometimes engage in social hunting in which several whales encircle a school (group) of fish and blow bubbles that form a "net" around the fish, then move in with their mouths open to devour their prey.
The Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a mammal which belongs to the Baleen whale suborder.It is well known for its breaching (leaping out of the water), its unusually long front fins, and its complex whale song.
Humpback do not have teeth. They feed by filtering krill (kind of shrimp) between baleen plates attached to the top jaw. They have 300-400 of these baleen plates.
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Hunchback - abnormal outward curvature of the spine in the thoracic region. It is also known as kyphosis and humpback, and in its severe form a noticeable hump is evident on the back. Hunchback may be congenital,...
Humpback whales migrate seasonally and feed on krill and small schooling fishes. Humpbacks catch the small fish be herding them into "bubble nets," which the whales create by swimming in a circle under the water's surface and releasing air bubbles.
Humpback whales are renowned for their extraordinary and complex songs, performed by males during courtship. These songs can last for hours and are specific to different populations.
Scientific name: Megaptera novaeangliae
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Humpback whales love to eat krill (shrimp-like crustaceans) and small fishes like herring and mackerel. A humpback consumes between 900 and 4,000 kg of fish and krill a day.
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Humpback whales are wide ranging and can be found virtually worldwide, but with apparent geographical segregation between at least ten populations.
Humpbacks occasionally leap clear of the water and may be seen slapping their flukes or a flipper on the surface.
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Humpbacks in the northern hemisphere have a more varied diet than those in the southern hemisphere, and feed on capelin, squid and shoaling fish such as mackerel and herring.
Humpback whale populations were considerably reduced by whaling. By the 1960's it was generally realized that they were nearing extinction.
The Humpback is also able to live to 95 or even 100 years in the wild. The humpback eats krill which is a shrimp-like crustacean and small schooling fish such as herring and mackerel.
The humpback whale is black on top, with variable amounts of white below. The undersides of the flippers and flukes are almost all white.
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Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
The magnificent humpback whale is renowned for its impressive leaping displays and for the mysterious 'singing' of solitary males. The... More 35 Images 14 Videos ...
Humpback whales can be found in all parts of the oceans except for the polar seas. When these marine mammals are not migrating, they prefer shallow waters and can be seen living in surface waters both in the open ocean and along the coast.
Humpback whales are among the best-studied cetaceans, yet they are still among the most mysterious. Among the mysteries are the reasons for their songs and the complex social behaviors that accompany them.
Humpback batfish, Platax batavianus Cuvier, 1831.
Golden spadefish, Platax boersii Bleeker, 1852.
Orbicular batfish, Platax orbicularis (Forsskål, 1775).
Dusky batfish, Platax pinnatus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Humpback Whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, have elaborate "songs" that last from 6 to 35 minutes before being repeated. The whales may sing continuously for up to 22 hours! ...
Pacific Humpback Dolphin (S. chinensis) Â- Indian Humpback Dolphin (S. plumbea) Â- Atlantic Humpback Dolphin (S. teuszii)
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Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins range from 220 to 230 cm in length, females may be slightly smaller.
Also known as - Humpback Whitefish, Common Whitefish, Eastern Whitefish, Great Lakes Whitefish, Inland Whitefish, Labrador Whitefish, Tittimeg.
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A Humpback Blackdevil with a Multitspotted Lanternfish
A Humpback Blackdevil with mouth extended
A Humpback Snapper at Great Detached Reef
A Humphead Maori Wrasse at 'Marine World'
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With its ovoid body shape, slightly flattened vertically, it gives a humpbacked appearance. The head is pyramidal with the widest part behind the eyes then tapering towards the snout.
Description: The beaver is the largest living rodent in Kansas, and can be distinguished from other Kansas mammals by: 1) heavy, "humpbacked" body, 2) head which has a square profile and blunt muzzle, 3) small eyes and ears, 4) large, ...
The mammals whose photos surround this box are wonderful beasts: Humpback whale, Giraffe, Hippopotamus, Ring-tailed Lemur. I treasure my experiences with them. Yet they don't qualify as among the "50 best mammals of the world.
There are 13 species of baleen whales: blue, fin, sei, Bryde's, humpback, northern minke, southern minke, North Atlantic right, North Pacific right, southern right, pygmy right, bowhead, and gray.
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Baleen whales, like the humpback, blue, minke and right, take large amounts of water into their huge mouths and sift out plankton through 130 to 140 baleen plates located on each side of the upper jaw.
The most musical whale is the Humpback Whale whose complex noises create beautiful tunes. These whales are also the noisiest Wwhales (not the loudest).
Their squeaks and grunts are long, varied and haunting.
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In size they are like Spanish bulls,
Wooly in the extreme and all humpbacked,
Of plenteous flesh and of black horns,
Most splendid lard and rich in fat,
And, like to he-goats, they have beards.
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The humpback takes great swallows of water and then filters out the food. The odontocetous, or toothed whales, have one blow hole and teeth that can cut up food. Sperm whales, narwhals and beluga whales are toothed whales.
Elbow Crab, Freshwater Crayfish, Freshwater Prawn, Freshwater Shrimp, Galatheid Crab, Ghost Shrimp, Giant Deep Sea Isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) Cirolanidae, Giant Spider Crab, Green Crab, Hermit Crab (Pagorus samuelis), Hingebeak Shrimp, Humpback ...
Whale expresses much of its wisdom through sound. The song of the humpback whale is well-known for its haunting quality, although we humans have much more work to do in order to be able to understand it.
Baleen whales .. Blue whale .. Humpback whale.. Toothed whales .. Beluga whale .. Orca ..
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They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale; the highly intelligent and communicative dolphins; the tusked narwhals and blind river dolphins and singing humpback whales " nearly eighty living species in all.
What You Can Do Look for the Greater Shearwater from mid to late summer off the Atlantic Coast. Shearwaters often associate with surface feeding whales, like the Humpback Whale, and can be seen from whale watching boats from New York to Nova Scotia.
Also known as sheepshead, the freshwater drum is known for the rumbling and grunting sounds the males make to attract mates. It is a large, round-profiled, silver humpbacked fish.
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Toothed whales include dolphins, porpoises, belugas, narwhals, sperm whales, river dolphins, and beaked whales. Baleen whales are represented by 11 species, including the right whale, gray whale, blue whale, and humpback whale.
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These Greater Shearwaters, along with Sooty Shearwaters, Atlantic Puffins, and Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls (as well as humpback and finback whales), were feeding on dense swarms of krill (the euphausiid shrimp Meganyctiphanes norvegica).
Aurivillius himself examined a humpback whale which had as many as fifty specimens of Coronula diadema on each side of its head. He believes that the cetacean approaches not only rocks, but ships, in the hope of freeing itself from its lodgers.
 See also: Whale, Humpback Whale, Dolphin, Shark, Blue Whale
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