Friday, August 9, 2013

August 9, 2013: Industrial Whales

365 Project, Day 49
Here is my day fourty-nine submission to my 365Project:


This mother-calf pair of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) passed us (and the many offshore oil and gas platforms) as one of the many groups of this species we've observed traveling north on their migration from Antarctica to their breeding and calving grounds here off Angola. 




Fun fact of the day: 

Their are seven recognized populations of humpback whales in the southern hemisphere. These seven different 'stocks' migrate in a roughly north-south fashion from summer Antarctic feeding grounds to calving and mating grounds in the tropics in the winter. 

Read more about humpback whales off West Africa (Namibia) at the Namibian Dolphin Project website.   

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