Mysterious gatherings of hundreds of humpback whales off the coast of South Africa baffles scientist

3/20/2017
Massive animals like whales can be seen in pair or in small groups, which is why scientists are puzzled over gatherings of humpback whales in large ...
Off the coast of South Africa, as many as 200 humpback whales – typically solitary creatures – have been swarming and researchers aren't exactly ...
3/19/2017
Scientists are baffled by the large group gatherings of humpback whales. The bizarre behavior has never been witnessed before. Experts have their ...
Humpback whales, who are not known to live in big groups, have started gathering in quite high numbers. This phenomenon was spotted in the waters ...
3/18/2017
Humpback whales are suddenly hanging out in massive, densely packed "super groups" and scientists are trying to figure out why. (Credti: Kellie ...
Humpback whales are gathering in large groups off the coast of South Africa and scientists are wondering why. The assembling has been taking place ...
3/17/2017
Scientists have been perplexed with the strange behavior which has been witnessed among humpback whales. Researchers are trying to determine ...
Humpback whales appear to be gathering in groups of 20 to 200 off the coast of South Africa. And no one knows why… Congregations of whales ...
(CNN) -- Humpback whales are suddenly hanging out in massive, densely packed "super groups" and scientists are trying to figure out why.
Their meet-up spot is far away from where humpback whales usually summer in the Antarctic. The groups swell from 20 to 200 and they are focused ...
This, in fact, is a story about whales who are a little too chummy for comfort: As Popular Sciencerecently reported, there's something of a whale ...
3/16/2017
Humpback whales might be holding their own version of a march – or something else that requires the presence of so many of them – as scores were ...
It seems some of the whales are getting together in large densely packed groups of up to 200 whales, to feast on a variety of prey in the southern ...
You may have heard the story of Whale 52, otherwise known as the world's loneliest whale — the one that's spent years swimming solo through the ...
The only time humpback whales are known to congregate in groups is during their breeding season — but not only is it currently the off-season for the ...
A new report out of PLOS reveals that humpback whales are congregating in very large (relatively speaking) super-groups near South Africa, in some ...
"Super-groups" of up to 200 humpback whales—a normally solitary ... A "super-group" of humpback whales observed from an aircraft off the coast of ...
Tight whale spacing prevented the researchers from collecting prey samples directly, but they saw swarms of krill amid the whales and harvested local ...
Although these whales are known for being solitary and usually travel in groups less than 10, researchers have discovered that hundreds of them are ...
Humpback whales have been seen gathering in large numbers to feed in the waters of Benguela. This behavior, pictured here, is highly unusual and ...
Humpback whales are up to something weird and even scientists aren't sure what to make of it. According to Popular Science, the whales have ...
If you want to go whale-watching, one of the best places right now is off the coast of South Africa. That's because hundreds of humpback whales are ...
STATES CHRONICLE – Researchers have spotted massive groups of humpback whales off the coast of South Africa. Humpback whales are usually ...
3/15/2017
Humpback whales are, as far as we know, typically loners. Sometimes, they'll gather in groups as large as 20, usually for feeding or migration ...
Huge groups of humpback whales have been seen gathering in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's leaving scientists and people on the internet a little ...
Humpback whales are typically considered solitary animals, as the huge mammals usually only travel in groups of two or three, if they travel with any ...
Just like Velvet Revolver or Audioslave, humpback whales have been forming their own supergroups - and no one knows why. It is a relatively new ...
Some humpback whales are starting to gather in larger-than-usual groups, but scientists aren't sure why, according to a new study published earlier ...
Although humpback whales are not typically known to be social creatures, preferring to swim alone or in small groups most of the time, experts have ...
The world is ending and only the whales know. At least, that's one explanation. Humpback whales are normally pretty solitary—scientists used to call ...
3/14/2017
In just one more instance of the unpredictable events of 2017, scientists have noticed that some humpback whales are gathering in puzzling ...
Humpback whales, which humans have long observed to be solitary creatures, are gathering in large groups to feed, and it's kind of astounding the ...
A variation of that suggests that this is an age-old practice of the whales, but it hasn't been visible because the humpback population was previously ...
3/13/2017
Humpback whales have long been thought of as solitary creatures—they spend most of their time solo, sometimes moving in pods of two or three.
Scientists have discovered a strange change to the feeding behaviours in humpback whales of the southern hemisphere. In a study released by Plos ...
The gatherings can reach 200 whales and have been spotted in the midst of mass feeding frenzies off the coast of South Africa - thousands of miles ...

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