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Joel Kontinen
When a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
has found its mate, it will travel 6,000 kilometres or 3,700 miles to keep it.
This speaks of the love animals have for each other.
With some of them travelling
up to 6, 000 kilometres in search of a mate.
Humpback whales are found in all major oceans, and they
travel to a get a spouse,
This is how Kenneth Lacovara, a professor of paleontology and geology at Rowan University, explains
the difference between whales and sharks.
He says that this is
the way their respective ancestors (Pakicetus for whales and Tiktaalik for fish) moved, and they obviously haven’t had the time
to change their habits despite making transitions from land to water (whales) and water to land (fish ancestor) during the assumed tens of millions of years, and then the poor fish had to get wet again.
Tales like these might be entertaining, but they’re definitely not based on facts.
Source:
Lesté-Lasserre, Christa, 2022. , Some humpback whales travel 6000 kilometres in search of a mate, New Scientist
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