A male humpback whale swam over 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) from South America to Africa reportedly in search of a mate., setting a new record for the longest whale migration ever recorded,
This journey, documented in a study published in Royal Society Open Science, is also the first time an adult male humpback has been observed traveling between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Researchers used the Happy Whale platform, co-founded by Cheeseman, to track the whale. The whale, initially sighted near Colombia in 2013, was seen again in the same area a few years later. In 2022, it was unexpectedly found in the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar, off Africa’s east coast. Typical humpback whale migrations reach about 4,971 miles one way, making…
