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The total number of Humpback whales migrating from Antarctica to the Great Barrier Reef has
grown from just a few hundred during the early 1960’s to their present number of approx. 3,500 and have an annual growth-rate of 15%?
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Whales are the fifth largest animal, to ever have lived on this planet?
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The largest whale is the Blue Whale, growing to over 30 metres in length and to a weight of 175 tonnes?
Photos courtesy of Mark Farrell – Hervey Bay
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Some 50 million years ago whales evolved from a land-based animal similar to dogs.
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The brain of the Humpback is seven times heavier than a human brain?
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Whales grow to over 15 metres in length and can weigh as much as 45,000 kg each? that's equivalent to 11 elephants!
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They virtually don’t eat during their five month migration?
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Calves weigh 1,500kg at birth and are 3.5 metres long?
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Female whales can produce up to 600 litres of milk per day?
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Whales travel as much as 16,000 km and as far north as Lizard Island during their annual migration?
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They sing the most complicated love song of all animals, yet they don’t have vocal cords and all
male animals in a certain area sing the same song?
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Aboard Voyager I and II, ( the space probes travelling through outer space), is a recording
of the song of the Humpback whale?
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Mass stranding of whales only occur from booth whales (e.g. pilot whales, sperm whales) not
Humpback whales as they are baleen whales or filter feeders.
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