October 13, 2010
BBC News
October 12, 2010
"In a record-breaking journey, a female humpback whale has travelled across a quarter of the globe, a distance of at least 10,000km.The event, reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, is the longest documented movement by a mammal. Its voyage was also twice the distance that the whales typically migrate each season to new breeding grounds. Scientists say the extreme behaviour shows how "flexible" these animals are. Explore and adapt The female whale was spotted and photographed twice - once at its regular breeding ground in Brazil, then later off the coast of Madagascar. The shortest distance between these two locations is 9,800km."
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