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Rare footage shows endangered whales 'hugging'

Rare footage shows endangered whales hugging
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© Photograph by Brian Skerry
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They were swimming along together as one, two male North Atlantic right whales, each draping a fin over the other’s body.
It looked as if they were hugging.
“Are they showing affection? Are they showing love?” mused Michael Moore, a right whale expert at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts. He was on a small boat in Cape Cod Bay with a colleague, Amy Knowlton, and photographer Brian Skerry and his assistant. “We agreed ‘affection’ was a word we might hypothesize.”
The scientists had taken to the water on February 28 to count right whales and visually assess their size and overall health. In spring, the whales migrate northward from warm Caribbean waters where they give birth to cold waters in the northeastern U.S. and Canada, where the zooplankton they eat are more abundant. ....

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Rare footage shows North Atlantic right whales 'hug'

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They were swimming along together as one, two male North Atlantic right whales, each draping a fin over the other’s body.
It looked as if they were hugging.
“Are they showing affection? Are they showing love?” mused Michael Moore, a right whale expert at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts. He was on a small boat in Cape Cod Bay with a colleague, Amy Knowlton, and photographer Brian Skerry and his assistant. “We agreed ‘affection’ was a word we might hypothesize.”
The scientists had taken to the water on February 28 to count right whales and visually assess their size and overall health. In spring, the whales migrate northward from warm Caribbean waters where they give birth to cold waters in the northeastern U.S. and Canada, where the zooplankton they eat are more abundant. ....

Syracuse University , New York , United States , Cape Cod Bay , National Marine Fisheries Service , North Carolina , Cornell University , New England Aquarium , Woods Hole , Amy Knowlton , Michael Moore , Michelle Fournet , Brian Skerry , National Geographic Explorer , Us National Marine Fisheries Service , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , North Atlantic , Let Skerry , Susan Parks , Between December , Marine Fisheries Service , சிராகஸ் பல்கலைக்கழகம் , புதியது யார்க் , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , கேப் காட் வளைகுடா , தேசிய கடல் மீன்வளம் சேவை ,