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In this to disconcert the scientific community, the humpback whales have the career, the master and the doctorate. A few months ago we published how these whales brought the crazy world trying to find out why they are engaged in confronting killer whales to rescue their prey.
Now we have a new oceanic mystery that, for the moment, we can only explain with conjectures. It turns out that our humpback friends have begun to organize themselves into authentic cetacean armies that run along the coasts of South Africa. And nobody knows very well why.
Humpback whales have always been solitary animals. In fact, until quite recently, when scientists came across a group of 10 or 20, they considered it "big." The groups we are talking about can now reach 200 members.
Now we have a new oceanic mystery that, for the moment, we can only explain with conjectures. It turns out that our humpback friends have begun to organize themselves into authentic cetacean armies that run along the coasts of South Africa. And nobody knows very well why.
Humpback whales have always been solitary animals. In fact, until quite recently, when scientists came across a group of 10 or 20, they considered it "big." The groups we are talking about can now reach 200 members.
But there are more. It turns out that humpback whales often migrate to tropical waters to breed, but by this time of year they should have returned to the frozen waters of Antarctica. Is it possible that some soulless businessman has made an underwater plagiarism of Sónar, which probably has a very small name like Sómar, and are the poor humpback whales spinning nonsense in search of an after?
Okay, it's a fucking theory, but do not think the researchers have things much clearer. This is what we know at the moment: the majority of whales that form these groups are young . If they were adults, another rooster would sing: as you can imagine, two hundred and thirty thousand kg bigardos can not go out in a gang and feed anywhere in free buffet.
Scientists see clearly that these whales have joined together in the interest of hunting together and feeding, but no one can tell why they have begun to come together in such large groups. This phenomenon only takes about 5 years, so the increase in the population of the species could be an explanation.
Only a few decades ago the hunt for these animals reached such an extreme that 90% of the world's humpbacks had died at the hands of man, but since they were declared a protected species in 1996 its population has been increasing little by little. Is it possible that humpback whales have always been that sociable, but there were not enough of them for us to appreciate?
Another possibility is that we simply have not noticed in the right places. If hundreds of whales have been setting together the macro festivals in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, chances are we would never have noticed them.
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