Migratory movements of individual humpback whales photographed off the eastern coast of Australia

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Burns, Daniel, Brooks, Lyndon, Harrison, Peter, Franklin, Trish, Franklin, Wally, Paton, David, Clapham, Phil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Austral; Byron Bay; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.12057; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fmms.12057; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mms.12057

Abstract Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) migrate long distances each year on a return journey from low‐latitude breeding grounds to high‐latitude feeding grounds. Migration is influenced by subtle and complex social behaviors and the assumption that whales transit directly through the mig...