Mystery Monday revealed! The answer is:
Humpback 🐋
📷 by Mark W.
Monday’s Mystery photo showed just a glimpse of a humpback whale. But there’s so much more to see of these magnificent whales. Humpbacks are known to be very active and even acrobatic at the surface, which can catch the eye of whalewatchers even at a distance of miles.
Lunging, jumping, slapping or thrashing their flukes, or as in this reveal photo, breaching, all cause large disturbances at the surface. Humpback whales are very social, so acrobatics are likely related to interactions such as male to male competition, mothers protecting calves, aunties protecting mothers, and juveniles…well…playing!
We spend a lot of time with humpbacks when we can on our tours in Baja California because there is so much to observe and photograph. Our calm presence doesn’t seem to change them and we are often afforded wonderful looks.
Passengers on a trip got to listen to the lovely songs of the humpback whales. These humpbacks were singing for quite sometime and naturalist Marc Webber was able to record their songs and sounds on this recording off the Gorda Banks.
https://youtu.be/AB4BXyahM18
