Brokeback Whale
A humpback whale with a back apparently broken during a vessel strike has completed a 5,000-km journey from Canada to Hawaii by doing what researchers describe as the breaststroke. Named Moon, the lone humpback appeared to be in “considerable pain” during the journey, according to the research group BC Whales.
It has tracked Moon for the past decade, usually when she was feeding on krill around British Columbia’s Fin island. In 2020, they observed her birthing a calf and teaching it to feed and migrate. But in September, they noticed her body had become twisted, leaving her unable to propel with her tail. Her recent journey was said to have left her emaciated and covered in whale lice.
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