Long distances documented using fluke (tail) photos
Published: 22 May 2026
Longest Whale Journey, an ABC News story about citizen science research platform Happywhale finding two whales that had travelled between Hervey Bay in Queensland to Brazil in South America. They used photographs of tails, or flukes, to identify the animals.
Researchers say it is the first photographic evidence that whales move between breeding ground populations.
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