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Published online 17 August 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050815-6
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Whale wanders off the beaten path
Migrating humpbacks sometimes switch oceans.
The wandering ways of a juvenile humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) who moved into a different ocean have bolstered the idea that humpbacks are not locked into one learned migratory route for their whole lives.
Humpbacks make huge migrations, sometimes swimming more than 8,000 kilometres twice a year.
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