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Humpback whale breaks migration record

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Swim from Brazil to Madagascar is longest known.

A lone female humpback whale travelled more than 9,800 kilometres from breeding areas in Brazil to those in Madagascar, setting a record for the longest mammal migration ever documented.

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  1. Stevick, P. T. et al. Biol. Lett. doi10.1098/rsbl.2010.0717 (2010).

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  1. Janelle Weaver
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Weaver, J. Humpback whale breaks migration record. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.532

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