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Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University

Social media footage reveals little-known ‘surfing’ whales in Australian waters

Sapphire Coastal Adventures

As humpback and southern right whales return to Antarctica at the tail end of their annual migration, east coast whale watchers may think the show will soon be over. But some whale species are still here, possibly year-round. And we need to find out more about them.

My team’s new research concerns one of these little-known species – the Bryde’s whale. You may have seen it feeding, breaching or surfing, without realising what it was.

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