Humpback whale
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- Field guideHow whale songs travelA singing whale sets seawater particles oscillating, launching sound that spreads, bends, reflects, and weakens. Low-frequency components can travel especially well, yet no song has one fixed range: the ocean changes the signal, and a listener must still detect it above the background.
- Field guideAnimal dispersal vs migrationClassify movement by its role in the life cycle, not mileage: ask where the animal started, whether it returns or alternates areas, whether reproduction follows relocation, and how the pattern repeats across time or generations.
- Field guideWhale watching without disturbanceWhales concentrate along predictable migration routes, which makes seasonal watching reliable—and makes disturbance easy if crowds press too close. Watching well means keeping legal distances, letting the animals control the encounter, and learning the behavioral cues that signal when a whale wants space.