FALL FEAST A humpback breaching in Antarctica’s Wilhelmina Bay has come to the right place for gorging on krill. A new study documents record numbers of the whales assembled there in 2009, apparently in response to a plethora of krill. A. Friedlaender
In the last two years, researchers at first hoping only to tag a few whales have happened onto hundreds of humpbacks eating themselves stupid in the bays of West Antarctica.
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