The humpbacks, grey, southern rights and a northern right were spotted throwing, lifting, swimming through seaweed, even wrapping it around their own fins.
The life of a whale is busy, with annual migrations from the poles to the tropics. But that doesn’t stop them from having a bit of fun, according to research, which found they like to play with seaweed as they swim., researchers document instances of what they call “kelping”, in which baleen whales like humpbacks find floating seaweed, then roll in it and rub up against it. Using aerial observations and social media posts, the researchers documented 163 whales’ interaction with seaweed.
Given better aerial observation tools and technology such as social media, the researchers write, it’s now possible to document kelping in whales that, although social, aren’t thought to play with objects as often as other marine creatures such as dolphins. They found the behaviour in four distinct humpback whale populations, with adults most likely to interact with the seaweed.There are several potential answers, the researchers write.
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