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  • Humpback whale female (Megaptera novaeangliae) relaxing with her male calf. The adult has a split dorsal fin. Photographed in Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga.
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  • This humpback whale’s dorsal fin has both a split and a unique bump at the frontal end, making it easy to identify. Split dorsal fins are both easy to spot and relatively uncommon. This whale was one of a pair of whales traveling together, probably both male, though I was unable to whales’ ventral areas to confirm. The other whale had white pectoral fins.
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  • A male humpback whale with a split dorsal fin. This was one of eight whales engaged in an intense heat run at Toku Island. It was one of the most action-packed heat runs I've come across, with lots of grunting, snorting, lunging and other physical contact among the whales.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with an unusual notch or split in its dorsal fin. These types of notches and splits are useful for recognizing individual whales.
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  • Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with a split dorsal fin. This characteristic shows up every once in a while among the whales that visit Vava'u in the Kingdom of Tonga.
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  • Adult female humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with a split dorsal. She was the mother of male calf 201411 in Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae kuzira) that had an unusual dorsal fin, one that was split into three sections. It was not possible to determine whether this split dorsal was present from birth, or whether it was the result of an accident such as a propellor strike. I photographed this same whale in 2016 at Point Adolphus. (see unusual-dorsal-fin-humpback-whale-alaska-201607-2096.tif). In 2018, this whale was in a bubble-feeding group active in the Icy Strait, around Pleasant Island and Gustavus. This was one of two whales in the 2018 group that I recognized from 2016.
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  • A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) that had an unusual dorsal fin, one that was split into three sections. It was not possible to determine whether this split dorsal was present from birth, or whether it was the result of an accident such as a propellor strike. This whale was one of eight or nine that engaged in bubble net feeding together during an overcast day.
    unusual-dorsal-fin-humpback-whale-al...tif
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