{"id":7570,"date":"2011-05-04T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=7570"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:51:00","slug":"swimming-straight-with-the-humpback-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/swimming-straight-with-the-humpback-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Humpback Whales swim in straight lines up to 2,000 km long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That kind of accuracy is pretty important for these globetrotting animals that swim thousands of kilometers every year to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/hot\/top-ten-most-amazing-migrations\/\">migrate<\/a>. Researchers found out the secret of Humpback whale migration after following 16 of them on their epic journey. These impressive navigation skills have researchers thinking that Humpback\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/omg-facts\/learning-to-love-whale-poop\/\">whales<\/a> use the sun as well as the magnetic field to keep them swimming straight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10841\" title=\"humpback whale jumping\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/jumping_humpback_whale.jpg\" alt=\"humpback whale jumping\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/jumping_humpback_whale.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/jumping_humpback_whale-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/jumping_humpback_whale-535x420.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Horton, Travis, Richard N. Holdaway, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Nan Hauser, Claire Garrigue, Artur Andriolo and Philip J. Clapham. \u201cStraight as an arrow: humpback whales swim constant course tracks during long-distance migrations\u201d Biology Letters.  2011, 7(2).<\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These whales aren&#8217;t messing around when they migrate. They travel in straight lines to help them quickly cover thousands of kilometres a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,13,409,931],"tags":[107,346,303,192],"class_list":{"0":"post-7570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mammals","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"category-all","11":"tag-migration","12":"tag-navigation","13":"tag-swimming","14":"tag-whales"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}