{"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":"

That kind of accuracy is pretty important for these globetrotting animals that swim thousands of kilometers every year to 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\u00a0whales<\/a> use the sun as well as the magnetic field to keep them swimming straight.<\/p>\n

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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

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These whales aren’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":["post-7570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mammals","category-omg_animals","category-omg-facts","category-all","tag-migration","tag-navigation","tag-swimming","tag-whales"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t