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Listen.
The whales are calling.
They live in a world of sound.
created by older larger males.
Their songs are the ballads of the sea.
They teach every new born humpback that it is not alone.
A whales open mouth can take in 500 gallons of water,
and then it's all strained through the bony plates of baleen lining the mouth
leaving just the fish.
When there is a very large shoal of fish
as many as twenty whales may work together.
This is what makes humpbacks great hunters.
Ingenious behaviour
and an enormous mouth.