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"It's important that Japan understands that the inclusion of humpbacks will have an impact on perceptions of Japan in Australia, " he said.

Japan's whaling fleet is sailing towards Antarctica on a mission to hunt and kill over 900 whales, including up to 50 humpbacks .

Humpbacks form the backbone of a lucrative whale-watching industry in Australia and New Zealand.

Rescuers and spectators lost sight of the pair today, making some believe the humpbacks have reentered the Pacific Ocean.

rescuers and spectators lost sight of the pair today , making some believe the humpbacks have re entered the pacific ocean.

The changes happen rapidly, Ms. Garland said, usually within two to three months, and the male humpbacks are enthusiastic singers.

Unlike orca, which are odontocetes or toothed whales, humpbacks are mysticetes, harmless leviathans with only baleen plates in their mouths.

Japan had planned to kill 50 humpbacks this year out of a total 1, 000 whales during its hunt in the Southern Ocean.

But it dropped the plan to kill humpbacks after international protests.

Only male humpbacks sing, and each group of whales sings its own tune.

They believe the seal triggered a maternal defence mechanism in the humpbacks.

Biologists on the east coast of Australia were recording the songs of humpbacks in that area.

Several genetically different groups of humpbacks, separate populations with little interchange among them, live in the South Pacific.

The fleet was to kill 50 humpbacks for scientific research.

Numbers of other large species such as fin whales and humpbacks are also rising in many parts of the world.

So you're listening the complicated song produced by humpbacks here.

And this orange line here marks the typical songs of east coast humpbacks.

McCollough scoured the catalogue and developed an expertise for identifying humpbacks based on their distinct shape, color and markings.

First they chased down slower whales such as rights, humpbacks, and sperm whales.