Baby Got (Hump)Back

Male humpback whales — like Sir Mix-A-Lot — like voluptuous females.  Or at least, what passes for voluptuousness in the cetacean world.

For their part, female humpbacks may prefer their males to be exotic foreigners — or again, what passes for foreign among creatures who migrate far enough each year to half-circumnavigate the globe.
There was a famous case in the mid-nineties (in nerd herds, at least) of some Indian Ocean male humpbacks getting lost and veering into the Pacific Ocean.  Their songs were different from those of the males in the local Pacific Ocean population — but within two years, almost all the Pacific Ocean-male humpbacks had changed their songs to be more like the Indian Ocean males’!

And to complete a humpback hat trick, here’s a link to a website about a wild albino humpback named Migaloo.  :)

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