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National Geographic : 1982 Apr
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New Light on the Singing Whales WITH A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIO BY FLIP NICKLIN As if in giant salute, a humpback whale off the Hawaiianisland of Maui lifts a massive flipper. These elongated appendages, early noted by Yankee whalers, give the humpback its Latin name: Megaptera novaeangliae, "big-winged New Englander." During the pastfour years a researchteam off Hawaii has observed remarkable patterns of humpback behavior, resultingin the extraordinarypictures presented here. 463
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