Kimberley Expedition Image Diary

Sep 06, 2014

Large pods of rowdy competitive males battle it out on a grand scale for available females during the breeding season.  Forty tonnes of bone and blubber physically contacting with other whales becomes a boisterous event and quite a sight to behold.  Pectoral fin slapping, tail swishing, peduncle slapping and even breaching on top of one another, are some of the types of combative behaviour exhibited.  It’s a wild old world, with much at stake if you are a humpback whale!