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Photo: Breaching whale
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Photograph by Flip Nicklin

Whale-watchers flock to such spectacles [as breaching] during the spring-to-fall feeding season off Alaska, while scientists debate whether groups of whales hunt cooperatively.

(Text and photograph from "Listening to Humpbacks," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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