A trail of milk disperses in the depths of the Pacific off Colombia's coast as a whale calf breaks away after nursing on its mother in rare footage scientists hope will contribute to humpback conservation.
Such feedings have only ever been captured on camera twice before, said biologist Natalia Botero, whose team at the Macuaticos Foundation filmed the intimate moment between mother and calf last August."Despite decades of efforts by thousands of researchers, hours of work, collaborations, lactation recordings are extremely rare," she said at the first public presentation of the video in Medellin last month.
From June to November, the waters off Colombia play host to humpbacks – giant cetaceans that can grow up to 17 meters long, weigh about 40 tons and travel some 8,500 kilometers every breeding season. "While humpbacks are now protected from commercial hunting, they still face a variety of threats," said Botero.
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