In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set of limb bones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.

例如，1919年，在加拿大温哥华岛附近捕获了一条座头鲸，它有一对长达1米多的腿状附肢，还有完整的整套肢骨。

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All the males in a humpback whale population usually sing just one song at any given time.

所有的雄性座头鲸们在某个特定的时间段都唱同一首歌。

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Forty tons of gleaming muscle, a humpback whale blasts out of the water near South Africa.

在南非附近，一头有着四十吨力气的座头鲸冲出了水面。

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And, on the beach itself, Gotfod points out canine footprints circling the putrefying carcass of a humpback whale, covered in ghost crabs.

BBC: The ghostly shore of Namibia��s Skeleton Coast

The image was inspired by a humpback whale butchered in 1883 at the Tay, which served as a main whaling port.

BBC: Giant Tay whale created in Dundee

Leaving popular Whitehaven Beach, paddle towards Peter Bay, 19km north on Whitsunday Island, where you may see a sea eagle gracefully plucking dinner from the ocean and perhaps a humpback whale breaching the surface.

BBC: Kayaking Australia��s Whitsunday Islands