NOUN
- large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
How To Use humpback whale In A Sentence
- Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
- Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday.
- Humpback whales have even been seen to weave a snare of air-bubbles - a bubble net.
- The body of humpback whales is usually blue-black or black overall with irregular white coloration on the throat and sides.
- Similar to the patterns on humpback whale flukes, unique markings on the dolphins' dorsal fins allow for individual identification.
- We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes.
- The approach to James Ross is through the Antarctic Sound, a beautiful stretch of water teeming with wildlife - the ship was joined by hundreds of penguins porpoising along, as well as humpback whales and countless seabirds.
- Twelve days after the tests began, a three-month-old humpback whale calf was sighted without its mother for at least five hours and displayed unusual behaviour.
- Two wayward humpback whales have done an about - face and are headed back toward the Pacific Ocean.
- When you swim with humpback whales it's not their size that overwhelms you but their beauty.
