Just 7% of male humpback whales in New Caledonia may have fathered offspring

Jan 08, 2025

A small international team of marine mammal scientists has found evidence that just 7% of the male humpback whales residing near New Caledonia, in the southwest Pacific, may have fathered offspring. For their project, reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group studied photographs of the whales and conducted a genetic analysis from samples collected over the years 1995 to 2019.