HUMPBACK WHALE

Megaptera novaeangliae

Although humpback whales aren't the largest the whales, but they have by far the longest fin, reaching upto 6 meters in lenght. Despite their size, humpback whales (like all whales) are harmless, krill eating giants of the seas. Once they were hunted almost to extinction, now due to the decades of conservation programmes, the efforts are paying off. Today, there are estimated 80 thousand indivuduals spread around all the oceans of the world.