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Marine ecologist Jason Fowler was out fishing with friends on his boat in Kakadu's East Alligator River when he got a whale-sized surprise.

"I noticed a big spout a big blow on the horizon and I thought that's a big dolphin", he said.

He said the boatload of biologists could not believe their eyes when they first saw three humpback whales so far from home. "We were madly arguing with each other about what we were actually seeing. After four hours of raging debate we agreed we were looking at humpback whales in a river", he said.

"We think the whales were spending time in the deeper section of the river gathering up fish", he said.

Bernd2020-09-13 02:21:53 · 6yNo. 101847 reply

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Park authorities have established a 30-kilometre exclusion zone from the river mouth to protect both the whales and people alike. Dr Palmer said the last thing authorities wanted was fishermen being thrown into the croc-infested river, or running into a whale.

"A whale can knock those boats over, very easily. They wouldn't do it deliberately, it's a scare thing", she said.

Scientists are hoping after this Kakadu detour will be a just a small hump on their trip back to summer feeding grounds in Antarctica.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-13/nt-friends-find-whales-in-australian-first-kakadu/12658410

Bernd2020-09-13 02:26:40 · 6yNo. 101848 reply

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Poor whales are prolly trying to shelter from the relentless onslaught of the nippon vikingr.

Bernd2020-09-13 02:49:34 · 6yNo. 101849 reply

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australia continues to be a refuge for all types of fauna across the world; until someone introduces rabbits :DDDDD

Bernd2020-09-13 02:51:46 · 6yNo. 101850 reply

My ex really loved whales :(

Bernd2020-09-13 03:45:55 · 6yNo. 101855 reply

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Very cool news. Incidentally I just learned of the East Alligator River yesterday because I was reading about crocodile attacks in the Northern Territory.