Satellite Tags Show Detouring Southern Right Whales Left a Month Early and Still Reached Their Feeding Grounds on Time

Nature World News | 22.10.2026 11:11
Southern right whales leaving New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland Islands split onto two very different routes to their feeding grounds, yet the two groups arrived at about the same time, according to a satellite-tagging study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The whales that took a long detour toward Antarctica simply left about a month earlier.