Humpback Whales Page #3

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oh-oh-oh, oh, oh

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Do, ooh-ooh-ooh,

ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

Do, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh...

The humpback mouth

expands so wide,

they could swallow a small car.

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh,

oh-oh-oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh,

oh, oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh...

They can eat up to a ton of food

in a single day.

That's like 8,000 hamburgers.

(birds singing and squawking,

whales bellowing)

(whale bellowing)

Well, as it starts to get cold

up here in the fall,

Melancholy, Vulture and all

the other whales begin to leave.

They'll travel

thousands of miles

down to their warm-water

breeding areas

like Costa Rica,

Mexico and Hawaii.

NARRATOR:

Some humpbacks migrate

5,000 miles one way every year...

One of the longest known

migrations of any mammal.

There are 15 distinct

populations of humpback whales,

located in all the oceans

of the world.

They feed in polar

and subpolar regions,

and breed and give birth

in the Tropics.

(bird squawking in distance)

Each winter,

the Hawaiian Islands host

the largest gathering of

humpbacks in the North Pacific.

Thousands of whales.

Humpbacks may live

up to 80 years or more.

They seem as curious about us

as we are about them.

(whales singing)

Other whales and dolphins

vocalize,

but humpbacks make

a greater variety of sounds

than any other whale...

- including grunts...

- (whale grunts)

- groans...

- (whale groaning)

- thwops...

- (deep burbling)

- snorts...

- (snorting)

- and barks.

- (high-pitched barking)

When humpbacks leap, or breach,

they make it look easy.

No other whale

leaps so high so often.

We're not exactly sure

why they do it,

but we're glad they do.

I had a dream

so big and loud

I jumped so high

I touched the clouds

Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I stretched my hands

out to the sky

We danced with monsters

through the night

Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I'm never gonna look back,

whoa, oh

I'm never gonna

give it up, no

Please don't wake me now

Whoo, whoo, ooh, ooh

This is gonna be

the best day of my life

Whoo, whoo, ooh, ooh

My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Whoo, whoo, ooh, ooh

S' Whoo S'

Whoo, whoo, ooh, ooh

- Whoo

- (squeaks)

I howled at the moon

with friends

And then the sun

came crashing in

Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

But all the possibilities

No limits, just epiphanies

Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh

Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I'm never gonna

look back, whoa

I'm never gonna

give it up, no

Just don't wake me now

- (music pauses)

- (man chuckles)

- Whoo, whoo, ooh, ooh

- (whooping)

This is gonna be

the best day of my life

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