Hello, Humpback Whale!

Robbie Shade, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Humpback Whales in the Singing Position.

Dr. Louis M. Herman., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Breaching Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae

Sylke Rohrlach from Sydney, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Range of the Humpback Whale.

Humpback whales inhabit nearly all of the world’s oceans. Pcb21 (English Wikipedia User), CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

Humpback Whale With Her Calf.

National Marine Sanctuaries, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

The Fluked Tail of a Humpback Whale.

Buiobuione, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Plate XXIX. 1. Cachelot 2. Greenland Whale 3. Humpbacked Whale.

The handy natural history, by Ernest Protheroe, F.Z.S. With 318 illustrations, 136 being in full color. 1910. Protheroe, Ernest., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Lord of the Allosaurs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Humpback Whale Encounter. NOAA’s Joe Pica diving with a humpback whale off Dominica Republic.

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Size comparison of an average human and a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Jjw, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

An illustration of whale species created by Jón Laerði, or Jon the Learned (1574-1658)

From his “Natural History of Iceland,” GKS 1639 kvart, Royal Library, Copenhagen. Photo courtesy of Icelandic Museum of Natural History.

Float with Sea Monster. Pieter van der Borcht. 1694.

Pieter van der Borcht, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Whaling Scene on the Coast of Gotō by Hokusai, 1830.

An ukiyo-e print of Hokusai's Goto Kujira Tsuki. Katsushika Hokusai, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Elephant and Whale Screens, by Ito Jakuchu, Miho Museum, Kōka, Shiga, Japan. 1797.

Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Untitled engraving of Sea Monsters Attacking A Sailing Vessel. Johann Christoph Wagner, Augsburg. 1684

Johann Christoph Wagner, Augsburg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Adriaen Coenen's "Fish Book". 1570s.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

" A Dolphin?" from Adriaen Coenen's "Fish Book". 1570s.

Adriaen Coenen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jonah and the Whale, Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) circa 1400.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

2014 Good Friday procession, Misraħ San Filep in Żebbuġ, Malta

Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

A Whale Tail Fountain is located on Parade Plaza across from Union Station in New London, Connecticut.

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Whale sculpture in playground, New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Skyscraper (the Bruges Whale by Studio KCA). Plastic whale sculpture in Utrecht,

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Whale Sculptures at the Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Australia.

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