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Side by side, two minke whales swim off Pointe Noire near the town of Baie-Sainte-Catherine<\/strong>. One of them is clearly smaller than the other. A mother and her calf? Could be! According to researcher, minke whale specialist and M\u00e9riscope<\/a> director Dany Zbinden<\/a>, \u201cIn the past four years we have seen a significant number of juvenile minke whales in the Estuary.\u201d This is quite surprising, as it had previously been thought that female minke whales accompanied and nursed their calves for a brief four months or so before dissociating themselves from their offspring once the latter were fully weaned. Since calving takes place between November and March, separation often occurs even before the animals arrive in their summer feeding grounds. Is it a change in minke whale culture that is causing young animals to stick around longer? A simple bias in the way we observed this species in the past? Isolated cases rather than a real trend? Monitoring the minke whales that visit the Estuary will certainly tell us more about this species, which is very present but also very mysterious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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