Whale with Steve Backshall on ABC – Migratory whales clock up thousands of miles a year to reach special places where they feed, breed and raise their young.
Steve meets those who face the longest journeys of all to uncover where they go, when, and why it’s worth starving for half the year to get there.
His odyssey begins in the birthing grounds of Tahiti, where one curious young humpback calf gives him the encounter of a lifetime.
In Argentina, a female Southern Right Whale has also journeyed to give birth. Rare underwater footage captures her newborn calf taking its first drink of mother’s milk. Eager males are also here to mate. Yet this paradise is changing. Flesh-eating gulls attack the calves, reducing their chances of survival.
Migrating whales face a growing list of threats, from the danger of increasing ship traffic to climate change, affecting Grey Whales that give birth on migration rather than in safe birthing grounds.
Production credit: Sky UK Limited
Whale with Steve Backshall on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 12 March, 2024 at 9.00pm
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