Where do humpback whales live?

It is in these warm waters where the whales mate and have babies. During this time, the newborn calves feed of their mother's milk and the adults do not eat. Instead, the adult whales live off their layer of blubber. In the North Pacific, humpback whales spend their summer months feeding off the coast of California to Alaska. read more

Humpback whales appear in mixed groups with other species, such as the blue, fin, minke, gray and sperm whales. Interaction with gray, fin, and right whales have been observed. Teams of researchers observed a male humpback whale singing an unknown type of song and approaching a fin whale at Rarotonga in 2014. read more

Humpbacks are widely distributed in all oceans, ranging from tropical wintering grounds near islands and continental coasts to open-ocean temperate and sub-polar summering habitats. read more

Humpback Whales Distribution Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are found in all major oceans and seas around the world. Humpback whales live in both hemispheres making them to cross over the other side of the world during the feeding and breeding seasons. read more

The researchers suspect the"whale whispering" may be a way for the mother-calf pairs to stay under the radar of nearby killer whales. Diet. Humpback whales are baleen whales. Rather than teeth, they have 270 to 400 fringed overlapping plates hanging down from each side of the upper jaw, called baleen plates. read more