The migration of blue whales and southern right whales overlapped last season — the first time it's ever occurred off the Victorian coastline.
They arrive in the waters off Victoria for summer and normally move on again early in autumn, but last season they stayed longer."That is really quite uncommon, in fact, that's the first time it's been recorded on the Victorian coastline," Mr Donnelly said.
"Citizen scientists give us a chance to capture all the sightings of whales around Victoria's coastline that would otherwise just go on someone's Facebook post or just be told over a dinner table," the institute's executive director Jeff Weir said."The majority of the information logged in the Dolphin Research Institute's database comes from these members of the public.
"Behaviours which we normally associate with the tropics or sub-tropic areas of Queensland and Northern Western Australia," Mr Donnelly said.Researchers head out on the Delphinidae to look for whales. "These animals, and most animals on the planet, work through environmental cues such as temperature, light, and in the ocean it's also got to do with currents."It's not only in Victorian waters where whales have been caught acting strangely.
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