A surprise nursery of one of the world’s most elusive whales has been spotted in photographs taken from planes.
Narwhals, the single-tusked whales
of the Arctic that have been dubbed the “unicorns of the sea”, are
classified as “near-threatened” by the International Union for
Conservation of Nature. But protecting these animals is hard, partly
because we don’t know how many there are.
The animals spend about 80 per cent of their time under the water’s
surface, and more than half the year in deep offshore waters below dense
pack ice during the dark Arctic winter.
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