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Humpback Whales have:
• Incredible hearing ranging over many kilometres for navigation communication and finding food.
• Little or no sense of smell or taste.
• Very sensitive skin that is easily sunburned.
• Remarkable eyes with strong muscles that change the shape of the lens so they can see in the air or underwater.
• Calls or songs that travel hundreds of kilometres.
• Pectoral fins that are ten times longer than your arm.
• Tail Flukes that often feature black and white markings on the underside that can be used to identify individual whales.
• An average weight of 45 tons, which is about 1000 children together
• An average length of 15 -17 meters which is about 10 adults lying head to foot
• An eye the size of a grapefruit
• No pores or sweat glands
• A belly button
• Calves that are fed daily over 400 litres of rich milk that is the consistency of condensed cream.
• An expelled breath or "blow" that reaches a speed of between 300 - 500 kilometres per hour as it exits through the blowhole.