[CINC] Whale of a Surprise: Humpbacks Winter in Antarctica - Yahoo News

[thusone at aol.com]

Valerie O. says the 1/3 weight loss of a Gray mamma includes baby coming 
off board and milk and fasting & all the rest, so I still think the 65% figure is way high.
  Shirley

 

 

 

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Perhaps that body weight loss includes the weight of her newly born calf, which would be
much more credible.  Carolyn





  
 
 
 
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 Do you think this is true?  Females would lose SIXTY FIVE percent of body weight?!   I always thought the figure was one third body weight.    Over half - 65% well over a half -  is a heck of a change.
Has anybody heard this figure before?    Maybe I missed it.
   Shirley


"There would be enough krill near Antarctica to fatten up for future years, Van Opzeeland said. Later in their lives, after giving birth and suckling a calf, each female will lose up to 65 percent of her body weight."
 

 

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