It’s sort of like a day spa. But with more whales. And a whole lot more water.
Along Australia’s Gold Coast, for the first time ever, humpback whales have been video-recorded showing a behavior that is strangely satisfying to watch: it involves them exfoliating underwater by scrubbing their backs and sides clean on the sandy bottom of the bay.
Newly-released footage from whale-mounted cameras shows them rolling about almost blissfully, to and fro, on the ocean floor like some sort of whale wellness camp.
In the shallower waters of Queensland’s Gold Coast Bay—a well-known resting spot along a whale migration route, an inquiry was conducted into the underwater behavior of this charismatic whale species….