A whale’s peculiar behavior towards a snorkeler earlier this week offered protection from a tiger shark that was reportedly swimming nearby.
63-year-old biologist Nan Hauser was observing a pair of humpback whales off the coast of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands when one of the massive mammals started exhibiting some peculiar behavior.
For ten minutes, the whale kept persistently nudging Hauser along with its nose and attempting to tuck her under its pectoral fins. At one point, the creature even pushed the diver onto its head and out of the water.
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Hauser, who has been studying and swimming with whales for the last 28 years, says that she has never experienced such strange interactions.
The biologist also says that if…
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