
Maybe the most clichéd question couples ask one another in jest is, “How far will you go for me?” Humpback whales would be considered the world’s most ardent lovers if this definition was taken at face value. In a 2022 study, scientists found that some whales would swim a great distance just to mate. Less than two months apart, two distinctive males with unique markings on their tails were spotted in two well-known locations for mating: one near Hawaii and the other off the western coast of Mexico. Uhm, that’s a distance of around 3,700 miles.
