I love animals and in particular huge giant whales and all forms of cats (domestic and wild). I've had this fascination since I was a kid and Sydney is blessed every year with a whale migration that sees these magestic creatures coming very close to the shore. We even have an albino whale that Sydney has adopted. He migrates down the east coast of Australia every year and it's such a joy. You can read more about Migalo (which means "white fellow" in the Australian Indigenous language) and he is extremely rare white whale - look at his wiki page

This blog is not about Migalo. The following is from the BBC site about a female whale letting some males fight to be her mate. The footage is just INCREDIBLE. These giants of the sea are just so beautiful even when they battle it out.

Epic humpback whale battle filmed

It is the greatest animal battle on the planet, and it has finally been caught on camera.

A BBC natural history crew has filmed the "humpback whale heat run", where 15m long, 40 tonne male whales fight it out to mate with even larger females. During the first complete sequence of this behaviour ever captured, the male humpbacks swim at high speed behind the female, violently jostling for access. The collisions between the males can be violent enough to kill. The footage was recorded for the BBC natural history series Life.

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