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The Seychelles has become a major tourist destination for beachgoing and scuba diving, but it’s not only humans that are beginning to flock to this island.
In what marine biologists have described as a “phenomenal finding,” a survey of whales around the territorial waters of this archipelagic nation revealed the presence of blue whales—over a dozen.
It’s the first time they’ve been seen in these warm seas since 1966, and it’s a wonderful milestone in a long and increasingly successful recovery for the world’s largest animal.
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Sighting of Many Blue Whales Around the Seychelles is First in Decades – 'Phenomenal'
It's the first time they've been seen in these warm seas since 1966, and it's a wonderful milestone in a long and perhaps successful recovery
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