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On a later day at the beach, we were even able to hear the whales when we submerged our heads underwater. I later learned that these sounds were probably made by the male humpback whale since the sounds were long and complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although they are less common, blue whales have also been seen in this part of Costa Rica. One washed ashore a couple of years ago, and its bones of it are still visible today. They still smell really bad. Sadly, we were not able to photograph them, since they only surfaced for seconds at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Humpback whales are majestic and come to Costa Rica to breed. While on our way to snorkel, we saw some come up to breathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[21,41,43,44],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-student-experience","tag-biodiversity","tag-mammals","tag-marine","tag-migration"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n