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Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can’t fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from

For years, humpback whales have been mysteriously intervening in orca hunts to save animals they’ll never meet again—a pattern so bizarre that marine biologists are still searching for a plausible explanation.

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