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Humpback whales have been filmed for the first time ever enjoying a ‘spa day’ by rubbing their bodies against the seafloor.
Incredible footage captured in Gold Coast Bay, Queensland, Australia, shows the massive marine mammals performing full and side ‘sand rolls’ up to 50 metres below the ocean surface.
Dr Olaf Meynecke who led the research for Griffith University believes the process was to remove parasites from the whales’ skin which can make them less hydrodynamic.
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