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During their migration trips the blue whale can travel thousands of miles from one location to the next. While they migrate most whales will forgo eating food and live primarily off of blubber/body fat and stored calories.
The shortest swimming distance between these two locations is 5,176 miles (8,334km). Like other Baleen whales, Humpbacks fast throughout much of their migration, living on their blubber and fat for up to eight months of the year. In the case of a female making a migration the total weight loss may be as much as 50%.