► Adventure Ocean Quest - The Giants of Rurutu

Humpback whales are amongst the biggest known mammals on Earth, weighing in at around 36.000kg, but by the early 1960s, after 34 million years on this planet, these gentle, majestic giants had been hunted almost to extinction. With their populations now in partial recovery, it is once again...

52 min - Oceans - Free Documentary

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