A Glossary of Common Whale Behaviors
	BUBBLE NET Video: QuickTime A humpback whale dives beneath a school of fish and blows columns of bubbles as it circles back up to the surface. The bubble columns join to form a "net" up to 100 feet across. The net traps the fish as the whale swims through the center with its mouth wide open, feeding. This activity has been observed in humpback feeding grounds, but not breeding areas like Madagascar.
	BREACHING A whale launches head-first out of the water. Breaches range from a full leap that clears the water to more leisurely surges in which two-thirds to half of the body emerges before falling back into the water with a splash.
	FLIPPERING The whale lifts one or both flippers out of the water and slaps them against the water, sometimes several times in a row. Humpbacks sometimes also lie on their backs, waving both flippers in the air, before slapping them onto the surface of the water simultaneously.
	FLUKING (or FLUKE UP DIVE) Before a deep dive, a whale lifts its tail into the air to help thrust its body into a more steeply angled descent.
	LOBTAILING The whale's head is underwater while it holds its flukes above the water, slapping them forcefully and repeatedly against the surface.
	LOGGING Whales float, resting motionless, at the surface of the water, often facing in the same direction.
	SINGING Male humpbacks sing songs made up of short groups of sounds, sometimes while hovering alone about 50 feet below the surface, flippers stretched out, heads down, and tail-flukes pointing up toward the surface.
	BLOWING or SPOUTING As whales breathe at the surface of the water, they explosively exhale clouds of water droplets from their blowholes -- the nostrils on the tops of their heads. These clouds of water are called the spouts or the blows.
	SPYHOPPING A whale rises slowly straight up out of the water to poke its head just above the surface, as if to have a look around, before sinking back into its more usual horizontal position.
	KICKFEEDING The humpback splashes water with its flukes, stunning nearby fish. The whale dives, then returns to the surface, its mouth wide open for a meal. This is another feeding behavior and, thus, not expected to be observed off of Madagascar. Source: Center for Coastal Studies and Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises by Mark Carwardine.