Sharing the space: Review of humpback whale occurrence in the Amazonian Equatorial Coast

Humpback whales have a cosmopolitan distribution and undertake annual migrations between low and high latitudes where breeding and feeding takes place, respectively. In Brazil, the main breeding area encompasses the Abrolhos Bank at the Eastern Brazilian Coast and the feeding area of this population is located in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. Here, two recent records of humpback whales are reported for Maranhão State, Amazonian...