Dive beneath the surface with acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta as she reveals the mysterious world of humpback whales — and gets mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale, covered in whale snot and much more.

I entered the water quietly and saw two humpback whales
sleeping diagonally in the distance. Two school buses just
hanging in space...
Acclaimed wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta has been
mugged by whales, touched by a baby whale and covered in
whale snot. In
Humpback Highway
, Pirotta dives beneath
the surface to reveal the mysterious world of humpback
whales — from their life cycle and the challenges humans
present to these marine giants to why whale snot and poo
are important for us and the ocean. Plus the cutting-edge
new technologies (including tagging whales so that they
communicate with satellites) that allow us to see where they
swim, listen to them talk and even spy on them underwater