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Sinomar Godois Tavares visits the Projeto Baleia Jubarte exhibit in Caravelas, Bahia, a public education center displaying giant humpback whale skeletons and marine mammal replicas.0:38 Student interns from a local high school, participating in an 18-month program called Abre os Olhos in partnership with the project, guide the tour.8:25 The centerpiece is a 11.5-meter skeleton of a humpback whale named Durel, recorded 11 times at Abrolhos, frequently with a calf; the students explain that living whales reach 13.5–16 meters.0:57 Whale tails are unique to each individual, functioning like fingerprints, and researchers log sightings in the Happy Whale platform to track movements.1:31 The tour covers four dolphin species found in the region: the Toninha (Franciscana dolphin, endangered, groups of 2–5, found from Espírito Santo to Argentina and Uruguay), the Boto-pintado (prefers brackish water at the mouth of the Caravelas river), the Dente-de-siso (more oceanic, deeper-dwelling), and the bottlenose dolphin.1:57 Humpback feeding behavior is explained — bubble-net feeding on krill in Antarctic waters — along with the fact that whales fast for four months while in Brazilian waters to breed and nurse calves.7:13

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