@anderson_joshuaA humpback whale turned up in New York Harbor, right off the Statue of Liberty, and honestly the mismatch is the whole story: one of the ocean's biggest animals parked next to one of the most photographed landmarks anywhere. What's behind it is less of a fluke than it sounds. Humpbacks keep showing up along New York's coast, and the reason is food. Prey fish numbers there have been rebuilding, which gives the whales somewhere to feed. Worth remembering too that this all played out against one of the busiest cities on the planet, and wild nature still found a gap to slide through. You don't get to predict that kind of thing.

@anderson_joshuaA humpback whale turned up in New York Harbor, right off the Statue of Liberty, and honestly the mismatch is the whole story: one of the ocean's biggest animals parked next to one of the most photographed landmarks anywhere. What's behind it is less of a fluke than it sounds. Humpbacks keep showing up along New York's coast, and the reason is food. Prey fish numbers there have been rebuilding, which gives the whales somewhere to feed. Worth remembering too that this all played out against one of the busiest cities on the planet, and wild nature still found a gap to slide through. You don't get to predict that kind of thing.