Baby Blue Whale Nursing ( Exclusive Drone Footage)

While researching pygmy blue whales in the South Taranaki Bight region of New Zealand, Leigh Torres used a drone to capture footage of a baby blue whale nursing. This is believed to be the first time that aerial footage has documented the nursing behavior of this endangered marine species. NOTE: After we published this story a reader alerted us to this older video on YouTube which also purports to show a blue whale calf nursing. After watching