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Whale population facts: 40,000 is 35% of what number?
It’s believed there are about 40,000 existing humpback whales currently in the world. The mammoth beasts are a bit slow, so they once were popular game for hunting.
Fortunately killing humpback whales is illegal now, although some countries continued to kill them until just a few decades ago. It’s projected that whales living now are less than 35 percent of the world’s original population.
