{"id":25263,"date":"2026-02-27T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/humpback-whale-comeback-reveals-surprising-shift-in-mating-success\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:00:46","slug":"humpback-whale-comeback-reveals-surprising-shift-in-mating-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/humpback-whale-comeback-reveals-surprising-shift-in-mating-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback Whale Comeback Reveals Surprising Shift in Mating Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/humpback-whale-comeback-reveals-surprising-shift-in-mating-success\/\" title=\"Humpback Whale Comeback Reveals Surprising Shift in Mating Success\"><\/a>Recovering humpback whale populations are revealing a hidden shift: older males are increasingly outcompeting younger rivals to father calves. New research from the University of St Andrews, published today (February 27) in Current Biology, reveals that age now plays a different role in male humpback whale reproduction as populations rebound from centuries of commercial whaling. [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovering humpback whale populations are revealing a hidden shift: older males are increasingly outcompeting younger rivals to father calves. New research from the University of St Andrews, published today (February 27) in Current Biology, reveals that age now plays a different role in male humpback whale reproduction as populations rebound from centuries of commercial whaling. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/humpback-whale-comeback-reveals-surprising-shift-in-mating-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Humpback Whale Comeback Reveals Surprising Shift in Mating Success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}