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they do so because their babies have been in their nice, warm tummy for so long and an immediate temp change in cool waters can kill the baby easily.. a bit like when new babies are born they are sometimes put in a box like an incubator so they don't become cold and form deficiencies

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because it's safer and easier for the whale calf, and there's more food.

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