Rare sight: Endangered whale swimming with calf near Cape Cod

CAPE COD, Mass. – A rare sighting was captured in the Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts. Video shows a North Atlantic right whale and her calf swimming side by side. 

The pair was seen on March 27. 

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution posted footage of the moment. It showed a right whale called Spindle feeding and swimming with her calf.

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The NOAA Fisheries says the critically-endangered species usually travels the New England coast in the spring. 

A fourth of the total population was spotted off the coast of Cape Cod last month, the Boston Globe reported.

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