Humpback whales are fairly solatary creatures but they are not as solatary as we once thought. The strongest relationship they will most likly have is beetwen mother and calf. The bond lasts about a year as the mother teaches her calf basic skills like hunting and survival. But there are other types of relationships, two for example: during mating season, a group of male humpback whales might follow a female and compete to be her mate. On the other hand, females can have best friends and often return to the same feeding grounds with the friend season after season. In mateing, while heterosexual behavor is typical, the first recorded observation of humpback whale mating behavor that was in 2022 involved two male humpbacks showing complex and understudied social dynamics. While mating is fairly complex, other relationships are built on survival and strategy. Some times groups of humpbacks will gather together and use bubble neting to hunt and may often gather to hunt together. All of these relashonships are relevent and complex, showing diffrent sides of the humpback whales and their bonds and emotions.