There, it struggled to survive and ended up on the shore, around 15 metres away from the sea, after a huge wave carried it in land.
Renata Emin, Bicho D’agua’s president and marine specialist said: “We’re still not sure how it landed here, but we’re guessing that the creature was floating close to the shore and the tide, which has been pretty considerable over the past few days, picked it up and threw it inland, into the mangrove.
“Along with this astonishing feat, we are baffled as to what a humpback whale is doing on the north coast of Brazil during February because this is a very unusual occurrence.”
Humpaback whales are only usually seen as far as the northern Brazilian state of Bahia from August to November.