This whale made an epic trek across 3 oceans possibly for the ladies [Video]

Why did a humpback whale swim a record-breaking 13,046 kilometres, traversing the planet and crossing three oceans?

It’s possible he got lost on his usual route, or that a changing climate forced him to travel farther afield in search of food.

But marine research scientist Aylin Akkaya suspects he’s simply a “cool dude” scouring the oceans to meet hot new babes.

Akkaya is a co-author of a new study that documented what is believed to be the longest recorded migration of a humpback whale — from the Pacific Coast of Colombia to the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar. The previous record was 10,000 kilometres from Brazil to Madagascar set in 2010.

The whale’s journey was so long and unusual that scientists first thought it must be some kind of technological error. 

“We were like, rechecking and checking and checking again [to see] if there’s a mistake,” Akkaya, of the Tanzania Cetaceans Program, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “But no, it was …