Whales still face many threats, mostly from us, so let us savour this rare congregation of them in the Antarctic Peninsula
Mon 17 Jan 2022 11.35 EST
Good news doesn’t get any more in-your-face than this. One thousand fin whales, one of the world’s biggest animals,were seen last weekswimming in the same seas in which they were driven to near-extinction last century due to whaling. It’s like humans never happened.
This vast assembly was spread over a five-mile-wide area between the South Orkney islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. A single whale is stupendous; imagine 1,000 of them, their misty forest of spouts, as tall as pine trees, the plosive sound of their blows, their hot breath condensing in the icy air. Their sharp dorsal fins and steel-grey bodies slide…
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