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sreanlast Saturday at 9:33 AM1 replyview on HN

There's a massive reduction in the whale song of the blue whales. Almost halved. They are presumably starving.

That something ginormous can be so elegant, beautiful and sleek is hard to conceive till one meets a blue whale. Let's let them thrive on the blue planet.


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derektanklast Saturday at 10:44 AM

The Blue Whale population has actually increased since the 70s. When they were critically endangered, their population numbered roughly 1,000-2,000 but population estimates for today put the number at roughly tenfold that. The 1966 worldwide moratorium on whaling has been incredibly successful and we’ve also seen recoveries in Humpback and Grey Whales.

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