in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.
A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement
we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is
Further info for those interested
from The Memory Palace, by Nate DiMeo
ID: a photo of a poem, titled "Fifty words written about the Arctic Bowhead Whale after learning that they can live up to two hundred years" and the poem is as follows: There is a whale swimming right now who may have escaped a Nantucketer's harpoon in 1850 and a Japaense whale ship in 1950 who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind then several thousands then hundreds but who can heart 25,000 again singing in the warming water.
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