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Whales were being slaughtered by fleets of industrial whaling ships in the 1970s.
From slaughter to song · David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
Whales were being slaughtered by fleets of industrial whaling ships in the 1970s.
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The largest whales, the blues, numbered only a few thousand by then.
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Why it's worth practising
Blue whales are down to a few thousand and hard to find; a recording then brings humpback songs in.
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