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Given the current trajectory of whale populations, 'we' probably won't be seeing that. Maybe in many generations of humans.

There is a group that is attempting to communicate with whales by training a transformer based model on whale sounds.

https://www.projectceti.org/

It's just a pity we couldn't figure out how to better coexist with whales.

Erm, it's illegal to talk to dolphins: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2026/04/02/is-it...

no, i think they're just going to start a podcast.

Not necessarily. Look at the Gorillaz.

The water goes all the way up to 11

Migaloo is joining Humphrey the Whale's team in SF forming a super team

their music's making waves

It's not just the BBC, it's the UK as a whole. Miles per hour or deeply entrenched for speeds but for measurements we use meters. The same for weight, we weigh people in stone but we weigh everything else with grams.

I remember reading about whales returning to an area they hadn't been in for decades and people were worried about them eating all the local fish, but in fact their faeces enriched the local ecosystem from the ground up, leading to more fish. It's a bit like the counter-arguments to the lump of labour fallacy.

I think the BBC policy is to provide every measurement in both types of unit.

Apparently they also measurably affect the vertical water mixing. Fish need dissolved oxygen to breathe, so they don't normally venture past the thermocline. And their fins are also vertical, so they don't cause a lot of vertical water movement.

But whales routinely dive deep, and their tail fin is _horizontal_ and it creates powerful updrafts.

Another organism that affects mixing is apparently jellyfish.

He got away eventually right ?

Seriously though, we have Star Trek IV to thank in no small part for this amazing humpback comeback success story. Live long and prosper!

So long and thanks for all the fish, perhaps.

Or they pack up to leave.