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The blues are back with a vengeance
Blue whales, some 100 feet long and weighing 160 tons, are the most massive creatures ever seen on our planet. PETER FROST reports them doing well in Antarctic waters
A blue whale
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THE immense cruise ships may be doing what they can to deplete whale numbers by running the behemoths down in mid-ocean, but one family of whales — the blues – are doing well, despite all we and the environment can throw at them.
Scientists have seen and filmed a huge pod of blue whales in the coastal waters around the Antarctic island of South Georgia. They counted 55 animals, unprecedented in the decades since commercial whaling ended.
South Georgia was once the centre for hunting in the early 20th century.
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