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Please don't be excited, it's not exciting, it's really sad. Whales live in family groups or pods, so the sighting of two other Northern bottle-nosed whales in UK waters (one in Aberdeen and one in Southend) when they're almost never seen here means that somehow the pod has been separated and this one swimming up the Thames is probably looking for the rest of it's pod.
Even sadder is the fact that whale pods often have their own family dialect so if the Thames whale can't find it's own pod and tries to join another it's likely not to be accepted because they won't recognise it's 'language'.
Plus also the Thames is horrible brackish water which is not good for whales, it's very shallow so stranding is likely and London for a mammal which focuses heavily on sound will be very, very loud. |
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