Bertie Gregory

Oh, let me find the whales.

Yeah.

All right.

So what is this?

Animal reproductive systems.

Okay.

So what you're looking at here, this is a gathering of whales in Antarctica.

What was the occasion?

A big party.

Each one of those whales is 25 meters long.

So what's that?

we use meters yeah okay just let everyone else figure it out for themselves very long about double the length of a greyhound bus that's a nice yeah yeah so every time you see this little fountain the blowhole so yeah each one yeah these are fin whales they're the second largest whale in the world and we uh went down to antarctica spent a lot of time rolling around on a boat feeling very sick uh but we ultimately managed to film the largest gathering of fin whales ever recorded there were 300 of them together

And this was not only an amazing thing to witness because it's just loads of massive whales, but it's one of the kind of greatest conservation success stories of our time because these whales were hunted to the brink of extinction during the whaling era.

And now they're making this incredible comeback.

And yeah, that's exciting.

Not just because, yeah, like penguins are cute and whales are awesome.

But because of so many other reasons, you know, the whales in Antarctica, that's not just a great thing.

They're coming back for Antarctica.

But, you know, new science is telling us that whales are really good at capturing carbon through a couple of different processes.

And so if we want to, you know, fight climate change, save the world.