Dr. Asha de Vos

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And we went in that direction.

And so, you know, we're getting closer and closer to this animal.

I am panicking because I'm so afraid I'm going to lose sight of it.

Because now everybody's like, you know, looking for this so-called blue whale.

And we're getting closer and closer.

And then I immediately start to think I'm losing my mind.

Because...

It wasn't one blue whale, but there were six blue whales, right?

And it wasn't just that there were six blue whales, but they were in an area the size of a soccer pitch.

There were blue whales in our waters.

They had been documented in 1983, but nobody had done any research on whales in Sri Lanka.

consistently since then, because the country had gone through a war and access was limited and there was lots of things, right?

And I think there's two exciting and really surprising things.

One is that these are the largest animals that have ever roamed our planet.

They can roam 70% of our planet, right?

Because that's how much ocean we have.

But they were choosing to aggregate in this small patch of ocean.

And the second exciting thing is that they were aggregating in a small patch of ocean in like warm tropical waters, right?

And we normally expect to see aggregations like this where they're feeding and large whales.

What I've been told by my textbooks and my professors was that large whales go to cold places to feed.

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