Rowan Hooper

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1,427 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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The World, the Universe and Us · Latitude Special: Why Festivals Make You Live Longer; Clearing Alzheimer’s Proteins from the Brain;Clouds Made of Rocks and Rubies; Orcas Blow Up Giant Fish · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

And that wasn't because they'd killed too many whales. matched

It was because the whales learned tactics to evade the whalers. matched

And what happens was, back in the day, these were sailboats, wind-powered boats. matched

And the whales learned to swim upwind of the whaler's boats. matched

But they told other whales about this. matched

And so the overall whales who had, then when they encountered these boats, they knew to swim upwind because they'd been warned by other whales. matched

So that's extraordinary bit of communication. matched

So this week, the Gibraltar orcas, apart from smashing up yachts, they feed on bluefin tuna. matched

But in the Gulf of California, orcas there eat sunfish, the largest bony fish in the sea. matched

Yeah, absolutely massive. matched

And that's the problem. matched

If you want to eat one, they're just too big to get your teeth around, even if you're an orca. matched

So what they do is basically one of them hangs onto the fin of the sunfish. matched

Another one takes a run up and smashes into it hard enough to make it explode, basically like an underwater piñata. matched

Smash up the sunfish and it blows up. matched

Well, so it might be fun. matched

It actually might be fun to do this, to have this activity. matched

It's like a firework display. matched

And that's what they're saying. matched

It could be fun. matched

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