Humpback whales sing songs that can be heard for hundreds of miles. Humpbacks have been called great winged angels when they soar high out of the water and frolic and leap in the moonlight. We humans evolved millions of years later with our complex brains and desire to explore and discover more about our planet. But humankind has been far from kind to these ancient and benign citizens of the sea. Indeed, we may still preside over their final demise.
Whales seem at once mysterious and unknowable.
Yet when we have a chance to see them, to glimpse into their eyes, they seem oddly familiar. In return, humankind has ruthlessly and cruelly hunted them down some to extinction, others to the brink of extinction. Some species may still never recover. At first, out of need for food, then for other products like whale oil, and now for profit only. There is no need for commercial whaling.