00:02I know some whales were eaten because they died and washed up on the shore.
00:07I mean, if a whale arrives on your beach one morning, that is an enormous amount of food for you
00:12and the village.
00:13And so whales were probably being eaten before they were being actively harvested from the ocean.
00:19It was likely the need for food that motivated prehistoric people to begin hunting these massive creatures from the depths.
00:33When you look and consider that 70% of the planet is water and these are large migratory animals that
00:41may leave the shores and disappear and come up somewhere else.
00:51Travelling huge distances, I mean, tracking devices have enabled us to monitor their movements.
00:59But again, we're only tracking individuals in those cases.
01:07I think there's still a huge amount to learn, not least about their population, the dynamics and their recovery, but
01:16how they are functioning in today's modern society.
01:23Science relies on empirical evidence that can be measured, analyzed and described objectively.
01:32What other methods can we use to thoroughly understand whales if we're unable or rather unwilling to capture them physically?
01:41There is no simple solution to this complicated dilemma.
01:45There is no simple solution to this complicated dilemma.
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