scummy_shower_stall t1_j4ziy6k wrote
I read an article some years ago, that perhaps the right whales aren’t reproducing because their hearts are broken. It was a very eloquent article, Smithsonian or NG, maybe Science mag, it wasn’t a blog post.
One of the reasons passenger pigeons went extinct is because they were too nervous to reproduce when they were in such small numbers. It’s not a psychological problem for many species but it was for the passenger pigeons. I think the article was hypothesizing a parallel to the Right whales.
Simple_Opossum OP t1_j4zrs88 wrote
That is really interesting! I was commenting on another reply yesterday about the intelligence of cetaceans and how sad it is to know what humans have done to so many of them. I'll try and find that article today, thanks!
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