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by pragma_x 33 days ago
Same here. This part got me:

> The whale itself has never been sighted: it has only been heard via hydrophones, but its call has been detected since the late 1980s in a pattern that matches the migration of the blue whale and the fin whale. Those species call at 10 to 39 Hz and 20 Hz respectively.

So not only lonely, but sings in a falsetto by whale standards; a weirdo. A lonely fellow with a distinctly high-pitched voice.

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> The whale itself has never been sighted: it has only been heard via hydrophones,

How do we know it's a whale, then?