> and yet it doesn't seem that whales set up a persistent and organized resistance effort Historically, they did. One famous example is the Essex, which was su

> and yet it doesn't seem that whales set up a persistent and organized resistance effort Historically, they did. One famous example is the Essex, which was sunk in 1820 by the spontaneous attack of an unusually large male sperm whale soon after pursuing a pod of whales. The difference today is that it's effectively impossible for a whale to put a hole in a steel-hulled ship.