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Not a lot of birds in the oceans would be my guess.

• FridayoLeary 5y ago
  Which leads to my question; With all the vastness of thousands of square miles of water, how is it that ships manage to strike whales of a few square metres? And when you factor in sonar and radar... how? I'm not knowledgeable in maritime routes, but even if you say that both whales and ships prefer ocean currents (maybe, just a wild guess) or the like it still seems hard. Even if the routes are congested
  • newsclues 5y ago
    Ships don’t travel the vast open waters, they stick to well travelled shipping lanes. I’m guessing human shipping lanes overlap pre-existing animal migration paths
  • Borrible 5y ago
    >And when you factor in sonar and radar Well, its just not that easy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X19304567 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1... 'A decision-making framework to reduce the risk of collisions between ships and whales' And by the way, it also happens not that often. For the most part it's selling apocalytic news by exploiting a variant of the Bambi effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_effect Whales as a species were finished a long time ago. Now it's just soothing a troubled conscience.
    • FridayoLeary 5y ago
      It's nice to have confirmation that i'm correct. Thanks