And Wales is even older ! :P
Bowheads seem to be recovering from the harvest of Yankee commercial whaling from 1848 to 1915, which wiped out all but 1,000 or so animals. Because the creatures can live longer than 200 years — a fact George discovered when he found an old stone harpoon point in a whale — some of the bowheads alive today may have themselves dodged the barbed steel points of the Yankee whalers.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written-660944/
Lol! Thanks for the re-share Rhys Taylor!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious... I might have asked this before... Does your first name rhyme with Swiss or lease? Or neither?
ReplyDeleteDepends on how you pronounce lease. :) It's got the same e sound, as in glee or flea, but the s is like the s in snake or silent (not the sort-of softened z sound people sometimes use in Rees, for instance).
ReplyDeleteThat's cool. I once asked Martin Zeitler how he pronounced his last name. He proceeded to get philosophical rather than provide a direct answer. His response was interesting, but unexpected.
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