Researchers say species is second-longest living mammal on Earth after bowhead whales
In 1893, the World’s Fair was getting under way in Chicago, the world’s first number plates appeared on cars in Paris, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination would later spark the first world war,Also, according to researchers, up to 10% of southern right whales in existence then could still be swimming the ocean today.
They would have endured a bloodbath. “Industrial whaling, which for most species ended only 60 years ago, would have required any individuals now aged over 100 years to have survived at least 40 years of intense whaling,” the paper said. “Any individual over 150 would have had to survive 90 years of the same intense hunt.”
“Whaling didn’t cease that long ago. There’s whales out there today that were alive during whaling times, so they probably have that memory of being hunted by humans,” she said. “We’re very lucky in Australia,” Jolliffe said. “We have southern right whales that migrate to our coastline every year”.
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