Nature's Most Majestic Big Bumbler

Is this really a "first-of-its-kind study" or more of a Sunday-afternoon, front-porch epiphany?  

Scientists have decided that blue whales have been around so much longer than ships, they don't know how to move out of the way when ships are moving about.  Blue whales have always been so much bigger than anything in the water, they have never had to move out of the way of anything.  

Read Yahoo Article Here

Not only are ships bigger than what these whales are used to encountering, they are also much more physically unforgiving.  They wear their skeletons on the outside.  So collision tends to kill these big whales.

By the way, ships can bite my ass.  Why does the whale have to detour?  Whose neighborhood is it, anyway?

This research-revelation points out something beautifully simple: Introduce a new problem for an animal, that animal needs an opportunity to learn by trial and error.  Problem is, the error kills the animal.  No new trials.  Poor old creatures.  By the time they learn new behaviors, everybody involved in ship-travel will be extinct.  Or at least a man can dream.

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