This whale might want to consider a job as a stand-up comedian.
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It might be time to give the Omid Djalili of the ocean its own sitcom.
“Blue Whale Interrupts Zoologist Saying Blue Whales Are Hard To Spot” is categorized as “life and leisure”.
“We’ve spent all day since first light looking in one of the world’s great hotspots for blue whales”. Cawardine explained why the odds were low they’d actually run into a whale, “They’re spending most of their lives underwater, out of sight”.
During his rant in which he stated that sea conditions made the hunt “challenging”, he said: “It’s quite exciting in one way, very frustrating in another”.
It seems someone heard you, Mark.
But just as he uttered the final sentence, a spray of water shot up from the sea behind the presenter indicating the presence of a blue whale, metres from where the boat was floating. “Talk of the devil”.
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But then, in the exact instant the scientist mooted how unlikely it would be that they would see the largest animal on Earth, one appeared. Only 10,000-25,000 individuals now live in the wild.
