Humpback Whales (2015)

Ewan McGregor: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : For thousands of years, we could only wonder about humpback whales; now by exploring their world, we're getting surprising glimpses into their lives.

• Narrator : A 40-ton adult appears weightless, in its ocean home. Though longer than a school bus, these fifty food giants are nimble.

• Narrator : Whales were hunted for hundreds of years and rendered into an oil to light our cities.

• Narrator : The song of the humpback helped us to begin to understand, finally, that whales are magnificent, complex beings, worthy of protection. Worthy of life. This was our turning point.

• Narrator : Today, fewer people kill whales on purpose, but we now kill them without even knowing it.

• Narrator : There are fifteen distinct populations of humpback whales, located in all the oceans of the world. They feed in polar and sub-polar regions, and breed and give birth in the tropics.

• Narrator : When whales dive, they leave a slick spot on the surface-what researchers call a "footprint"

• Narrator : More than half of these humpback whales bear scars from being tangled up in ropes and fishing nets. This humpback whale population is growing, but we think worldwide the humpback population may be only 40% of what it was before whaling began.

• Narrator : It took hundreds of years for people all across the world to wake up and hear the song of the humpbacks.

• Narrator : Just one look in their eye will tell you, we have much more to learn about their world.