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The Marine Biologist Podcast
The Marine Biologist Podcast brings you conversations about marine life with leading marine biologists. If you are fascinated by the sea and its inhabitants and want to go deeper, this is the podcast for you.
Each episode follows up on an article on cutting-edge science, conservation, or education that appeared in the most recent edition of The Marine Biologist magazine.
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The Marine Biologist Podcast
The fall of the great ocean farmers: blue and fin whales in the Southern Ocean
The Antarctic blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived. In the 20th century, humans harvested 99 per cent of them.
In this episode we welcome Matthew Savoca and Conor Ryan. Matt is interested in how animals might teach us about human impacts on the environment, and how we might reverse those impacts. Conor is a cetacean expert and photographer who describes the Southern Ocean as "the oceanic heartbeat of the planet". Both are hugely knowledgeable about how the Southern Ocean ecosystem works.
If you ever wondered how many blue and fin whales there are now, how many were lost to whaling, and how that impacts us, listen on!
This is a fascinating conversation with two young and engaging scientists.
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