The Last Continent: What does it mean to be a whale?

Postmedia columnist Daphne Bramham is on an 18-day expedition that crosses the notoriously rough Drake Passage from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia — known as the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean — to Antarctica. ELSEHUL BAY, South Georgia — Humpback whales are the size of school buses. Minkes, by comparison, are small … for whales that is.
All of which is to say that Ari Friedlaender’s work seems almost ridiculously dangerous. To get the data he needs, F