How an unusual alliance is forming to save Sri Lanka’s remarkable gentle giants…

Off Sri Lanka’s southern coast, where the ocean drops into an indigo trench, a blue whale dives below the surf, her gargantuan size belying the grace of her movement through the silent water. Her hymn of clicks and whistles resonates through the deep, calling to her young calf.

Her kind has lived here for generations, at the pinnacle of a food chain that begins in the ocean’s depths. But her world is different from that of her ancestors. Overhead, giants of another kind carve across the sea – ships, hundreds of them, their steel hulls an invisible threat. This female had grown accustomed to the ships’ presence. But one spring morning proved to be her last…..| read more on Discover Wildlife