It was recently learned that these creatures are key contributors to the entire food pyramid. Their excrement feeds the smallest forms of life which then form food for the next level and so on.
Time we did more to protect the entire ecosystem lest we become the architects of our our demise by being victims of greed and ignorance.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/norway_save_the_whales_loc/?rc=fb&pv=122
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