Whalewatch.doc

Whale watch It doesn’t matter how seasick people may feel. When a whale appears, nothing else matters, says whale researcher Steve Palumbi.“Everyone—from 5 to 95 years old—rushes to the side of the boat.”  “Whales have that effect on people,” Palumbi adds. He’s a biology professor at Stanford University. It might be their gargantuan size, their beautiful and haunting songs, which can travel underwater for thousands of miles, or the fact that they’ve been on Earth for a long, long time. Then again, whale awe might come from something beyond words “Something about them is just magical,” Palu