Whale food chain. They have large reserves of blubber, more so for toothed whales as they are higher up the food chain than baleen whales. Lactating mothers can pass the toxins on to their young. These pollutants can cause gastrointestinal cancers and greater vulnerability to infectious diseases. They can also be poisoned by swallowing litter, such as plastic bags. Advanced military sonar harms whales. Sonar interferes with the basic biological functions of whales—such as feeding and mating—by impacting their ability to echolocate. Whales swim in response to sonar and sometimes experience decompression sickness due to rapid changes in depth. Mass strandings
Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be? The song has been parodied several times, the best known of which is the American bawdy song "Seven Old Ladies", sung to the same tune but with different lyrics. Here are the chorus and the first two verses, of seven, as published in Ed Cray's "The Erotic Muse": <poem> Oh, dear, what can the matter be, Seven old ladies were locked in the lavat'ry, They were there from Monday till Saturday, And nobody knew they were there. The first old lady was 'Lizabeth Porter, She was the deacon of Dorchester's daughter, Went there to relieve a slight pressure of water,