How does the largest animal on the planet seemingly disappear for extended periods of time?

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Apparently, we still don’t know where Blue whales go to breed. How is this possible with all our modern technology? We have satellites, GPS, trackers, sensors, submarines, and deepsea drones, yet hundreds of 300,000-pound mammals just disappear every year? Someone tie a string to the damn thing!

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The oceans are really big and the funding to study blue whales is really small. Funding for basic science has not kept up with modern technology, so you just don’t have the researchers to set up a global tracking of blue whales. Honestly, if you can’t spin your research to be relevant to human medicine, you are always starving for grants.