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For a long time, people hunted and killed whales on a large scale. Whales provided not only food, but also the basis for many products such as lamp oil and lipstick. Many countries hunted whales, including the US, taking tens of thousands of whales a year. The number was so high that whale populations were incapable of recovering. Because females do not breed until they are mature (over 10 years of age, usually), and they produce a single offspring at most every two years, whales could not produce enough young to replace the numbers that were being killed by whalers. Quickly, therefore, whales became endangered. Some species were more heavily impacted than others, partly because they were less numerous even before whaling and partly because they were more heavily whaled. The Northern right whale is extremely endangered now for both of these reasons. In fact, the right whale got its...

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