A real tear-jerker: heartbreaking story of the world’s loneliest whale

A lonely whale, dubbed 52, has caused many to empathize. The creature has roamed the world in search for a companion but never gets an answer to its sounds. The solitary whale has been named 52 due to the 52-hert frequency of its mating calls that have been picked up by navy sonar detectives. These calls have never been accompanied by another whale call, a phenomenon that has intrigued scientists that have closely been monitoring the frequency since it was first detected by William Watkins of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1989.

The anomaly of 52 has been studied as its depserate calls are such that no other whale in the world shares or recognizes, but the whale has never been seen.