Whales feel cohesion, a sense of community, of loyalty. The distress call of a lone whale is enough

Whales feel cohesion, a sense of community, of loyalty. The distress call of a lone whale is enough to prompt its entire pod to rush to its side- a gesture that lands them nose to nose in the same sand. It's a fatal symphony of echolocation, a siren call to the sympathetic.
----Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories