This is so unfair! Londonist tells us that there's a whale in the Thames! Is the Thames that much cleaner than the East River or Hudson? Hmm, nevermind. We have seen harbor seals in the city (in the Gowanus Canal, stranded in another part of Brooklyn, or just hanging around downtown), but never before murky images of a whale. We imagine a shoe or body would clog up the whale's blowhole or that the toxicity of the East River would immediately reject a whale...the Hudson, we're not so sure, but down here, it is an estuary. We could imagine one closer to the Statue of Liberty, though. more ›