Can microscopic parasites hold the key to saving massive humpback whales?
In short: Follow parasitologist Laurent Soulier on a high-stakes mission from France to New Caledonia. To protect entire whale populations, he must perform the dangerous task of collecting tiny lice from 40-ton marine mammals.
The documentary follows Laurent Soulier, a specialist in marine mammal parasites, as he attempts to study the infinitesimally small to understand the infinitely large. His research focuses on analyzing whale lice to potentially save humpback whale populations.
The mission is physically perilous; Soulier must work alongside a local fisherman and an underwater expert to extract parasites from the skin of whales that can weigh 40 tons. The danger is not just from the animals' size, but from the unpredictable pressure of a whale's fluke, which can knock out a diver without direct contact.
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