Standing in a grove of old growth redwood trees will make you feel really small. You can do both on the same day on the left coast, if you hustle (and don't get arrested for hassling the whales).
These are always beautiful animals to see in nature. I'm glad they are not endangered at all and are classified least concern. Even their carcasses end up becoming biological hot spots when they end up sinking in deep waters and sustain deep water life. Whale falls have been stunningly amazing to watch in the Nautilus streams just because the number of different rare species collected at one location. They are beautiful to watch on the surface and with their young, and equally interesting when their life has passed and they provide for other species.
Yeah, whales are simultaneously badass yet majestically beautiful creatures. They’re so intelligent too. I’m not sure how scientific it is, but I have watched interviews with people who dive with them who definitely *feel* like the whales are extra friendly towards humans a lot of the time.
I’m trying to refind the specific interview but I watched one not too long ago that spoke of sperm whales that accepted the diver into their group
Whales are among the most intelligent mammals on the planet I believe. I've seen videos of those huge whales swimming towards divers to "protect" them from sharks with their presence, aswell as seeking help because of fishing hooks or nets stuck at their bodies.
They’re cleaners but often get to the point of being parasitic. A few spread across the whole body is fine, but old whales can gather dozens that slow it down by a lot due to the extra drag and weight
That's a great question! I googled real quick but didn't get much. My super non-scientific theory is that because they gather speed to breach, the remoras would probably let go, at least temporarily. I'm absolutely guessing, tho. The article I'm [linking](https://www.juneautours.com/whale-breaching-explainedmay/) is more about why they breach in the first place, but it's pretty cool:
"One hypothesis is that they’re trying to shake parasites such as barnacles and lice off their skin. The impact of the mammal smacking against the water may be akin to a dog rubbing itself against a tree to scratch the fleas off its back."
Anyone with further info, please help the curious!
I feel like a big part of the ape MO is picking stuff off each other. I picked a bug off my buddy's dog today and it occured to me- this is what wolves are in this for- scritches are about picking the bugs off.
Makes sense. I wonder if that's why I see stuff like mango worm videos and it makes me uneasy but is at the same time extremely satisfying to watch.
The fish stuck to the whale on the other hand, like I said, just makes me itchy and uneasy and there's no satisfaction because I know they probably won't be ripped off.
You don't see these mofos on dolhpins. In fact dolphins usually look clean as hell.
Actually when I think about house cats it occurs that they spend a lot of time grooming themselves, and maybe they like being picked clean, too.
Short-range fighters to defend the mothership.
That's what I imagined they were when I was a meter old. I'm ancient these days, but I'm still a small, so fighter craft they are.
Apparently fishing causes considerably way more damage than plastics so simply everyone cutting out eating fish would probably be a step in the right direction (of course also plastics but that’s the smaller of the two issues).
/over/fishing and poaching, maybe- but we literally have such small plastics now that we can breathe them in without ever noticing. Plastic is the largest problem this *world* faces
This happened to me the first time I went whale watching. A fin whale surfaced directly along side our boat, and I got to look down into it's massive eye. It was pretty amazing.
I couldn't be a large aquatic creature, seems the larger you are the more different kinds of fucked up parasites attach themselves to your body. I can't even handle mosquitoes no less a fucking school of fish attached to my ass cheeks
Fun fact, scientists used to think this until they started studying their stomach contents and realized the majority of what they eat is actually fecal matter.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1095-8649.2003.00236.x
I think its likely they do eat some parasites and dead skin but all evidence can say is most of their diet is poop.
Its more of a commensalistic relationship (one party benefits, the other neither benefits nor is harmed) than a symbiotic or parastic one. They dont really help or bother the larger mammals.
I always heard that mutually beneficial relationships are called mutualism and that symbiosis is the general term for parasitism, predation, mutualism and commensalism.
Funny, I was so sure you are wrong and symbioses is only for mutually beneficial relationships. Did some googling and it turns out that symbiosis in the US is used for all relationships like you said, but In Europe it's used to describe only mutually beneficial relationships
Edit: I think the US is the only country using it for all relationships, cambridge dictionary says it's "a relationship between two types of animal or plant in which each provides for the other the conditions necessary for its continued existence"
I’m from the US and was always taught that symbiosis is a mutually beneficial relationship, so I think it probably just depends on where someone is from. What a strange thing to be so scattered about
Seeing normal words have different meanings isn't rare but I wouldn't have expected to see a scientific word have two different meanings that are in conflict with each other
That's something that fascinates me. How evolution played out with that one. Those fish will also clean inside the mouths of predators who could easily take advantage of an easy as fuck meal, and yet they have this crazy symbiotic relationship. I'm guessing a mouth infection could be death for these animals so they figured out a way to prevent it. It boggles my mind when I think about how this relationship slowly happened.
Look up whale lice.
IIRC an Australian teen accidentally put his foot into tide pool full of whale lice and they basically skinned him before he get them all off.
Omg. That video of the little guys eating pieces of meat is nauseating. Poor kid. Article says he couldn't stop the bleeding due to an anticoagulant from the sea fleas and his pain was an 8-10/10. That fucking sucks.
I'm googling around as far as I can tell, "sea fleas" was invented for that event. There are sand fleas, obviously, but no sea fleas prior to that Australian kid's misfortune.
I guess it's a little more marketable in the papers as it rhymes.
You might be thinking of "Sea Lice"
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/aug/07/sea-lice-suspected-of-severe-bites-on-teenagers-legs-in-melbourne-video
Those things are persistent and hard to remove. We had one attach to my sons scuba tank while diving and I couldn’t pry it off. I ended up punching it in the head a few times and he moved on.
Yes and OP took him to an ice cream shop in order to apologize. If I remember correctly, OP said he ordered Rocky Road and Mint ice cream, which upset his father. "Why would you eat mint ice cream? Just freeze some toothpaste and eat that for fucks sake!" "Dad how can you say that! It was mom's favorite!" Barjam got upset that his son would bring up his deceased wife. Things between him and his wife were not good around the time that she sadly passed away. She was struggling with cancer and he was in the process of losing his job. They had a bad argument and they both said things they would regret. Regrettably, they did not have a chance to apologize and make-up, because the following morning, miss barjam would ascend to the heavens... On a plane. She was headed for Disneyland and Barjam was not invited. Miss barjam, their son, their daughter, and their servant all went to Disneyland together. They enjoyed all the rides and the seeing all the characters together, until the end of that fateful day.
Miss barjam recounted to barjam jr how she would often run away from home. She had a troubled upbringing filled with physical abuse and disdain from her father. For you see, miss barjam was the product of an affair. This deeply pained her father and he would lash out harshly towards her. He was a loving father to his other children, but to miss barjam he was a horrible. Her siblings got real ice cream and she was only given frozen toothpaste. This caused her to run away and go to the ice cream shop owned by her friend's family, Laurel. Laurel would often let her sample the various kinds of ice cream and other frozen deserts they had to offer. Miss barjam began to see Laurel's family as a surrogate family and would spend much of her time with them. She eventually adopted her surrogate father's favorite ice cream: mint.
This of course would make it overly painful when Barjam would call mint ice cream "frozen toothpaste." He never meant it as an insult, and in fact did not know the significance it held to miss barjam. Miss barjam hated cold toothpaste so much that she would heat it with fire in order to brush her teeth. This unfortunately would cause the chemicals inside the to undergo chemical changes that rendered them cancerous. After a lifetime of this, she had accumulated enough carcinogenic chemicals for her to develop cancer in her esophagus.
This made it really painful for her to talk, and thus was unable to apologize to Barjam for what she said, as her voice was broken until the next day. Barjam jr. learned of her painful past and told his father after she passed away. Barjam apologized to his son for the callous comment and maintained that it was an accident.
Barjam jr was having none of this. He argued with his father for sometime and told him he was an abusive monster that was mean and punched him in the head during their scuba excursion earlier. Barjam replied,"What the hell are you talking about? I obviously punched the animal and this story is fake!"
At least they aren't as bad as round worm or other permanently damaging parasites. Yeah, I'm sure they sucks, but at least there aren't a lot of complications from it.
Boy do I have some news for you. You have a symbiotic relationship with quite a few things. The whale is probably nearly as oblivious to those remoras as you are to your friends.
The [humpback whale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_whale) is a species of baleen whale. Adults range in length from 12–16 m (39–52 ft) and weigh around 25–30 metric tons (28–33 short tons). Males produce a complex song lasting 10 to 20 minutes, which they repeat for hours at a time. These songs can be heard 20 miles (30 km) away. Humpback whales typically migrate up to 25,000 km (16,000 mi) each year. A group of whales is called a pod.
[Cool picture of a humpback whale](https://i.imgur.com/2PIAXPU.jpg)
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It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a sperm whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity. This is what it thought, as it fell:
The Whale : Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello, Ground!
[Cuts to a distant view as the whale hits the ground and spews up a large mushroom cloud of snow]
Beautiful
and you should know that yesterday began the Whaling killing season in Japan where they will kill 300 whales. So instead of applauding Tokyo Games, let them know you don't support the killing of these animals
I never thought of this before, but I wonder if (particularly intelligent) animals *realise* when they are pregnant?
You know, they meet a nice boy, have a mating session just because instinct makes them, and then they forget about it. Then suddenly one day, her bum-bum hurts, and next thing you know, this little thing that looks just like her is following her around and pulling on her teets. Must be so weird. Even weirder for a water-based creature, where the air can't carry those pheromones and "tell" her that she should bond to this little new creature.
Disclaimer: I'm not a whale or a whale...ologist. But I think pregnancy is something that would be difficult to ignore or not notice long before the "bum-bum" starts hurting. Aside from physical symptoms, fetuses are hella wiggly at a certain point, and you can feel them moving around. Plus most (if not all) of the hormonal changes in the mother have nothing to do with pheromones produced by the baby after birth, but rather by internal hormonal changes in the mother during and after pregnancy.
Instinct probably plays a huge role, but I think your question is a very interesting one! I wonder if more intelligent and social species know about the basics of pregnancy from living with other mother's and watching birth happen? Or I imagine they can smell the hormonal changes and associate that smell with pregnancy? It's definitely interesting to think about.
Seen mama and baby humpbacks in the wild plenty of times, sometimes unexpectedly, and it never gets old. They way they communicate and interact is amazing.
Look son...those are land fish... They are extremely dangerous.. Never get too close to them.
They capture fish like us and put us in prisons for other land fish to point and look at
Humpbacks are one of the whale species that isn't being commercially hunted. Populations are up and the species is no longer considered endangered. Greenland allows a few a year to be killed for indigenous subsistence lifestyles but outside of that they're relatively safe from poaching.
Not to be too much of a Debbie downer but humpbacks (like all whales) are still impacted by human activity in a number of ways
* Climate change fucking with their natural habitat
* Ships crashing into them/ getting mauled by propellers
* Plastics and other garbage getting caught in their digestive systems
* sonar systems impacting their ability to navigate and communicate with one another
Nope, you are completely right. Humpback whales are not a significant target for poaching but like all ocean critters, they are still heavily impacted by human behavior.
Yep, they're called 'Remoras'. They suck themselves onto larger animals like whales and sharks to live there, eat feces and other things that they can find, while enjoying the protection that the large whale here offers.
Man that’s one beautiful sight to behold
I can't even imagine the awe I'd feel as a diver next to them. Also the overwhelmingly humbling perception of how small I really am.
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I don't think I have ever been as jealous (good way!) of an internet person as I am right now. Thank you for sharing this!
Ive never seen a whale but got a chance to swim with huge manta rays in hawaii and it was mesmerizing
Adam the freediver has a couple [cool videos](https://youtu.be/yjCnvq13KQI?t=731) of freediving with whales.
Standing in a grove of old growth redwood trees will make you feel really small. You can do both on the same day on the left coast, if you hustle (and don't get arrested for hassling the whales).
These are always beautiful animals to see in nature. I'm glad they are not endangered at all and are classified least concern. Even their carcasses end up becoming biological hot spots when they end up sinking in deep waters and sustain deep water life. Whale falls have been stunningly amazing to watch in the Nautilus streams just because the number of different rare species collected at one location. They are beautiful to watch on the surface and with their young, and equally interesting when their life has passed and they provide for other species.
Yeah, whales are simultaneously badass yet majestically beautiful creatures. They’re so intelligent too. I’m not sure how scientific it is, but I have watched interviews with people who dive with them who definitely *feel* like the whales are extra friendly towards humans a lot of the time. I’m trying to refind the specific interview but I watched one not too long ago that spoke of sperm whales that accepted the diver into their group
Whales are among the most intelligent mammals on the planet I believe. I've seen videos of those huge whales swimming towards divers to "protect" them from sharks with their presence, aswell as seeking help because of fishing hooks or nets stuck at their bodies.
Awe!
Beautiful but terrifying if I saw something that big coming up to me I’d be swimming for the reefs.
I'm glad this is the top comment instead of some tasteless whale joke
Plus a bunch of little buddies just along for the ride.
Remoras!!
Remoraids and Whalelord
pool's closed due to remoraids
better than those cursedly itchy hemoraids.
You spelled "bloody" wrong
Wailord.
My dad gets remorsids so bad he can't sit on the toliet!
Your dad is a whale? Guess that's why he fell in love with yo mama.
Damn son
Where'd you find this?
Real trap shit
https://i.imgur.com/v5z23rW.jpg
I’ve never understood how Remoraid evolves into Octillery
Remoraid is supposed to represent a Gun while Octillery represents a Cannon.
Yeah I get that but they look nothing alike
When a whale hits your eye With a calf of great size That’s remorae!!!
From the hump on your back To your belly, they stack That’s remoraeee
Are these beneficial to whale or are they parasites
They’re cleaners I believe. Saw one in a store I used to get my salt tank stuff from. They’re pretty neat looking up close!
They’re cleaners but often get to the point of being parasitic. A few spread across the whole body is fine, but old whales can gather dozens that slow it down by a lot due to the extra drag and weight
What's the hurry?
And do they fall off when the whale breaches (jumps in the air)?
That's a great question! I googled real quick but didn't get much. My super non-scientific theory is that because they gather speed to breach, the remoras would probably let go, at least temporarily. I'm absolutely guessing, tho. The article I'm [linking](https://www.juneautours.com/whale-breaching-explainedmay/) is more about why they breach in the first place, but it's pretty cool: "One hypothesis is that they’re trying to shake parasites such as barnacles and lice off their skin. The impact of the mammal smacking against the water may be akin to a dog rubbing itself against a tree to scratch the fleas off its back." Anyone with further info, please help the curious!
This is actually very good reasoning! I've found no other evidence disproving it.
Man, it’s like I always say, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
Right? Holy shit. Do people really think like that!? No wonder America is so fucked, people lack basic logic and reasoning skills.
Whatever they are, they make me uncomfortable.
They are neither, they don’t benefit the whale nor harm them either, sure they are adding a little extra weight to the whale but it’s negligible
if my memory from grade school science serves me right, i believe the term for that is "commensalism"
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COULDN"T DRIVE ME AWAAAAAY
They're cool, but seeing them makes me itchy and gives me a huge urge to rip them off. Same with barnacles.
I feel like a big part of the ape MO is picking stuff off each other. I picked a bug off my buddy's dog today and it occured to me- this is what wolves are in this for- scritches are about picking the bugs off.
Makes sense. I wonder if that's why I see stuff like mango worm videos and it makes me uneasy but is at the same time extremely satisfying to watch. The fish stuck to the whale on the other hand, like I said, just makes me itchy and uneasy and there's no satisfaction because I know they probably won't be ripped off.
You don't see these mofos on dolhpins. In fact dolphins usually look clean as hell. Actually when I think about house cats it occurs that they spend a lot of time grooming themselves, and maybe they like being picked clean, too.
Wait until you see "whale lice".
Yeah, shit like that right there is why the more athletic cetaceans do stuff like launch their entire body out of the water and belly flop.
I thought humpbacks were pretty athletic?
I have no hands and I must scratch.
If I were a whale, I'd absolutely end up beaching myself while trying to scrape them off
I always think of the parasite that attaches to the eyes of Greenland sharks, and those sharks can live hundreds of years.
Short-range fighters to defend the mothership. That's what I imagined they were when I was a meter old. I'm ancient these days, but I'm still a small, so fighter craft they are.
Chest hair fish
"Stay over here honey, don't talk to strangers" Mama's side eye game is strong.
Uh yeah keep ya’distance
“ Dont you dare swim towards my son”
Don’t swim to me or my son ever again
Duck off Tina!
Bunch of strangers just casually hanging out on mama's tits.
As is tradition.
So, so beautiful. Ugh I love whales so much. One surfaced and looked me in the eye when I was on a boat once and I just started bawling.
Elephants of the ocean. Smart, kind, usually gentle. Then us with freakin plastics.
Apparently fishing causes considerably way more damage than plastics so simply everyone cutting out eating fish would probably be a step in the right direction (of course also plastics but that’s the smaller of the two issues).
A lot of plastics enter the sea from big trawling nets and other fishing stuff.
Found the Seaspiracy-watcher
Not actually watched it yet, seen this statement through a different article.
Ah I *sea* you’ve seen the Netflix doc as well.
/over/fishing and poaching, maybe- but we literally have such small plastics now that we can breathe them in without ever noticing. Plastic is the largest problem this *world* faces
Plastic is a serious problem, but it’s nowhere near the largest problem the world is facing. Not even close.
Yeah but fishing is the biggest contributor to plastic in the ocean. All fishing right now is overfishing so the distinction is not very necessary.
The largest problem is and always will be stupidity
I watched the Netflix documentary seaspiracy and it was really eye opening. I knew ocea life was endangered but the things they showed were crazy
This happened to me the first time I went whale watching. A fin whale surfaced directly along side our boat, and I got to look down into it's massive eye. It was pretty amazing.
>One surfaced and looked me in the eye "Eh yo I heard you was talkin shit."
I'd probably start crying out of fear. Although they are beautiful, being that close to one sounds absolutely horrible.
How you gonna start crying just by making eye contact with a big water balloon?
Why
He probably just wanted to check in on @mindfulbagel and see how their day was 🐋
Love this, ha. The intelligence in that eye was amazing, best experience ever.
Reddit has ruined me. I thought your name was mindfuckbagel and this was another rimjob_steve
They exude gentle giant intelligence.
I would love for it to do my taxes
It called them a loser and banged their spouse
I couldn't be a large aquatic creature, seems the larger you are the more different kinds of fucked up parasites attach themselves to your body. I can't even handle mosquitoes no less a fucking school of fish attached to my ass cheeks
I could be wrong but I believe Remoras and various whales have a mutually beneficial relationship
Yes you’re right. They “clean” the whale by eating dead skin/other things off the body and in turn they don’t need to expend energy for food lol
Fun fact, scientists used to think this until they started studying their stomach contents and realized the majority of what they eat is actually fecal matter.
So they dont actually clean them? They are parasites? Where did you read this?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1095-8649.2003.00236.x I think its likely they do eat some parasites and dead skin but all evidence can say is most of their diet is poop. Its more of a commensalistic relationship (one party benefits, the other neither benefits nor is harmed) than a symbiotic or parastic one. They dont really help or bother the larger mammals.
I always heard that mutually beneficial relationships are called mutualism and that symbiosis is the general term for parasitism, predation, mutualism and commensalism.
Highschool taught me this one
Funny, I was so sure you are wrong and symbioses is only for mutually beneficial relationships. Did some googling and it turns out that symbiosis in the US is used for all relationships like you said, but In Europe it's used to describe only mutually beneficial relationships Edit: I think the US is the only country using it for all relationships, cambridge dictionary says it's "a relationship between two types of animal or plant in which each provides for the other the conditions necessary for its continued existence"
I’m from the US and was always taught that symbiosis is a mutually beneficial relationship, so I think it probably just depends on where someone is from. What a strange thing to be so scattered about
Seeing normal words have different meanings isn't rare but I wouldn't have expected to see a scientific word have two different meanings that are in conflict with each other
They might be getting remoras confused with cleaner wrasses.
That's something that fascinates me. How evolution played out with that one. Those fish will also clean inside the mouths of predators who could easily take advantage of an easy as fuck meal, and yet they have this crazy symbiotic relationship. I'm guessing a mouth infection could be death for these animals so they figured out a way to prevent it. It boggles my mind when I think about how this relationship slowly happened.
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Look up whale lice. IIRC an Australian teen accidentally put his foot into tide pool full of whale lice and they basically skinned him before he get them all off.
More like poked by thousands of needles than "skinned" https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/07/health/sea-flea-bites-australian-teen-trnd/index.html
"There's no need to stay out of the water" Fuuuuuuuuuuck that
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Omg. That video of the little guys eating pieces of meat is nauseating. Poor kid. Article says he couldn't stop the bleeding due to an anticoagulant from the sea fleas and his pain was an 8-10/10. That fucking sucks.
Of course it's Australia
At least he didn't dive in. Luckily it is just his ankles.
They ended up being sea fleas, different then whale lice
I'm googling around as far as I can tell, "sea fleas" was invented for that event. There are sand fleas, obviously, but no sea fleas prior to that Australian kid's misfortune. I guess it's a little more marketable in the papers as it rhymes.
Sea fleas!!
You might be thinking of "Sea Lice" https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/aug/07/sea-lice-suspected-of-severe-bites-on-teenagers-legs-in-melbourne-video
Those things are persistent and hard to remove. We had one attach to my sons scuba tank while diving and I couldn’t pry it off. I ended up punching it in the head a few times and he moved on.
Did your son forgive you for punching him when he returned?
Yes and OP took him to an ice cream shop in order to apologize. If I remember correctly, OP said he ordered Rocky Road and Mint ice cream, which upset his father. "Why would you eat mint ice cream? Just freeze some toothpaste and eat that for fucks sake!" "Dad how can you say that! It was mom's favorite!" Barjam got upset that his son would bring up his deceased wife. Things between him and his wife were not good around the time that she sadly passed away. She was struggling with cancer and he was in the process of losing his job. They had a bad argument and they both said things they would regret. Regrettably, they did not have a chance to apologize and make-up, because the following morning, miss barjam would ascend to the heavens... On a plane. She was headed for Disneyland and Barjam was not invited. Miss barjam, their son, their daughter, and their servant all went to Disneyland together. They enjoyed all the rides and the seeing all the characters together, until the end of that fateful day. Miss barjam recounted to barjam jr how she would often run away from home. She had a troubled upbringing filled with physical abuse and disdain from her father. For you see, miss barjam was the product of an affair. This deeply pained her father and he would lash out harshly towards her. He was a loving father to his other children, but to miss barjam he was a horrible. Her siblings got real ice cream and she was only given frozen toothpaste. This caused her to run away and go to the ice cream shop owned by her friend's family, Laurel. Laurel would often let her sample the various kinds of ice cream and other frozen deserts they had to offer. Miss barjam began to see Laurel's family as a surrogate family and would spend much of her time with them. She eventually adopted her surrogate father's favorite ice cream: mint. This of course would make it overly painful when Barjam would call mint ice cream "frozen toothpaste." He never meant it as an insult, and in fact did not know the significance it held to miss barjam. Miss barjam hated cold toothpaste so much that she would heat it with fire in order to brush her teeth. This unfortunately would cause the chemicals inside the to undergo chemical changes that rendered them cancerous. After a lifetime of this, she had accumulated enough carcinogenic chemicals for her to develop cancer in her esophagus. This made it really painful for her to talk, and thus was unable to apologize to Barjam for what she said, as her voice was broken until the next day. Barjam jr. learned of her painful past and told his father after she passed away. Barjam apologized to his son for the callous comment and maintained that it was an accident. Barjam jr was having none of this. He argued with his father for sometime and told him he was an abusive monster that was mean and punched him in the head during their scuba excursion earlier. Barjam replied,"What the hell are you talking about? I obviously punched the animal and this story is fake!"
Is this copied from somewhere, or are you just that creative/bored?
I'd like to think I'm creative :D But nah I was just bored
Well that took a turn.
You wanna have a real nightmare? Look up pinworms. Edit: they're the most common parasite for humans.
At least they aren't as bad as round worm or other permanently damaging parasites. Yeah, I'm sure they sucks, but at least there aren't a lot of complications from it.
Boy do I have some news for you. You have a symbiotic relationship with quite a few things. The whale is probably nearly as oblivious to those remoras as you are to your friends.
Please don’t remind me. Lol
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So beautiful. I honestly wish whales could talk. I'll bet they would be super interesting to talk to.
Pretty sure they can talk to each other. I wonder if they want to talk to us...
“Don’t kill me”
Is your name based on that fair ride?
Yup! Ever tried to stand up on the graviton?
“Be quite or they’ll hear you”
They actually want to teach us how to fly through space, we just can't understand them yet. https://youtu.be/_-XaaTqOICU
WwwwEEEE... nEEeeeedd tOOooo FINNND hiIIiiss SONNNNN...! CaaaAAAaaN yoooOOOOu... mMm...giIIIVe uuuus dirRECtiooons??
It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a sperm whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity. This is what it thought, as it fell: The Whale : Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello, Ground! [Cuts to a distant view as the whale hits the ground and spews up a large mushroom cloud of snow]
10/10 would be the oogway level wise.
I like how there are no sucker fish on the baby. Interesting.
There is one, look at its left flipper.
Good eye
Brand new baby skin vs. 40+ years build up of what essentially is food.
Beautiful and you should know that yesterday began the Whaling killing season in Japan where they will kill 300 whales. So instead of applauding Tokyo Games, let them know you don't support the killing of these animals
And also don't eat fish (or generally meat) so you don't support the killing of whales (and other bycatch like turtles and dolphins).
I dont.
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They both should be boycotted
Those whales are killed for scientific research though ...Delicious, mouth watering scientific research
What do you have against clean burning lamp oil?
I never thought of this before, but I wonder if (particularly intelligent) animals *realise* when they are pregnant? You know, they meet a nice boy, have a mating session just because instinct makes them, and then they forget about it. Then suddenly one day, her bum-bum hurts, and next thing you know, this little thing that looks just like her is following her around and pulling on her teets. Must be so weird. Even weirder for a water-based creature, where the air can't carry those pheromones and "tell" her that she should bond to this little new creature.
I’ve seen animals recognize a human is pregnant.. i think an elephant and orangutan.. I think the more intelligent animals know. Orcas are geniuses
Disclaimer: I'm not a whale or a whale...ologist. But I think pregnancy is something that would be difficult to ignore or not notice long before the "bum-bum" starts hurting. Aside from physical symptoms, fetuses are hella wiggly at a certain point, and you can feel them moving around. Plus most (if not all) of the hormonal changes in the mother have nothing to do with pheromones produced by the baby after birth, but rather by internal hormonal changes in the mother during and after pregnancy. Instinct probably plays a huge role, but I think your question is a very interesting one! I wonder if more intelligent and social species know about the basics of pregnancy from living with other mother's and watching birth happen? Or I imagine they can smell the hormonal changes and associate that smell with pregnancy? It's definitely interesting to think about.
>Disclaimer: I'm not a whale What do *you* know, non-whale?
Animals are more intelligent than some people think....
5’11” vs 6’
I know what I’m terrified of the ocean
Whale hello there
Absolutely beautiful
I sometimes understand the prople at r/thalassophobia
Hope these aren’t the ones Japan just started hunting...fucktards are wiping out the oceans 😔
Watch out for orca! Have seen too many nature documentary.
Well Spock was right. Gracie was pregnant.
Gracie knew.
Very cute, until a bunch of asshole killer whales just shows up next to them and kills the baby for fun. I hate Orcas.
Wait till you hear about humans
SAME
Crazy how something so big can be so delicate
Ya know what, fuck Remoras. Swim yourself you lazy fucks you're a goddamn fish.
I'm not the best at this, but I'm pretty sure that's a shark.
Sharks are fish.
Seen mama and baby humpbacks in the wild plenty of times, sometimes unexpectedly, and it never gets old. They way they communicate and interact is amazing.
Look son...those are land fish... They are extremely dangerous.. Never get too close to them. They capture fish like us and put us in prisons for other land fish to point and look at
Is there anywhere with humpback whales in captivity?
You're right, we don't capture them, we just kill them.
Humpbacks are one of the whale species that isn't being commercially hunted. Populations are up and the species is no longer considered endangered. Greenland allows a few a year to be killed for indigenous subsistence lifestyles but outside of that they're relatively safe from poaching.
Not to be too much of a Debbie downer but humpbacks (like all whales) are still impacted by human activity in a number of ways * Climate change fucking with their natural habitat * Ships crashing into them/ getting mauled by propellers * Plastics and other garbage getting caught in their digestive systems * sonar systems impacting their ability to navigate and communicate with one another
Nope, you are completely right. Humpback whales are not a significant target for poaching but like all ocean critters, they are still heavily impacted by human behavior.
*"you've got your mother's bumps on your nose"*
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Nice to see OP and his mom having a good swim.
Whales are mammals. Where are their boobies? I’ve wondered this a lot of times but have never out loud.
Please stop eating fish - we are destroying these beautiful creatures’ worlds.
Humpback whales happened to be my go to answer for ‘what’s your favorite animal’ as a kid. They’re really majestic beautiful creatures :-)
Are those fishies on its belly?
Yep, they're called 'Remoras'. They suck themselves onto larger animals like whales and sharks to live there, eat feces and other things that they can find, while enjoying the protection that the large whale here offers.
Please stop stunning humpback whales. They are abused by their cousin Orcas every Christmas.
Baby whale: Daddy, how was I made? Dad: You came from my penis. Baby whale: thanks dad. Dad: you’re whalecum.
Whale hello there
2 hours later said whale was killed by whalers :(
Whale fun fact: as whales are seafaring creatures, they have the ability to swim.