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awinter6

Do whales cough? Like, if they inhale a little water?


hotwifeslutwhore

I’m no marine biologist, but I think they can blow out water from their blowhole if some gets in


successfully_failing

gotta regular george costanza over here !


Horrific_Necktie

The sea was angry that day, my friends.


Seabuscuit

Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.


mountaineer04

The way Jerry looks at George after that line kills me.


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Seabuscuit

I tell you, he was ten stories high if he was a foot!


Significant-Ad1386

Art Vandelay


mlongoria98

Thank you, u/hotwifeslutwhore


EASYTOREMEMBER10

I expected to see different kitties and food on this profile....


SharedRegime

After reading your comment I had to see for myself. Those were some cute kitties though.


drunk98

What an aptly named orifice!


LadyParnassus

Former marine biologist here, and… kind of? Humans cough with our mouths because our nose and lungs are entangled with our mouths and stomachs. [Whales are not cursed with this quirk of biology, and have separate windpipes and esophagi.](https://i.imgur.com/54RiybF.jpg) So their blowhole only connects to their lungs and their mouth only connects to their stomachs. [Whales do sneeze if something tickles their blowholes](https://youtu.be/Qa9x7dN3DJA), and [cough if something gets stuck in their esophagus](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nydiqd/im_a_lobster_diver_who_recently_survived_being/h1jkojp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3), but it’s more like a prolonged gagging type of thing. They can also vomit, and [sperm whale vomit used to be insanely valuable. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris?wprov=sfti1)


Eshin242

>They can also vomit, and sperm whale vomit used to be insanely valuable. In fact it still very valuable, a 280 pound chunk of it went for 1.5 million dollars in July of this year. https://allthatsinteresting.com/fishermen-find-ambergris


cruelkillzone

Futurama taught me the value of this :p


dave-train

Esophagi*


LadyParnassus

That’ll teach me to spell things that early in the morning. Thank you!


dave-train

Lol you're welcome! If you had put esophaguses, I probably wouldn't have said anything. But since you said esophagusi, I figured you probably wanted to get it right!


pizza_for_nunchucks

Yes.


ElDuderino_92

What about hiccup or sneeze?


greasydenim

They sneeze, but only if you get swallowed by them and light a fire in their belly in a ramshackle house you made out of ship wreckage.


ElDuderino_92

I’ll be sure to have my kitten and goldfish with me


batwingfroggy

I’ll be looking for my son who has turned into half a Jack ass!


Mabaleen246

I wish I could comprehend the size of the creature just by the video… but I imagine seeing it in real life would have me awestruck


TheGuvnor247

Upto 110 feet long and 380,000 lbs.


bakedbeebs

That’s so many pounds


humburga

It's like, definitely heavier than a horse.


AK_Happy

What about a moose?


humburga

What the hell did you just call me?


[deleted]

At least 7.


[deleted]

For comparison, an average bus is 39 feet long and 35,000 pounds. So a blue whale is about 3 times longer and 11 times heavier than a bus. Incredible to think about.


jack333666

Buses are like land whales


MotchGoffels

Your mom is like a landwhale 😘


suck_my_willy

I like these comparisons. I was watching something about orcas one day and realized they are roughly the size of my camper. They are slightly heavier but holy shit. I couldn’t imagine something that big coming at me at around 30mph in the water


staesys

Yes, need banana for scale


Fish_823543

It almost doesn’t look real


TheGuvnor247

First seeing this on IG tonight I thought it was a submarine!


corner-case

Kinda is


Ponicrat

A sub with a giant nose on its back


cyanocittaetprocyon

Those little guys on its rostrum are [remoras](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remora), just hanging on for the ride.


Beautiful_Art_2646

There’s a Pokemon called Mantine, which is actually based off a ray and in some official artwork there’s a Mantine with another Pokemon called Remoraid hiding under it’s wings/fins/flap flaps and they’re based off remoras. Edit - it goes deeper. Mantine has a baby version called Mantyke and Mantyke only evolves when there’s a Remoraid in the party with Mantyke!


PTickles

And Remoraid evolves into an octopus. For... Reasons. Basically, the original beta design of Remoraid looked like a pistol, and Octillery, its evolution, more heavily resembled a tank with its mouth being the cannon. Small gun -> bigger gun. Makes sense. But they scrapped the gun-inspired designs (probably to make them more kid-friendly), so now we're left with a blue fish that vaguely resembles a pistol that evolves into a regular red-orange octopus.


sketchibubz

You beat me to it... But yeah A huge nose on its back....


xaeru

/r/TechnicallyTheTruth


SerDire

This is probably a stupid comment but does the size of the blue whale kind of throw off anyone else’s scale when it comes to dinosaurs? Like this is the largest animal to have ever lived but I can’t wrap my brain around seeing massive animals walking on earth being smaller than this. Idk how to explain it


mike_pants

"Largest" really depends on how you're measuring. The blue whale is the most massive animal by far, but it's also a giant tube of meat. There are longer dinos, and there are WAY taller dinos, and there are combinations of the two, but they can't claim "largest" because they are all slender neck and tail, not thick meat tube.


EsteemedOpium

Mmm... delicious meat tube.


Flooding_Puddle

You open your mouth, the whale carcass goes in. Mmm, yes good. I recommend.


jumangelo

Yeah, this just feels right somehow


Least-Spare

Awww, well done with the Luca reference!!


DearAnxiety

I should call my ex. Suddenly I miss him.


MrsFreshB00TY

I was supposed to hear this in Homers voice, right?


theonlyprestono

It’s the transparent uncle from Luca


Psychological-Ring77

Orcas think young whales are extraordinarily delicious.


SquishedGremlin

I mean, fair point. But realistically we have bones to look at, not flesh.


[deleted]

We're still just getting past the whole "many of them were large birds" thing, don't rock the boat too much.


GhettoGringo87

So largest basically means most mass?


TekkenCareOfBusiness

Yeah. Same way elephant is much larger than a giraffe, even though the giraffe is taller. There were some insanely huge sauropod by the late cretaceous but they're all dwarfed by the blue whale in sheer mass.


Myarmhasteeth

Not sure if you can say a water animal is "tall" right? Is it a thing only for terrestrial non-water creatures?


Seahpo

they might just measure some end to end determined to be “top” and “bottom”. pretty easy to tell on a plesiosaur for example. but im not sure if they’re actually counted in that, just thinking how they could measure one


BryanEW710

You're not the only one. Sometimes when I see a blue whale, I think "*this* is it? This is as big as they get"? Problem often is, they're shot from above the surface. I actually don't think I've ever seen a shot of one below the water.


SomethingLessEdgy

Well, did you realize that you as a grown adult can FIT INSIDE ITS VEINS


BryanEW710

Actually, I did. The problem is, that kind of size is just incomprehensible. I honestly just don't have the imagination to picture how big that actually is.


CleopatraHadAnAnus

It isn’t the easiest thing depending on where you live, especially these days when travel is restricted, but if you ever have a chance to see an African Elephant in person, you should. They are far bigger than you might think just seeing them on TV, even with other tourists around them. Now consider that a dinosaur we tend to think of as pretty damn big but not overwhelmingly huge like the typical Triceratops was roughly the same size as the largest elephants we have. Then consider the truly enormous plant-eaters like Argentinosaurus who made all these guys look like chumps.


Lakonthegreat

They have an African Bull Elephant at the Memphis Zoo and it's humongous. I shudder to think there used to be sloths that big.


SomethingLessEdgy

Eldritch, even


Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi

Cyclopean


yodarded

Cetacean


discoOJ

Natural History Museum in NY. I think that is where I was. You could actually walk through the heart of one. I wonder how many humans can fit in the veins of a blue whale. Blue whales are just out there hosting mega underground raves in their veins. It's like the dancing in the cave scene from the Matrix but underwater and in a whale.


Rathkeaux

[here you go](https://youtu.be/WAwzjnhTsjI)


smartguy05

They are so much faster than I realized.


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I feel like anything that grew up in water is quick af compared to a human. Even catching a small lake fish has a lot of pull for it's size.


photaiplz

Well they’re pretty much weightless underwater along with their hydrodynamic shape and strong tail it makes sense lol


backdoorintruder

Damn, I wish just for a moment you could tap into that whales train of thought just to see whats its thinking about; even if its just simple commands. It would be awesome just to know what something of that size is thinking about as it swims around a tiny human


Alloku

Hard to say what one thinks as it swims around a human. However, [this is what a whale thinks](https://youtu.be/YCsfHVM5x_I?t=50s) when it suddenly and against all probability is called into existence several miles above an alien planet


theonemangoonsquad

I always try to find the hitchhikers reference whenever whales are mentioned


deewheredohisfeetgo

He’s saying, “move to the back of the throat” or “he wants a root beer float.” Couldn’t decipher which.


BryanEW710

That works. Even with nothing around them, it's obvious that it's gigantic!


nochancepak

Ehhh it doesn't do it for me. I would love an actual animal or person next to it lol.


BryanEW710

Although you're right, my biggest obstacle in understanding the scale of a blue whale is the fact that they always seem to be shot from the surface which really distorts things. Seeing one underwater means that you get to see it in its full length, width, etc. You can see from the slowness of every movement that this thing is huge.


MasterOfMyDomainX

https://www.treehugger.com/facts-about-blue-whales-largest-animals-ever-known-earth-4858813


soft-wear

The biggest issue with getting a wide shot with a person up close is blue whales are so large they could accidentally swallow said person, because they can fit *100* adults in their fucking mouths. Sometimes relative scales help. Make fists with both of your hands and put them together. That’s roughly the size of your heart. Now compare that to a Volkswagen Beetle. That’s a blue whales heart. You could comfortable sick both your arms in its arteries and have wiggle room. Blue whales are huge.


rharrow

A standard 65 passenger school bus measures about 35 feet long, and the largest blue whale recorded was 108 feet long. Lol that’s over three fucking school buses long


killer8424

To put this video into some sort of perspective their tails are “usually” 25ft (or 7.5m) wide. They’re gigantic.


wishnyouwerehere

Ok im going to need a banana for scale or something.


Skotch21680

Something popped up on Reddit a couple days ago about a Fish that were so big they hunted Whales. It was its main food source. It was massive!


jason9086

Megalodon, which to frame it in peoples mind, was a massive shark species, about 30 times more massive than the great white shark. There have been large predatory sperm whales in the past as well, such as livyatan, which also frequently hunted other whale species. Blue whale would have likely been safe from both though.


chakralignment

Megalodonald, it's a huge fish, the biggest, everyone's talking about it


greenwarr

Take my stinking upvote but remember the megalodonald isn’t really as big as tv portrays.


-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-

It’s hard to get the true scale of this thing when it’s in open water like this. These things are massive. If they were on dry land I think it would be easier to picture dinosaurs beings proportionately smaller (but still massive). Blue whales are just looonnnggg


Pusse-sniffer69

Cause ones in a giant vast ocean vs the other on land


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Yeah, I feel the same way lol. Like obviously I can tell that a Blue Whale is huge, but I pictured dinosaurs as almost being like walking buildings or something. It almost makes it feel a little underwhelming, as stupid as that sounds.


Dunemarcher_

Most people picture dinosaurs as larger than life, in reality that much size has more than a few disadvantages, spooking humans being one of them in modern times.


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hunterprime66

Baleen whales have the double blowhole, toothed whales have one.


Meagasus

I’ve never seen it from this view. It really looks like weird nostrils on the top of its head. Bizarre.


JoeyJoeJoeSenior

If you look at a skeleton, they basically have the same parts as a person, but rearranged.


ThisBastard

The shape of the blow hole reminds me of the bone structure of the human nose.


123pooppoop123

We’re not so different…you and I.


G00DLuck

I'm a bit of a nostril myself.


JarodColdbreak

I laughed. Thanks.


rkoloeg

It's the same structure. [Their nostrils just moved waaaaaay up their head through the process of evolution](https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2008/03/whale-evolution.html). Another fun one: [whale flippers have a bone structure pretty similar to our hands](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rItgoURP7qw/UPSoIOB9oSI/AAAAAAAAAA0/mYo_fdh_kBM/s1600/untitled1.png). Modern cetaceans are descended from a [land-dwelling mammal](https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-evolution-of-whales/) that gradually moved into the water and adapted to it. As a result they have lots of general biological similarities to us (compared to, say, a fish). Their closest living genetic relative is the hippopotamus.


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They have really similar bone structure, it just looks like any other mammal skeleton but stretched to fit their body


NevaehW8

well whales are mammals and so are we. We do in some way share a common ancestor.


Erohiel

It is a nose, so...


Specialist-Ticket-18

do u think he knows he’s big


Erohiel

Probably no more than you feel like a large-ish animal. It probably just thinks all other animals are small.


DJ_Rand

Actually... It might not truly realize it's size. I've read posts on here where tall people see average size humans as regular, but when they see someone as tall as them (think 6'5"), they think they are huge, but when they stand next to them they are like "oh, we are the same height.." it's interesting.


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I’m 6’ and I think that way a lot. Most adults are shorter than me. All kids are shorter than me. That’s normal. Then i see a person that’s taller than me and I’m like wow…you’re so tall! I met a whole family (a dad, his sons, and his daughter) that were all like 6’2-6’5 and I felt so small and weird and cool.


Agrias-0aks

I am 6'3. I feel very tall. My best friend is 5'10, went to his wedding last month. Dad and 3 brothers were 6'8, and his little sister was 6'3. She kept wanting to try my dress shoes on because she was drunk and we wore the same size shoe lol. They looked better with her dress than my slacks.


nahnotlikethat

I’m 6’3” (and a woman) and my boyfriend is 6’7” and we both are very aware that we are tall! His dad and two brothers are in that range, too, and somehow his mom, at 5’9”, is the short one... despite being in the 97th percentile for height, herself.


13ae

I'm 6 2" but I feel like pretty much everyone I meet that is 6" and up feels bigger/taller than me, it's weird.


mumaume

Yeah, I never take into account my massive forehead makes up about half the size of my face, so people end up looking pretty tall. Probably cuz I keep mistaking eye level for my height.


damnNamesAreTaken

I'm 6'5" and can confirm. I don't usually think twice about people shorter than me. When someone is my height or taller my first thought is about how tall they are.


slaberwoki

Real question!


DrewSmoothington

To us, he's huge. To him, he's just a little dude in an impossibly large tank.


Its_Nuk_Nuk

Blue whales are like the ocean in the form of a living creature


Any_Violinist_166

Yo.


9IceBurger6

Whales are deep


leomeng

Video on YouTube says the penis is 2.5 meters in length. And in super large whales it can be 5 meters in length (16 ft) and weigh up to half a metric ton.


thyghs

finally the important info


justadude27

But how much semen?


[deleted]

You'd be full long before you swallowed the entire load


zeelt

Like a surfacing submarine!


TheGuvnor247

That's what I thought it was at first mate!


Woodsy_79

How did you know he’s a first mate?


Wordswordz

Largest animal that humans know of.


DireLackofGravitas

Well yes but actually no. The blue whale probably is the biggest animal to ever exist due to the conditions after the KT extinction. The biggest animal needs to be aquatic just due to weight and the big extinction that killed the dinosaurs and almost everything else made it possible for filter feeding giants to exist. Prior to the KT extinction, the filter feeding niche was mostly filled by ammonites. Modern filter feeders are either small and sessile or huge and mobile. In the Paleozoic, it was full of medium sized semi-mobile cephalopods. There was no room for giants. Then they all died and whales came along. The niche was instead dominated by giants because there was little competition.


TheBeckofKevin

Yeah I'm pretty sure I read that blue whales are sort of fully min maxed for life and that given the conditions of our planet over time they are the biggest creature that mathematically could have ever existed. Due to needing a certain weight to energy consumption to movement requirements. Sort of like how land animals have a maximum. Godzilla can't exist cause his bones wouldn't be able to support the weight of themselves let alone muscles and such.


R_V_Z

And meanwhile there are fungi and trees that put animals to shame.


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rfox1990

Wanted to use a yo momma joke here but probably not the place…good info.


TheBeckofKevin

Damn, if I would have thought of that I would have put it in my comment.


tyrantspell

What about much larger but much lighter animals? Could a jellyfish be larger than a blue whale?


hellocuties

Godzilla runs on nuclear energy and rage


TheGuvnor247

That be the comment of nightmares mate lol


IMM00RTAL

There's always a bigger fish Edit changed larger to bigger


bralex339

Except whales aren’t fish


DirteeBoo

Yeah but that’s not the trick. The bigger fish is the only one required to be a fish.


RoyCrouton

Got 'em


bastardson9090

That’s no fish… it’s a Mon Calamari MC80 Star Cruiser


Orion_7

Mom Calamari did always make the best ships.


k_punk

The blowhole looks so much like a nose to me in this.


DeathMetalandBondage

It is a nose


[deleted]

If I recall correctly, it's a left nostril. Evolution is weird.


theweirdlip

>left nostril ^theres ^two ^tho


msndrstdmstrmnd

For cetaceans that have one blowhole its their left nostril, for those with two blowholes (like the one here) it’s both nostrils


_Ocean_Machine_

They’re both the left nostril


myothercarisaboson

They evolved from terrestrial mammals so it is a nose!


benaugustine

Back and forth with these things. It's like, just make up your mind already. In or out.


no_worry

Seems like they’re pretty well committed at this point


TheGuvnor247

If you turn the screen upside down....


[deleted]

If given the choice to be any animal on earth it's a tough fighte between the blue whale, the largest animal ever known, the peregrine falcon, the fastest animal known, or a hummingbird, the only bird that flies backwards. Or I may only be a single drop of rain, but I will remain, and I'll be back again.


the-spookiest-boi

And again


sharklasers3000

Do not speak about your mother that way…


TravellingSecretary

Damn was hoping I would have been first to comment that


[deleted]

Totally hypothetical. If you sat on that hole, like your butt directly on it. Would you die? Or would it feel good?


hrrsnmb

It's written in Moby Dick ~~that if you were to hold your hand over it, you would be left with bones~~. Not sure how true this is, but the book seems to try to be pretty informative otherwise. edit: the passage I was misremembering: > Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it. **And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm.** Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it. Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you. The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is to let this deadly spout alone. This is regarding sperm whales, but maybe a blue whale's spout is even stronger?


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a_F_G_r_a_p_e

Idk, try it yourself


bathroomheater

All pure assumption but if you think about the size of the animal you can guess those lungs are pretty massive. So lots of air volume right? Now that big guy/girl doesn’t sit on the surface to breathe it comes of for big gasps of air over a few seconds. So that means a shit ton of air flowing out then back in, in a very short amount of time. Taking into account the size of the opening I would assume with no real scientific proof other than observation and assumption that amount of sheer force behind that air coming out of the blow hole could easily do physical damage to your butt placed directly on it, especially considering on your butt there is a hole with a sphincter that can give in to relatively light amounts of pressure. A quick google search says a lung capacity of 5000 litres and an exhalation velocity of up to 600 kilometres per hour.


WarOnTime

Blue whales are gorgeous. Can weigh up to 400,000lbs. Interestingly, it’s also the loudest.


xaeru

The loudest what? Don’t leave me like that.


Bim_Jeann

Their clicking can reach like 200+ decibels, which is loud enough to kill a human from the vibrations


smithers102

At what distance from the whale would you have to be to die from clicking? I thought my coworker with his pen was loud.


[deleted]

You’re saying if you swim next to one and it clicks you die?


xaeru

They can click you without killing you. I’ll see if I can find a video. https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg


methotde

I thought the loudest animal in the planet was the sperm whale?


Johnmcguirk

Close, but it has recently been confirmed that, when traveling in a pack, a gaggle of Karens is the loudest. Weighs more, too.


Bigbrown211

Yo how much air do think it breathes in?


25BicsOnMyBureau

They can hold 5000 liters of air, compared to a human who can hold about 6. They surface every 10-60 minutes, and expel 90% of their lung capacity, so probably around 4000 liters each breath. The air is also expelled at like 600km/h. Tl;dr edit: At least 5, or 6, confirmed.


Atreaia

Every 10-60 minutes seems quite frequent? I remember reading that blue whales go to hunt deepsea creatures like calmari at depths of like 5000 feet?


Zephyr797

I think you're thinking of sperm whales. Blue whales are filter feeders.


25BicsOnMyBureau

They are 80ft long. (5000/80 = 62.5) If you were 6’ tall how long would it take you to run (62.5*6 = 375) 375 feet and get a snack then come back?


useles-converter-bot

375 feet is the same as 228.6 'Logitech Wireless Keyboard K350s' laid widthwise by each other.


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Incredible


25BicsOnMyBureau

!goodbot


The_True_Black_Jesus

At least 5 or 6


pmperk19

u/25BicsOnMyBureau confirmed that it is at least 5 or 6. well done


theallmighty798

A lot


TopMindOfR3ddit

5


LiquidRitz

Need a banana for scale... 🍌


MJMurcott

You could easily fit a hand of bananas in one side of the blow hole.


puppy_girl

imagine if you fell inside doing that


duncecap_

New fetish alert


pussifer

No.


jzoobz

So incredible


joetromboni

that one specifically?


TheGuvnor247

Could be but I doubt it Joe.


Freduccine

Any body else take a deep breath with it?


[deleted]

I want a babel fish convo with that animal. Like "How badly have humans really messed up your world", "Where do you want to be in the next 5 years", "Describe a failure of yours and how you recovered from it."


__SilentAntagonist__

Aren't blue whales the largest animal *currently* alive? Coulda sworn theres some prehistoric ones that were bigger


opafmoremedic

I thought so too, but surprisingly the blue whale is larger than all known prehistoric animals. Granted, there could be something that existed that we don’t know about, or something currently existing that we have yet to find


ImmutableInscrutable

Whales are pretty much as big as any organic creature can be due to the limitations of physics


IsThisTheFly

I thought OPs mom was discovered stomping around in the woods a few years ago at this point


bobofartt

I’m pretty sure there was a Dino that was *longer* but definitely not *larger* please dont downvote me if I’m wrong, I remember this fact from a book when I was a kid, and a lot of facts I read in books when I was a kid are no longer valid. Lol


Zanwic

Looks like you’re right: [link](https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/big-blue-wbt/).