Why isn't there more Blue Whale media online? We should attach a live-streaming camera to each of these fuckers and monitor their lives, see what they do
Why isn't there more Blue Whale media online?
Why isn't there more Blue Whale media online? We should attach a live-streaming camera to each of these fuckers and monitor their lives, see what they do
They're surprisingly hard to track for how big they are.
I don't understand, is there some barrier to gps tagging them?
GPS doesn't work well underwater because the frequencies get absorbed, and battery life is a bottleneck.
I for one want to discover the blue whale frat parties.
Uh what would be the point in seeing what a whale does all day? Spoiler alert! They just swim and eat food and poop. Humans and their insatiable curiosity is truly maddening. What do you hope to witness by putting a camera on a whale?! It's stupid and pointless! We certainly do not get up to anything you all need to be concerned about and they definitely do not have undersea conferences to determine the fate of the landwalking degenerates. So it's just pointless to even bother with the nonsense, there's way more interesting things to waste your time on. There is nothing in the vast expanses of the ocean! Nothing!
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I'm traveling to Loreto, Mexico next week, should be some Blue Whales to see on a whale watching tour there. Always wanted to them up close
~~*They*~~ dont want you to know about the sea.
Do blue whales even acknowledge swimming humans? Would a whale truly offer assistance if a man is drowning or did Avatar 2 lie to me?
A blue whale is like 4x as big as an African bull elephant. It wouldn't even notice you.
Blue Whales behave as if they are on a different plane of existence. They may look at you briefly, but they won't try to interact.
Right Whales and Humpback Whales are far more curious of humans and might save you if they understood you were in trouble.
avatar is full of blue chuds. whales do not care for gay fantasy bs
>whales do not care for gay fantasy bs
I bet whales would love avatar 2
Nah whales are Star Trek IV fans.
If you saw an ant drowning would you stop to help it? Probably not.
Why do people call grey, blue?
They're very elusive as it is, so even getting a specimen to tag would be difficult. Then you have to actually transport the data from the camera to a device, which y'know, there's no signal out in the ocean. Not to mention the ungodly amount of money it would require. Very cool idea in theory, but impossible to actually go through with
>regular blue whale migrations off of Monterey Bay, New Zealand, Australia
>start research
>tag blue
>leave
>cam automatically detatches after 48 hours or so and floats to surface
>collect it
>download data
Why do you post bullshit? We have aerial footage of juvenile blue whale from Monterey Bay, meaning they're regular visitors. Such tag cameras have been in use for sperm whales, bottlenose dolphins and I think cuvier's beaked whales for two decades now. The chip with the footage will just be removed and you review the footage in your office. The only challenge here is finding an investor, usually the station you work at pays for your research but you have to apply first so it can get green lit and there's a certain risk to all that.
how hard can it be to find a giant fucking whale
>Then you have to actually transport the data from the camera to a device, which y'know, there's no signal out in the ocean
Literally signal every time they surface for air
I agree, OP. I love these lil bros like you wouldn't believe
Sperm whales would be more interesting since these fuckers eat giant squid
Do we even have any footages of them hunting those giant squids?
we should've kept harpooning the fuckers
Cool it with the antisemitism, we need to spend more money on war and pollution chud, not learn more about the majesty and nature of the universe.
>swim
>eat krill
>scream into the void
that's it
Retard take. I for one would enjoy footage of blue whale bulls fighting, mother calf interaction, route analysis or them diving into the abyss.
>I for one would enjoy footage of blue whale bulls fighting,
I didn't know they fought, are there any good videos of this? Typing in "blue whale fight" just gives me videos of orcas hunting one and a single above water shaky cam vid of two bulls fighting over a mate. Surprised there doesn't seem to be any quality footage of this given how closely we monitor whales.
I don't know it it's true. We know males of various mysticeti species sing to determine who's bigger and stronger. But sometimes, humpback whale bulls fight so unless I have footage to disprove it, I'll assume blue whale bulls fight with massive fluke slaps or ramming the opponent by lifting themselves out of the water and dropping onto them.
Head ramming is, by the way, not possible for them because their jaws are so fragile. Blue whales also have an organ between the tips of their lower jaws that helps them determine a bait ball density and if it's even worth opening their gigantic maws for it. They use up a lot of energy to fill their mouths and press out the water. If the bait ball is not big enough to over compensate that energy loss, the whale won't even bother with it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2148825/Entirely-new-grapefruit-sized-organ-jaws-giant-whales--second-brain-built-help-eat-more.html
it looks like a basedjak.
my friend, you have brainrot
These guys are so nuts.
And to think they're ungulates.
>wake up
>eat
>drive places
>shit
that's all humans do
you forgot gnomish subversion and black violence
wow, it's just like me
It bugs me people are often so fond of dinosaurs just because of how big they were, but they ignore the blue whale which is not only bigger than any of them, but still alive today. It's a silly mentality like this where people think that just because they aren't fighting and killing each other that makes them 'boring.'
No footage; just lots of giant suction scars on sperm whale hides.
they just fight, whales just eat krill and you're delusional
You're an actual fucking moron if you don't believe they hunt giant squid
Sperm whales do, not so sure about blue whales
I remember seeing a doco where they tried to attach cameras but the whales would swim deep then kept knocking them off seemingly on purpose.
would be very interested in watching it if you could find it
I did a quick search but I can't remember what doco it was from. Reddit came up with this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/3d0c4e/why_hasnt_anyone_strapped_some_cameras_onto_a/
>"Actually, a few years back they did in fact attach a camera to a sperm whale.
>The whale started diving, then stopped for no reason.
>Within a few minutes another sperm whale swam right up to the camera to (to the point were all you could see is its huge eye) then preceded to ram the camera untill it was knocked off. Pretty amazing stuff"
So somebody else has seen it too. That post was from 8 years ago so it was from a doco at least a decade old.