The mighty sperm whale starts its deep dive towards the abyssal dark to hunt the colossal squid
>>5115897That's one way to describe it but your mom really isn't that fat and my pants really aren't that deep. You're right about colossal though.
>>5115917Not the place for horny. This is a bump thread anon.
>>5115919Horny had nothing to do with it, anon
>>5115897The coolest whale? Possibly.
Choose your fighter.
>>5116167For me, it's the mighty, humble Bowhead.
>>5116167For me, it's the orca.
>>5116296Yah, that fits. You psycho.
FACT: Moby Dick contains a whole chapter about why whales are fish
>>5116311based. fuck fish deniers.
>>5115897mmmmm tasty squids
>>5116311Whales are fish thoughSo are you and I :) *scratches redditor beard*
>>5116296FUCK orcasYeah theyre the oceans top predator with great intelligence and amazing hunting strategiesBut you know what? THEY SHOULDNT BE.THEY LOOK FUCKING RETARDED.They look like something I stick up my ass. A suppository. They look like Oreo brand bananas. They're just this lame, shapeless blob with stupid colors, making stupid sounds, with stupid blobby fins. Theyre like a childs drawing. They're muppets. Theres a reason every kid likes sharks and looks on orcas with complete indifference. Its not because of what they are and what they do, its because of how they look, its rule of cool. And orcas just aint cool lookin.
Kind of sucks that specialising on hunting cephalopods tends to result in losing most of your teeth.But also kind of amazing that there are something like three dozen species of large mammalian predators specialised on hunting cephalopods. Mostly whales, but also a few species of seals.There's a ridiculous number of squid in the ocean.
>>5116310>>5116338Calm down, Jules Verne.
>>5116167There are several Eskimo accounts from disparate areas reporting Narwhals turning on killer whales in self defence, charging and impaling them completely, then both corpses washing up on shore.>>5116311Whales are fish. So are crabs, starfish etc. The word fish, for over one and a half thousand years, has meant: 'anything that lives in the water'. Fish as we call them now were scalefish. I have read accounts from scientists in the 1700s who specifically point out that they are very genetically different even though they all share a name.Humans are more closely related to cod, than cod are to sharks. The new definition of fish is presented as being more precise but really misrepresents things.
>>5116167humpbacklet me sing you the song of my people
>>5115897Isn't it crazy that an animal that needs to come to the surface to breathe somehow specializes in feeding on squid found deep in the depths where there's no light?
>>5116724Not really, the deeper you go the more food youre gonna find that surface feeders cant get to. Untapped goldmine of food down there.
>>5116724it makes sure to swim through enough bubbles for oxygen
>>5115897Cephalopods are prey items for superior mammal species, nothing more.
>>5115897Coolest animal living and cousin to the most badass predator to ever roam earths oceans. Megalofags need not replay
>>5115897Amazing mammal. Unreal how they live like that.
>completely eludes detection for 138 years in your direction
>>5116724mammals once again proving they are the superior lifeform
>>5115897>>5116724Fun fact about the squids: colossal squids basically stay motionless for much of their lives. They need to conserve all that energy for fighting/evading sperm whales.
>>5115897literal cumbrain
>>5116311a good artist takes time out of his day to explain why everyone else who doesnt agree with his autistic interpretation is wrong
>>5117559It's used for echolocation. Has nothing to do with actual sperm
>>5117584but the oil inside the organ looks like cum, hence the whale's name
>>5116167Top Reich for me dawgAlthough it's technichally a dolphin
>>5116338Shut up faggotOrcas are based
>>5116572As an orca fan I respect thatNarwahls are a worthy adversary and a tasty blubbery meal
>>5117223It still bothers me they didn't call it Leviathan as they should haveLivyatian sounds like a transvestite Kyiv/Türkiye/Myanmyar/Eswatini nu-name
>>5116572>'anything that lives in the water'Seaweed is a fish.
>>5117597>The discoverers originally assigned the English name of the biblical monster, Leviathan, to the whale as Leviathan melvillei. However, the scientific name Leviathan was preoccupied by Leviathan Koch, 1841, a junior synonym for the mastodon>In August 2010, the authors rectified this situation by coining a new genus name for the whale, Livyatan, from the original Hebrew name of the monster.
>>5117701>call a mastodon leviathan and not behemothWhat a waste
>>5116338sharks don't even have a skeleton how can they ever be cool not even in death gtfo
>>5117701It makes even less sense after what you've posted
>>511759599.999999999999999999% of the time narwhals don’t/can’t fight back as their tusks aren’t for combat and can’t really be used that way. Not to say impaling another whale wouldn’t be possible but it would be a Hail Mary.Watch the documentary Invasion of the Killer Whales. It documents the receding ice in noufoundland or Greenland or something and how it used to be a sanctuary for narwhal to evade orcas but with less ice killer whales now inhabit that area year round and have all but genocided the narwhals in that area. At one point in the doc, there is a breeding colony of hundreds of narwhals in a cove and a pod of like 20 orcas come in and slaughter every one of them, hundreds of them leaving none alive, slaughtered every one of them so no I wouldn’t call narwhals a worthy adversary for killer whales. I watched hundreds get raped like it was fucking nothing by only a handful of orcas with my own eyes.
>>5117595Orcas get wrecked by sperm whales and pilot whales
>>5118814Every sea mammal gets wrecked by sperm whales due to their built in megasonar>pilot whalesMaybe if the orcas are sleeping or outnumbered 20 to 1>inb4 some r*ddit videoExceptions confirm the rule
>>5117852>99.999999999999999999% of the time narwhals don’t/can’t fight back So you're saying there's a chance?
>>5116338Pilot whales own their asses
>>5119172Pilot whales are highly social and orcas won't risk fucking with them
>>5119957>highly socialSo are orcas. And much bigger, stronger, smarter, and slightly faster than pilot whales>won't risk fucking with themYour original argument was>pilot whales wreck orcasWhich is false, so now you're trying to backpedal to another equally false "argument"You are wrong in both cases>inb4 le watermarkI literally don't care
>>5115897Even the giant squid falls to the sperm whale and the Greenland shark. Truly cephalopods will never rise above mesopredator status.
>>5120601Pilot whales are more intelligent (more cortical neurons)
>>5121679No cetacean is that smart desu. Great apes are way smarter. They all have low axonal conduction times and disorganized brains with tiny frontal bits mostly dedicated to sonar, 3d movement and automatic pod coordinationIf they were smart they would be able to cooperate to free each other from nets and un-beach fellow whales
>>5121679>goalposts moving>dubious claimOy vey you're a liar
>>5117783>>5117701They should've just gone with Carnocetus or something
>>5116167HumpbackI want to maximize krill deaths
>>5122417Oh fuck I meant blue whale fuck
>>5116167Humpback.Lone humpback bulls swim right into the middle of orca pods and fuck them up. Orcas are chumps compared to humpbacks.https://cheknews.ca/humpback-whale-takes-on-a-pod-of-transient-killer-whales-1013403/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/19/humpback-whale-orca-video-valianthttps://baleinesendirect.org/en/pourquoi-les-rorquals-a-bosse-nuisent-a-la-predation-des-epaulards/https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Examples-of-humpback-whales-interacting-with-mammal-eating-killer-whales-attacking_fig2_305461635https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mms.12343
>>5122427absolutely BASED, orcacels are no match for humpback BVLLS
