You should do one of these on the most primitive animal of all.The human.You could go into great detail of ALL of the dumb things humans do,and have done,that have gained them 0 benefit,and yet they did it anyways.Seems we would see so much dumber things then flopping oneself out of the water lol
Simon, you didn't actually say which part of your skin received such benefit. As your face is mostly furred, it wasn't that. So where did it work so well? Scalp? (fairly clean shaven there, mate) Arms? Torso? Legs? Naughty bits?
I really love the idea of whales singing and breaching just because they enjoy it. The mental image of a cheerful whale swimming around happily humming to itself and occasionally leaping out of the water in a fit of uncontrollable joy makes me really happy.
I bet they think the same shit about us.Animals,in all of their infinite wisdom,work with the environment they live in,and haven't done nearly as many genocides as we humans have...I'd say they're likely the ones of higher intelligence
Whales have an impeccably high level of empathy and intelligence, and on multiple occasions, they've saved peoples lives. They deserve all the respect and protection from scumbag poachers
You could add to the whale breaching the case of the spinner dolphin. While working with Dr. Robert Ballard in the South Pacific on locating some wrecks, there were a couple of pods of spinner dolphins in the same area, and on a regular basis we would see them giving a demonstration of their spinning ability, shooting near vertically out of the water and spinning like mad before landing back in the water on their sides. It was fantastic to watch. Also, where we were working the in the Solomon Islands, the water depth dropped drastically from the shore, being over a thousand feet within a mile of the islands shore and a depth of 4,000 feet within a few miles of the shore. The bottom also through Bob for a loop, as he was expecting a mud bottom like he had discovered off of Guadalcanal. Instead we had a mixture of volcanic ash that looked like sand dunes in the Sahara, and lave flows and fields. A great mixture along with the coral reefs next to the islands. We also were hitting hot spots with the underwater sonar where the temperature jumped from about 53 degrees to close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. We did not have the time to see about deep sea vents. The thing that I found amazing with the appearance of life whenever there was a discontinuity in the volcanic sand. It could be a lave outcrop, or a sunken Japanese landing barge, or a piece of wreckage. When those appeared, life did as well. I saw a similar thing while working on identifying some Japanese carrier wreckage off of Midway, but there the depth was 17,000 feet. One of the other surprises was seeing a normally shallow water ray swimming between islands at a depth of 1500 feet. Think about the massive pressure difference that the ray had to deal with. There is so much unknown about the oceans. I felt while watching the view from the camera sled as we moved from place to place that I was an astronaut viewing the surface of a new planet for the first time. It was an incredible experience.
As much as that research job may have been difficult at times, I really envy you. I wish I could have experienced something similar in my younger days.
that's absolutely amazing and fascinating to hear about! I'm glad you experienced something so beautiful, I hope you're current/future experiences are similar. Hell, I'd be delighted to hear about them
No, I do not admire him for that. I think that's one of the most insane things you could do. Like chill the fuck out buddy, clearly they don't have testicles.
Actually even that’s pretty easy.. in 60 years there was never a major/catastrophic incident in deep sea diving until ocean gate. And even with that company - their first two subs made many successful dives. And even titan made over 20 successful dives before imploding
It makes sense to me that whales breach out of joy. I went whale watching when I was seventeen of the coast of northern Australia. I don't know how to describe it, but the whales looked like they were having fun, like they were reveling in their audience. The same way, when you're watching a dancer, their passion for dancing and for performing shines through. You can feel how happy they whales feel. It's exhilarating.
it's a bit like the videos you see of people doing things in front of their pets, like backflipping, singing, dancing, balancing things on their heads, etc. I absolutely can see other animals doing something similar. Like imagine you went outside and noticed large groups of birds displaying joy when you hopped on one foot. You're probably gonna do it again, get a friend and the two of you will do it in front of the birds. Birds might bring their friends to see, making you do it more and getting friends.
I think aquatic mammals in general are far more intelligent than we think. Orcas have a language we can’t decipher and different dialects depending on where they’re from.
Imagine if we finally decipher it and find out there are having full, advanced conversations and not just like "survival knowledge" or just primitive communication. It would be wild to know they are complimenting each other or talking trash about the dolphins! Think if we could learn to communicate with them!! The knowledge they might unlock about the other animals! Figuring out how to talk to them could be a "Rosetta stone" moment!
Absolutely. In keeping a reef tank, all of my fish would blow me away with their intelligence. My possum wrasse was especially smart. Also, my clownfish pair was very intelligent--shame they usually used it for evil.
Heard an idea that the Narwal tusk is basically a sound wave antenna. The millions of nerve ending sensors resonate to faint sound, so they can hear severely extreme distances. What they listen for could be the sound of females, pods or predators or prey. Basically a looong ear. The reason they have this appendage as apposed to other whales, is that other whales that sound locate have larger heads/ resonance chambers to hear, and Narwals skulls are smaller, so nature provided an external vibrating antenna to provide the information.
It could be like a long distributed hydrophone array of a sorts. If the sound comes from the front the soundwaves will hit the tip first and then move down the tusk. If they come from the side they hit the tusk all at the same time.
Whales are intelligent creatures, I think they do a lot of things just out of contentment. Breach for fun, singing could be similar to a cat's purr. The 'WOW' signal is often attributed to whales. There's a lot of personality similarities between certain whales and elephants, they're distant relatives I suppose.
Everything on earth is more or less distantly related. Yeast is our cousin, as are rabbits. The WOW-signal was measured by radiometronomy as a pattern in galactic radiation from the direction of sagittarius. Whoever are the supposed people attributing electromagnetic signals from space to whales? They sound hilariously clueless. Cats purrs are cat language for "thanks mommy, I´m good". All felines can and do purr as babies. Usually during feeding and the following "tummy massage" which most cats moms need to do to their young for a few weeks, to help their digestion. Its just a neotonic trait in domesticated cats they never let go off. And give off when pampered. Its not really for fun, but to tell momma cat all is well and the milk is staying down. Not saying whales arent great or sing for pleasure or have personality, mind you.
I'm oddly pleased with you pointing out that it is 10-20% and not the much lower number often quoted that is the area of the seafloor that have been mapped. I took a uni course in this exact thing(seafloor mapping, that is), and people getting it wrong have irked me since. It is not super hard to google it and get the correct number, after all. So yay! Go team your writer! Oh, and one of my professors worked with seabed 2030! Probably still does.
"Every day I shave my head" The biggest oxymoron ever, Simon Whistler sponsored by "Keeps" but not any brand that provides shaving foam/cream/gel given the perfectly shaven "perfectly shaped head" haha
Learning about the decline in wale population hurts me nore than learning there used to be millions and millions of Buffalo in the US. That amount of killing is unfathomable to me outside of a war.
Another reason we know less about the depths of the ocean compared to the surface of the moon is also just the fact that there is far more area to cover for the ocean with the pacific being multiple times wider than the moon.
Also, the moon is far easier to see, and is far more uniform. Sure there are mineral deposits and even water ice, but it is essentially just rock and dust. The ocean has layers, life, and can't easily be viewed from a distance, requiring probes to crawl over and through every cubic meter.
I remember being a young kid, probably not even 10, but I knew that if a narwhal used it's tusk to impale fish, they wouldn't be able to eat it, because, ya know, no hands.
The way my body physically reacts to abyssal gigantism being brought up is unreal. It gives me such a deep sense of unease thinking about the abyss but I am also deeply fascinated by it.
Whale singing has also been hypothesized to be verbal speech between whales. There is evidence based on structured rhythms seen in them, as well as repeated patterns that only appear in groups around certain individuals, suggesting names, and even the fact that calves will sing without any structure seen in adult singing until they reach a certain age, suggesting baby babble.
I don’t think we should be surprised that whale song does not repeat. If whales ever analyzed Simons videos, they may be also baffled there are no ones that repeat!
I was saddened he didn’t make a reference to 4 n that part. Oh and here’s a good one - the novel of that film details the conversation between the probe and the whales…full text copied below ------- [Probe] “why did you remain silent for so long?” They (the whales) tried to explain, but it reacted in surprise and disbelief. “Where were you?” It asked. “We were not here,” they replied, “but now we have returned. We cannot explain, traveller, because we do not yet understand all that has happened to us.” By ‘us’, the traveller understood them to mean themselves as individuals and all their kind for millions of years in the past. By their song it recognised them as youths. “Who are you?” It asked. “Where are the others? Where are the elders?” “They are gone,” the whales sang, with sadness. “They have passed into the deep, they have vanished upon white shores. We alone survive.” “Your song is simple,” the traveller said, chiding. It was not above petulance. “Where are the tales you have invented in all this time, and where are the stories of your families?” “They are lost,” replied the whale song. “All lost. We must begin again. We must evolve our civilisation again. We have no other answer.” The traveller hesitated. It wondered if perhaps it should sterilise the planet anyway espite the presence of the untaught singing youths. But if it began a new evolution here, the planet would be silent at least as long as it would take the traveller to circumscribe the galaxy. The traveller would have to endure the pain of the world’s silence. Organic evolution required so much time. Besides, the traveller possessed very little cruelty. It could consider destroying the young singers, but the conception caused great distress. It abandoned the idea. “Very well,” it said. “I shall anticipate young stories.” “Fare thee well.” The traveller fell silent. The whales bid it farewell. The traveller collected its energy. It ended its interference with the patterns of the blue-white planet. It caused to power the violent storms ravaging the surface. It sought its usual course, oriented itself properly, and sailed on a tail of brilliant flame into the blackness of the galaxy.
I never knew there was a transcript of the actual conversation between the whales and the probe. I had always wondered what was said and I haven’t read the novels. Fascinating read, thank you for that.
@@scottymcdoogle8210 no worries. It was in bts conversations where it was felt that in the film the general concepts being conveyed were “clear enough” The book on the other hand… :) Glad it was enjoyed
I grew up in the Lower Rhine area in Europe. I grew up with smoked eel ad the infamous cadaver fishing. They are to this day in my top 10 of smoked foods! ❤
Brataal/bradaal is also quite nice, but ofc Räucheraal/gerookte aal is the best ! used to help my dad setting up fishtraps in the North Sea mudflats, targeting specifically eels, before they regulated it to death to "combat" the major population losses and retention caused foremost by hydroelectric eel shredder turbines and the blocking of rivers and you can roughly determine the sex of silvereels without dissection by looking at their seize - male eels mature earlier and are usually smaller
All these excuses as to why they haven't explored much of the oceans. They just don't wanna disturb Cthulhu so they tell us it's "too hard" but we know the truth.
whales and dolphins definitely have consciousness and even culture. orcas seem to have trends. Like there was a time where a bunch of orcas would balance dead fish on their head. the only reason researchers could find was fun. and it spread like a viral trend, for about 6 months, then they stopped. and whales knowing that humans can help them in some situations is something i’ve heard repeatedly over the years. I think whales might be about as intelligent as humans, at least the same as other apes like chimps, gorillas and co, we just cannot understand them
The irony of your seemingly non-chauvinistic attitude toward whales by claiming that they’re just as “intelligent” as humans is that such an assessment is predicted upon the presumed superiority and universality of anthropic notions like “intelligence”. All this hemming and hawing about “consciousness” by so-called enlightened people has me doubting their status as conscious beings far more than I have ever had reason to question the consciousness of animals.
@@lancewalker2595 okay? whatever you feel best with lol. believe what you want. but I’m not sure you know what chauvinism is. I said nothing about nationality and I’m also not claiming that humans are the peak of evolution or the most „intelligent“. Humans are the scum of the earth and I just used intelligence as it is understood by most people. Because well I’m communicating with people. No human will ever reach the enlightenment of a cat napping in sunshine
"The twenty-first century, mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on earth, the ocean. As captain of the SeaQuest and its crew, we are guardians, for beneath the surface lies the future!"
breaching maybe to get whale lice off, theres a whale guy in Mexico they actually come up to his boat and he takes the whale lice off them, some are beneficial but too many affects them negatively
Why whales breach seems pretty straightforward to me. It looks fun. I'm sure there are some evolutionary benefits, but like dogs get the zoomies from their instincts to run, it's probably just a bit of fun.
Simon, i have a completely unrelated question. Maybe you've already answered this,but I'm wondering about that black world globe in the background. Is it all black, or is there print on it i just can't see? If it's all black is there a reason or something? It looks cool, and I've been meaning to ask for ages, i know you have different color light shining on it for different videos, but I've been wanting to ask you for a long time. 😁
If i could give bald ppl some of my hair at 36 i would. Its like a thick beanie in this heat. Its unbearable and i gotta cut it every 2weeks or get overly hot
0:50 - Chapter 1 - Narval conundrum 2:15 - Mid roll ads 4:00 - Back to the video 5:35 - Chapter 2 - Secrets of the whales 9:50 - Chapter 3 - The deep dark 11:55 - Chapter 4 - An eely mystery
Could you imagine the oceans in Roman or Greek times? It must have been amazing just life teaming. Whales used to wash up every year on east coast due to large populations. Then for few 100 yrs we destroyed these intelligent creatures. Seriously id bet whales are as smart as us they just live in such a vastly different world. I mean life evolved us to ask why? Why not them?
Yea I was reading that when settlers first arrived in Canada there was so much fish in the waters near Newfoundland that boats would get stuck for hours
If doubt whales are as intelligent as humans in comprehension and problem solving. E.g humans being the paramount tool makers. Though whales and dolphins have been shown to have complex social structures and reasonably complex language centres, particularly orcas, owing most likely to their consumption of complex proteins (meat).
As for the Narwhal probe theory, New and prototype aircraft are often fitted with a long nose probe as they're put through their paces to gather information from the airflow ahead of them (to enable calibration of performance), maybe evolution has given the creature a similar attribute.
I like to think that aliens will eventually find the Voyager discs, and in their infinite wisdom, they're able to translate all of the sounds, both the human and the animal recordings; and all the animals are saying "Don't trust the humans."
This dude has to have the world record for RU-vid channels. I swear to God... Every 2 to 3 months he comes out with a new.channrl doing the exact same thing.
How was the universe and everything in it created? Scientist guy, "I know blah blah blah". What's at the bottom of the ocean? "IDK, it's super deep down there.". 😂
I've often said: "take how intelligent you think an animal is, multiply it by 30-50% and that's how smart it actually is". They can't talk. They don't know how bridge our consciousness to theirs. So there's much below the surface that we do not give them credit for because we cannot observe it.
Heres another mystery, whats the DEEPEST spot? Challenger Deep? Not necessarily, challenger deep is only 1 we know of so far The Kuril Kamchatka Trench Japan Trench Philippine Trench Tonga Trench ALL also have depths well exceeding 10,000m (35,000ft) each!
Whales breaching could be a form of aggression, almost like a gorilla beating it’s chest , a whale being around another large rumbling creature ( a boat) they could be “beating their chest” or o show dominance
I love your channel and learn so much, which is why I say the following with love: The word octopus comes from Greek, not Latin. As such, octopi is not a correct pluralization. It would be octopuses or octopodes.
1st one is not a mystery at all, we know why those tusks are useful. There are tons of such examples in the nature. It is a demonstration of vitality, and whoever has the largest tusks, get the most females. That’s why giraffes have long neck, peacocks have long and beautiful feathers etc…
I believe they really do a lot to say hi, they are much smarter than what humans credit them for, they aren't like us in the way they really like to say hello and they know when we are around we get excited to see it
