Why Sperm Whales Are, Unquestionably, The COOLEST Marine Mammal | Alien Ocean

[@OctopusLady]

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[@MeshuggahDave.]

I think you are my soul mate. I could listen to your voice forever. Thank you for the awesome content. Cheers!

[@Ed_man_talking9]

so why isn't the blue whale, who hunts for plankton, doesn't get counted as a predator?

[@davewolf6256]

Regarding the existence of non-toothed predators larger than sperm whales, there is a good argument to be made that some species of baleen whales are predators. You might say they are filter feeders, but predation is a behavior whereas filter feeding is a feeding mechanism. And in fact, the feeding behavior of Humpback Whales and some Rorquals (tracking and ambushing clusters of a particular prey) resembles predation more than do Right Whales, whose skim feeding is more similar to filter feeders like Feather Duster Worms or the extinct Aegirocassis in that what they take in is presumably less particularized.

[@valivali8104]

Hey! Orcas are empathetic towards other orcas, even helping orcas who were hurt so badly that they weren't able to hunt themselves, are intelligent, have their own language and even cultures (for example, only some populations hunt marine mammals while others hunt only fish, and "fish-eaters" don’t mate with "mammal-eaters") nothing like grypto- or nft-bros...

[@ProfessorGood-qi7zp]

But aren't roos land animals?

[@_mikolaj_]

I like how sperm whale is pretty much a squid geiger counter that clicks more intensively the closer it is to a squid

[@ethanpflederer3395]

And then stops clicking when the squid is gone (eaten)

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

I think the blue whale is technically a predator, without teeth, that’s larger than the sperm whale. Hence the distinction of it as the largest toothed predator. 🤔

[@sleepyburr]

I was about to say the same. Because their typical prey are so small (if eaten in vast quantities), I think a lot of people don't usually consider blue whales to be predatory, but since they *are* hunting other animals as a food source, they do still meet the definition of a predator.

[@meganwynn372]

well those filtering growths may as well be teeth, thats fair. you KNOW that once, they were, teeth.

[@sarahlynn4798]

Thank you for saying this & I'm glad it's such a high up comment cuz it's such an important point! I literally checked the comments right after the.. statement.. was made. But what do you expect from a marine mammal hater? 😋Jk

[@sullentamp9140]

Well we could go further and say hyper carnivore, or active predator, blue whales eating krill isn’t the same category I’d suspect

[@mistorWhiskers]

@@meganwynn372 actually baleen is made of keratin, so basically a moustache on your gum rather than your lip. It's not fully understood when and how the teeth were lost and the baleen came formed, but it would appear teeth where lost, then baleen formed later

[@Arcad3n]

My favorite thing about whales (can’t remember which ones but I think they were sperm whales) is that when humans began hunting them, some of the whales developed new strategies to avoid being hunted, and these strategies were TAUGHT TO OTHER WHALES via COMMUNICATION and spread across the whole ocean! I also remember reading that whales from different parts of the ocean have different “dialects” to their communication patterns, meaning it’s possible to tell which part of the ocean they’re from? So cool!

[@alveolate]

iirc, that's part of the inspiration for moby dick, and yes moby dick was a sperm whale too. as for the whale dialect thing, i remember that being the case for many whales that have been studied, altho it might be less of a dialect and just "slang", like cool kid whales using fun words and stuff?

[@carl11547]

That was orcas. I mean, you could have heard it about another whale, but I heard it about Atlantic orcas.

[@kenabbott8585]

Even that stunt with orcas beaching themselves.... That's not just a desperate lunge--they actually practice the technique of beaching themselves and getting back in for YEARS before they actually take their first seal with it. An older orca--always a cow, apparently the bulls just don't teach--shows them how, guides them, and on the first attempts nudges them back in, and about half of them try it once and say "Nope, no friggin' way, I don't like sea lion enough to deal with that shit" and never try it again.

[@unknowable4147]

Orcas have regional dialects! It's one of the reasons why scientist have such a hard time finding out what certain clicks mean because there _is_ a pattern but it varies from pod to pod!

[@joejoemyo]

I know a species of whales developed essentially fleet strategies around this point, with picket line defense, a battle line, and flanking maneuvers Edit: We aren't special. Be scared

[@Linuxpunk81]

I am a retired submarine sonar tech and I've heard all these sounds out in the wild over the years. Really brought back some memories 😊

[@morgan4574]

It must have been cool to know that they were down in the darkness with you guys!

[@highkeyshivasimp5263]

that's so cool! How loud do the sounds really get, say, if you're explaining to an idiot?

[@ryanhampson673]

I saw a documentary on sperm whales a while back and they had divers in the water with them. It seemed the whales limited their clicks with humans in the water, almost like they knew it could be damaging to them.

[@DollysplitBand]

Did they think they were whispeeing? Don't let the humans hear... Haha

[@logandelacruz2152]

The calves actually didn’t lower their volume from what I heard, because they hadn’t learned to yet.

[@mrnice4434]

@@DollysplitBand "psst don't tell the human where all the good squids are"

[@snoozlewoozle]

Don't want to give away the secret spot 😂

[@MuertaRara]

this is amazing

[@leXie1337_chan]

6:20 - The largest 'toothless' predators on Earth are, presumably, blue whales. 13:28 - From what I understand, "suction feeding" describes a strategy for catching marine prey that is popular among fish, where they open their mouths widely and suddenly and just vacuum in their meal and the water around them, swallowing the prey whole. Considering the tiny size of sperm whales' most-dined-upon squids, this makes sense.

[@Refog1]

I think the confusion about the whales’ suction feeding is the lack of gills and expanding jaws (since fish eat by enlarging their mouth volume quickly or sucking water through their gills) so at least I don’t fully understand how they manage to create the suction force to catch food Though that’s just my random read on the situation

[@Refog1]

Fish that feed through suction* I might also be thinking about ram-feeding in regards to gills’ role in feeding, i’m not sure

[@Brendito1]

“Personally i have no beef with Dolphins”- person entirely unaware of dolphins

[@TrtleK1ng]

The fact that an otter used a octopus as a melee weapon is kinda funny. In the aspect that It could throw a rock instead

[@louisvictor3473]

Rocks only cause physical damage. Using an octopus does less physical damage, but the emotional and psychological damage of the disrespect and disdain is incomparable.

[@ela_toile]

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[@captainstroon1555]

If I had a nickel for every time Octopus Lady forgot (or chose to forget) that blue whales exist, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice in the same video. Still, it is a great video and sperm whales are fascinating.

[@Grooon]

I love how she listed every single reason I love marine mammals, I can't help but stan a complete and utter menace

[@crackedemerald4930]

They're like wet monkeys

[@starmaker75]

Sea mammals are basically mammals that woke up and decided to cause chaos underwater

[@PeeperSnail]

The fact they fight giant and colossal squid is cool because they're absolutely fighting someone their own size. They're not just midly inconveniencing themselves to murder a small defenseless animal or to torture a land dweller, they're risking decompression sickness and travelling to the squids' turf to have a mighty battle.

[@midnightsan9917]

Sperm whales, beluga, narwhal, and some porpoises are some of the only toothed whales I stan. None of them play with their food or kill things for the fun of it. And they can have fun without doing terrible things. Looking at you dolphins.

[@timothytumusiime2903]

Tehehe 😅😅

[@Dell-ol6hb]

They’re not even close to the same size, the Sperm Whales are many times the mass of even the largest colossal and giant squids, just because they’re around the same length doesn’t mean they’re on equal footing

[@mitab1]

In fact they actually help defend other animals from orcas, they literally go out of their way to stop orcas from bulling smaller animals For 2 reasons The first is out of the goodness of their hearts And the second is because sperm whales are orcas' biggest haters (literally), they hate orcas soo much that they'll travel long distances just to make sure orcas don't get to eat, The reason for that hatred is because orcas gang up on baby sperm whales and bully sick and elderly whales, and considering how social those whales are, yeah i get it, also it's funny to imagine a male sperm whale that was attacked as a child by orcas and now as an adult they spread every second of their free time protecting animals from getting bullied by them out of sheer spite and hate

[@migueldemaria3830]

orca kill sperm whales and blue whales, which are both bigger, but orcas are not cool imo. beautiful bastards

[@charcoalangel7536]

YOU GOT SPONSORED BY THE FREAKING VLOG BROTHERS?!?!? WHAT?!?!?!

[@sydney4525]

My niece always gets excited whenever a video of yours comes out and she’s always asking when the Octopus Lady is gonna have a new video. Congratulations on the sponsorship! You deserve it 😊!

[@ShardulIyer]

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[@pippinbloom]

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[@egg7247]

The suction they use to hunt is created by them making a vacuum with their mouths when they open them, it is also achieved by movements of the tongue which acts like a piston. Beaked whales use this strategy too when hunting squid, some other marine vertebrates use this as well (wobbegongs, angel sharks etc.)

[@rasmachris94]

Some speculation on why you get the bends and why it might not affect sperm whales for anyone curious. The reason you get injured from coming up too quickly from lower depths; You inhale gases as you dive which go into your body and saturate your blood/tissues, as you go deeper the gas is compressed by the pressure [measured in bars 1 bar = 10m/30feet iirc]. Compressing the air is fine, think of a stress ball, it just gets smaller. The problem is when you come back up per bar of pressure the gases are no longer under pressure and expand. Which is why if diving you breath out as you do an emergency ascent, so that the gas doesnt expand in your lungs and cause damage. The more compressed the gas in your body, the more space for more gas [this is a presumption on my part]. So you can become more saturated than if you were saturated at sea level. Humans dive with oxygen, nitrogen and at deeper depths to avoid nitrogen narcosis trimix [oxygen, helium and nitrogen], the gas mixture that you breathe is under pressure in a tank. So why might the wales not suffer the affects of the bends? There are a couple reasons but the immediate ones that spring to mind are; - Whales may have so much tissue and mass that to reach the point of unsafe saturation they would need to dive for an excessively long time, longer than their average dive times. - They are diving on a single breath. Think of free divers. Why do free divers not do safety stops when the average depth of an intermediate diver is 12m/40feet, this is an addition bar of pressure, the gas should in theory inflate to a proportional amount and be dangerous if they ascend too quickly. The reason they dont have to do safety stops is because the gas that they are diving with is the air their lungs can hold at sea level. Only the gas of the initial breath is being compressed. Therefore, when they ascend they are only expanding the gas from a compressed state back to it's original volume. This is fundamentally different to human divers who are adding additional gas to their lungs over the course dive. Which under pressure fill the space of the lungs, but once pressure is relieved will expand to take up more space than the lungs would accommodate. - Whales are also not inhaling gases that are released under pressure from equipment as you would with a rebreather/tanks [i forgot the word]. So like free divers, whales are likely only expanding the air that they took with them at the surface from the initial dive, it is not compressed before or added to during the dive, and they are not receiving supplemental gas whilst under water that can further saturate their body to unsafe levels. I hope I was clear, to anyone with questions just ask and I'll try to explain. I'm not a diver myself, actually terrified of the ocean, but have become fascinated with it more specifically cave diving [which is incredibly dangerous and should only be done by those who are certified] from the channel Dive Talk where they go over some of these things in dangerous diving incidents etc.

[@Abingusbabe]

Personally I’m very fond of the bowhead whales. Predominantly because they have great being old:looking old ratio. Like I hear that some sponges or whatever can live for ages but you wouldn’t know just by looking at it. But someone can show you a bowhead whale and is like “this guy may be 400 years old” and brother I believe it! Look at that lumpy beast! The world weary gaze is very endearing to me

[@Berfams91]

I'm surprised you didn't note that sperm whales have been seen harassing hunting orcas and being bros to others. They use that clicking to confuse Orcas and I saw a report that a duo followed one 12mile during a research mission.

[@dillanerickson7807]

To answer the big question of the day I think it comes down to what you define a predator as and teeth as? A blue whale technically hunts krill and it adapted a sort of pseudo teeth. Also how dare you not love seals, they’re sea puppies!!

[@babiiluv22204]

A blue whale is not a predator, an animal is not considered a “true” predator if they are an actual part of another animals diet, blue whales are regularly hunted by orca. The only exception to an animal still being a predator is if their only real predator is us.

[@shereehi5539]

Seals are scary to other seals.

[@Pancoito]

But blue and humpback whales are toothless They have baleens

[@IDWpresents]

2:44 "Human_Torso_Frisbee.mp4 has been removed due to violent imagery." Well, that certainly won the Acadamy award for still frame of the decade

[@charcoalangel7536]

Unrelated to this video but my favorite animal(?) of all time is the immortal jellyfish and I kind of hope you get around to making a video on them eventually cause they are just....so weird.

[@OctopusLady]

Oh, but I did already! Kinda. I talked about them at the end of my jellyfish video!

[@964cuplove]

@@OctopusLady anything immortal deserves it’s own VERY LONG video ! 🎉🎉

[@thunderkrux7745]

John and Hank Green are the best thing to come out the educational side of you to, particularly Hank. I love all of his PBS videos and it’s great to see them sponsoring other KZbinrs. Especially people like you

[@thrashandburn10221]

Apparently the orcas heard your sass and have begun deliberately attacking boats

[@BonnieBoestar]

I can't believe this insane unwarranted Orca hate, they insanely intelligent and their family pog dynamics are some of the most complex and emotional relationships we find in the animal kingdoms. I really would love a video by you about the staggering extent to which they can communicate with their calls. In fact they can even teach each other learned behaviors, and those quickly spread to other colonies!! Recently aftet an orca was severely injured by a boat rotor blade, orcas have suddenly begun outright attacking boats in the area, and specifically targetting destroying the blades, leaving the boat adrift. Its so fascinating!

[@midnightsan9917]

Their smart enough to be intentionally malicious.

[@margodphd]

​@@midnightsan9917And yet somehow don't attack humans....

[@shellpoptheepicswordmaster755]

that's because they're smart enough to not attack humans.

[@lordfelidae4505]

​@@margodphdorcas recognize emotional kin.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@shellpoptheepicswordmaster755 they will attack people if you torture them enough in captivity, sea world is a perfect example of that

[@CurtisShimamoto]

I particularly enjoyed the picture of spaghetti

[@alistairgibson1791]

because the dB scale is nonlinear, 236dB is nearly a million times as loud (amplitude wise) as 120dB, and well over ten million times the 85dB safe "limit" (beyond 85dB sound can start damaging your ears if you hear it for long enough)

[@nuotatorre8741]

As an Italain I always found the name sperm whale weird, since we just call them "Capodoglio" witch dervies from the word "Capo' witch it's just a fancy word for head. Similary Jellyfish for us it's "Medusa", but we do call the angler fish "Rana Pescatrice" literaly "Fishing Frog" wich all things considered might be worst than sperm whale since it's kinda hard to see a frog in the angler fish.

[@dominichowell961]

Frogfish are in the angler family

[@joundii3100]

I only now realise that sperm whales are what is known in French as "Cachalot". And jellyfish is "Méduse" and angler fishes are called "Poisons-pêcheurs" which literally mean fisher fish.

[@birbcall5778]

It might be a strecht, but back in the day, people would catch frogs by ''fishing'' for them with a little red flag, bound to a rod. This rod was held abve a choir of calling males, and these males actually react quite assertive of this. Maybe that could be why angler fish are called that way in Italian?

[@nuotatorre8741]

@@birbcall5778 I don't know it is quite a strech but that is quite an interesting fact. If i realy had to guess, I'd say than when Angle Fish dies they tend to flaten out a lot and since they don't have scales like other fish a that point they do start to look like a frog if you squint a bit. Since most peopole back then would have only seen them dead that is why the name stuck maby. Kinda like with the blob fish, most peopole only saw the decomposing bodies so they just kinda assumed it looked like that and gave them their name.

[@CoolMaisa]

NOOOOO you forgot to mention how weird their sleeping is!

[@meganmisaki4429]

I agree with River otters being a bit problematic, killing fish for fun, like gettem in your pond and they’ll take bites out of the bass

[@SirHugsalot13th]

I'm a little insulted you implied Humpback Whales are boring. I don't know if you watch Casual Geographic (I kinda FEEL like you do, at least occasionally), but a couple months back in his video 5 Animals We All Should Be Thankful For, he explained how Humpbacks rescue other animals from Orcas, which should already have your respect (even if they also rescue seals, but I digress). He also touches on Belugas as well, it's a really good video overall. All that being said, Sperm Whales are still utterly cool, I hecking NEED to see a tussle between one and a giant squid before I die!

[@_j4y4]

oh my god, congrats on the sponsorship! you deserve it and the whole ocean! (maybe minus the mammals) keep it up

[@wyatthale9119]

On “the hunting clicks?” I think they’re basically the “search mode” for their sonar where the buzz is to stun potential prey

[@zcarp8642]

I must state that the orca/killer whale IS indeed a whale! It's actually in the same group as the sperm whale mentioned, the toothed whales. Bottlenose dolphins, beaked whales, sperm whales, and others are in the toothed whale group

[@Dell-ol6hb]

Yea I’m not sure why people think dolphins are not whales, they’re literally part of the Odontoceti, which literally means toothed whale. Not to mention they’re cetaceans, which again means whales.

[@SherlandShrouht-esse]

@@Dell-ol6hbAccording to Wikipedia, the term “whales” literally means any cetacean excluding dolphins and porpoises. Seems like a useless exclusion and seems very few acknowledge it.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@SherlandShrouht-esse It says that informally or colloquially that is the definition of whales but scientifically they would be included within the category of whales. My contention is exactly that the informal definition confuses people into thinking that dolphins and porpoises are somehow not whales.

[@cobydegroot5129]

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[@lena-hu4jf]

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[@SnarkNSass]

Hank & John are possibly the Best Humans Ever 💕

[@KaitTheUnfunny]

Congrats on the sponsorship! SO well deserved. I'm already eagerly waiting for next video!

[@johnroach9026]

Sperm whale sounds can rupture organs is because they're in the water. Humans are also mostly water, so the sounds travel through us far better than air based sounds can which can seriously mess up organs

[@SirFloofy001]

The junk is called the junk because its completely useless to whalers, and whalers were the first and only people to see these creatures alive for a good while.

[@migueldemaria3830]

well, English speaking people, at least

[@andrew24601]

I completely understand the INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SCREAMING upon being recognised by the Green Brothers. My microbe question got answered in a video on one of their channels, and I wouldn’t shut up about it for weeks. (edit: typo)

[@liesdamnlies3372]

I look forward to having my limbs torn-off and being thrown-around like a frisbee.

[@Tesla049]

My pawpaw and my moms family in general lived in Hawaii for a while and my mom said he got the bends once and claimed it was like being really drunk while under water

[@Crystalised24]

Congrats on the sponsor, you so deserve it!!! Your channel fits right in with the kind of content they support, I go back and forth between binging your videos and PBS eons all the time😅 Also, for some reason the hunting noises are so funny to me, the way they gradually speed up makes it seem like the whales are doing their own Jaws theme music as they sneak up on prey lmao (and I’m glad you don’t have beef with manatees cause they’re one of my fav animals and, much like capybaras, it’s basically impossible to have beef with them)

[@VoidHugger]

Whale's are so epic though! The fact they evolved from water to land to water is amazing, and their dive depths are unthinkable

[@Birdofthetacklebox]

I’m super excited for when this premieres! Edit: do you think we could use sperm whales to find out the size of big fin squids because sperm whale can totally eat a big fin squid.

[@douggaudiosi14]

How would sperm whales help us fine the size of big fin squids? And they don't swim to same depths big fins are found at

[@alexisasheep6554]

Gotta say it's pretty fun to find someone else who sees the ocean kinda like space, especially the deep seas, and it's really fun to see how much you enjoy it too. I'm really glad I came across this channel 🖤

[@knightofcydonia1192]

10:15 God I love this channel.

[@Pooky1991]

Whales have always been some of my favorite marine animals. Just fascinating knowing creatures that huge live in the water and with the exception of orcas are primarily docile.

[@midnightsan9917]

In terms of cetaceans it really is just dolphins that are complete ash holes. Everything else is totally cool having fun without having to brutalize another creature and then not even eat it.

[@LadyBastt1980]

You remind me of someone I met when I lived in Florida. She was studying marine biology and I said "you know what my favorite marine animal is?" And she audibly groaned and said "dolphins..." I was all "nope. Bioluminescent plankton." She was quite happy to talk about that lol

[@mdberg65]

Thank you for the tweet at the end of the video. I've seen pictures of the "horrors of the deep" before but never a size comparison. It's so TINY!!

[@Jim-Stick]

Your editing and jokes are outstanding. Should point out there is a difference between resident and transient orcas. They look similar but behave completely differently. Transient whales eat seals and other mammals. Resident whales eat fish and crusteaceans. My brother had a salmon stolen right off his fishing line by a seal. It had the gull to poke its head up with salmon in its mouth. Seals in my eyes are dogs of the ocean.

[@45bang]

The squid fight is something I’ve wanted to see since I was a kid. I still hold out hope we will see it someday.

[@IDWpresents]

8:55 "Y'all wanna get some Boba?" 😆

[@zachb8012]

I live in a the same Montana town and the same neighborhood, I think, as Hank Green and I saw him playing with a small child in a yard. I was biking by and shouted, "Microcosmos is the beeeeeees kneeeeees." He just waved.

[@Galatz_Tirah]

I'm a little (though not entirely, older texts can often be a mess, so I'm not blaming you) surprised you didn't mention that sperm whales were also referred to as cachalots in slightly older form of English language (USS Catchalot, SS-170 of 1930s comes to mind). Although a lot of Slavic and protoslavic languages still call it that. Кашалот (Kashalot) in Russian and Ukrainian means sperm whale and honestly seems like the common English vernacular discarded the better name in favor of one that nobody can take seriously.

[@CaptHollister]

Cachalot (cash-a-loh) in French.

[@Galatz_Tirah]

So, basically s8m. I did make a typo in my original post tho. Supposed to be Cachalot (just like the French spelling)

[@madmouseille]

They're called cachalotes in portuguese, at least here in Brasil

[@kreidemadchen7291]

also called Cachalotes in Spanish, and I cannot explain with words how funny discovering the English name was

[@Dingghis_Khaan]

Loud sounds underwater can indeed rupture organs, especially the brain. Being near active boat sonar can kill you in nearly an instant as it shakes your brain apart. Gnarly stuff.

[@akin0m]

Okay, but what are your thoughts on belugas? :)

[@lordgigapiller]

what a wonderful sponsorship, "just say it was sponsored by us," they're so nice

[@KarmatheCorgi]

Okay Okay, I totally get the anti Orca and Dolphins but what about Beluga whales???

[@Algrenion]

I have never seen one of your videos before and I gotta say, that whole speech about your dislike of marine mammals and the genuine passionate rage it was delivered with was a HELL of a first impression 😳 …subscribed! (please don’t throw me around like a frisby)

[@senor_frosty]

Firstly, congrats on the sponsorship! Vlogbros are some amazing folks, seeing your true potential is right up their alley! But yo, the roast of the dolphins and orcas was grade A 🤣 dying of laughter while nervously watching my back for any tentacles waiting to send me to the shadow realm.

[@ramonsanchez6903]

The Oil in their head focuses the Sound waves

[@TheDillyum]

I love this video... I was so mad about you hating marine mammals but then you go right ahead and acknowledge the bigotry of it at 10:30 .... oooh my gosh that made me laugh. Subscribed x)

[@leatherbeetle]

I know John and Hank had taste 😤😤😤 like recognising like, you deserve this so much!!

[@hogey989]

Hank/John Green sponsorship is the best possible sponsorship, that's awesome ^^

[@dudarino666]

I saw a video where a diver encountered a sperm whale and it clicked nearly right next to him and he said his arm felt like it caught fire and was semi immobilized. I wonder if that could be used to stun or disorient squid which are largely soft bodied creatures. That will be a heck of a video one day, a sperm whale fighting a giant squid.

[@vampiresquid985]

watching this video as someone who loves sperms whales, giant squids, AND orcas (,,:

[@dominichowell961]

+1 but also as someone who works with sea lions and cetaceans. I think they're such sweet and charming animals, it's like listening to someone roast my best friend 🥺 Everything in the ocean is great!! Except for bobbit worms!

[@davidduffy5433]

I have to say I love how enthusiastic you are about creatures of the sea. :)

[@hannahbrown2728]

I definitely think most marine mammals are incredibly cute, but Im not unaware of their gratuitous violence. Its like when you see an unassuming photo of a serial killer, you see something almost warm, but the cold potential in their eyes is undeniable.

[@midnightsan9917]

Ironically tho most toothed whales (excluding dolphins) aren't particularly violent when hunting down prey. I mean of course their killing and eating prey but their not intentionally playing with it. Beluga's, narwhal, most porpoises, and sperm whale all don't mess with their prey like dolphins do.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@midnightsan9917 well it’s not like we’d know since you know sperm whales hunt extremely deep in the ocean

[@midnightsan9917]

@@Dell-ol6hb its kind of hard to play with your food when you're holding your breath and the pressure is so intense that you have to absorb oxygen through your trachea

[@ughhgh5430]

It’s called the junk, or so I’ve heard, because when these whales were being hunted, the fluid in their heads was all anyone was interested in for harvesting. All the stuff they had to cut through or remove to get to that fluid was useless to them. “Junk”.

[@AntheanCeilliers]

As a shark lover I am GLAD that someone is finally talking about how badass non-mammalian sealife is and how shitty mammalian sealife is. Everyone thinks sharks are evil when they're just eating! And dolphins have abuse dens but people think they're so cute!

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[@volpxs]

i think the thing about marine mammals is that the whole of the affection they receive is as unbalanced as the hostility sharks and squids receive. theyre all animals and should all be seen as such. animals are capable of cruelty (sometimes not understanding it as such) and they wont always be adorable little puppies, yknow? anyway thats my take on marine mammals (and sharks too bc ill always try to include sharks on the conversation, my bad)

[@florofern6470]

Yeah! They're wild animals and should be thought of as such Personally I love marine mammals, because of their intelligence and similarity to us (be that for good or bad), however I also find things like sharks and octopi (I like octopi for similar reasons that I love cetaceans) really interesting, and I love learning about all marine life

[@djannias]

I just want to let you know you have one of the coolest channels on youtube. I love your intelligence and your cool sense of humor. Please continue being awesome, that's all

[@kacywatson6314]

8:04 so polyamorous, lesbian parenting

[@CoreKatalyst]

I wonder if the sperm whales DO need their jaws to hunt, but the one(s) that we found healthy without a jaw had been cared for/fed by their pod? I wouldn’t put it out of the realm of possibility with how smart cetaceans in general are, I don’t doubt strong familial bonds form and could act as a support system for injured whales!

[@juk-hw5lv]

The sound sequence used by these big bois for echolocation when hunting is oddly similar to radars in military aircraft. First there's a pulse sweep, that will initially locate the target and notify the pilot of its presence, and when you lock this target the radar goes into narrow beam, continuous wave mode (which also will trigger the radar warning receiver in the target aircraft, which will sound an ear-piercing alarm to the pilot meaning "Your seconds are numbered if you don't do an angressive evasive maneuver immediately") and then it's measuring the distance in real time and giving you cues when to fire the weapons and break away.

[@Rodiroess]

A Sperm Whale buzz would probably cause bubbles to form in your blood. Instant death.

[@Synthose1]

I’ve always preferred calling them cachalots, just because it sounds cool.

[@ethribin4188]

I mean.... dolphins and Orcas are basically the humans of the ocean xD The only thing seperating thrm from us, aside of water, is they dont have hands to make/use tools. THANK GOD!

[@Jay_kay_bee]

I am new to watching KZbin regularly because I just recently started to pay for no commercials. The Octopus Lady was the first creator I fell in love with and watched all your videos. When I came to this one I thought “I should check out those brothers to see if they have any content I would like.” I checked out all the Green Brothers’ content because of Octopus Lady Videos and became a huge fan of both. I likely would have stumbled upon them eventually but I just wanted them to know it was definitely worth the advertising. Thanks for all the great content!

[@ArtyMars]

I almost CHOKED when you called the orca a MORON 😂 02:20

[@jkattau9]

I am so stinking vicariously happy for you and like, weirdly parasocially proud of you, maybe? It's gotta be the coolest thing ever to be recognized by your idols as a peer, and one they respect and support at that! Congratulations! You've earned it!

[@taliasmith5066]

Ayyy a sponsorship!!! Im so happy for you!

[@ProfessorGood-qi7zp]

They use suction by swallowing tons of water. Powerful abdominal forces, plus a strong lower jaw would get in the way. Also probably the super fast clicking is vibrating the water to lubricate it, make it hard to swim and sense through while the prey is being suck in. The vibration would also help dislodge suckers. That kind of sonar is a powerful tool in the ocean. The organs involved are of interest

[@thecovenant3842]

At first, Octopus Lady's voice didn't quite do it for me, but then I was won over by her personality and the enthusiasm and emotion in her words. I enjoy science speakers who shows great emotion and go off on a lot of witty tandems, rather than those that mindlessly read off of scripts. Those kinds work only for audiobooks. I love what you do, Octopus Lady!

[@bubblezdragons]

“It’s like uhg, but HM” got me off guard 😭✋

[@violetisaghost]

u r quite literally one of those most entertaining educational channels ive ever encountered and i started watching u 20 minutes ago

[@strikermodel]

4:26 To quote the late philosopher, Duke Nukem, "___ is stored in the brain, and I have a headache!"

[@ElectroNicko_]

I'm sorry, but the image of a flat finless fish being used as a fucking frisbee is hilarious. Morbid, but hilarious.

[@Alexander_Sannikov]

i'm super on board with your opinion on dolphins, orcas and seals. they're like a poster child of ocean documentaries, so mainsteram, eew. zooids are just infinitely cooler than any mammal.

[@ChangedWinds]

1:11 I’m rewatching this cause you made another marine mammal video a couple of weeks ago. And thank you! I miss watching your videos!

[@AllieThePrettyGator]

6:04 put that in persepective, the bull is the size of an 18 wheeler while the female is the size of a school bus

[@K8-BB8]

You have a fantastic sense of humor!! Cracked up so loud that my dog jumped ten feet and started barking. My dog will likely gain an octopus phobia from your hysterical vids!

[@the3dluxe53]

If you ever do another episode on a marine mammal I hope it's about beluga whales. My favorite marine organism ever. Their bulbous melons make them able to produce an extremely wide range of vocalizations compared to other cetaceans. On top of that they're also the only cetacean with a flexible neck. Seems uninteresting at first but every other cetacean has to move their entire body to look around since all 7 vertebrae in their neck are fused together. Belugas can just turn their heads. Among cetaceans, having a neck like that is like a superpower.

[@tavig7410]

The "junk" of a sperm whale was named by whalers because they didn't have a use for it, so your joke on how it was named is probably pretty accurate lol

[@DavidL-du3om]

Started watching you for a few days now and only realised you have less than 30k, how is this possible, you bring science and sass together

[@c7r14kz]

You’re one of my favourite persons since I just had a breakdown and you made me feel beter😢 ilyssssssm!