"Whale" I didn't have enough time for her, but the light here is nice~

What makes this even funnier is if you’re a rich guy and do this the actual poker players will shower you with praise and stroke your ego (especially when you win hands through sheer variance) and say you’re great and to keep doing what you’re doing because they’re just siphoning money from you and want you to keep it up. Like, that’s the original definition of a “whale” in the gambling sense

The Great Lakes should have their own very small species of whale

hhhrrrnnffgg,, STURGEON !

STURGEON !!

Those pictures do not do them justice these fishies are humugajigajungous

‼️STURGEON‼️

What the HECK are sturgeon's just gigantic bottom feeders??? Looks allot like a pleco(but much much larger :|)

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Here’s my modest collection of vintage whales.

i don't care if they aren't fish i'm asking should they be fish

official fish post

But whales *are* fish. Specifically secondarily aquatic sarcopterygian fish belonging to the mostly terrestrial clade called Mammalia.

Oh look! A post that gives both Moby Dick enthusiasts and evolutionary biologists a chance to trot out their fancy little facts

@even-in-arcadia

imagine being on your little dried peapod shell of a boat with your fragile little human self and then

out of the depths below

the Divine

God-Beasts

come right up to YOU

capable of crushing you without even noticing you

and ever so gently

so gently

roll back and forth around the dried leaf you're sitting on

just to maybe examine you and see what you're doing in their world.

Ohhhh myyy goddddd

God...........

blue whales are the largest animal ever recorded, like you literally need to be in a helicopter to actually see one in from a perspective with zero distortion. idk i just feel pretty lucky to be alive on earth at the same time as them and they don’t even want to kill me. they just wanna use their toothbrush mouthes to filter the ocean of smol ocean bugs. they have communities and they sing to each other to communicate. work is slow im sorry happy friday whales r so cool

@purified-zone

Somehow this video captures the scale of whales better than any other video or photo I have ever seen.

That is a humpback. If you think they are huge, I have some news for you…

That is a humpback.

If you think they are huge, I

have some news for you…

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Whale scale: bigger than you think

I remember being on a boat in NY as a kid and watching humpbacks breach, and it might have triggered a slight existential crisis. BIG. NOT AS BIG BUT

FUCKING BIIIIG.

Humpback whales breaching: gorgeous, majestic, graceful, embodies all the strength and beauty of the ocean

Minke whales breaching: I will launch myself out of this ocean like a f***ing surface-to-air missile to seek and destroy my enemies

I remember an interview with a guy that did the camera work for nature documentaries and he said that baleen whales like these guys were the scariest things to shoot because “They’re the size of a train, they can suddenly appear out of nowhere in dark or murky water and they don’t make a goddamn sound. I was absolutely sure that one of them was going to hit me and well, ‘that’s all folks!’. Gave me a lot of perspective on how I handle myself when filming smaller animals now.”

Fin whales breaching: sea serpent

Whale knives designed by Tetsu Yamashita and made by Toru Yamashita in Tosa province.

I can't stop thinking about how much mole skeletons remind me of whale skeletons.

We're all familiar with Space Whales but nobody ever talks about Space Moles. Or Desert Whales. Or Giant Ocean Moles. And that's terrible.

What is a Mole, if not a Tiny Dirt Whale? they’re really rather like sperm whales, hunting invertabrates by thier vibrations in total darkness.

Or perhaps a Whale is a very Large Water Mole, with it’s vibration-sensitive organs behind a vibration-amplifying balloon?  

The only real difference I can think of between them is that moles don’t have a built-in sonic weapon to the best of my knowledge.

Considering some moles can swim I expect it will not be very long before they become very large and start using echolocation.

YES

MASSIVE CLAWED WHALE

NASAL TENTACLES AS LONG AS A MAN

GIANT SQUID COMMENTS: “the Sperm whales were bad but this is just fucking offensive.”

time to dig (hehe) out some of my favorite skeleton comparisons!

european mole!

stellar sea lion!

the mole is clearly just a tiny dirt sea lion. when you are a predator who paddles after your prey, you just get tubed shaped. with great biceps.