>>5115897
That'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.

>>5115917
Not the place for horny. This is a bump thread anon.

>>5115919
Horny had nothing to do with it, anon

>>5115897
The coolest whale? Possibly.

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Choose your fighter.

>>5116167
For me, it's the mighty, humble Bowhead.

>>5116167
For me, it's the orca.

>>5116296
Yah, that fits. You psycho.

FACT: Moby Dick contains a whole chapter about why whales are fish

>>5116311
based. fuck fish deniers.

>>5115897
mmmmm tasty squids

>>5116311
Whales are fish though
So are you and I :) *scratches redditor beard*

>>5116296
FUCK orcas
Yeah theyre the oceans top predator with great intelligence and amazing hunting strategies
But 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.

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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
>>5116338
Calm down, Jules Verne.

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>>5116167
There 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.

>>5116311
Whales 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.

>>5116167
humpback
let me sing you the song of my people

>>5115897
Isn'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?

>>5116724
Not really, the deeper you go the more food youre gonna find that surface feeders cant get to. Untapped goldmine of food down there.

>>5116724
it makes sure to swim through enough bubbles for oxygen

>>5115897
Cephalopods are prey items for superior mammal species, nothing more.

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>>5115897
Coolest animal living and cousin to the most badass predator to ever roam earths oceans. Megalofags need not replay

>>5115897
Amazing mammal. Unreal how they live like that.

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>completely eludes detection for 138 years in your direction

>>5116724
mammals once again proving they are the superior lifeform

>>5115897
>>5116724
Fun 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.

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>>5115897
literal cumbrain

>>5116311
a good artist takes time out of his day to explain why everyone else who doesnt agree with his autistic interpretation is wrong

>>5117559
It's used for echolocation. Has nothing to do with actual sperm

>>5117584
but the oil inside the organ looks like cum, hence the whale's name

>>5116167
Top Reich for me dawg
Although it's technichally a dolphin

>>5116338
Shut up faggot
Orcas are based

>>5116572
As an orca fan I respect that
Narwahls are a worthy adversary and a tasty blubbery meal

>>5117223
It still bothers me they didn't call it Leviathan as they should have
Livyatian 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 behemoth
What a waste

>>5116338
sharks don't even have a skeleton how can they ever be cool not even in death gtfo

>>5117701
It makes even less sense after what you've posted

>>5117595
99.999999999999999999% 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.

>>5117595
Orcas get wrecked by sperm whales and pilot whales

>>5118814
Every sea mammal gets wrecked by sperm whales due to their built in megasonar
>pilot whales
Maybe if the orcas are sleeping or outnumbered 20 to 1
>inb4 some r*ddit video
Exceptions confirm the rule

>>5117852
>99.999999999999999999% of the time narwhals don’t/can’t fight back
So you're saying there's a chance?

>>5116338
Pilot whales own their asses

>>5119172
Pilot whales are highly social and orcas won't risk fucking with them

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>>5119957
>highly social
So are orcas. And much bigger, stronger, smarter, and slightly faster than pilot whales
>won't risk fucking with them
Your original argument was
>pilot whales wreck orcas
Which is false, so now you're trying to backpedal to another equally false "argument"
You are wrong in both cases
>inb4 le watermark
I literally don't care

>>5115897
Even the giant squid falls to the sperm whale and the Greenland shark. Truly cephalopods will never rise above mesopredator status.

>>5120601
Pilot whales are more intelligent (more cortical neurons)

>>5121679
No 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 coordination

If they were smart they would be able to cooperate to free each other from nets and un-beach fellow whales

>>5121679
>goalposts moving
>dubious claim
Oy vey you're a liar

>>5117783
>>5117701
They should've just gone with Carnocetus or something

>>5116167
Humpback
I want to maximize krill deaths

>>5122417
Oh fuck I meant blue whale fuck

>>5116167
Humpback.
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-valiant
https://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_305461635
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mms.12343

>>5122427
absolutely BASED, orcacels are no match for humpback BVLLS

>>5122427
sperm whales > humpbacks >> pilot whales >>>>>> orcacels

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>>5116572
>The new definition of fish is presented as being more precise but really misrepresents things.
You could just call fish non-tetrapods fishes like how we call dinosaurs non-avian dinosaurs

>>5123329
mammals are non-sauropsid amniotes

>>5122418
Humpbacks also eat massive amounts of krill

>>5116311
A fish is anything I say is a fish (also "fish" isn't even real)

>>5123931
If fishes aren't real, then neither are amphibians, reptiles, birds, or mammals

>>5115897
Must suck to be a cephalopod and only live for 5 years tops while whalechads can live to be 70 or more

>>5116167
Pacific coast fag here, for me it's the grey whale
>>5116338
Sharkskin fins typed this post

>>5124146
Those are all fish

>>5117592
>"ERMMMM ACTCHUATSLLLY ITS A HECKING DOLPHINERINOS, MY BULL TOLD ME ABOUT THIS AFTER HE GOT ME A NINTENDO SWITCH FOR WATCHING HIM FUCK MY GF LIKE A GOOD LITTLE REDDITOR :)))))"
Fucking kill yourself.

>>5116167
There are so many whales that it feels like never make it into nature docs.
every time it’s the same blue/gray/humpback on the baleen side and orca/sperm on the tooth side.
They never seem to talk about baird’s or bryde’s sei whales.

>>5123931
based truthseeker, keep uncovering the fish conspiracy

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>>5122427
Humpbacktimus Prime

>>5124356
this is partially because many cetacean species are rarely seen and poorly researched, especially most of the beaked whales

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>>5116311
Whales have hair which makes them mammals

>>5119172
https://www.icelandic-orcas.com/post/orcas-and-pilot-whales-their-occurrence-and-interactions-in-iceland
Retard, Orcas are sick but it's common sense in most predators to not risk getting injured when you can help it and pilot whales have repeatedly demonstrated mobbing behavior towards orcas in the Atlantic, causing the orcas to flee. Orcas can be extremely cool and still lose in fights. Fucking hell, other orcas get bodied by the Biggs but that doesn't make them any less cool. Godamned idiot

>>5122418
On the bright side you now have gigantic barnacle encrusted blade fins that you can slap almost anything in the ocean to death with, in addition to your classic powerful fluke

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>>5116167
For me it has to be these goobers, I really wish we had more footage and documentaries about them as they're easily my favorite cetacean

>>5125799
I like the hot dog-shaped dolphins like the Irrawaddy dolphin

>>5125799
sucks that they got stuck with a dumb name "false killer whale" because it was initially assumed they were extinct lol

>>5125799
that is a thick tongue

>>5117559
>spermaceti organ
>junk (melon)

>>5125799
I like the SPADE-TOOTHED WHALE

>>5125796
>pilot whales wreck orcas
Remains unsubstantiated
Learn 2 engrish you esl moron

>>5115917
Fpbp

>anglos kill an unknown whale
>splendid animal, looks carnivorous with a very recognizable head shape
>stab it a few times
>white liquid comes out
>SPERM WHALE XDDDDDDDD
Why are they like this

>>5116311
They cant be fish because fish are dumb and stupid and cetacean are cool and smart

>>5119173
There's that ONE narwhal who has mastered the use of his horn to kill orcas even when outnumbered

>>5125783
JUST

>>5122427
based humpbacks

>>5125799
WHY IS THERE A KITTEN ON HIS NOSE?

>>5115897
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ay5sOs3Akg

>>5116167
Sperm whale, largest brain chumps

>>5130620
In more ways than one, largest cock as well

>>5130617
chat, is this true?

>>5116167
>sperm whales are carnivores
It boggles my mind that a predator this fucking massive can exist. Its energetic requirements must be tremendous. And they supposedly subsist primarily on giant squid? Just how many squid are down there in the depths?

>>5117559
Duke Nukem's spirit animal

>>5130798
>And they supposedly subsist primarily on giant squid?
maybe they don't?

>>5116311
whales are obviously mammals cuz they breathe air. checkmate, "moby dick", if that is your real name

>>5130798
>Just how many squid are down there in the depths?
Lots. Every see those videos of Humboldt squids? Imagine a sperm whale plowing through those.

>>5117223
My mind is boggled when I think about how modern sperm whales are comparable to giant beasts from past eras, and it'd be among the greatest of them. It's taken for granted how crazy it is that we still have something like the sperm whale existing today. We marvel at the many prehistoric giant badass counterparts of animals today, but the prehistoric giant badass counterpart of the sperm whale is the same size as the modern version.

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