4 Mysteries of the World's Oceans

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

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    • @lordshaxx2165
      @lordshaxx2165 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This sounds suspiciously like a product from a Tel Sell commercial.

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @respectbossmon
      @respectbossmon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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?

    • @GRosa250
      @GRosa250 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      How come you turned off the blue background light?

    • @brianredban9393
      @brianredban9393 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Guy no one can see any wrinkles on your face with that giant beard

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +409

    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.

    • @VirgilTStone
      @VirgilTStone 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      So, are you happy with uncontrollable joy, and do you run around humming and leaping?

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @cheetarah9199
      @cheetarah9199 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I have watched seagulls apparently just playing in the wind - it doesn't seem that far fetched

    • @michaelmignone5869
      @michaelmignone5869 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@cheetarah9199"mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine" 😂

    • @Chad_Max
      @Chad_Max 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are you menstruating?

  • @aidanwatson910
    @aidanwatson910 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Tusking sounds like something me and the boys would do at the sleepover

    • @jamesobrien8529
      @jamesobrien8529 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's not called tusking. That's called tugging

    • @YoutubesaysimCyberbully
      @YoutubesaysimCyberbully หลายเดือนก่อน

      💀

    • @TheBreechie
      @TheBreechie 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Tusking, tugging, docking…. its all fun and games until someone has to eat the soggy cracker

  • @Captain.AmericaV1
    @Captain.AmericaV1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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

  • @timerover4633
    @timerover4633 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    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.

    • @Julia-uh4li
      @Julia-uh4li 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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.

    • @klaytonalexandermatthews2047
      @klaytonalexandermatthews2047 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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

    • @Bambisgf77
      @Bambisgf77 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing!

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ballard is a treasure, sounds like you are, too. Thank you.

    • @Godfrey_first_tarnished
      @Godfrey_first_tarnished 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Nice 👌

  • @MrAbraxus666
    @MrAbraxus666 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Worst transition to an advert goes to Simon. "LOTS OF NARWHALS DIE UNDER THE PACK ICE...AND ON TO OUR SPONSOR!"

  • @pakde8002
    @pakde8002 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    You've got to admire Freud's determination to find a pair of eel balls. Confirming it's a slippery slope once one sets off on such a journey.

    • @jellybeanboy
      @jellybeanboy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @FlintSparkedStudios
    @FlintSparkedStudios 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    So that narwhal horn is a tooth huh? Hope they make narwhal sensodyne cuz that’s a lotta ice water exposure

  • @LithiumProductions
    @LithiumProductions 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    So long, and thanks for all the fish!

  • @swj719
    @swj719 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Actually, it is INCREDIBLY easy to send people to study the deepest parts of the ocean.
    The trick is getting that person back, and alive.

    • @xyz7572
      @xyz7572 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Badum tss

    • @davidclaudy4822
      @davidclaudy4822 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ocean gate anyone?

    • @LightsaberGoBrrrrrr
      @LightsaberGoBrrrrrr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @ablebaker8664
      @ablebaker8664 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr
      That seems to have been completely accidental.
      Titan's construction leaves me amazed that it made even a single dive.

  • @thelloyd87
    @thelloyd87 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    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.

    • @danelynch7171
      @danelynch7171 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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!

    • @Sweeeetpeaches69
      @Sweeeetpeaches69 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @klaytonalexandermatthews2047
      @klaytonalexandermatthews2047 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@danelynch7171I'm all here for hearing about the drama coming from their convos. When you get tired of human drama, just tune into the orcas

  • @pixiesouter9461
    @pixiesouter9461 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    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.

    • @tammyhaas9304
      @tammyhaas9304 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What an excellent description , I can imagine how special that must have been !!! Thank you for sharing WOW

    • @klaytonalexandermatthews2047
      @klaytonalexandermatthews2047 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @minimanadam
    @minimanadam 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The titan sub had no issue reaching the bottom

    • @frankieslefttoe8210
      @frankieslefttoe8210 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It actually didn't go to the bottom it imploded long before it reached the titanic

  • @PitboyHarmony1
    @PitboyHarmony1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    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.

    • @Mark_GL
      @Mark_GL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They also use the tusk as a way to compete with other males by rising their heads out of the water to raise the tusk higher than the oponent.

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Could be similar in function to the lateral line in fish.

    • @wombatillo
      @wombatillo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @BNewtonUK
      @BNewtonUK 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Mark_GLthose are the narwhals looking for signs of extra-aquatic life

    • @williamhardes8081
      @williamhardes8081 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it might help them get Disney channel?

  • @tdyerwestfield
    @tdyerwestfield 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    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.

    • @user-un8tv1pp8m
      @user-un8tv1pp8m 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

    • @EsotericBibleSecrets
      @EsotericBibleSecrets 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's plenty of fish in the ocean, just be sure to catch a Narwhal / Nawalt since it seems they do in fact exist.

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-un8tv1pp8mbig cats purr too

    • @yeahitskimmel
      @yeahitskimmel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@johnr797I'd imagine "all felines" was meant to include big ones as well

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yeahitskimmel he said neotenic trait in domesticated cats. Adult big cats purr as well.

  • @misterpig7739
    @misterpig7739 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    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.

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @andyyang3029
      @andyyang3029 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Good point. Got to remember that the moon is much smaller

    • @Hjbibivucijgugyfdr69
      @Hjbibivucijgugyfdr69 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And that the surface of the moon is a million times less diverse and complicated than the oceans

    • @TheodoreBrosevelt
      @TheodoreBrosevelt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@andyyang3029it's also way further

    • @kylebolton6007
      @kylebolton6007 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheodoreBrosevelt you can see more of a skyscraper the further away you stand

  • @alastor8091
    @alastor8091 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @85priesty
    @85priesty 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "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

  • @mkupka1
    @mkupka1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have this feeling that if I can see Simon’s legs, that he should be pacing and slapping a paper script 😅😂
    My apologies for pigeonholing Simon 😂🙏

  • @pmsavenger
    @pmsavenger 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    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.

    • @mattroper7214
      @mattroper7214 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's upto 24.9% now, that was announced earlier this year

    • @Julia-uh4li
      @Julia-uh4li 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fascinating, and no, I'm not being sarcastic!!😊

  • @mooseschimming3809
    @mooseschimming3809 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Simon: My skin was fine, but then I aged...

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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.

    • @trayolphia5756
      @trayolphia5756 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vigorous shaking would slowly pull the fish off, thus allowing it to then move forward and eat

  • @lindsayschmidt2177
    @lindsayschmidt2177 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Whales are such special creatures. I’ve caught rare glimpses of them as I visit the coast quite often. It’s a dream of mine to see one breach.

  • @iancanty9875
    @iancanty9875 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I like the notion that breaching is the whale equivalent of boy racers doing wheelies on their motorbikes. However, flipping right over brings a different emotion for the biker.

  • @Indyofthedead
    @Indyofthedead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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.

  • @lupine.spirit161
    @lupine.spirit161 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    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

    • @lancewalker2595
      @lancewalker2595 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

    • @lupine.spirit161
      @lupine.spirit161 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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

    • @randomuruk7230
      @randomuruk7230 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@lancewalker2595Spouting nonsense with a wide vocabulary is still nonsense.

  • @jsinope2786
    @jsinope2786 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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!

  • @384tp
    @384tp 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    We all know the reason behind whale song... they're sending messages to an alien race to protect us from cylindrical probes

    • @chrislong3938
      @chrislong3938 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's why Oumuamua didn't mess with us...

  • @ande100
    @ande100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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! ❤

    • @feldgeist2637
      @feldgeist2637 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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

  • @rpNerd
    @rpNerd หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @kevinfoster1138
    @kevinfoster1138 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Damn TH-cam video was not even 15 minutes you had to show me 4 different commercials.

  • @brodycasler7424
    @brodycasler7424 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Simon: "I enjoy watching Star Trek."
    Also Simon: " Why did we include whale noises on the Voyager probes?"
    Have you not learned Simon???

    • @jenniferj5324
      @jenniferj5324 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice 😂

    • @trayolphia5756
      @trayolphia5756 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @scottymcdoogle8210
      @scottymcdoogle8210 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
      @scottymcdoogle8210 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I also wondered why he didn’t nod Star Trek IV seeing as he’s a fan of Trek.

    • @trayolphia5756
      @trayolphia5756 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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

  • @martinstallard2742
    @martinstallard2742 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    0:45 Narwhal conundrum
    4:01 end of sponsorship
    5:30 secrets of the whales
    9:45 the deep dark
    11:52 an eely mystery

  • @patriciaposthumus6684
    @patriciaposthumus6684 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Simon, I've got an idea for a new channel. How about Oceangraphics? A show just about all the mysteries of the ocean.

  • @santa1563
    @santa1563 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    if I’ve learned anything from QI it’s that the answer is always blue whale. except when it isn’t. sometimes.

  • @codyclark8533
    @codyclark8533 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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

    • @robertblack9381
      @robertblack9381 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Basking sharks have been observed breaching, presumably for similar reasons

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Gah, I love whales. Such a great Family of creatures.
    Save the Whales.

  • @mediumlowlight
    @mediumlowlight 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Its never too late to see Simons hair

    • @juriebezuidenhout2538
      @juriebezuidenhout2538 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Implants hurt so a wig it will be then.... 😂

    • @captaintoyota3171
      @captaintoyota3171 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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

    • @chrisschuler2278
      @chrisschuler2278 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bald is beautiful 😂 sorry I'm starting to lose it considering keeps 😆

    • @robinelliott-ni2eh
      @robinelliott-ni2eh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@captaintoyota3171never heard of hair clippers? Just give it the grade 1 treatment every month and theres no more issues. 😂

    • @juriebezuidenhout2538
      @juriebezuidenhout2538 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Im as bold as Simon.... With pride I can state ' hair dont grow on brains' hahahaha

  • @dustypartition
    @dustypartition 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Didn't think I'd hear the term "elusive testicles" today.

  • @tinaroberts5858
    @tinaroberts5858 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Narwhals amaze me. Unicorns of the ocean 😊

    • @michaelmignone5869
      @michaelmignone5869 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The narwhal song also amazes me.... not necessarily in a good way though 😂

  • @meh7348
    @meh7348 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @user-oq7ex2qv1h
    @user-oq7ex2qv1h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I happened to watch a channel a moment ago & was surprised NOT to see Simon presenting it.

  • @xbreezybx8403
    @xbreezybx8403 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    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.

    • @australien6611
      @australien6611 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly, just like we skip and hum and sing

  • @bat13.6
    @bat13.6 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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. 😁

    • @Julia-uh4li
      @Julia-uh4li 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You'd get further by emailing him. Although it still is smart asking in the comments as some viewers just might be able to answer you as well.

  • @xionmemoria
    @xionmemoria 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    13:25 "Looking for their Eel-ucive testicles"
    We see what you did there, Lloyd!

  • @masonjelvin6001
    @masonjelvin6001 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “i’m starting to wonder is coochie even real..?” -eel probably

  • @maryschwab6674
    @maryschwab6674 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was a great video, thank you Simon!!

  • @craigharrison2090
    @craigharrison2090 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After this, I feel like whales breaching is basically like the reverse of our species' kids screaming CANNONBALL right before they make a giant splash

  • @carston101
    @carston101 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I had no idea eels were so weird. Interesting.

  • @UNATCOHanka
    @UNATCOHanka 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the Tusk is used for scratching each other's itch

  • @ThePhysicalReaction
    @ThePhysicalReaction 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Humpback whales also made it onto a klingon bird of prey in Voyage Home. Their 30 minute songs are almost as long as some Dream Theater songs.

  • @MotorPotor56
    @MotorPotor56 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "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!"

    • @donkeysaurusrex7881
      @donkeysaurusrex7881 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hated how strange the show got when they came back from space

  • @charleskempton8808
    @charleskempton8808 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Side project on James Camerons submarine deep sea challenger.

  • @KeithPrince-cp3me
    @KeithPrince-cp3me 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @taylorbunch1490
    @taylorbunch1490 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Come on...1-5 (!!!) IS Simon's commercial spot. Idc if it's longer episodes😢

  • @0331machinegunman
    @0331machinegunman 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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."

  • @HorrorHermitofHell
    @HorrorHermitofHell 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the whales that are capsizing boats is the whale equivalent of old people screaming
    GET OFF MY LAWN!!

  • @reprobate79
    @reprobate79 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “They rub their tusks together”
    My friends and I do that all the time.

  • @CarleyGoshaw28
    @CarleyGoshaw28 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for reminding everyone that the MEG IS EXTINCT.

  • @jamestnov41945
    @jamestnov41945 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating stuff thank you.

  • @Bdsiy68593
    @Bdsiy68593 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m commercial fishing in Alaska right now in the middle of the ocean

  • @kevinmcqueenie7420
    @kevinmcqueenie7420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    “I’m a grower, not a shower” - a European eel, probably

  • @danieltolliver8549
    @danieltolliver8549 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Keep it up Factboy.

  • @jamesmasonaltair1062
    @jamesmasonaltair1062 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sometimes an eel is just an eel - S. Freud

  • @kelevra558
    @kelevra558 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think whales breaching is their version of simply showing off. Like wheelies or drifting, big whips etc.

  • @2l84t
    @2l84t 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The tusk might be used for locating the buried bottom fish .

  • @eaphantom9214
    @eaphantom9214 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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!

  • @thekwjiboo
    @thekwjiboo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ah, the mental picture of a "gentle tusking".

  • @masterchinese28
    @masterchinese28 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whales singing and breaching... I would also add the other unknown phenomenon: beaching.

  • @halcyon3116
    @halcyon3116 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @13:20 that eel looks like hes smiling too lol

  • @HolyDemonRune
    @HolyDemonRune 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This dude has to have the world record for TH-cam channels. I swear to God... Every 2 to 3 months he comes out with a new.channrl doing the exact same thing.

  • @rmeredithm
    @rmeredithm 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Eels have it all figured out…
    pass on your genes > send the kids away > allow them to come back when they’re adults
    Genius.

  • @rickh9396
    @rickh9396 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Simon says, "Release the Kraken!"

  • @MajorHenryL
    @MajorHenryL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Okay Simon, who's responsible with the Cthulhu-Predator (10:46) and why didn't it have a beard as awesome as yours?

  • @elizabethsthokal727
    @elizabethsthokal727 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Breaching is just whale zoomies ❤

  • @ancientmingyu0604
    @ancientmingyu0604 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've learned that, if there's ever any nonsense in a species, it's because of naughty time

  • @RSBurgener
    @RSBurgener 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Actions994
    @Actions994 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What if whales are just as smart as we are, but they just haven't found a way of understanding this world of we live in, and they breach trying to get a better look 🤔🤔🤔

  • @85priesty
    @85priesty 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'd love to see a video about fish like Barramundi, where the fish change sex during their life cycle.

  • @trayolphia5756
    @trayolphia5756 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was today years old when learning narwhals are real and not just some fantasy creature used in an internet meme song from a while ago

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Simon's skin has such a youthful glow!

  • @paulhall9713
    @paulhall9713 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Foreo The skin care product that totally doesn't make you look psychopathic while using it!

  • @trivialtrav
    @trivialtrav 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Freud getting involved in the eel mystery is hilarious. Man that guy loved looking for genitals. Figurative or real.

  • @clipsedrag13
    @clipsedrag13 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always just imagined breaching was fun 😂

  • @Nikkska
    @Nikkska 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don’t get me wrong, I love physics & chemistry, but biology is just so fascinating!

  • @AHN1444
    @AHN1444 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:00 - Now I want to play EVO (snes old game)

  • @scottfitzgerald3421
    @scottfitzgerald3421 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @ZachXthagod
    @ZachXthagod 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hold on hold on hold on, that's a tusk?!?

  • @aaronspencer5173
    @aaronspencer5173 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @Cannonsamtv
    @Cannonsamtv 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was expecting a bit on the immortal jellyfish

  • @RadenWA
    @RadenWA 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clearly, the purpose of the Narwhal tusk, is to prevent Cthulhu from eating ye.

  • @lukehorning3404
    @lukehorning3404 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All things I find interesting and don’t an answer sometimes it’s why ask why But thank you for the video

  • @LikEaPhoX81
    @LikEaPhoX81 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It is not crazy to think that if intelligent life evolved on land here on Earth, why wouldnt it be possible for an ocean mammal to evolve the same?

    • @cheetarah9199
      @cheetarah9199 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      saw an interesting chat on twatter that Brian Cox had, ie dolphins went back to the sea (ie mammals) so couldn't make fire, cos water - and that kinda ended their evolution. Its an interesting one

  • @harmo2502
    @harmo2502 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whales are dropping EPs out there

  • @eaphantom9214
    @eaphantom9214 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0:06 - And mars!

  • @aloluk
    @aloluk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd never even heard of Narwal until my child was watching them on Paw Patrol and i thought they were made up animals!

  • @ReLockCo
    @ReLockCo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey whistle boy!!!! I want to get into voice acting, but would just be happy helping people on TH-cam for now. I have a pretty deep voice actually.

  • @fredmidtgaard5487
    @fredmidtgaard5487 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The eels breeding and life cycle was discovered nearly a hundred years ago by the Dana expedition by the Danes.

  • @kylestephenson3004
    @kylestephenson3004 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The narwhal horn is for breaking ice so it can breathe

  • @fiedelmina
    @fiedelmina 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the oar fish might be a giant of the deep sea, it certainly isn't an "invertebrate"...