Brainy Giant: How Sperm Whales Learned to Outsmart their Hunters | Wild to Know
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The sperm whale is the world’s largest toothed predator. It also has the biggest brain of any animal on earth. This mind has helped them outwit their natural predators, but what happened when sperm whales came up against humans?
With fascinating facts and footage of pod life, we explore how sperm whales learned to evade 19th-century whalers. It’s an incredible story of survival - yet now these marine giants are facing new threats.
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💡 scientific sources:
02:13 - spermaceti organ
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02:47 - echolocation
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03:14 - biggest brain
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04:01 - marguerite formation
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04:42 - whalers' success rate drop
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🔗 video sources:
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American Film Institute: Robert J. Flaherty / Nanook of the North, USA 1922: catalog.afi.com/Catalog/movie...
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Azores aerials of sperm whales (cinematographer: Mark Romanov, IG: @mark.romanov)
With Permission from Região Autônoma dos Açores under Filming Permit Number #12A-ORAC-2018.
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i dont care about whales, people must only care about other people
I wonder if whales and dolphins tell oral legends of the hunters as scary stories
One thing is true, they are not like us in that way. They are animal full of compasion, so probably they can forgive not forget. Otherwise we wouldn't have whales approaching to the boats.
@@gowhales3002 lol nature isn't like that sorry to say.
@@tufftraveller4784 lol what about "nature" you refer to? 🤔
@@gowhales3002 I mean dolphins rape everything they see
@@Frank-wr2nf tuff traveller is that you? 😅
I'm Norwegian, my grandfather and great grandfather were wailers. Wales was called fish back then. I spent much of my
childhood at grandpa's watching wailing videos (VHS) aquired from museums around Vestfold. It's sad what they did to those magnificent animals, especially as in the later years of wailing (the 1950s) even the hunters themselves knew the Wales were almost gone. Norway has a strong hunting fishing culture, it was not in our nature to wipe out populations. However, with the whales, industry and greed took over. Norway still whales, but only a small quota of mink whale, sustainably harvested.
Hard to blame those people working there, times were not easy and I doubt most of em had an understanding of what exactly they were doing on a grand scale.
@@youtubeconsumer22 they’re mammals….
@@youtubeconsumer22 then why did you say that they’re technically fish?
@@youtubeconsumer22 so op’s father/grandfather were incorrect, whales are endothermic, give live birth to their young and feed them milk for the first months of their live, mammals by definition.
@@youtubeconsumer22 Can't be both a mammal and a fish
“They would escape upwind so the sailboats couldn’t follow”
Ok, those wales are pretty dang smart, because even I didn’t think of that.
The whales know how sailboats work 👀
The whales definitely have a word for wind, and told each other to go upwind from the boats.
Remember that it took them years. While the whales are clearly intelligent, you shouldn't assume more than is necessary for this to work. They likely have no idea how sailboats work. They just tried all kinds of different tactics over the past years until one worked. Then the succesful one survived and got passed on.
So cool 👍
They don't head straight upwind at the sight of a sailboat. They circle around until they notice the boat isn't following them.
@@myosotis4507 No that's incorrect. Researchers believe the whales literally have terms for weather, objects, actions, etc. There has been a lot of work in recent years to use AI to decode this communication.
@@Supernoxus Actually recent research appears to show that you are dead wrong. It very much seems like they have a language of their own with different ways of communicating about the environment, a language of sorts.
Ship strikes seem like something they could learn to avoid on their own. Sound pollution less so since it's just omnipresent, and communication ranges are probably many times shorter than they once were even in low noise areas like point Nemo. The communication range issue is particularly insidious as it not only hurts the whales but hurts their ability to spread solutions to mitigate the problem, or any other problem, as well as to find other pods to communicate up close with. Sound pollution effectively reduces the intelligence of the whale population by jamming inter-pod communication and thus causing cultural isolation.
What?
Your saying that the noise from ships disrupts their echolocation as well as their ability to communicate?
If I were a whale god thingy I'd make sort of short range transmitters instead of long range pod arrays, so rather than 20 whales broadcasting to 20 whales at say 1 km interval, I'd like to make it 5 to 5 with 200m interval, but I'm curious what mother nature has up her sleevea
I think with sound pollution they mean both the constant sounds of boat horns and planes etc. But also from deep sea drilling that creates giant Shockwaves of sound, it's actually insanity for any mammal of any kind to have to bare that
@@samuelginting3213 But that makes them vulnerabe to other things. Being in a pod gives them securities which probably outweigh your idea
Maybe they just need to talk louder. You don't have to be a genius to figure out that if it's noisy then you have to raise your voice to be heard. The real threat to these whales is their lack of intelligence.
I quess that the fast spread of tactics implies that the whales used some form of structured language to pass the informations. They were not able to learn by observing the new behaviour and mimicking it. That had to be some stuctured message like "When those new things (ships) approach your pod, don't try the usual defensive 'wheel' tactics, but dismantle the pod and swim upwind individually. Otherwise you die."
Yes of course. We know now that they even have a more complex grammar that us. Science is about to translate what they are saying!! Check that out in Natgeo bro!!
Maybe we dont wanna know what they're thinking about us tho...
@@gowhales3002
Dude, you are smoking something else
These were debunked long ago along with the fact that chimpanzees were communicating with us.
It was more of a learned and trained behavioral structure
It has been proven that dolphins have an actual, structured language. I think these beautiful behemoths do as well. All cetaceans must have a complex communication system. Different pods have their own dialect, but others can learn it somehow. It's amazing! Unfortunately, we'll probably never crack the mystery of their secret code.
@@SATYAMSINGH-ly8kb Yes I'm doing psychedelic lsd like, mdma and ayahuasca like many scientists nowadays 🤗 and No, we're talking about the biggest brain on earth, a whale nation that use a complex grammar even more complex than ours called codas, clicks morse-like that evidence more than a language, a dialect and not just one, many! As many different sub groups of a species are, like different accents and vocal signatures. Check this in Natgeo ✌🐋 with all this data they trying to decode what they are saying. We know what Gorillas can say what they think for example because we trained them to do it based in human concepts, this is totally different. I'd say we are looking in the wrong direction to look for alien life and intelligence. We must first know our inner world.
That's pretty amazing that they basically outsmarted us for a time. The earth has so many amazing, unique animals from a tiny hummingbird to huge whales and everything in between. We need to admire and only shoot them with a camera. Except centipedes, I think we can get by without them just fine, just kidding, kind of.
Are you even a vegan?
@@xianseah4847 nah, but once we can survive only on cultured meats (cultured meaning no-suffering, grown in a bio reactor) and crops I think it's only a matter of time before most of the people in the world are no longer hurting decently intelligent animals for their food.
We really do live in a world with the most beautiful nature that houses the most amazing flora and fauna and we have to take good care of it because #terramatters 🌳🐳🌎
There are these centipedes here in Toronto that look like a early 19th century moustaches!
Centipedes mostly leave us alone, and aren’t all that bad. Mosquitoes and ticks, however…
After all, they’re basically the only real natural predators we have left at this point.
Sperm whales literally take the phrase "It's big brain time" a reality
Good waifu bad show
i have never heard that phrase in my life
Where do they take the phrase? To dinner and a movie?
Galaxy brain
Actually their brain is quite small relative to their body size.
in all aspects, this production was _exceptionally_ well done. also, i didn't know about the whales evading whalers by staying upwind. that's truly remarkable.
5:48
Entire history of humanity summarised
Well said!
Ironically, even peaceful farming... because we can become overzealous and strip the land creating drought and soil erosion. The Dust Bowl is a great example.
Unregulated human behavior has negative consequences
We're the only species that actually cares about what we exterminate and tries to prevent ourselves from doing so purely for the other species.
Us changing the enviroment and how the outside game works is all a part of evolution. Plenty of species are growing and thriving solely because of the safety our cities provide for them, while others cannot deal with this and are dying out as the result of it. It's just like when the dinosaurs showed up. Some species thrived due to their presence, others were hunted to extinction.
@@dustingaethje1332
Classic case of human arrogance. "We are the ONLY..." Typical human zeal!
@@samuelmatheson9655 hmm dunno i think we're overstock.
Why is no one apparently seriously studying sperm whale communication? The fact the can pass on knowledge and culture is a major breakthrough in our understanding of higher animals
they do recently read somewhere that some reserchers try to use AI to decode their language
@John Everyman bruh yes there is
Tons of it
However we are unable to actually understand what they say
Sperm whales send signals to each other and its believed to rely alot of information
@@thatdamncrow9197 That's not "language" it's just communication.
@John Everyman languages do not need syntax or grammar
Thats something we as humans use but it isnt a requirement of languages
@John Everyman and culture is also not a requirement
Language the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other
"Hey mark how's it going in your pod?"
"Not good man a bunch of giant things are attacking us"
"Oh, well i know something man lemme teach you"
lmao thats probably kinda accurate
The sperm whale has the dubious honor of being the most hunted whale of all times.
After in the 19'th century, the stocks became so depleted that just catching them would send a crew out for months on end, the focus was shifted to the Grey Whale. Which back then was plentiful, but was a species which didn't go down without a good fight. They would actually attack the harpoon boats, leading to the "Devil Fish" moniker.
But after the invention of modern day whaling with steam powered boats and explosive harpoons, wiped out 80% of all the baleen species in the 1920s, the harpoons were aimed at the Sperm whale, if only to keep the industry going.
Again after the second world war, when the Finback and Blue whale species became less of a viable option, the cannons were once again aimed at the Sperm whale. This is also why in old Greenpeace clips, the whales you see are sperm whales, as they always have been a valuable commodity.
I read a book called "Dolphins, smarter than humans? From the 60's and they described how sperm whales actually didn't escape or run away when one member of the pod was being hunted, they stayed with him, so whalers and scientists used to believe they were really dumb. In that way whalers could hunt hundreds of thousand of them because as they were not running away and instead stayed with the ones were hunting was really easy to kill them. I think this description is from the 20th century when technology allowed whalers to have no mercy with them as is shown in the video. Many years after they discovered that actually sperm whales were really altruistic with each other, not fighting back because they weren't able before the new whaling technichs but staying supporting the suffering of the other members of the pod that were being slaughtered. F...ing sad.
Wow thank you for sharing this story with us! This is indeed so sad to hear! Glad to see that there has been this big change and they are actually taken care of! 🐳
That is tragically beautiful 😭
Lmao get shrekt, Ishmael and Ahab win again.
Not getting away is really dumb
Altruistic and compassionate maybe true but that’s still dumb behavior no matter how you slice it
I remember rolling my eyes at the "save the whales" protests of the 70s and 80s. Watching those videos now will be like people watching environmental videos 40 years from now. Everyone should have gotten on board sooner.
May I ask you, what was it like back then? I grew up with whales as an endangered and protected species. What were the thougts of "normal" people on the whaling industry at the time?
You get disconnected to the reality of it, it's easy to feel that way when you see signs and mass crowds making a lot of noise and chaos. When you actually see animals hunted into a corner defenceless to get killed it hits differently, feels shameful and wrong.
That is so true! We all have to protect our planet - weather it is through raising awareness or other work because #terramatters 🐳🌱
@@tridentflavor7557 we didn’t give a rats ass about saving whales.
nuke the whales
These animals are borderline deities
Also, it’s terrifying that they can invent military formations to fight orcas - another animal capable of similar things.
Yeah it's like something from a science fiction book. An giant intelligent aquatic species is hunted by another aquatic intelligent species in an eternal war, but everything changes when a species of small, dextrous, intelligent land species utilizes their origins as an arborial species to build machines capable of outmatching the giant species' old tactics.
Imagine if the sea level increase drastically due to global warming and human have to live among sperm whales and orcas😬
@@thecallankids4718 Seems like an Alien Invasion Movie. Avatar style.
@@tiararoxeanne1318 With our capabilities and greed, they would be near extint. Do not.
They’re like that scene off 300 at the end where they’re all bound together facing outward. They’re defence is the same logic as that of a phalanx. Very intelligent
Humans are terrifyingly genius, such a physically fragile creature could conquer almost everything on the planet.. For good or bad, nevertheless I couldn't help but to be amazed by how creative humans could be
We totally love the fact that sperm whales once outwit their hunters thanks to their big brain 🐋🧠.
Who of you knew that these giants have the biggest brain in the entire animal kingdom?
Didn't knew about this! Glad to have been informed! Whales are such amazing creatures, and very important to the ecosystem of the oceans. Hope to become an ecologist. Love your videos.
omg i love the unironic use of 'big brain' in this ep so much xD
you guys should make a one-minute short version of this just saying how big-brained sperm whales are, and post it on socials like tiktok!
@@gmwr8066 You must be very easy to entertain. 😌
I gave this video a thumbs down when he mentioned climate change.
@@st.michaelofcigarillo2845 amen dear African brorher.
Sperm whales have been my favorite whale for as long as I can remember. The idea that only 1/3rd of their former population is still alive makes me angry. I really hope we humans can clean up our act and save these titans from the consequences of our careless stewardship of this planet.
Sperm whales also die not only from human activity but their intellect itself. I have seen some sperm whale footage who beached themselves or drowning themselves. Turns out whales are whales. They are just not that smart enough
@@anters242 some humans kill themselves in stupid ways too. or maybe those whales were old or sick. It doest really make sense this comment
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Yes, it was horrible and people were out of touch. But some of it made modern civilization and technology possible. Stages. The past is the past. Now, in their place we have out of touch, idiot environmentalists who think they are doing good, but instead making everything the worst for life, because they don't understand half as much as they think either - just like it's always been.
@@anters242 there's a lot of speculation the beaching is caused by them trying to get away from sonar. They can't plug their ears.
They communicated across their whole species to survive just like we would! That's incredible!
"Killer whale" (orca) is not a whale. The English name is a mistranslation and should have been "whale killer". It is in fact a very large dolphin.
My family never believes me when I say this.
Dolphins are toothed whales. So it is correct to refer to them as such, if only technically.
@@hrishikeshnair586 Incorrect. Dolphins are a separate suborder of Cetaceans.
@@blam320 No.
The two living cetacean groups include the parvorders Mysticeti and Odontoceti - the baleen and toothed whales.
Of these, Odontoceti or toothed whales includes the family Delphinidae or oceanic dolphins.
Unless some new development has transpired, they are toothed whales like I stated.
@@hrishikeshnair586 They are, however, separated by family. The classification of "toothed whale" means they have a common ancestor with modern toothed whales. That does _not,_ however, automatically make them "toothed whales" by definition. They are still not considered to be whales by scientific consensus.
I swam with one many years ago off the southern tip of India. It did a headstand and tail slap right in front of me. I cannot describe how majestic it was. It had an entire waterfall coming off its tail. I was by myself no snorkel or flippers or anything. I think it appreciated that. Years later under similar circumstances I swam with a southern right whale mother and calf. I cherish both these moments.
Wow this just sounds amazing and a once in a lifetime experience! Thank you so much for sharing your story with all of us - this makes us appreciate them even more 🐳
That’s too many cool whale experiences to believe.
@@sylvia106 it was only two, well two and a half lol. Why would I make that up? I've also nearly been eaten by a 14 foot tiger shark, seen (very briefly!) a clouded leopard in the wild and once had a pair of Himalayan vultures glide past my head 5600 metres up the side of the Annapurnas. The trick I've found is to just make the effort to get off the couch and travel to some wild places. Anyone can do it, just have to be prepared to take a bit of a risk every now and again...
@@planetdisco4821 And have some money to spare, haha……..
@@sayounsang pffft yeah mate I parachuted into all those places from my own private Learjet….lol
Actually I worked my arse off in construction and saved like blazes then went and trekked on a shoestring budget to all of these places to see these things. The downside to travelling like this is I’ve also had dysentery, cholera and typhoid and various tropical parasites burrowing into my skin. Still worth it….
They're like elephants of the ocean!
Elephants Re like gorillas of the savanna
Nah. They’re basically the humans of the ocean, I’m convinced that if they had the capability to make tools like we did, they would’ve.
@@samanthacallaway2276 Nah, that title belongs to dolphins
@@samanthacallaway2276 Well they're not primates so idk about that but they're not like fish either. They evolved from a doglike land mamal that went back into the ocean so that probably plays a big role in their intelligence.
It is theorised that elephants did descend from a water dwelling mammal.
"Traits were discovered that were once thought to be unique to humans" should be the field of biology's official catchphrase. Every animal is smarter than we think it possibly could be, once people start bothering to research them.
Here here
Makes me frustrated always to hear that, so arrogant to think that we just happen to be the smartest animal, without ever having properly studied the intellect of all millions of other animals.
And see them through their own lens, the way they see themselves. Not just as humans see them 🕊️
It’s crazy that y’all turned, “they swim the opposite direction of the wind,” into 7 minutes
Thank you, there's always so much more to learn about whales and this video does a great job of being both educational and upbeat enough to not be depressive about humankind just trying to kill these beautiful creatures for most of our history!
Dfq 3mill dead
@@bluescatz9053 Yes the figure is devastating. I cannot watch a single clip of whaling. They just smash my heart into pieces.
@@fvl3024 Your parents failed you
You cannot judge history with the standards we have today.
Do not write off for shame the methods of societies that have allowed all your ancestors make it possible that you exist.
We are here and now and not living in the past.
@@thedave7760 That's very true and your point is exactly what we need to see! We are not judging the past but the present. Today we have a lot more scientific facts and knowledge about how much impact and burden humans are giving to the nature. Are we doing the right thing now according to what we know? Will we give our children another you-live-in-your-presence-and-don't-judge-us answer?
(To be precise, I do not judge the past.)
I'm most amazed that they were able to figure out that going upwind would halt the ships pursuit.. Like how were they able to deduct that as the solution, were they able to surface and observe the sails and figure they were propelled by wind. Like that alone is insanely intelligent. Like crows understanding water displacement and using tools, or utilizing cars wheels to break nuts open. Animals ability to communicate with one another and observe and adapt to the world we have created is crazy cool, instead of relying on millennia of natural selection to do the work for them.
It's hardly as complicated as figuring out the mechanism of a sailboat by deducting how sails work from evaluating their structure. They just need to notice that every time they swim upwind the boats don't follow them as quickly. They don't need to know why that happens, only that it does.
@@mylesleggette7520 That is still an impressive level of detail in their perception though; the fact they even thought of observing the wind at the same time as the ships to put 2 and 2 together is insane.
@@ozvoid1245 they don't understand the correlation between the boat and the wind, they understand that going in a certain direction is safe. Not why it's safe, just that it is.
@@Amartin-mu6ojTo communicate this strategy to pods that had no prior exposure to whaling ships, there would have had to have been some element of environmental evaluation. "Go 'this' way to outrun them" is entirely meaningless, and unhelpful, without ALSO being able to deduce which way the ships *can't* go.
Add onto that the very act of communicating that message in a meaningful, intelligible way... But no.. I'm sure you're right. No doubt the concept of moving air currents eludes them to this day. They probly don't even know what they're surfacing for in the first place.... /s
I love your narrations and video editing! Very informative and entertaining at the same time. Keep up the good work!
He said Orca are whales, they're in the dolphin family, it's a basic fact of Orca. What other misinformation is being disseminated here?
You will hit 1 million with the way you do your content. The story telling is amazing.
There are probably at least one or two pods of whales that know exactly where the missing flight MH-370 lies on the Indian ocean bottom.... We should talk to them !
Yes!
"Puny human now you try talk to us?"
It's so sad what happened to that flight.
If I had to guess, based on its trajectory, I suspect the remains of that aircraft is in the hardest ocean to investigate: the one that encircles Antarctica.
The military and CIA goons on Diego Garcia know the answer!
Spermaceti is also suspected to aid with deep diving due to it's thermal properties-- essentially coagulating at slightly below body temperature and changing in specific density.
Imagine how well their understanding of fluid dynamics is with a brain like that
Funny! The professor whales must use calculus for all that too.
Spending their lives in fluid doesn't make it too difficult to figure out how it works
Poor. They don't "understand" fluid dynamics like an engineer does. They don't know or understand the math, they just go by instinct and experience.
@@greg77389 How do you know?
@@sergionada1 whales arent intelligent enough, hell humans arent intelligent enough to just understand fluid dynamics. and yes air is a fluid
"Humans invented better ways to kill." this hits deep.
so do orcas 😣
The whales adapted but the humans adapted faster
Thanx to that you're living. Otherwise weak humans would easily lose to the cruel nature.
@@Yetiiii Whaling is an extremely western/japanese activity. I am certain that my ancestors had nothing to do with it.
@@syedzohaibahmed5176 I'm not talking only about whaling, it's not so important.
And judging by your name your ancestors were much worse than western or even japanese ones, so stop to talk in such dumb way, please.
literally "Yeah, this is big brain time"
and the fact that Mark literally do the same exact strategy too (making the killer go somewhere else while you go to the other direction)
I never knew why these weirdos were called sperm whales. But now I got the secret behind that.Thank you Terra Mater for such an amazing information...🤩🤩🤩🤗🤗
whoever named them was a moron, that's why
I used to think it’s because they were shaped slightly like sperm cells
It was because sailors found a white sticky fluid in their heads and actually thought it was their sperm.
We call them Potfish in Dutch, because their head kinda looks like a big soup pot, I know they're not fish, but I like Potfish better than Sperm Whale.
@@R.Lennartz I too think thats better😁🤭🤭
It breaks my heart how people can be so cruel and clueless to such amazing animals....
How were those humans so ‘cruel’ and ‘clueless’ exactly? And what makes these whales so ‘amazing’? They killed other animals too, does that make them cruel as well? And before you say “they did it for food” so did the humans, they needed to put food on the table for their families yet here you are judging them and calling them ‘cruel’ and ‘clueless’. Get off your high horse and wake up to the fact that you are privileged relative to the life they were living and therefore can’t judge them…
@@zayk7095 naa it was still cruel. Just because someone is making a living off of something doesn't make it perfectly okay to do so. By that logic, poachers of rare animal skins and horns who've driven certain animals close to extinction are also just "making a living". The problem is not making a living, the problem is that they're not just calves or chickens to grow in a farm, they're incredibly important for the ecosystem and for buffering climate change. And we didn't just make a living off of it, we drove them and every other possible mammal to the brink of extinction. It's people like you that need to understand the value of everything, and that we can't just take and take and not look back, we have to create methods of conservation, and allow them to repopulate and thrive at least for some time. It's the fact that we're driven by greed that makes these practices not okay.
@@zayk7095
Truly a woman moment. She probably typed her comment on her cell phone while sitting on her comfy mattress.
Parts of that were too difficult to watch but i am happy that those wonderful creatures have survived. I hope they continue to do so for millennia yet...
Wow, amazing video! Never knew this. This was a very interesting video, loved it. Thanks for quality content, what an underrated channel!
Humans take a bow…. for being such a shameful species.
I think we did what any other species on this planet would do if they evolved to have our ingenuity. However, that doesn't excuse us.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Once we gained the power to determine the life or death of any species, we should've done our best to find out what would be the consequences of our actions.
No
We're the only species that actually cares about what we exterminate and tries to prevent ourselves from doing so purely for the other species.
Us changing the enviroment and how the outside game works is all a part of evolution. Plenty of species are growing and thriving solely because of the safety our cities provide for them, while others cannot deal with this and are dying out as the result of it. It's just like when the dinosaurs showed up. Some species thrived due to their presence, others were hunted to extinction.
Does that ‘care’ extend to the billions of farmed animals brutalised on an industrial scale?
The only animals left on earth on a percentage basis are Homo Despicabulus & farmed animals. What a show of success!
Fail……
@Sheikh Yerbouti you throw so much hate around for being someone from a country that __________ . You fill in the blanks.
Whales being hunted:
Yeah, it's big brain time.
They swam upwind. Pretty darn smart but of course people then developed the internal combustion diesel marine engine that can power upwind. I think they should have tried swimming in one direction, take a deep breath, dive down a hundred feet, then turn in the opposite direction. Every time the ships get close double back. Big ships go a long distance to make a full turn so it might have worked even with powered ships.
Lets all be honest, we learn more in this channel than our school, Channel terra matter is really amazing!!
Our* school. Clearly lol
@@nickromo8195 sorry its been a while since i expierience face to face classes. LOL
You must not be paying attention in school. The information in the video was scattered and terrible. It barely even covered the actual topic of the video. The whole thing that sperm whales supposedly first learned in 19th century was; 'swimming away'. And that information wasnt presented until the 4th quarter of the video.
Someone obviously doesn’t pay attention in school lmao
The fact other animals have language and communication as complex as our own yet in the form of whistles is so precious. We must preserve this. But for those who still kill these, may the brains of these creatures prevail. Though unfortunately pesky humans have all kinds of technologies that make it a whole lot harder...
Its not nearly as complex as our own.
They really are precious animal that we have to take much care of 🐳
@4one14 i never said anything to suggest they werent complex, what i said is definetly right, they dont have communication as conplex as ours, theres nothing wrong with that because they dont need it.
@@n.g.s1mple29 and how would you know?
Do you know what they communicate
@@thatdamncrow9197 "how would you know ?" People ask that same foolish question all the time. I know because for one you have people who spend most of their lives studying these animals and their relatives, their work clearly shows that while conplex these animals these animals dont have communication as complex as our languages. Secondly these animals wouldnt need thwir communication to be as complex as ours in the first place, their environment doesnt require it, the only reason our communication is this complex is because we are sapient, we created a sophisticated environment around ourselves which made it beneficial to convey a variety of ideas and concepts.
seeing the phrase “monkey lips” pop up right when i called the whale a cumbrian is throwing me off
Such a cool little documentary! Super informative too! And I love the background music..it's almost like they're jamming & swimming to it
🐋🤣 or possibly I've had too much THC today 😅✌
All the information of an hour long documentary squeezed into a 7 minute video. Awesome!
Thamm you so much Jenny for your kind words! Our team is always trying their best 😊
Whaling is one of the most unfathomable human ignorance and absurdity.
Why? Whales were hunted as other animals were hunted or fished. Over millenia. And the whale oil was a very good argument for that hunt. It was the industrialised hunt that was endangering the species. But it was again the technical revolution and inventivness that overcame that need for whale oil.
Whaling is, in fact, a small scale problem. The real killer of whales and other oceanic animals is eating fish, as they end up dying painfully in industrial fishing nets.
If you want to saves whales, dolphins, sea turtles, etc. you have to stop eating fish.
Nah, it wasn’t ignorance. They knew exactly what they were doing. It was for money, money, money. Human greed wins again, at the expense of all else.
@@GordonSeal most of industrial fishing comes from hunting wild fish. On the bright side, fish farming is catching up fast, which does far less collateral environmental damage..
I am always fascinated how professional those videos from Terra Mater are... They are really too underrated...
"How Sperm Whales Learned to Outsmart their Hunters"
They took the Red Krill.
get out
They were living a peaceful life until the human came along. Imagine if the Sperm whale could walk or have hands.
Change happens. If it‘s not humans, it‘s something else.
Or fire torpedoes.
Peaceful life? You forgot the killer whales
If a sperm whale could walk or have hands they’d turn around and do exactly what we are doing.
Nah bro.
Very interesting video! I love sperm whales, they are truly amazing and highly intelligent beings!
Humans when chopping apart a sperm whale’s head for the first time: _This is my kingdom come, this is my kingdom come_
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0:08 19th Century, not 18th. In the 18th Century they were still hunting the Right Whale primarily.
That was because they ran out of larger whales to hunt, that's how it got it's name
@@ethanstyant9704 Huh? They were called right whales because they were the right whales to hunt--they were large, slow, and had lots of blubber. It wasn't until the end of the 18th C when whaling developed into a major industry and had expanded into the Pacific that they turned their attention to the more blubbery, but more difficult to catch, sperm whales.
Whales are truly wonderful beings!
The end of "This time.. there may not be escaping us." with the cheery, frenetic music, it's left an impression.
Loved hearing how they would swim upwind of the (sailing) whaling vessels!
Killer whales are actually dolphins. According to my 6 year old daughter… turns out she’s right!
Yeah, kinda bothered me that they didn't bring that up in the video. Orcas are not whales 😅
But theyre indeed a toothed whale, cuz theyre cetacians.
Think about this like this, "all dolphins are whales but not all whales are dolphins".
@@lo-rez They're dolphins, and dolphins are whales.
don't ever forget that
@@Wsp8688 Well, they are classified as toothed whales because of their suborder, but their specific family under the Odontoceti suborder is Delphinidae-oceanic dolphins
I'm in awe, nature is so beautiful. How does it evolve such intricacies? Evolution is so intriguing and beautiful. Thank you for this amazing video, Terra Mater. 🙏🏾
Self-preservation.
Evolution is indeed amazing, whales ancestors lived on land that went back into the ocean, hence why they breathe air
Yes nature is amazing indeed. But thinking evolotion is real is just an insult for nature
@@Umut_9182 Denying the concept of evolution in the middle of a pandemic caused by a virus that is apparently undergoing mutation on a regular basis is an insult to human intelligence.
@@JasonMomos what evolved first? Your heart, your brain ,your liver,your blood cells that carry oxygen to the lungs or was it your blood?
I watch a lot of animal videos, but don’t usually subscribe but for this one I heard his voice the first few seconds and he sounds like a good narrator for this
Did they know WHY we couldn't move against the wind? That is absolutely incredible. I love them!
My heart squeezing and I’m smiling so big at God’s amazing creatures.
Excellent video, very informative!!
Thank you so so much for your kind words! 😊
Whalers: *exist*
Sperm whales: Yeah, this is big brain time.
3:21 look how tiny that brain is! The fact that it's the biggest in the animal kingdom really put the size of the rest of their bodies into perspective.
Woa, i wonder if there will be a day where humans can actually have a conversation with whales!
If we don't kill them all before that for our own commodities
Whailers: *arrive*
Spermwhales: Big Brain time
These guys were my favorite animal as a kid.
Well, sperm whales and horses. :)
I wrote my 4th grade report on them. We've learned a lot about them since then.
Thanks for the share!
Hi! That's so sweet! We're glad you enjoyed the video :)
saying they used the whale oil to power light reminds me of Dishonored's lore
1:20
that whale literally shat all over the family
If u look close enough they shifted every time they dive
Whale mothers babysitting each other's young is so adorable
Makes one wonder what it would be like, if there were some ascended terrestrial species that could somehow defy gravity like the avians, technologically outclassed everything, housed themselves above, and hunted humans so tenaciously as we do other life.
this was a very interesting video!
Thank you so much Laure 😊
People need to stop being selfish. We're the ones with thicc heads not whales.
People need to stop being selfish
said the human who burns coal mines mountains away to power server to watch youtube
@@17hmr243 you won't be replyingto me if you didn't do the same. Curb your hypocrisy.
@@rithvighachandrasekaran6960 no hypocrisy here. I know what my usage is doing and not hiding it behind comments like you are 😂😁😀😊
@@17hmr243 got em.
@@17hmr243 you madlad
I just love how back then, they found some sort of content inside the whale's HEAD and thought:
"yup, that's where whale stores liters of semen"
Whales: using big brain tactics.
Norway: let me introduce the dynamite harpoon.
That’s cool how the whales became lawyers and fought in court to get themselves protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Whales are smart.
So the whales communicated strategies on how to evade a particular predator to whales who had never seen said predator? It would be interesting to entertain the idea of studying the complexity of their language
How anyone could hurt these creatures is beyond me.
That is true - especially for the humans own advantage of having candles etc. 🐳
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Great video, learned a lot. Never knew sperm whales were social animals, or that they had such intense sexual dimorphism. I do feel the need to lodge a formal complaint against the chilled-out groove that started playing when you began to talk about whaling. As much as I love sea shanties, I do not support or condone whaling, and I am complaining about how much I liked the chilled-out groove you associated about it XD
It seems insane that they can learn how to avoid whalers actively hunting them. But not ships hitting them accidentally.
Probably because accidental collisions with whales happens far far less than when humans were hunting them. Still though, it seems like it would be in a whale's best interest to just avoid any large mass floating above the water at all costs.
Could we help teach them how to avoid us?
Teach em how to use GUNS
Seriously though, I really, really hope there's a way to save these animals from the worst members of our species.
@@sharksareneat8723 their clicks are basically underwater tazers to anything not a whale anyway
@@ndog0639 Lmao, they don't even meed those. If they touch you, you'll die 🤣🤣🤣
Such innocent and beautiful creatures whales are. Some people suggest they more loving than humans.
Ah yes, the brilliant stratagem of: " *RUN AWAY!* "
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Orca are in the dolphin family, it's not a whale. What other misinformation are you disseminating?
Why the clutter on the right side of the screen? Your logo and the subscribe logo are super distracting and make the video less watchable
First time watcher and I was confused by the upbeat techno while you talked about whales being killed. Music enhances the visual experience but can feel dissonant when it fails to match the emotional gravity of your content.
I hated it actually.
I liked the content but the music on this one did not fit; too distracting and doesn't draw me in overall.
In The Heart Of The Sea... Amazing Movie
It was and a better book too. Also if you ever find yourself in Nantucket, the whaling museum there has a nice exhibit on the whole Essex disaster. New Bedford MA has a very extensive museum as well complete with a half scale model of the WB Lagoda inside, pretty neat, if you're ever in the North East definitely worth a visit
@@jaysonlima9271 Thanks Alot Hopefully One Day I Do Get To See It I Appreciate It..
Imagine how frustrating it must have been to miss a target that's the size of a bus, lol.
Clever of them to travel upwind to escape the sail powered boats
I was hoping they would have also had a strategy for industrial ships
I kinda feel disgusted that we’re the same species as the hunters
I feel that way when it comes to be an American and slavery,
Ha luv it 😍 well put pal 😉😎
@@andrecarter2358 everyone had slaves. You act as if Americans invented slavery and were the cause of the slave trade when it was the British that brought slavery to North America.
There’s nothing wrong with being human the fact that you’re self aware of our mistakes shows that we’re not all bad. Every species is guilty of things, we’re just too intelligent that we often are capable of evil things but we’re also capable of good things. Not every human is bad mate
@@dysfunctionalthor4719 race based chattel slavery is unique to the United States.
This was really good. I never knew, and was really fascinated!! Subscribed. Thank you for these awesome teachings. 👏👏👏
And of course yet more evidence of how bad humans are to this planet and it’s beauty. Whaling. Trapping. Poaching. Polluting. All involving immense pain, fear and slow torturous needless death. Gosh we’re soooo enlightened and evolved. 😞😖
Don't be that stupid, nature is MUCH more cruel than humans. Almost every being sooner or later suffers or dies in pain.
Fascinating 😍 I love whales 🥰🥰🥰🥰 God bless and protect all the whales 🙏🏽
So happy to see souces, for this video.
I never understood this obsession with brain size when it came to trying to gauge intelligence
A parrot's brain and an ostrich's brain are almost the same size, one can read, and speak, and plan and the other one is a doofy dinosaur bird.
Our own brains are smaller than many mammals yet here we are
A miniature dachshunds brain is much smaller than a Rottweilers yet they are on par when it comes to intelligence.
This seems like a well-made video, but zoology's obsession with brain size is outdated
True. Furthermore brain size by itself does not give any information, only {brain size / body size} is interesting. Complex or "intelligent" behaviours are not linked with brain size.
@@rudolflc1684 also complexity of a brain is important a „smooth“ brain would be really dumb compared to ours
Does brain size affect an animal’s intelligence? The relationship between brain size and intelligence doesn’t have to do with actual brain weight. It has to do with the RATIO of brain weight to the entire body weight. For example, human beings have a ration of about 1-to-50. Most other mammals have a ratio of 1-to-180. For birds, the ratio is 1-to-220. So the brain takes up more weight in human beings than it does in other animals.
reminds me how todays 8gb phone is Least powerful when in past just a 2gb laptop was revolutionary...
Parrots can`t speak nor read. Parrots can mimic speech and recognize some symbols, that is very different.
And zoology is not obsessed with brain size, this video does not represent the consensus of modern zoology...
Poor guys, i really wish them well
They deserve it!
My grandfather was born in 1902. I was not born until the seventies. I remember he had a small can of whale oil that he would use very sparingly on fan motors and the electric motor that ran his printing press.
There are alot of animals that can surprise you how intelligent they are. And you be surprised how complex some animals language skills can be.
This hurt my soul..
It is really sad that this was the reason they had to outsmart us humans 🐳
If every pack learned how to defend that means they explained tactics to each others? Because the alternative is that each pack experienced at least one victim
Orcas usually eat thr baby whales.
Wouldn’t the young just follow the adults when they would flee and relate that behaviour to the unusual ocean sounds they heard right before they witnessed the fright they saw in their elders, then copy that behaviour in the future when they heard that sound and teach that to their young without ever knowing it was men in ships, but just the sound of the ships.
amazing thank you!
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We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
For all we've done to these animals, and the planet I do hope that whales outlive humans.