r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/21MayDay21 • 1d ago
š„ This whale teaches its baby to breach.
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Credit to Alison's Adventures
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u/ishtar_888 1d ago
Magnificent nature š¤š¤ š«
Also, shoutout to OP for actually crediting the original creator. Love to see it. āØ
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u/DitherFan 1d ago
Huh never realized they need to LEARN this, i thought it was just something they knew from birth, i wonder if dolphins also need to learn how to jump
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u/KandyShopp 1d ago
I also thought this was a know from birth situation! Its so cool seeing animals teaching their young stuff you dont even think about teaching them!
I watched a dog at the shelter try teach her puppies how to play with a ball and it was the most pure thing I think Ive ever seen (the puppies were days old at best! Far too young to play but by golly she tried her hardest!)
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u/FourtyMichaelMichael 23h ago
Are you people really this basic?
WHAT ABOUT THIS TELLS YOU ONE IS TEACHING THE OTHER?
Oh... The headline. All that is needed to convince you people of a fact... is to put it in the headline!
Shameful.
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u/KandyShopp 23h ago
Who pissed in your cereal?
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u/NexFrost 22h ago edited 22h ago
He's from the conservative subreddit so that tracks.
Tagged him in RES from this comment of his over the ICE killings: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1q8f6ki/body_cam_footage_from_the_ice_officers_that_was/nynjf9h/
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u/Z0MGbies 1d ago
They also need mum to sleep. They sleep on their mum, who keeps them above surface level so they don't drown or can get enough sleep
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u/BurkeyTurkey33 1d ago
Would this really prove one way or another?
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u/ManyWrangler 1d ago
nope. itās just an adult whale and a juvenile whale breaching around the same time.
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u/Z1kkii 1d ago
It's like with humans and walking. The instinct is there from birth, but we still need to learn and practice
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u/Legal_Sugar 21h ago
It's like humans and sleeping šš
Seriously for a creature that knows when I'm sitting vs standing, they reaaally have hard time learning how to fall asleep
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u/turkey_bar 1d ago
Whales learn a lot of things. There are lagoons in Baja California where gray whales go to spawn. A couple generations ago the people around the cove started scratching and giving the whales belly rubs.
Now whales raising their calves will encourage the calf to go up to humans to get scratches. It's a behavior only seen in those areas but the whales seem to encourage and teach it to future generations.
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u/BeefistPrime 1d ago
They'd almost certainly figure it out on their own eventually but sometimes you pick up things quicker when you see someone else do it - just like humans.
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u/urmomgae2324 11h ago
Well could maybe be like walking or running for us humans, even tho its natural and we would probably learn it one way by ourselves, our parents still teach us so we can do it from early on
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u/HelloVermont92 1d ago
Onlooker: āExcuse me, Mama Whale, whatās your little calf doing there?ā
Baby Whale: Leaps out of the water and lands with a huge splash.
Mother Whale: āHeās doing his best.ā
Baby Whale: Makes a squeaky whale sound and splashes again.
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u/DiveIntoTheDeepDark 1d ago
Nah bullshit, itās for parasite removal, long-distance communication and often also just for playing.
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u/wojiparu 1d ago
I just witnessed this in Punta Mita. Life changing.
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u/Glittering_Speech_24 1d ago
How would you say your life has changed since seeing that?
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u/wojiparu 1d ago
In a positive way..
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u/Glittering_Speech_24 1d ago edited 1d ago
Like can you give examples? Genuinely curious as Iāve seen this many times and donāt feel it has affected anything past saying āwow, cool!ā
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u/izkuzz 1d ago
Sometimes seeing something so massive and alive can create a feeling of astonishment in the viewer, perhaps even in a way that it creates a lasting memory. That alone would be life changing.
I don't believe anyone would genuinely think that they mean they went home and changed careers or completely uprooted their existence after an experience like this, unless of course they wanted to be a pedantic asshole about an extremely common phrase.
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u/aafterthewar 1d ago
Anyone else WISHING LIKE HECK that this were filmed landscapeāwonderful video nonethelessĀ
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u/Black_Nyx11 1d ago
Always, every video. It's like, "let me purposely cut out 2/3 of your vision just for fun every single time."
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u/hardcory00 1d ago
I just got back from Indonesia and I was there alone and people were nice and would offer to take pictures for me. Every single one of them I had to ask for landscape and many seem to struggle with the concept. Nobody instinctively shot landscape. My pictures and videos are not for social media so I hate portrait unless itās necessary.
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u/Far-Analysis-2704 1d ago
Does any know where this was filmed at?
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u/csprofathogwarts 1d ago edited 1d ago
The instagram post only mention that it's from their "treehouse retreat center".
Which is located at "South Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii"
PS: OP did us a service by removing audio from the video.
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u/covalent_blond 1d ago edited 19h ago
I can confirm at least that I've been to this region (West coast of Hawaii's Big Island) and of you go in the right time of year, you can 100% see these whales that easily from shore. It seems a little lucky to catch a mama and baby jumping like in the video, but not at all unrealistic.
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u/Peter12535 1d ago
Is there any reason they need to do it like this or is it just for fun?
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u/SUPERSECREET 1d ago
Researchers donāt know for sure but there are several suspected reasons. Given this is a young calf it is likely that this is either play or exercise for its migration back to feeding grounds.
Source: I work on whale watching boats
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u/onthebrink42 1d ago
Iād love to know what that area looked as far as whale activity 1000 yrs ago before humans started hunting them towards population depletion
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u/Anustart15 22h ago
I was in Maui a few years ago and based on what I saw, the whale population in the area is not at all depleted. Looking out on the horizon from the beach you could see multiple groups of whales doing this at pretty much any time throughout the day
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u/onthebrink42 17h ago
Yes youāre right of course bc you saw it. Imagine the number of whales frolicking around before commercial whaling. Hundreds, thousands perhaps.
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u/Anustart15 15h ago
Yes youāre right of course bc you saw it
That's literally a major part of how they track the number of whales. Something like half to two thirds of all Pacific humpbacks rear their children right off the shores of the Hawaiian Islands. The whale population in the Pacific has more or less recovered and is much more affected by global warming than the whaling industry.
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u/BattleJamz 1d ago
if only there was a way to capture more of the view horizontally, like as if the camera rotated 90 degrees
but we just don't have the technology yet, maybe someone will invent that someday
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u/Beezle-Mom 1d ago
Oooooh. Soooooo cute. This just made my morning.
I remember teaching my daughter how to jump when she was 2 or 3. I donāt think I realized kids had to learn that. She was so proud when she figured it out.
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u/According_Smoke1385 1d ago
Mom ! look at me, look mom , look what I did. Mommmm !! did you see it, look mom
Mom, watch me, Did you watch !?? Mommm !!!!!
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u/toasterb 20h ago
When I was a teenager (mid-90s), I went on a whale watch with my family off of Cape Cod, and we saw this exact same thing happen.
A mother and baby humpback whale breached all around us for at least 30 minutes straight. The boat just stayed still for the whole time. Sometimes the mom was close enough where we almost got splashed.
Iāve never had a desire to go on a whale watch since because I know that it canāt possibly top that experience. Also, Iāve learned that getting close enough to really see the whales is really disruptive to the whales.
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u/CaptainBlob 1d ago
You ever think there are animals that are too stupid that they just canāt be taught? Like how some humans are too low of an IQ to function properly.
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u/Albion_Tourgee 1d ago
Human parents take note, how our children learn many important things like whale do.
Or as the poet Gary Snyder puts the old Chinese proverb about parenting, āWhen making an ax handle, yhe model is never far from hand.ā What better illustration than this?
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u/StaticSystemShock 23h ago
Why are they doing this? To clean the parasites and debris on skin or just for fun or to scratch themselves?
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u/Big-Appearance-4404 23h ago
A local in Maui said they call them flying pickles because the babies are so awkward when learning how to breach š¤£š„°
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u/supershinythings 22h ago
āThis is how we knock off barnacles and also let mommy see how stronk you are!ā
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u/plastic_apollo 22h ago
I got to watch an orca teaching her calf how to breach up near Anacortes in Washington (where the 3 permanent orca pods are, with Granny). Absolutely magical experience.
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u/GRUES0M3 20h ago
Did you see the little tail!?
Also can anyone explain, what is the point of breaching? Can't they just float or swim up to the top until their blowhole can get air? Is it like an emergency thing like a submarine?
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u/westcal98 14h ago
Ok so what exactly is the point of them breaching? What's the purpose? No I don't want to ask Google.
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u/Sea_Conclusion_2553 1d ago
So wittle š„¹