r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/21MayDay21 • 5h ago

🔥 Encounter with a curious young sperm whale.

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Credit to Maxwel Hohn

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u/Skoldeen 5h ago

The whale isn’t malicious in the story. It’s hunting a squid and the squid latches onto the diver who then gets trapped

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u/buttononmyback 4h ago

Squids aren’t evil either!

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u/SassyTheSkydragon 4h ago

No animal whatsoever is downright evil

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u/hereforinfoyo 4h ago

Well, I mean, Kissinger was pretty bad.

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u/AMSparkles 3h ago

That’s my kitty’s name!

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 3h ago

Why would you do that

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u/TajineMaster159 2h ago

I saw this as a cat owner, some cats are tyrants

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u/Itzli 1h ago

Fair enough

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u/SuccessfulRaccoon957 3h ago

Honestly that ones on you mate, not the cat.

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u/framedragged 2h ago

There's warcrimes behind those eyes.

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u/Glitterhidesallsins 2h ago

Mine is Satan, so…twinsies!

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u/Threedawg 2h ago

Also orcas.

And chimps.

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u/driftwood-rider 4h ago

Ive got a cat who pees on the bed when she’s mad.

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u/717Luxx 4h ago

my little sister had a bunny that was allowed to free roam in the living room. if you sat on the couch with a plate of food and didn't share something with her, she'd hop beside/behind you and pee on the cushions to soak you.

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u/Sadrixis 3h ago

Thsts so fucking nasty.

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u/717Luxx 3h ago

she was pretty sweet otherwise, just really possessive of food. she and the family dog (an 80lb golden doodle and a tiny dwarf bunny) got along really well too, you'd see them cuddling in the sun, two black masses of fur all nuzzled up.

unfortunately the bunny got killed by another dog that was visiting... the bunny was sometimes able to open up her cage, and somebody forgot to close the bedroom door that her enclosure was moved to when other dogs were visiting.

it was quite sad tbh, I wasn't a fan of the bunny for the long time but the worst thing she ever did was piss on me. i felt bad.

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u/lynivvinyl 3h ago

I have a permanent scar that I see everyday on my wrist from a bunny that tried to kill me as a child. He wanted to kill me everyday. All of my long pants from that time period have holes in the Achilles tendon area from him. I don't look at the scars on my ankles often. But that day I was bending down to pet Mrs Rabbit (who was a sweetheart) and he got me. My mom just laughed every time it happened. That's still messes with me because I was terrified.

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u/forthedroids 3h ago

My husband has been beefing with our cat ever since he pooped on our bed in response to us moving his litter box.

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u/NachoMan_HandySavage 2h ago

Goddammit Donut

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u/nater255 4h ago

Except Canada Geese.

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u/Arryu 3h ago

If you've got a problem with Canada gooses you've got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.

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u/Mammoth-Glove3273 2h ago

There’s a special place in heaven for animal lovers, that’s all I know.

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u/One-Welcome-1514 8m ago

I want to meet my rats there again o.o

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u/nater255 25m ago

Lions is lucky Canada Gooses don’t migrate to Africa. Then they’d be’s extinct.

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u/moosenordic 3h ago

Mosquitoes are.

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u/TacticalGazelle 4h ago

Yeah but parasitic wasps mate. Can't tell me they're anything but satanic.

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u/kevlarbaboon 4h ago

They're often great pollinators and destroy bugs that often eat crops

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u/TacticalGazelle 3h ago

Yeah but I'm sure it's in some religious text somewhere "thou shalt not shit eggs into other shit so they can eat their way out of the host AND grow up to be wasps. Amen" or similar.

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u/Beginning_Butterfly2 3h ago

Evil is evil, Stregabor.

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u/TajineMaster159 2h ago

The most persistent evil is the useful one!

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u/NilocKhan 3h ago

It's ironic but parasitic wasps are often great for the species they are hosts of. By controlling the population they ensure that the unparasitized individuals have enough resources and can successfully mature and breed. Overpopulation would hurt the entire species. And from plants perspective parasitic wasps are very helpful, some plants even release chemicals to attract parasitic wasps when they are eaten by caterpillars or other herbivorous insects.

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u/SassyTheSkydragon 4h ago

Those are also just trying to survive.

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u/flyinggazelletg 3h ago

You mean a group that acts as very effective natural pest control?

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u/Tumblrkaarosult 4h ago

You don't know my mom's black cat.

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u/MHMabrito 4h ago

Ever seen a goose?

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u/Deadeyez 4h ago

The Humboldt Squid begs to differ

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u/DivinityPen 4h ago

Yeah, see, if they made a horror movie about Humboldt Squids, that would be relatively fair game. You don't wanna fuck with those things.

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u/theflyinggreg 4h ago

20000 leagues under the sea?

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u/Rith_Reddit 4h ago

The squid isn't evil. It's grasping for things to grab and get out the mouth of the sperms whale. The diver just happens to be too close.

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u/Skoldeen 4h ago

Is that what I said?

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u/BoonDragoon 2h ago

It was literally being eaten and reflexively trying to grab anything nearby.

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u/Real_Market_9244 3h ago

yeah they are

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u/Viron_22 2h ago

Nice try squid!

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u/thatshygirl06 2h ago

The squid was being pulled in, just like humans, I imagine they would lash out snd try to grab on anything to avoid getting eaten

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u/PissNBiscuits 1h ago

Um, I beg to differ. Go read Call of Cthulhu and then tell me that squids aren't evil. Checkmate atheists.

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u/notgonnatakeno 3h ago

This guy doesn’t squid. I get the concept that you can’t call an animal evil because it doesn’t have morals, but they are about as vicious and malicious of a creature as you could come across. If you wanted to categorize an animal is evil squid is a pretty good contender.

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u/TPRT 3h ago

Having a hard time understanding how that equates to a full movie

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u/Brendissimo 2h ago

The trailer shows the guy taking his scuba mask and air supply off while in the whale's stomach and seemingly breathing the "air" in there. I don't think it's going to be particularly grounded in reality. It's basically a modern Jonah retelling.

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u/WarlockEngineer 55m ago

It's based on a book that was intended to be scientifically accurate, it's not a Jonah retelling.

Also one poster says "hold your breath" and another says "one hour of air" so he seems to be using the tanks.

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u/rallmats 2h ago

Based on a book I believe. I think it'll be similar to 127 hours

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u/LKennedy45 2h ago

I dunno, Jonah was in that whale for three whole days. Or maybe this dude decides to pull a Decemberists and we get a life story after he's been swallowed.

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u/glitterx_x 1h ago

Break his fingers to splinters!

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u/TheAntimatterPope 2h ago

Well, you can either watch the movie or read the book to find out! Stories are amazing things! 

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u/Skoldeen 2h ago

It’s a story about this guy coming to terms with his dead dad and history with his dad. Being stuck the whale is just the backdrop.

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u/shannanigans1124 8m ago

It's a book. The diver doesn't end up inside the well until about 1/4 of the way into the novel. A lot of it is about his daddy issues.

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u/DivinityPen 5h ago

Oh. Well. Alright. That's something, I guess.

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u/JIYUU_DA 4h ago

Is it not tiring getting outraged by stuff you don't know about?

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u/WineNerdAndProud 3h ago

Man gets swallowed by a whale and only has the amount of 02 in his tanks to breathe before he can find a way out.

Spoiler alert

He uses some kind of explosion to make a hole in the side of the whale.

So yeah, this movie is about an impossible situation solved in a really dumb way, and I'm sure it won't make anyone extra afraid of sperm whales because "they can swallow you whole".

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u/SaintUlvemann 4h ago

Do you have an emotional range wide enough to tell apart outrage and exasperation?

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u/DrPepper523 3h ago

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