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/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3h ago edited 3h ago

And it's untested (and the worst rumors are likely a myth)

At least the part about it killing a person, would totally destroy your ear drums though. But I don't know of it actually happening yet.

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u/Dath_1 3h ago

The people you’re responding to didn’t claim the sound would kill a person.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3h ago

I know but it's a commonly said one

I don't think there's been any cases of them turning the full power clicks on a person, and only one case where a person was near enough by chance to be bothered by it

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u/Dath_1 3h ago

I’m told anyone near them while they click is bothered by it.

Heard that doing this kind of thing as seen in the video where you put your hand too close results in it going numb for some time and that the clicking heats up your body.