Whales

I partially listened to a few episodes of the podcast, but I played those on platforms where it's not easy to keep track of your progress and that I don't use often. It was interesting listening to them talk about whale facts and similar news.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12883033

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12866802

This is nice. I don't want whales to go extinct.

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It's made a big deal that whales have a specialized version of adipose tissue called blubber that apparently has a greater amount of blood vessels and is thicker than normal adipose. But, is blubber 100% of the adipose tissue content of whales, such as blue whales, sperm whales, and Beluga whales, or do whales also have regular adipose tissue?

I got the IKEA one in my house, it's pretty nice to hold in my hand. Do you have any plush figures of whales?

I have yet to see a whale in person, through I might consider going to a whale watching event. I have seen videos of such online, and it seems impressive there. Do you have any whale breaching stories you want to reveal?

Are there any humanoid whale folk in fiction you like? Do you think it makes sense to have those in fiction? If you made a whale man species for a setting you made, how would you make them act?

Anyways, that guy in the picture is Thumpback from Skylanders Giants... I have two figures of him, but one is broken and doesn't work in the games unfortunately. He's a pretty cool character in the games to play as, his attacks feel powerful and I like how he can slide on his belly. Also he uses that anchor as his main weapon.

His backstory has him as a former pirate who liked fishing more than actually being a pirate, then he got separated from his crew which later were banished to a chest. Apparently he was part of the crew of The Phantom Tide ship captained by a sea dog named Frightbeard, who is the main antagonist of the 3DS game.

What whale would you rather be? No dolphins, like the orca and bottlenose, are allowed for this question.

I think I would choose either the blue whale or Beluga whale for this. The blue whale is the biggest of them all and the beluga whale is pretty.