#whales

[typhlonectes]

"Whale and Cat" by Boris Zachoder.

[the-scuba-diver-offical]

what animal's flag did you get when you liked this?

the entire ocean (rainbowwwww)

seahorses (pansexual - they form relationships with whoever they find)

southern wright whales (gay -theyve formed long term intimate mlm relationships)

albatross (lesbian - they'll enter long term flf relationships and raise chicks)

penguins (bisexual - they sometimes engage in long term mlm/flf relationships)

clownfish (trans - they change gender)

nudibranchs (nonbinary - they're simultaniously both genders)

sea stars (aromantic - they live and reproduce without a mate)

dolphins (asexual - their relationships focus on social bonds over reproduction)

mollusc (intersex - they've been found to show male and female characteristics)

Voting ended onJun 12

edits:

thank you to everyone who told me bout dolphins, personally i only thought it was 1 species of dolphin who were sexually violent, i need to do more research on that.

apologies for the 'nonbinary' and 'intersex' options - i hope everyone can undersand that finding accurte examples of these, especially specifically marine animals, is very tricky. i didn't mean to make any incorrect assumptions or steriotypes. i genuinely just meant this as a bit of fun and didn't mean to offend anyone.

[etriva]

from The Memory Palace, by Nate DiMeo

[fluffysheeps]

Cetacean cuties 🐋

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Humpback whales singing off the leeward coast of O’ahu

(sound on 🔉)

[yuumei-art]

The children will never know How the ocean used to flow They'll never miss the whales They'll never believe the tales But I will remember, I will tell Of all that lived and their great farewell

[dougielombax]

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

GRAVEWHALE!

A vast whale necropolis has been found

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of

Okay seriously this is some fascinating shit.

And I don’t know shit about fossils, marine biology or ocean research.

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

Fascinating stuff!

There’s a Moby Dick joke somewhere in there but I can’t articulate it.

Edit: This one is getting a lot of traction. Understandable admittedly.