Saw this pose in other sub. A humpback whale remains in the "middle" of rainforest (said to only be 15-25 meters from the shore). How exactly do you think it got there?
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DrunkEnIndian@reddit
From the Noadic floods 2000 years ago. Read the Bible and learn the truth!
IWishIWasTisteAndii@reddit
🤦♂️
DrunkEnIndian@reddit
🤣🤣🤣
Trick_Garage_8455@reddit
Not sure why this is hard to understand?
carpthefish123@reddit
Not surprised the whale died, the rainforest is no place for a whale to be
JustinTime5591@reddit
That is why 'a humpback whale remains in the rainforest." It's dead, not going anywhere.
Cryogisdead@reddit (OP)
Was it simply due to tides?
horitaku@reddit
Serious answer, there was debate when this picture first showed up that it was already dead and in the early stages of decomposition, and therefore still floating, when a typhoon or some sort of rogue wave (or even a tsunami) some years back deposited the corpse much further up past the tide line.
Artemis_SpawnOfZeus@reddit
Serious answer, no you're wrong.
The whale carcass was moved by people after it decomposed.
OarsandRowlocks@reddit
A wave hit it?
sk3pt1c@reddit
And then the front fell off
Bat2121@reddit
Which is not typical.
PalatialCheddar@reddit
Thank goodness that whale made it past the environment
erossthescienceboss@reddit
In the business we call that “bloat and float.”
Upstairs_Bike3409@reddit
What business is that?
Thailure@reddit
Goats and Boats.
momibrokeyourchutney@reddit
The bloating and floating in the goating and boating community has gotten far out of had in recent years
Lizalfos13@reddit
I believe this was linked the the phenomenon known as a tidal bore
walkyslaysh@reddit
Not tide. Storm surge
Lizalfos13@reddit
Tidal bore
pinelandpuppy@reddit
Storm surge.
sa11os@reddit
I'd guess the lack of water. /s
Not-youraverageghost@reddit
🤣🤣🤣
DeltaBlues82@reddit
Or storms.
The_Original_Fisch@reddit
I swear this was from somewhere else... ive seen this before..
plarah@reddit
It’s definitely not.
But not as untenable as the stratosphere of a planet. Somebody better look for a smashed bowl of petunias around the carcass.
KitchenSandwich5499@reddit
What’s the improbability of that?
NSASpyVan@reddit
What's that sound rushing past me? I'll call that wind!
VulnerableValkyrie@reddit
What’s this thing rushing towards me very fast?
Very big and flat and round, it needs a big sounding name like ground!
I wonder if it wants to be he my friend?
FixergirlAK@reddit
Oh no, not again.
Consistent_Pair78@reddit
r/deathstranding
Ok_Lingonberry7690@reddit
Shellfish were found on mt Everest. Don’t think a world wide flood is out of the question, especially when you take into consideration carbon-14.
Survival-instincts@reddit
I would say a very large wave caused by a meteor or earthquake.
Bhydex@reddit
Whalenado
Chemical_Print6922@reddit
Severely underrated comment
river_song25@reddit
*looks skeptical af the green thing* its a what now?
BigBeeff_21@reddit
Maybe a big storm? Happens in Australia on a smaller scale, could have been a crazy big storm and threw the whale a couple hundred miles
KitchenSandwich5499@reddit
Washing the whale a few dozen meters up the beach is one thing, but throwing a whale a couple hundred miles seems a bit much
BigBeeff_21@reddit
Hey idk I'm just brainstorming here
KitchenSandwich5499@reddit
That’s ok, it’s an awesomely funny mental picture though
marinated_artichokes@reddit
Levithinian bones
GroundControl29@reddit
It's sad that my first thought was "AI?"
Express_Radio_9771@reddit
This is Corcovado National Park. It’s right near the beach. The carcass was hauled up from the shore and the bones were reassembled when the whale decayed.
curioustravelerpirat@reddit
Why?
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
Booorrriinnggg
ebulient@reddit
But accurate, which is far more useful, esp in this day and age. I’ll take accuracy over entertainment any day!
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
100% agree
StateYourBusinessEgg@reddit
Happy Cake Day! 🥳
terra_terror@reddit
Hauled up by people? They should not be doing that in a national park. First of all, it's important for whale carcasses and the nutrients they contain to return to the ocean. They can't do that if a bunch of humans bring them away from the beach. Secondly, national parks should be left as natural as possible, with very limited human interference. Bringing a whale's corpse into a forest is definitely interfering.
grzilla@reddit
I can confirm this too! In this National Park you’re required to have a local guide be your shaman. He told us the same thing.
walkyslaysh@reddit
Storm Surge.
OutkastAtliens@reddit
Is this west coast Canada? I think I might have been to this one. Not 100%. The one I saw was moved there to stop people stealing bones or something.
LocationAlive@reddit
RFK jr. obviously
xenosilver@reddit
Hurricane storm surge
enigmatic-dr-scully@reddit
Strangely the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunia’s was ‘oh no, not again’.
plarah@reddit
“I wonder if it will be friends with me”
PerformanceMedium392@reddit
OK, this line makes me tear up every time I read it.
asking_for_it@reddit
A bird dropped it.
Chipshotz@reddit
Beached..Time..Tide..Time..Trees
ThatOneGuy532@reddit
Lol, my biology professor was part of the group that carried the skeleton in the jungle, he told us when we went on a trip there last week
antrax131@reddit
Walking in the rain
Comfortable-Novel-81@reddit
MrUpVoteDownvote@reddit
😂
madcoins@reddit
They used to walk on land. Are we sure it’s not just very old?
InternationalArt6222@reddit
A fucking big wave would be my first guess
Alternative-Will3@reddit
So, have you read Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy?
Ritoki@reddit
It's the whale at the end of the Flow movie!
Comfortable-Novel-81@reddit
Visible-Carry7124@reddit
Did they find a bowl of petunias in the area?
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Mack_Daddy_1@reddit
Improbability Drive
Slith_81@reddit
I think it looks like some prehistoric fossil of an insectoid with massive mandibles.
liquor_ibrlyknoher@reddit
'Oh no, not again' says a nearby bowl of petunias.
Vast-Mousse8117@reddit
A big cat could take up parts of the whale to eat. I've been watching Jaguars haul animals out of the water and into the forest. Seems like a Mountain Lion could do the same or wolves. Beautiful world.
TokenEffort1@reddit
You think a Jaguar could pull a humpback whale, in its entirety, 20m into a forest? They’re impressive cats but maaaate, a whale?!
Vast-Mousse8117@reddit
Of I was just riffing on another person in comments saying this scene in the picture had to be reassembled. So I assumed we were looking at parts of a dead whale that were scavenged, dragged off to be eaten over a few days.
FYI whether I'm right or not I've been reading about jaguars and restoration of their habitat, and they are amazing animals.
https://panthera.org/blog-post/hungry-jaguar-eats-dolphin
TokenEffort1@reddit
Very considerate Jaguar to reassemble the scavenged parts back into their anatomically correct positions! jk
LlaneroAzul@reddit
15 meters ain't that much.
blueViolet26@reddit
That part of Brazil is not rainforest. It is the Atlantic Forest.
TesseractToo@reddit
I think this one was brought up by a king tide, it was a young one and probably already dead and bloated so it was floating higher than a live one due to bloat
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/26/world/dead-humpback-whale-brazil-trnd
ignaciolasvegas@reddit
Was it on its birthday deathbed?
EpicSH0T@reddit
He's smelling like a rose now!
doxtorwhom@reddit
Just like The Black Rock from LOST
peepeepoopoo94@reddit
I blame RFK Jr
AccurateJerboa@reddit
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/world/dead-humpback-whale-brazil-trnd
Particular-Smile5025@reddit
During flooding!? Or tides ?