The size of a blue whale compared to a full grown humpback whale.

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cak3crumbs@reddit

Man that is so fucking cool. Does anyone know if they understand each others songs? They have similar diets so imagine they see each other often.

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Sideshow86@reddit

I reckon it's like accents of the same language. Like England, Scottish, Irish and American.

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hirschneb13@reddit

I think there have been documented cases of certain loners joining up with pods of a different species. I would think there has to be at least some form of communication there

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Yeah there's a wild one in the St. Lawrence. researchers have been tracking a lone male narwhal that joined a pod of juvenile male belugas back in 2016, and he's still rolling with them years later. Drone footage shows him doing all the same social stuff, blowing bubbles and playing like he's just one of the guys.

Belugas and narwhals barely ever interact in the wild normally, so the fact that he integrated that well says there's gotta be some communication happening. They're even watching to see if he tries to mate with a beluga (which would be a "narluga" lol)

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raccooncheesecracker@reddit

This is wild but makes sense. I've seen stray dogs that join packs of coyotes. There was even a dog in my old neighborhood who would get snacks from people by waiting on the porch, but he'd come back a few times a night- we theorized he was bringing food to the coyotes past the tree line, as some of the neighbors would shoot coyotes but not that dog, he was very well known and liked

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Chromasera@reddit

There is also Diesel, a donkey who supposedly took over an elk herd.

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trashmoneyxyz@reddit

Blue whales hybridize with another species (fin whales!), so I know blue whales at least interact with other species directly. Not so sure about the humpbacks though, I dont think they've ever been recorded hybridizing with another whale

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SandakinTheTriplet@reddit

There's cross communication in the entire animal kingdom, to varying degrees! Bioacoustics is the study of sounds in nature, and we know for certain that whales will pick up songs from other species of cetacea in artificial environments. How much is actually understood, we may never really know.

I think of it, non-scientifically, as being more akin to a dog sitting by a door and whining at you, which you can interpret through context clues and sound to understand that they want to go outside, rather than a more in-depth understanding.

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Stranger_to_myself97@reddit

Don’t know if there’s a way to truly know that they’ll understand each other, but they certainly hear each other.

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Homer_Jojo_Simpson@reddit

A humpback whale is 15 meters long on average and a blue whale is 30 meters on average.

This is either a tiny adult humpback whale or not full grown because the blue whale in the video is obviously much more than twice as long

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Ponytimeispoopytime@reddit

Fun fact, Blue whales are the largest species EVER to roam this earth. Topping even dinosaurs. Amazing leviathans.

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whyshouldimakethis@reddit

Not 100% confirmed but very likely

There are some ichthyosoars which might be bigger, but we have only estimates for them and not confirmed lengths

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uphigh_ontheside@reddit

Largest animal species.

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Titania_1251@reddit

Because funghi can grow bigger, you mean?

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PeterLossGeorgeWall@reddit

Trees.

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Titania_1251@reddit

I totally forgot about the existence of trees

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shadowyassassiny@reddit

Fungi are amazing to be fair

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Titania_1251@reddit

Definetly! That's why my head went straight to them

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ComprehensiveFox3268@reddit

I also forgot that trees can roam.

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Ponytimeispoopytime@reddit

Lol. Fun fact, trees are evolutionary fairly young. And plants like Bambus are not actually trees, but a kind of grass.

The biggest tree ever was supposedly the Nooksack Giant with 142 meters. For comparison, Blue Whales get up to 35 m

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Bub_bele@reddit

True. If you go back 150 million years to the cretaceous period, there basically aren’t any flowering plants around at all. No trees, no grass or wheats, no fruit. Actually barely any food humans could eat. Timetraveling back in time to and beyond that point would be a very unpleasant experience. Plus CO2 so high you’d constantly feel out of breath.

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WeirdPossibility209@reddit

I thought dinosaurs like the brachiosaurus grew so big to better eat from trees. When there weren't any, why did it get so big?

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AmorphophallusEnjoyr@reddit

Trees have existed since long before the Dinosaurs appeared. Brachiosaurus would've existed alongside many conifers and ginkgos among others.

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Ponytimeispoopytime@reddit

There were big plants, just not trees

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Bub_bele@reddit

giant ferns. And aparently some early forms of gynko trees and conifers were around for it to eat aswell. So not literally no trees, just not as the ubiquitous landscape dominating thing we know today.

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olafderhaarige@reddit

The heaviest organism on earth is actually a fungus

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PeterLossGeorgeWall@reddit

I was thinking of pando the huge tree. It looks like a forest but apparently it's just one clonal tree with the roots all interconnected.

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Efficient-Ad6814@reddit

God, trees really are so neat.

I live where there's oak, birch, etc. (Wisconsin) So imagine my absolute awe when I saw a redwood for the first time lol. I never wanted to leave! 😆 I thought (and still think) that those trees are the coolest I've ever seen!

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GeorgeMcCrate@reddit

Both.

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Nerve_Dismal@reddit

Redwoods holy cow. Unreal

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IceDuke749@reddit

“Known animal”. Which is scary to think of.

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MyGfSolos@reddit

I doubt something bigger than a blue whale lives somewhere down there in an unknown cave.

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IceDuke749@reddit

“Known” includes species that have died out millions of years ago. You need extremely specific conditions to fossilize something. Doing that in the ocean is even more unlikely and even then, we’d have to actually find it. If there ever was, we will probably never find out.

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Ponytimeispoopytime@reddit

Important correction, thank you

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F34UGH03R3N@reddit

What do you mean by „largest“?

Heaviest - sure, by a huge margin.

Longest? Probably not, some Sauropods are believed to have been a few meters longer. Some Jellyfish like Lions Mane are technically longer aswell.

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Waste-Mycologist1657@reddit

Heaviest.

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BlenderNoob1337@reddit

Quick google search says that this is not true.

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Ponytimeispoopytime@reddit

What did you find?

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BlenderNoob1337@reddit

That there were two dinsosaurs larger than the blue whale and an extinct whale species which didnt get larger, like in length, but heavier, up to 340 tons. blue whales reach "only" 200 tons

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dArksHard22@reddit

Typically when comparing size like this its mass thats considered not length. Neither of the mentioned sauropods reached close to the upper mass numbers of blue whales. The only animal youve mentioned that is even considerable is Perucetus, but given how wide of a range is given for estimated mass , I wouldnt be comfortable saying it is definitively larger

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Ponytimeispoopytime@reddit

Ah ok, thank you. Blue Whales reach Up to 35 meters in length, so could compete with the worm.

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bloodscar36@reddit

What about this specific jellyfish colony thing? If I remember correctly they can get even bigger but I'm not sure if they can count as one individuum.

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TimeStorm113@reddit

they can grow longer, but not heavier, which is what is really counted.

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puffcohittah@reddit

What a view

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nationalgeographic@reddit

What a contrast in size!

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norgeek@reddit

I thought humpbacks were in the 15 meter range and the blue whales were in the 30 meter range? Is it a very small fully grown humpback next to a particularly large blue whale? It seems like much more than double the size 🤔

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BigBen10fan@reddit

The Blue whale looks a large sardine and the humpback whale looks like a small black fish from this angle a bit

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boonhuhn@reddit

Even the Humpback looked surprised there :D

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duzzl_mc@reddit

Damn

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vestigialbone@reddit

Wow what is the source of this video?

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SurayaThrowaway12@reddit

Original video was filmed out of San Diego by Clinton Kyle Christensen (bluelifewild) via Gone Whale Watching.

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vestigialbone@reddit

Thank you!!

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iota_4@reddit

water

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Hot_History1582@reddit

Not a full grown humpback, according to the people who filmed this

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Comfortable_Two9494@reddit

This is genuinely mind-blowing! 🐋 The fact that a blue whale's heart alone is the size of a small car and their tongue can weigh as much as an elephant puts this video into perspective. And interestingly, according to recent research, scientists believe blue whale song frequencies have actually shifted lower in pitch over decades — possibly due to climate change affecting ocean acoustics. Nature never ceases to amaze us.

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Boysenberry_17@reddit

Never was able to grasp the true size until this clip. Holy. Fricking. Mackerel.

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Sweet-Weakness3776@reddit

False. Mackerels evolved to be atheists.

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Famous_Carpenter218@reddit

wow! impressive 1

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Efficient-Ad6814@reddit

r/thalassophobia type shit lol

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Easy-Fix1735@reddit

Size of a building?

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koola_00@reddit

Woah...yeah. The Blue Whales are disrespectfully big!

Wonder what the Humpback is thinking?

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forward_x@reddit

Probably thinking "Dayum!"

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Adorable_Champion_70@reddit

I love them so muchhhhh. 💙🩵🩶🤍

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barillamanilaolives@reddit

These whales might me my favorite kind. I usually see them when I am on the boat for work 💙💙💙

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Nervous_Positive83@reddit

No 😃

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Red_Wanderer878@reddit

Passing by, saying hi to each other.

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Pewpew-OuttaMyWaay@reddit

How can something make a humpback look so teeny tiny?!?!

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GeorgeMcCrate@reddit

By being bigger.

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AuroraAndOrchid@reddit

That too huge

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Western-Stock-1023@reddit

Humpback whales grow to about 45-50’ while blues can get to about 100’. So about half the size. This is NOT a full grown humpback.

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DropkickBirthday@reddit

Insane, i've never seen a whale in real life but i've seen so much whale footage that I had a idea of the size of both these whales but that idea just got shattered, blue whales are truly gigantic what the fuck.

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knaecke5@reddit

They are. Not a very practical advise, but if you ever should happen to be at the northern coast of Germany, there is a sea museum with a life-size model of a blue whale (the "Ozeaneum" in Stralsund). Most impressive thing Ive ever seen. Can recommend.

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TSJormungandr@reddit

I hope you see one someday. West coast is pretty easy to see if you take a tour boat. Humpbacks fins and maybe a blur of your south of SFO. Close to shore if you don’t get sea sick. If you are ever at Turn Again (beluga point) arm near Anchorage in the summer. Humpbacks mostly but may see belugas. East coast they are usually farther offshore. Humpbacks maybe a right whale (never seen one). Gulf of Mexico usually way out about 50 miles usually just see sperm whale out there.

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DropkickBirthday@reddit

It's my dream to go see them, i'm from the Netherlands so I can't really check them locally or even close for that matter, I was planning on going to Iceland for a whale watching tour some day though and if I ever cross the pond i'll definitely keep your recommendations in mind. The closest thing to a whale i've seen is an orca that was stranded and saved by the dolphinarium in my country, I remember being very suprised about their size as well lol, I probably think too small.

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