r/interesting • u/Jonesman439 • 1d ago
NATURE You can't convince me that wasn’t on purpose
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u/El_Matt-El_Grande 1d ago
Tiny whale, barely holding back his giggle: "Oh sorry, didn't see you there"
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u/YourNanSayHi 1d ago
Every time I see one of these videos, I think they're so cool, but if I were actually in this situation I think I would be so terrified I could hardly breathe.
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u/FreeJustForTry 23h ago
Same here. my brain would skip “this is amazing” and go straight to “please don’t let me become part of the documentary.”
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u/promaxer123 4h ago
lol
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u/FreeJustForTry 2h ago
The universal response to witnessing nature casually attempt a murder documentary lol
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u/nanotothemoon 1h ago
That’s exactly how it went down for me. Whale quite obviously did a barrel roll and timed it perfectly to skim its belly across the bottom of our little boat.
I was standing up on the edge shooting photos of another whale further away not realizing it was happening. But I saw this massive amount of white color in my peripheral vision.
I looked down to see the little size of our boat directly compared to the size of this whale. I literally couldn’t take a breath. It was like I was punched in the gut.
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u/TallulahBob 18h ago
I was on a whale watch once where the whale just came up from directly under the boat and we were kind of stuck there until it decided to do something (the sound and propellers are unsafe so the boat gets shut down until they move away). It sat there, I swear, mean-mugging us with its right eye. It was under the boat and just barely breaking the water. Then after a few minutes, it raised a little higher, tipped its blow-hole at us, breathed out at us (getting everyone very damp) and then disappeared.
It was the COOLEST moment.
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u/TsuDhoNimh2 17h ago
It's scary and awesome at the same time. Especially when you see their head coming from under the bow of the boat and their tail is way back behind the stern.
We were with grey whales in the Sea of Cortez. The young males stay away from the breeding areas and a few had been hanging out near Guaymas.
So we (just 2 people) went out with all the appropriate boating gear in a runabout AND a big tampico fiber push-broom.
Get out in the middle of nowhere, cut the engine, and the whales came up to the boat to get swept. Yes, swept. they loved getting scritched, but they are so big a broom worked better. They would roll to give access to the part they wanted to be worked on.
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u/pinoytasty 21h ago
very whalesaid
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u/OkSmoke9195 18h ago
Oh stop spouting off already
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u/oily76 17h ago
Let him fin-ish
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u/Educational_Wear1641 14h ago
Some moments just seem too perfectly timed to be a coincidence. It's hilarious when that happens.
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u/NapsCatsPancakeStax 16h ago
lol you’re absolutely right! This happened to me! In Maui while kayaking, a mama and baby came right towards us. I adore whales and I was so excited that they were approaching us, I didn’t think I’d be scared…but seeing something that big coming towards you evokes a primal fear like nothing I had ever felt. You can’t rationalize or logic it away. They came right at us and then dove right under our kayaks. I love whales so much, I’ve seen them many more times since but never that close and never in a scenario that terrifying again lol.
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u/Training-Lettuce6773 1d ago
Mom told her to do that
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u/sovereign-surrog 22h ago
That makes it even funnier. kid was just following orders, Mom was clearly directing traffic from the sidelines.
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u/searchlinkprofile 20h ago
they talk about us yes. I don't think in flattering manner, so the child definitely knows what we are.
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u/Are_you_blind_sir 1d ago
Yeah well these engines are probably annoying af when you try to talk to mom
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u/alex_203 1d ago
Like humans, animals can be jerks
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u/wise_owl68 22h ago
We're the intruders out there. Humans have done way worse things to whales and all animals.
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u/Guilty_Comb_79 21h ago
True, a whale never snuck into my house and speared me while I ate oatmeal.
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u/front_torch 22h ago
You're clearly an ass.
Why would you ever get that close to a calf trying to breach.
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u/God_Dont_Make_No 23h ago
It was trying to catch up to the mom. It got distracted by the boat and then realized that mom kept on moving. That calf is young enough that it absolutely needs to be by its mother’s side at all times. More of a “oh shit” moment.
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u/Brave_Elk5678 22h ago
At normal speed it looks a bit like that but it looks different if you watch it in very slow motion. Then you can see that the calves head is very close to the mothers head, near the front of the mothers head. Ie it’s already caught up, and THEN it lifts its tail right up high to smack down on the surface of the water with a big splash. It looks like it’s not a movement for max propulsion, it just wants to make a big splash.
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u/God_Dont_Make_No 22h ago
It isn’t. I’ve been around humpbacks every breeding season for 20+ years. People are just self absorbed and want ocean life to have some purpose that has to do with them. Trust me, it’s a daily thing for me to have people try to explain that the fish, turtle, etc was specifically obsessed with them.
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u/Dr__Snow 21h ago
Excuse me but I made eye contact with a dolphin on a whale watching cruise once and I bet it still remembers me.
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u/True-Attempt4454 17h ago
Three time in a week, i had ONE pilot fish follow me all the time at the same plage with ton of people and almost no fish at all when i was younger.
We are now married.
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u/Ms_Meercat 10h ago
I once was on a dive with 2 other divers. Pretty shallow dive like 10-12m along the ocean ground, wide open sea. Suddenly 2 dolphins came up from behind us and passed us. But instead of passing us either way (plenty of space), they divide up and pass us one on each side, and then when they are in front they do a little dance swapping places rapidly a few times.
Maybe some marine biologist knows the logic behind that behavior; but I'm totally convinced they put a little show on.
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u/Purple_Cantaloupe960 23h ago
I thought it was the head bump at first and was like, that little cheeky buggar. Then she finishes with a tail smack.
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u/Ape_hates_authority1 22h ago
Saw a freediver get too close to a Southern Right with a calf once. The mom fucked him up in 2 seconds. They may look slow and clumsy at 40tons. They are not.
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u/Moist_Phrase_6698 22h ago
To be blessed by such an incredible creature like this would be peak living
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u/KnowledgeCapital7994 22h ago
It was. And it's their territory.
Also I wouldn't be even slightly mad.
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u/Guilty_Comb_79 21h ago
All that squealing probably translated to some insult in whale.
Calf said "What did you say to me?"
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u/King-Eaglez 17h ago
As a race we're really lucky whales are as chill as they are and most giant creatures are cause man we'd be phucked royally if they weren't.
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u/Desperate_sandy 12h ago
A whale and a dolphin what am I missing here? Neither are aggressive to my knowledge. Although I do understand what you want to see in this.
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u/Usnret59 3h ago
That happened off Boston to my noaa ship mom kept baby on the side of your ship couldn't send out our launch.
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u/OkYak7801 1d ago
Just a casual reminder that they could easily kill you.
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u/tiasaiwr 23h ago
It's extremely unlikely that they would though. They are filter feeders and their throat isn't bill enough to swallow a human.
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u/MrBananaz 23h ago
he said kill , not eat
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u/snarkerella 23h ago
That's true. But Humpback whales are not known to be aggressive to humans. There would have to be a threat that is great (like to their offspring). There are many accounts of them actually saving humans in the water from shark attacks. If anything, this is more of play by a baby whale.
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u/kellstromc 23h ago
yeah, kill doesn't imply eating. But for real, aren't we lucky these things evolved to eat krill and not, you know, flesh?
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u/hmnuhmnuhmnu 23h ago
Let me introduce to you orcas
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u/kellstromc 22h ago
oh sh*t i forgot about those. but wait, aren't they weirdly friendly with humans?
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u/beanybean1810 16h ago
They were until they got sick of our s*** and started attacking boats. Who could blame them when we’re using their home as a personal trash dump, causing harm to all sorts of wildlife?
Honestly, now would be a good time for them to organize while humans are caught up infighting among the species. I, for one, welcome our new pod-roving overlords.
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