Globalization is so unnatural. Humans need to learn to make do with what has been placed in their own, natural habitats. No more unnatural migration. No more globalization. It's killing the planet and all the bio-diversity nature has blessed us with. I can't imagine the terror this whale is experiencing. We need to learn to live within the confines of nature. That needs to be enough.
Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
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Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#22I'm not actually able to find the animation in the article. Not a good source.
It's litteraly the first piece of content.
Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#23Didn’t watch, took too long to load. Let this be a lesson to web developers.
Someone else[0] posted a twitter link to the animation.
Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#24I believe I saw this on reddit last week and I feel it's disingenuous. It's sped up and meant to make it look like the whale is frantically trying to escape while being hemmed in by ships, but a more plausible explanation is that the whale is attracted to the wakes of the passing ships. This speaks to some kind of phenomenon that creates a feeding opportunity for the whale. Perhaps a marine biologist can speak more i…
The conditions the encourage whale feeding and an analysis of current models for whale movement was the purpose of the study was discussed in the study that collected the data the animation is based on.
Our current best understanding is that whales are drawn to the region due to a thermal fronts in the water and concentrations of chlorophyll (from their food source) that make it easy for the whales to feed efficiently.
If this is a topic that you are curious about, give reading the study a try. I don't think "armchair science" from people that don't bother to read the source material adds much value to any discussion.
Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#25Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#26I'm not actually able to find the animation in the article. Not a good source.
It's litteraly the first piece of content.
There's just a black rectangle at the top of the page when opened with Firefox for Android or Firefox Klar (Focus for German-speaking countries, telemetry disabled by default) -- even with tracking protection off.
Edit: turning uBlock Origin off helped!
Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#27Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's litteraly the first piece of content.
There's just a black rectangle at the top of the page when opened with Firefox for Android or Firefox Klar (Focus for German-speaking countries, telemetry disabled by default) -- even with tracking protection off. Edit: turning uBlock Origin off helped!
I run firefox on PC and have a uBlock origin with a lot of list enabled, plus privacy badger.
I can see the video with uBlock origin.
Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's litteraly the first piece of content.
There's just a black rectangle at the top of the page when opened with Firefox for Android or Firefox Klar (Focus for German-speaking countries, telemetry disabled by default) -- even with tracking protection off. Edit: turning uBlock Origin off helped!
For me, not even turning off ublock origin in Firefox worked. The animation was only visible in Chrome (with ublock origin activated).
Re: Animation of a blue whale trying to avoid ships
#30What region is this? What does it look like in real time? It’s a bit misleading to speed it up 1000x.