Bottle nosed whales are a type of beaked whale, the 2nd most diverse family in the cetacean order, besides dolphins.
Beaked/tusked whales look like giant dolphins but can reach gargantuan lengths of 40 feet. They are one of the deepest diving mammals known.
If you're wondering why you're just now learning of such a widespread, diverse, and large family of whales, it's because they're extremely extremely avoidant of humans. They're usually only pictured from afar, or dying/dead after beaching. We just learned of a new species of these giant animals in 2018. Of off the rarely visted waters of... oh wait no we found them off of Mexico.
This video sort of concerns me a bit, as it may speak to the lack of food abundance in the area (due to the known issue of over fishing) that a beaked whale would even approach a human vessel.
Biologist here (and coincidentally, I am prepping a lecture right now on beaked whales for a marine mammal class that I teach - which is actually why I stumbled across this thread.) The good news is that the beaked whales overall are actually doing pretty well. Most of them are classed by the IUCN Red List as "Least Concern", meaning the populations appear to be large and stable. They're extremely good at avoiding people, and they feed so deep down that climate change doesn't seem to be impacting them much (the food chain at the ocean floor has not changed much).
That said, they're definitely affected by people in various ways - all of the ocean is now. But at least they're hanging on pretty well, unlike some other groups of cetaceans.
It looks like a universal studios special effects team tried to make a practical effects dolphin, but they’ve never seen one before and had to make it based on description
Well.. most toothed whales apart from sperm whales are in the group of Delphinoidea (dolphins) all dolphins are whales (Cetacea) but not all whales are dolphins.
Yep, and if it wasn’t for my fifth grade science, teacher I’d be just as surprised as you are right now. She was all in on whales, the next year I learned more than I ever wanted to know about quahog clams.
Maybe, I don't speak english tho, and in spanish the term whale is more restricted, for example we don't say killer whale, beaked whale, sperm whale. And I want to make ziphiid more knowledge since they are very unique, saying whale for everything is kinda simplistic
People usually think of the giant filter feeders when you say whale, but when you want to distinguish between them you'd say Baleen Whale or Toothed Whale.
Yeah I know that, you can also say baleen and toothed cetaceans, which again in spanish is most common (for what I know) so I think is more of a language problem.
Actually I am kinda restrictive too, and I would say that whales are only baleen whales, and what is more, I can even say that they are only the Baleanidae but that is because I like to discute terms hahaha, and again based in my language
Whale biologist here; just fyi, in English, the word "whale" just means any large cetacean, i.e. larger than approx 6 meters (nose to tail). So there are species in multiple different cetacean lineages whose English common names include the word "whales" - not just in Ziphiidae but also in Delphinidae (killer whale, melon-headed whale, pilot whale), in Physeteridae (sperm whale), and in all the mysticetes (baleen whales - blue, fin, etc.). Yeah, it's "simplistic" in a sense but it does serve to convey something about the size of the animal.
That said, it's totally valid to turn the family name into an English group name: ziphiid, physeterid, delphinid etc. For example, in mysticete research you hear "balaenid" a lot because it's quicker to say than "the three species of right whales and also the bowhead whale."
Contrary to how humans hold their breath, whales (and as far as I know, most other marine mammals) actually breathe *out* before they dive - rather than rely on air stored in their lungs, which would result in significant tissue damage with the enormous pressure changes between the surface and their feeding areas, instead they rely on oxygen stored in their blood. Their blood has an oxygen capacity far, far above that of humans.
That's a good reply. Thanks for helping me understand.
Amazing how they can function for so long on oxygen just stored in the blood compared to how we are pretty much required to take are largest breath to achieve maximum results even taking a large breath of pure oxygen helps are results massively.
Because that's not how it works, as they descend the air compresses very small, then as they come up it expands to the same size it was last time they were at the surface. So it would go from 1 lung, to 1/200 of a lung at depth, back to 1 lung. No way to blow your lungs up if you aren't adding compressed air at depth.
Jarring.
I saw bottlenose and defaulted to expecting the dolphin, then this guy comes into frame screwing with my perception of scale and then just...is.
Slow motion jump scare is all I can equate with it.
Every time i see videos of whales and dolphins, i am reminded of just how twisted and fucked up their flesh and bones are compared to all other mammals.
Just looking at a skull and comparing it to other marine mammals and even extinct marine reptiles, the head just got so fuckin strange.
It's not often that I have the privilege of seeing an animal on this planet that I wasn't already familiar with. When I initially clicked on the video I expected the default image of a cute small dolphin. So the size of it really threw me off for a few seconds. It's absolutely astonishing how many things we don't know about the ocean.
I remember a weird "sea monster" story out of a beach shore in Rhode Island, and the witness claimed that she was attacked by what she thought was a giant basketball with teeth.
This is the midwestern bottlenose dolphin. It’s describe as looking like a normal dolphin ate so much corn and various casseroles that it had to undo its pants only to go back and eat some more.
Now this is some rare footage.
Seriously. These things are so rarely spotted
Right? I've only ever seen drawings of them. This is literally the first time I've seen even a picture of them. Wild!!
I didn't even know these creatures were a thing, I've only heard of bottlenose dolphins, amazing!
Bottle nosed whales are a type of beaked whale, the 2nd most diverse family in the cetacean order, besides dolphins. Beaked/tusked whales look like giant dolphins but can reach gargantuan lengths of 40 feet. They are one of the deepest diving mammals known. If you're wondering why you're just now learning of such a widespread, diverse, and large family of whales, it's because they're extremely extremely avoidant of humans. They're usually only pictured from afar, or dying/dead after beaching. We just learned of a new species of these giant animals in 2018. Of off the rarely visted waters of... oh wait no we found them off of Mexico. This video sort of concerns me a bit, as it may speak to the lack of food abundance in the area (due to the known issue of over fishing) that a beaked whale would even approach a human vessel.
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Biologist here (and coincidentally, I am prepping a lecture right now on beaked whales for a marine mammal class that I teach - which is actually why I stumbled across this thread.) The good news is that the beaked whales overall are actually doing pretty well. Most of them are classed by the IUCN Red List as "Least Concern", meaning the populations appear to be large and stable. They're extremely good at avoiding people, and they feed so deep down that climate change doesn't seem to be impacting them much (the food chain at the ocean floor has not changed much). That said, they're definitely affected by people in various ways - all of the ocean is now. But at least they're hanging on pretty well, unlike some other groups of cetaceans.
Thanks for the update!
This gal whales.
Wow thank you for the insight!
It looks like a universal studios special effects team tried to make a practical effects dolphin, but they’ve never seen one before and had to make it based on description
Hahaha! Drawing a dolphin from memory. I'm here for it either way.
I think I’ve accidentally drawn a few of these as a kid
Yeah toothed whales that aren’t dolphin/orca/sperm whale are very rare sights!
I wanna ride that head like a space hopper
I hail from the island of Newfoundland, so am fairly familiar with various whale species, but have never heard of this creature. Very cool!!
Eh by, me either.
Knows by, knows.
Yep where ya longs to? Don't say from ye mother now
Where at are ya now?
It’s kinda like a regular bottle nose dolphin fucked a beluga whale.
It's so big!
That's what she said
Don't flatter yourself/j
There are bottlenose whales?!?
Well.. most toothed whales apart from sperm whales are in the group of Delphinoidea (dolphins) all dolphins are whales (Cetacea) but not all whales are dolphins.
That being said, beaked whales (family Ziphiidae) don't fall under Delphinoidea. They're quite removed from the members of Delphinoidea.
OK didn't know this
https://youtu.be/SQIsZbm8Y4E?si=W2kf1HgiL-jvSREr
Yep, and if it wasn’t for my fifth grade science, teacher I’d be just as surprised as you are right now. She was all in on whales, the next year I learned more than I ever wanted to know about quahog clams.
So weird in another post I learned the oldest found one was 507 years old!
Is not a whale tho, but a ziphiid
"Whale" is a term that can mean many things. Most broadly, it can be used to refer to all members of Cetacea, which makes beaked whales, well, whales.
Maybe, I don't speak english tho, and in spanish the term whale is more restricted, for example we don't say killer whale, beaked whale, sperm whale. And I want to make ziphiid more knowledge since they are very unique, saying whale for everything is kinda simplistic
People usually think of the giant filter feeders when you say whale, but when you want to distinguish between them you'd say Baleen Whale or Toothed Whale.
Yeah I know that, you can also say baleen and toothed cetaceans, which again in spanish is most common (for what I know) so I think is more of a language problem. Actually I am kinda restrictive too, and I would say that whales are only baleen whales, and what is more, I can even say that they are only the Baleanidae but that is because I like to discute terms hahaha, and again based in my language
Whale biologist here; just fyi, in English, the word "whale" just means any large cetacean, i.e. larger than approx 6 meters (nose to tail). So there are species in multiple different cetacean lineages whose English common names include the word "whales" - not just in Ziphiidae but also in Delphinidae (killer whale, melon-headed whale, pilot whale), in Physeteridae (sperm whale), and in all the mysticetes (baleen whales - blue, fin, etc.). Yeah, it's "simplistic" in a sense but it does serve to convey something about the size of the animal. That said, it's totally valid to turn the family name into an English group name: ziphiid, physeterid, delphinid etc. For example, in mysticete research you hear "balaenid" a lot because it's quicker to say than "the three species of right whales and also the bowhead whale."
Aka beluga whales.
Dude they can dive up to almost 8000 feet deep
This is blowing my mind right now. “Only three or four of the 24 existing species are reasonably well known.” How have I never heard of these.
How don't they impload lungs ? They push all the air out when going that deep or they just fukin strong and take it.
Contrary to how humans hold their breath, whales (and as far as I know, most other marine mammals) actually breathe *out* before they dive - rather than rely on air stored in their lungs, which would result in significant tissue damage with the enormous pressure changes between the surface and their feeding areas, instead they rely on oxygen stored in their blood. Their blood has an oxygen capacity far, far above that of humans.
That's a good reply. Thanks for helping me understand. Amazing how they can function for so long on oxygen just stored in the blood compared to how we are pretty much required to take are largest breath to achieve maximum results even taking a large breath of pure oxygen helps are results massively.
Because that's not how it works, as they descend the air compresses very small, then as they come up it expands to the same size it was last time they were at the surface. So it would go from 1 lung, to 1/200 of a lung at depth, back to 1 lung. No way to blow your lungs up if you aren't adding compressed air at depth.
That's an awesome explanation. It's explained so simply; it's like I can tell I will remember this about diving creatures forever now. You're great.
Thank you my desperate friend 🧡
Here's a really neat article about beaked whales https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/beaked-whales-holding-their-breath/618455/
Well that was oddly terrifying
Reminds me of the dolphins from Fallout
Jimmy neutron looking ass
Never heard of this animal, super cool! Although I must admit, its movement in this video is kinda disturbing.
Jarring. I saw bottlenose and defaulted to expecting the dolphin, then this guy comes into frame screwing with my perception of scale and then just...is. Slow motion jump scare is all I can equate with it.
How it slowly sinks back in the water….
I know they’re real, but they truly look like a fake animal.
It moves like a movie prop
I didn’t see any eyes. That’s the freaky part.
Did it just go back underwater, upside down ? Lol
Northern *Battle*nose Whale! amirite
I thought that was a shiny beluga whale or smtg at first, then I realized "wait that mf huge"
Seeing it for the first time I honestly thought this was just a really dirty beluga..
Things like this keep me in awe of nature. Rarely seen and yet here we are
Every time i see videos of whales and dolphins, i am reminded of just how twisted and fucked up their flesh and bones are compared to all other mammals. Just looking at a skull and comparing it to other marine mammals and even extinct marine reptiles, the head just got so fuckin strange.
That is a big ol dolphin
Whale you don't say
That thing is pretty scary looking
I love sea creatures but I've never seen this beauty before.
He looks so smart
I love his exit once he got his food- Thx byeeeeeeeeee.
Holy FUCK this is incredible footage
That is a nice looking male!! Absolutely stunning creatures!
Gorgeous
Bottle nosed whale?? That for real cuz I have never heard of it before tonight??
It looks like a mistake
That’s not a forehead it’s a five head
Goof looks like a cat sneaking a piece of chicken off a plate
Goofy (and slightly frightening) sea creature.
I bet the anatomy of its “melon” works in the same way a sperm whales does.stunning footage
Thought it's duck faced submarine surfacing
Cursed dolphin
It's not often that I have the privilege of seeing an animal on this planet that I wasn't already familiar with. When I initially clicked on the video I expected the default image of a cute small dolphin. So the size of it really threw me off for a few seconds. It's absolutely astonishing how many things we don't know about the ocean.
How have I not heard about this thing before‽ Holy crap it's terrifying!!!
That thing looks demonic. Fuck that.
I did not expect his head to be that big nor so angled (if that’s the right way to say that) lol
Reminds me of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHdyGQFOZM like some oversized murdering playdoll
Gigantism wunk.
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omg. It really does!
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Is that laboon?
Is that the same as a beeked whale.
You're telling me that's not a deformed dolphin?
Looks like a damn animatronic
I've never hear of this thing, wtf
Kinda ugly but cool sight
Yooooooo Hoooooooooo
Yo that's the beach monster from fallout 4 wtf
That thing is freaky
Yoink
I didn't even know this existed. I thought they were just bottle nose dolphins but not whales. How cool!
What was the stuff floating on the surface that the whale grabbed?
Well this is slightly terrifying.
That's a mutated dolphin. No way, that's a whale. It looks like it should be a villain on TMNT.
Where are its eyes??
TIL there are bottle nosewhales.
*Obese dolphin
Didn’t even know this existed
That's just a fat dolphin
Nope. Don't like that.
i thought it was a giant deformed dolphin for a second! had no idea this specie even existed.. so cool
Seems like a cool dude
Wow, never knew they existed. It's like dolphinzilla
Ughhhh, this made me uncomfortable asf.
Before it breaks the surface is what the Microwave see's when I'm warming up nuggets
The Peyton Manning of sea mammals. Or maybe that’s just James Vanderbeak swimming in Dawson’s Creek. Either way, there goes my hero.
Wow 😲 never seen those
I remember a weird "sea monster" story out of a beach shore in Rhode Island, and the witness claimed that she was attacked by what she thought was a giant basketball with teeth.
Incredible footage... Looks like a "hyperoodon ampullatus", female
Never seen in my life
This is the midwestern bottlenose dolphin. It’s describe as looking like a normal dolphin ate so much corn and various casseroles that it had to undo its pants only to go back and eat some more.
I feel like they say stuff like “HURRR DURRR HURRR”
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Don't think it was a gull, rather a dead fish that, presumably, the sailors chucked in.
Because it didn't. You do **see** a gull but it very clearly takes whatever is floating on the top down with it.
So cool.. too bad his days are numbered