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recently an ecology professor's
explanation for sea monsters went viral
on tick tock
he proposed that the old sailing tales
of tentacled and alienesque appendages
rising from the sea
were just the male genitalia of marine
mammals
and this has many people on the internet
wondering
was the loch ness monster just a free
willy
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i'm kate passionate a marine biologist
who has seen her fair share of whale
wieners
oh that sounds bad
wait there's a good explanation and i
can attest that they can be monstrous
don't believe me let's take a look at
this video by the pacific whale
foundation taken with a permit from the
national marine fisheries service
oh yeah
there it is
um no you can see that they're they're
pair swimming here so like obvious
breeding behavior
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it's just hanging out there
fun fact blue whales have the largest
penis in the world it averages between 8
and 10 feet long and male harbor
porpoises have the largest testicle to
body size ratio in the world
during the breeding season the giant
gonads of a male porpoise can represent
seven percent of their body weight
that would be like a 200 pound male
human with seven pound
testicles for my non-american viewers
that's a 90 kilogram human with 6.3
kilos of testy
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and the testicles of a male harbor
porpoise are two and a half times the
size of their brains which actually
explains a lot
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however you wouldn't guess this just by
looking at them and that's because
whales dolphins porpoises they all have
internal genitalia and this actually
makes a lot of sense when you consider
where they live they live in the frigid
cold water and these parts of the body
it's very important that are kept
thermoregulated so then how do you tell
a male whale from a female whale the
best way is to look at their undersides
i like to think of it as a division sign
for females so they have a genital slit
and then on either side two mammaries
for male whales you have an exclamation
point you have a line for the genital
slit and just a small opening for the
anus
however i do say most times because i
have sometimes seen males with vestigial
mammary glands weird i don't know why
maybe that's for another video
so is it true could sailors really have
mistaken whale wankers for giant
monsters of the sea
maybe but i'm a little skeptical for the
following reasons first i mentioned that
cetaceans have internal genitalia and it
really only comes out when it has a
reason to
and by that i mean when there are
females around and whales are very
gregarious as a species in the cetacean
world sex is nothing to be shy about
some species have elaborate courtship
displays that include fluke and flipper
slaps
they breach they spy hop
not to mention cetaceans are also
mammals needing they need to
reach the surface constantly in order to
breathe
so it seems to me that sailors would
have definitely seen other signs rather
than just whale willies and would have
known what was going on
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in my opinion it's pretty unlikely that
sailors would have just seen the
one-eyed monsters
and not
what they were attached to
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and i assume that these sailors would
know what whales look like because early
europeans began hunting them in 2000 bc
so i'm doubtful that early sailors
actually mistook excited whales for sea
monsters but what about loch ness could
nessie really be one of these monstrous
mammal members
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the famous photograph showing an animal
head and neck emerging from the water
does bear a striking resemblance to
whale wieners
but science is going to throw some cold
water on this theory
loch ness is of course a fresh water
lake and the vast majority of cetaceans
are exclusive to salt water in fact
there are only a handful of freshwater
dolphins in the world there are five
species of river dolphins who have
evolved to survive in warm shallow water
and strong river currents of the amazon
and southeast asia they are rare and
pretty much restricted to specific
rivers and deltas there is also a
population of beluga whales that live in
the saint lawrence river but that water
is pretty brackish and that's a pretty
isolated incident
not to mention that it is actually
connected to the ocean
loch ness is completely cut off from the
ocean so barring somebody carrying a
whale in and dropping it in the lake
it's not likely
this means if the loch ness monster was
a dolphin dingus there would likely be
dozens of sightings every single day we
would know that there were cetaceans in
the lake and likely we would probably be
organizing a rescue mission because they
don't survive well in fresh water not to
mention that the famous grainy white
black and white picture of the loch ness
monster is a known hoax
one of the men behind the image
confessed that he made it up out of a
toy submarine and for those who don't
believe me there's links to that in the
descriptions below sorry
cryptozoologists
and yes that is a real thing
but even though the scientific community
can explain these sightings of loch ness
monsters as hoaxes wishful thinking and
the misidentification of mundane objects
people still believe i don't know why
but it did give me the interesting
opportunity to explain some things about
whale genitalia on youtube
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what do you think if you have any
questions let me know in the comments
below and i'll catch you next time
cheers
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recently an ecology professor's
explanation for sea monsters went sea
monsters he proposed that the old
sailing tales of alienesque
and
tentacled
so is it true could sailors really have
mistaken whale wankers for
you wrote it
could seamen of old really have mistaken
will
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for male whales you have an exclamation
point you have a line for the genital
split and then
a i'm going to say this
you have a line for the genital split
and then just a small hole for the
bomb bob
shoot
underwater footage of humpback whales
reveals penis extrusion
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i hate the word extrusion
first i mentioned that cetaceans have
internal genitalia and it really only
comes out
extrudes