Immortals Of The Arctic: The Bowhead Whale | Real Wild Channel
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- No-one has ever found a bowhead whale that died of old age. Biologists share their new research techniques as they confirm that bowheads may live longer than 200 years. We also join Alaskan Inupiat on a traditional hunt to discover new insights about the planet's eldest statesman
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Absolutely amazing!!! Loved this & seeing the old cultures & new research coming together to discover more about some of the most majestic creatures on earth!!!
Humans be like: wow theres this legendary pokemon in our ocean, lets kill it.
Interesting and valuable research the Whale Biologist have done and a good look into how the Native peoples still want to keep alive their heritage and traditions. Well narrated and high film quality make this video enjoyable to watch.
But there are not enough whales to keep their stupid tradition
@@horse-lover68 The amount of whales caught every year by natives people is miniscule and highly regulated. Take your anger out on Europeans and white Americans who hunted them to near extinction for centuries, or countries like Japan, not native people who are respectful of the environment and wish to preserve their traditions
@@sarahb4401 Tradition, that's always the excuse for it. I didn't mean Natives, I ment the Feroer Islands, but it's the same. Don't come with races, we already had that BS. Yes the European and Japanese hunted them, but if you know that we ALL have to fight to keep this species alive, why are you still hunting them??
@@horse-lover68 to feedthemselves
@@sarahb4401 And they are poisend. Cant you honestly Rat something Else??I know, I cannot afford vegan Stift, too, but they are füll of PCP and all this chemicals. Take Care
Whaling in the traditional way is actually about way more than just tossing harpoons into the whale's body.
Because the harpoons themselves don't really do all that much harm to the animal, but what the Hapoons DO do is attach the animal itself to the boat which it will drag behind it as it tries to flee. The boat will slow the whale down until it is too exhausted to go on. It is then that the Harpooner brings out a lance, a harpoon with a wide flat blade, which he will stick in the whale and pull out again before repeating the process a couple of times. The object here is to sever the whale's main arteries which is what actually kills the whale.
Of course all of that means getting very close to a wounded and angry animal which WILL strike out at you. Which brings us to the reason why the whalers cut the flukes off after the whale is killed, the whale's tail is a powerful weapon and by cutting the flukes off, they basically diffused the bomb.
The Bowhead and its close relative the Right whale (Called that way because they were the "Right whale" to hunt) are slow swimmers and float when killed. So when commercial whaling wiped both species almost completely out, the whalers began to hunt the Gray Whale and found out to their horror that that species didn't go down without a good fight. They would actually launch themselves out of the water onto the boats and many sailor didn't come home after meeting the "Devil fish"
Thanks for the rest of the story and more.
I don't understand why they are allowed to do this?? Scientist's again (Japan), Commeon 😠
@@horse-lover68 the government of that country allows the tradition to continue i guess. it is a very rare occurrence for them anyways to find and the population will not diminish whilst they are hunting them, otherwise they’d be protected and they wouldn’t be allowed to hunt.
The gray whale is extinct here in Ireland because of whaling
Thanks for the info, it's certainly way more than just tossing harpoons into the whale's body. I did saw one of those things in a video where a guy used a harpoon with a wide flat blade like you mentioned and he cut the whales fluke. The baleen whales are the most massive animals, it's surprising to me that they don't fight back when humans attack them. I have not heard about that Gray Whale story, it sounds quite different as they also seem quite harmless with the exception of Sperm whale.
The baleen whales are the most massive animals, it's surprising that they don't seem to fight back when humans attack them.
Gentle giants
was it just me or did anyone else wanted the whale to break the ice so the scientists chasing it to tag it would fall into the water? hahaha 😇
Just like humans can remember roads, regular routine paths, whales have ability to learn waterways when
They are babies. As cities develop, and we remember our childhood places without GPS in the same have they have same tendencies
Well put
Modern science has mapped the Bowheads genome and they say its possible they can live up to 268 years. This means that a whale born in 1775 before the signing of the Declaration of Independence could still be alive today. That is amazing.
Ya, the odds in that is none. People have killed them to pretty much to extinction. Humans are killing this earth and all its other species. Their will be nothing left on this earth but humans and cement. How crappy it will be.
"simple cleaning job particular calcium of Louisville" @6:17
Subtitles on 😂
Glad I found this
What's the name of the traditional tool used at 17:55 which allows for listening to the whales underwater?
Thats an oar
Wow! (Wonder where the polar bears and foxes were during the butchering...! There must have been a sentry posted somewhere, dontcha think?!)
this is not about the Bowhead Whale its abut hunting the Bowhead Whale. :(
Thank you. I can't watch it then. I want to learn about the actual whales. Not the assholes that kill em.
@@therealsyxx Not really ass holes because they are not poaching. They are working with conservationists to bring the population up. The inuits didn't destroy the population, the yanks, English, Norwegians and Japanese did with their commercial whaling
Thanks for the warning..smh nothing against hunting but didn't feel like death tonight..
I noticed that too. Turning it off.
Yeah I was extremely dissapointed. I wanted to learn more about the whale not about murder for 30 minutes
Anyone in this comment section complaining about the whales being hunted is a HYPOCRITE if you are not vegan.
This isn't just culture. This is eating to survive. You come from a privileged place telling them to just eat something else, when you can just go get your food from a grocery store.
175 yrs old or more! 211yrs!
I hate how people are like "Ughhh inuits are such ass holes" I've 2 things to say.
It wasn't the inuits who decimated whale populations, it was Americans, English, Norwegians and Japanese. It was commercial whaling not the tribes hunting massive whales in polar waters using little skin boats, spears and harpoons.
And also clearly ye have never had to depend on nature for food. If you had you'd realise you only take what you need to survive
BASED. source: I'm inuk
@@nunaninja Class
Companies, how Noah story ending start with their destruction brought upon the beautiful earth.
The hell you talking about? There's literally no comment here that says that 🙄
@@michaelscott5653 Seen 5 people complaining about it
A documentary with very little footage of the actual animal. Just lots of talking about it. Kinda like watching a documentary on Bigfoot!
Mellissa Eddinger, thanks. I think you've saved me some time.
Thanks ❤
I have massive respect for the Inuit people.
Here in Ireland we hunted the North Atlantic Right whale / Ceartmhíol mór an tuaiscirt or just Ceartmhíol mór like the Inuk hunt the Bowhead whale. Now before you all attack me this was before commercial whaling when there were thousands of them. And one whale would last and island or coastal community weeks or months even. Thus was until the Companies came in and decimated the population to where these beautiful animals that kept hundreds upon thousands of people alive were verner all killed off. They destroyed the sustainable system of Right hunting in Ireland
Now Ireland is one of the driving forces in Northern Right whale conservation
There are Greenland sharks swimming about that would regard these whales as youngsters
music in this?
holy shit i want that hat that the guy is wearing at 33:08 so bad
Someone has the contact of the sound researcher. Mia?
Its upsetting that the indigenous people don't suspend hunting for a generation or so. Until the numbers come back. If they come back. After all the years and years they've been taking from the whale. They could give back.
They live to be old as God made them and God bless his beautiful beautiful animals
Amen ..
Jesus loves everyone, and Jesus is the only true Savior through Faith, and Belief He died for your sins on the cross, and rose from death on the third day ..
Happy Easter !
Bowhead Whale Frozen Planet 2
That series was amazing. It was the only documentary i have seen which clearly showed some large Bowheads, as well as Orcas attacking them. Generally the Orcas will be mentioned as they could kill anything. I wanted to see if it's true that they could kill the adult Bowheads. However that footage showed them killing one young Bowhead whale.
Wikipedia: "Bowhead whale." Files: 1: "Geoglyphs Worldwide." 2. "Visual Metaphors".
3. "Variety." Etc.
Couldnt that ancient weapon just be something recent hunters used ?
Unlikely, and anyways there is alot more evidence that these whales live long
I was wondering the same thing.
They recently mapped the Bowheqd genome and believe they can live up to 268 years. So, a whale born in 1775 before the signing of the Declaration of Independence could still be alive today.
What's the name of the narrator?
Mmm yes, the hweyl
here from rav
That makes no sense. Oil and water do not mix.
The tags are getting scraped off on the ice.
They say here the bowhead is 2nd in size to the blue whale. However when you look it up the Fin whale is 2nd. So which is it?
Fin whale is 2nd in length while the Bowhead is 2nd in weight...
Fin whale is the 2nd in size, the bowhead is about the size of a sperm whale.
@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 an average bowhead and right whale is a bit bigger compared to the average sperm whale
@@toxicdino8676 In length they are in and around the same. Clocking about 60 feet for Sperms, Bowheads and Rights. But in weight yes the Bowhead takes the coin
@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 but right and bowhead whales is also wider
How are the people counting sure they not recounting the same whales?
Tagging
I don't understand why are they killing the bowhead whales
as far as i know, it was to prevent starvation and to make more tools
Personally im a vegetarian but this sort of hunting & meat eating i don't have issues with. Animals are not being tortured their entire lives, they are not being mass produced, environments are not being destroyed, it's not about making making money & greed & almost every part of the animal is used with minimal wastage. So much of the developed world has forgotten or don't care how to do this. So many humans have taken our knowledge & abilities for granted & it's destroying this planet. We need to start learning from people who still practice traditional cultural practices to live in harmony with nature.
Heard these whales can live over 200 years
Scientist believe they can live 268 years.
The 1800s decimated the American buffalo and bear
Hell yeah!
I respect their culture. I personally feel there should be heavier regulations.. like maybe peach tribe can have one or two. Because they said a whale can feed a whole tribe for like a year. So two whales is more than enough per tribe.
Because we as a whole of humanity have chosen to allow bad people destroy our planet, we must all suffer the consequences of that. We sat around and did nothing while our politicians let corporations control them.
We sat by and did nothing while our ocean slowly started filling with garbage.
We did nothing when they started overfishing our oceans even though we barely know anything about our oceans we continue to allow the total decimation of our oceans without even understanding the full consequences of what we have done.
Majority of humanity does not even need any food from the sea to survive as the land provides more than enough.
We did nothing. And deserve the consequences of our refusal to act sooner.
The saddest part is that the innocent ones will suffer the most.....we deserve the consequences but future generations do not. The whales and other animals (and our future children and grandchildren) will suffer the most. That is so wrong. What kind of planet will we leave them??A planet with so many animals extinct. So many vital habitats destroyed and dying. An ocean full of plastic and trash and dead coral reefs.Will the grizzlies and mountain lions and other magnificent wild creatures be gone from the face of the earth?? Elephants and rhinoceros poached and killed for their tusks. Siberian tigers and snow leopards extinct from poaching because the Chinese will pay big bucks for them.Populations of sharks decimated for their fins because the Chinese want shark fin soup. Humans are the most greedy and destructive and selfish and violent species on the planet. WE SUCK.
We did nothing then, so we should do everything now
These hunters hunt for food and only once a year. By that they let the whales multiply. They don’t overhunt these whales. They have respect to these creatures. Hopefully whaling will stop especially the commercial ones.
Learn some math before claim that they don't overhunt!
They are at the brink of extinction. The total population of them are only 10k which separated by noise, water pollution and ice melting in vast oceans. In natural condition it takes 4 years for few number of healthy female juvenile who mates successfuly to give a birth!
How can they compensate this huge number of hunting?
Yea how can you kill a Animal that was alive during the Civil war
who are the 18 people who gave this a thumbs down??
My guess is they disagree with hunting the whales.
Leave these creatures alone.
Jordan Peterson would be fascinated by this
Yes they can afford the snow driver, but they cannot afford something else to eat???Sientists who are hunting with them are human trash. Big strong man, 10 against 1 animal. 🤦🤦😘😱😱
Unfortunately the artic and Antarctican animal and way of live will be the first to go my friends... It's not entirely our fault Man has been living through the ice age into interglacial modern man is living in an interglacial where in the beginning of it The earth has warm and cooled multiple times this happens all the time we're in a warming phase but yes global warming and all the greenhouse gases and pollution has caused it to happen faster and more vigorously than ever before
Whaling should be punishable by throwing the guilty individuals in a lake filled with hungry piranhas!!!
But what if you need to feed your village
Some creatures shouldn’t be killed when they have other fish that can be eaten. Too beautiful
Go tell that the Japan
Japan kills more whale commercially than anyone. They say it gives them strength to fuck.. idk either
And a city dweller snug in his nice warm house eating his food he didn't grow or hunt, just bought easily, has spoken.
I have nothing but respect for the Inuit and Inupiat cultures but personally can't justify the taking of a life of a being that has been alive in the oceans for perhaps 300 years. The knowledge and wisdom of such a creature is immeasurable and to kill it to eat when that meat could be replaced with something else is unconscionable to me. Let them be.
If they want to hunt then they need to do it for cultural reasons. That's without any technology period. Wood carved boat and their hands and a spear.
@@Dachdogoriginal Those aren't wood carved boats way above the tree line , made from skin ,and bone frame , maybe a little driftwood but not likely , if its traditional .
@@Dachdogoriginal not just cultural reasons but to avoid famine as well! 🙋 i'm inuk and one of my classes taught in this subject. sometimes famines got so bad that an elder, or a freshly buried corpse had to be used for food.
@@marthmallow7420 in isolated tribes, they need to hunt for food. This, in the winter is the only access to food. This is cultural. Living in the city and taking out modern technology simply because you can is not appropriate.
@@Dachdogoriginal i don't live in the city.
I wonder what that tastes like?!
Like deer but with a much higher fat content and fishy taste
it survived 175 years and humans killed him to eat , estimate age 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I thought this is a whale sanctuary?? What kind of scientist's are these guys?? You tradition is over or do you want your grandchildren to only know whales from stories they get told.. EVERY WHALE IS TO MUCH.
Ah they are not getting old, why, what a coincidence 😠
Clearly you know nothing of isolation and conservation
@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 No I don't and I don't need to know it. Killing whales is wrong and cowardly
@@horse-lover68 This is obvious, you have obviously never been in the position to let your family starve and die or kill 1 animal that will feed you for an entire year. Mass killing whales is wrong. Killing one whale to keep your family alive is not
@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 But you have been?? 🤣 Nice how do you pay the internet Mr "killing an animal or starve". Get into reality and away from the internet, you are too long online. Little keyboard warrior
@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 And I know enough about isolation. Civilisation brings isolation with it. I am sure these Natives are luckier than many of us. And the Antarct is full of other fish. That's why the orcas arw there and the whales. The people could eat other fish and not an Intelligenz creature, that has a part of the brain that we humans are missing. THEY are more Intelligenz than we are. It's a stupid tradition like Rinderrup where they kill thousands of whales with their stupid knifes until the ocean is only red or like foxhunting. You have no idea what you are writing about
look at that bastard demon trying to kill them for food
Whatever helps them sleep at night. I don't think it fair one culture can keep whale hunting but not the other. Also, this wasn't about whales, it was about scientist and numbers. I learned nothing but they can be old
The numbers taken by these tribes is minuscule...and the younger ones are opting mostly for education and city life...you'll see fewer and fewer of these hunters with each generation.
Why did you killed a whale 🐋
Don’t you feel sad 😢
“European contact” 🙄 riiiight
I hated it!!!! Whales are to be protected not slaughtered!!!!!
Stop murdering these beautiful animals bro. What r u gonna do wit it?