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Why The Entire Ocean Is Terrified of Sperm Whales

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  • Published on Mar 16, 2026
  • Sperm whales are graceful, huge, and... absolutely terrifying. To squids at least lol
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  • @DuncanL7979
    @DuncanL7979 Month ago +2483

    It really shows how goated mammals are. The ruler of the ocean doesn't even have gills.

    • @vibeytime
      @vibeytime Month ago

      Shark simps upon seeing this comment

    • @FinnBoyles
      @FinnBoyles Month ago +185

      That’s tuff as hell

    • @Flint_Dribble
      @Flint_Dribble Month ago +128

      Also biggest animal ever known as well. The blue whale.

    • @TheMykHyn
      @TheMykHyn Month ago +1

      do you like satan or why do you use the term "goated"?

    • @sadikicaine4881
      @sadikicaine4881 Month ago +25

      ​@TheMykHyngreatest of all time= goat=goated

  • @StrikeWyvern
    @StrikeWyvern Month ago +1274

    So you're telling me that a Sperm Whale is like an alien invasion for colossal squids.
    Descends from above, has advanced tech that renders your best useless, kills you, absolutely nothing you can do about it

    • @MoonTheProphetofWar
      @MoonTheProphetofWar Month ago +4

      Why assume life from another planet would be as violent as humanity?

    • @StrikeWyvern
      @StrikeWyvern Month ago +45

      ​@MoonTheProphetofWar Because life itself is pretty violent when you look at it, predator/prey relationships. Even ants go to war. I figure whatever species was able to get off its rock will probably have had to fight for a long time just to survive to that point. It'd be naïve to go into the unknown unarmed.
      Maybe it's a humanistic viewpoint and they could've possibly overcome violence or war. But I have a feeling that if aliens do exist, the dark forest is dark for a reason. That reason could be a species that wipes out anyone they catch any emissions from. Either for more resources or to eliminate future competition.

    • @Nightdare
      @Nightdare Month ago +12

      @MoonTheProphetofWar
      Humanity isn't even in the top 10 of most violent mammals

    • @Lazay-di7gw
      @Lazay-di7gw Month ago +79

      The bryzatine empire had a massive issue with one sperm whale for like 50 years its crazy

    • @Nightdare
      @Nightdare Month ago +2

      What about the anal probing though?

  • @Wanderer39541
    @Wanderer39541 Month ago +1965

    Amazing move, RUclips, cutting off a piece of the notification so the title be "Why the Entire Ocean is terrified of Sperm..."

    • @21atharvahire3a8
      @21atharvahire3a8 Month ago +10

      Fr I got the same notification

    • @OfficialBeyondTheBlue
      @OfficialBeyondTheBlue  Month ago +433

      maybe thats a video for another day

    • @MysticShadowbrawlstars
      @MysticShadowbrawlstars Month ago +48

      @OfficialBeyondTheBluealternative title: ‘Why even Orcas are scared of sperm whales…’

    • @TalRohan
      @TalRohan Month ago +6

      and so it should be...its the one thing most men are terrified of too

    • @TalRohan
      @TalRohan Month ago +4

      @MysticShadowbrawlstars and great white sharks are terrified of Orca, the Wolves of the Sea

  • @777tman
    @777tman Month ago +1283

    And then we turned them into lamp oil.

    • @TheIronKangaroo
      @TheIronKangaroo Month ago +17

      Aww boo hoo.Its sad but we didn’t know better and we are humans.gotta stay at the top

    • @Dxrchfall_39
      @Dxrchfall_39 Month ago

      ​​@TheIronKangaroo Sybau, that doesnt even make sense 🙏🥀🥀🥀

    • @lord-zenith-01
      @lord-zenith-01 Month ago +52

      ​@S.SHellblazerand racist hands typed this one

    • @shivamkumar-k2x3m
      @shivamkumar-k2x3m Month ago +11

      ​@S.SHellblazeranime pfp detected opinion rejected

    • @shivamkumar-k2x3m
      @shivamkumar-k2x3m Month ago +5

      Get a shower

  • @Kimjununv
    @Kimjununv Month ago +4117

    Who named this animal

  • @M0rmagil
    @M0rmagil Month ago +532

    There is only one rival. Humanity hunted them with harpoons and sailing ships, which seems insane, but was done with great reliability and success.

    • @dudeman7826
      @dudeman7826 Month ago +83

      And even then sperm Whales has been shown to be the most resilient species of whale when against humanity, for example sperm whales were hunted commercially for 200 years and their population ended up declining by 68-70 percent, meanwhile other species like blue and fin whales were hunted for just 100 years, yet their populations declined by more then 90-98 percent

    • @jordanalexander615
      @jordanalexander615 Month ago +56

      ​@dudeman7826makes sense since blue whales would be found closer to thw surface more often. But sperm whales dive 1000s of feet for food and hang out in deeper water.

    • @karanaher5030
      @karanaher5030 Month ago +26

      They're not built to fight ships. They're built to kill sea creatures.

    • @ProtiumPower
      @ProtiumPower Month ago +18

      It is shown that they learned human hunting patterns and were successful to some extent to avoid them unlike other whales

    • @Highlander77
      @Highlander77 Month ago +1

      ​​​@sadieadlergoonerthere is no such as thing squids that are "hundreds of meters" long, lol. Who told you that? Did you even watch the video? Giant squids get to around 40' long, and are actually one of the primary FOOD sources for sperm whales. Humans are the only animal that has ever been a predator of sperm whales.

  • @WH0MQN
    @WH0MQN Month ago +819

    Everyone loves Megalodons but we got them right here. They were both around at the same time to.

    • @inconspicuous7464
      @inconspicuous7464 Month ago +25

      I theorize that Sperm whales and Orcas are superior predators. Took all the food and the megalodon went extinct.

    • @SwirlyDerp
      @SwirlyDerp Month ago +29

      My understanding is that it was primarily the temperature changes that killed them off and then other faster sharks (and orcas) out competed them for the dwindling whale populations because they were slowing down in the colder waters. Great Whites iirc were their direct competitor

    • @edbrown6985
      @edbrown6985 Month ago +52

      Excellent point, sperm whales are pretty much the same thing as megalodons except that they are a different species.humans would have some problems if sperm whales had the habits that sharks display.the whales just managed to survive through time.

    • @chiquita683
      @chiquita683 Month ago +1

      Sperm head ahh animal

    • @BlueRGuy
      @BlueRGuy Month ago +6

      Sperm Whales and Livyathan is NOT the same thing 😭

  • @MustafaHindenburg
    @MustafaHindenburg Month ago +288

    3:06 the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans are switched.

    • @leGUIGUI
      @leGUIGUI Month ago +57

      Also, the Indian ocean is labelled at the wrong place.

    • @royalea1913
      @royalea1913 Month ago +21

      ​@leGUIGUIyeah i too glitched my brain with that image like wtf

    • @abdussattar935
      @abdussattar935 Month ago

      Lol

    • @tkr23zp
      @tkr23zp Month ago +27

      the editing in general is just kinda off

    • @JusLovett
      @JusLovett Month ago +12

      I'm glad I wasnt the only one that seen that lol

  • @huntercool2232
    @huntercool2232 Month ago +92

    Orcas: “We hunt Great White Sharks! We’re the most deadly predator in the sea!”
    Sperm Whale: **taps shoulder**

    • @Rob.P974
      @Rob.P974 23 days ago +4

      Slightly better than the usual hold my beer cringe.

    • @derekrecollet8451
      @derekrecollet8451 9 days ago +2

      Blue whale *taps sperm whale shoulder*

    • @joebaumgart1146
      @joebaumgart1146 7 days ago +1

      ​@derekrecollet8451they don't have teeth though

    • @Sussywussy64
      @Sussywussy64 2 days ago

      ​@derekrecollet8451 blue whales are big but they are just big. They dont have anything else. Not even teeth

  • @KingOpenReview
    @KingOpenReview Month ago +78

    8:26 Getting sniped by a sonic laser is crazy.

  • @isn0t42
    @isn0t42 Month ago +43

    The ocean has two types of vessels: the submarines and the targets.

  • @Penfold101
    @Penfold101 Month ago +57

    13:40 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy would like a word…

  • @Tbot_2
    @Tbot_2 Month ago +74

    2:04 honestly this just makes me surprised how big our brains are. Despite being hundreds or even thousands of times larger than a person, there brain is only that much bigger

    • @sunny3907
      @sunny3907 Month ago

      That's exactly what I thought.😂😂

    • @B.Ies_T.Nduhey
      @B.Ies_T.Nduhey Month ago

      And is meaning what precisely?

    • @Tbot_2
      @Tbot_2 Month ago +5

      @B.Ies_T.Nduhey I was just making an observation that our brains are proportionally very large and the timestamp in the video demonstrates that

    • @RexDC
      @RexDC Month ago +3

      ​@B.Ies_T.Nduheyit means we are the most intelligent species, as its been shown the ratio between body size and brain size correlates very well with intelligent

    • @V4LYV
      @V4LYV 16 days ago +1

      Well we use them more than they do. We build and destroy. They just hunt. We fight wars against eachothers and invent new things. Of course we have big brain moments

  • @Inpasta55
    @Inpasta55 Month ago +111

    230 dB is insane💀

    • @christopherjon3050
      @christopherjon3050 Month ago +28

      their sonar will cook you.

    • @subdesia
      @subdesia Month ago +11

      @christopherjon3050Quite literally lmao
      the air inside you does a complicated process…..then u implode

    • @missionslos
      @missionslos Month ago +8

      decibel works differently underwater, its still incredibly loud but does way less to you than what it would above water

    • @JustSlimeee
      @JustSlimeee 27 days ago

      They’re literally a killing machine 😭✌🏻

    • @JustSlimeee
      @JustSlimeee 27 days ago +1

      @missionslosThey can do it when they’re above too tho

  • @MrSteveESQ
    @MrSteveESQ Month ago +39

    Super cool animal, that brain is crazy.

  • @johgghd
    @johgghd Month ago +90

    Always had a fascination with these and for the longest time wanted to aim for working in conservation around whales
    Until I realised I'm terrified of the ocean

    • @jesseporter3397
      @jesseporter3397 Month ago +5

      Im fascinated/completely terrified also. It would be a cool job tho for sure

  • @LiamJackson-j1m
    @LiamJackson-j1m Month ago +21

    That large deep sea fish looks long.

  • @Flipbounce
    @Flipbounce Month ago +21

    9:41 That is the diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It's cast in dramatic shadow with only a faint light illuminating it. Its fully to scale and really scares the hell out of you. It was created in the 1930's and they really nailed it, it's awesome.

  • @DenaryBeatle300
    @DenaryBeatle300 Month ago +16

    They could use their circle tactic to protect their young ones, but instead of that, they circle around and flash their enemy using their Sonar System

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 Month ago +37

    Since it eats krill, which is an animal, the blue whale must be the world's largest predator.

  • @rage_omega
    @rage_omega Month ago +11

    1:30 this is where the music kicks in and makes the sperm whale look awesome

  • @jpa435
    @jpa435 Month ago +9

    3:07 you got your oceans mixed up my friend.

  • @DarkRendition
    @DarkRendition Month ago +78

    3:06 Literally every ocean is incorrectly labeled... How?

  • @COD8player4life
    @COD8player4life Month ago +10

    For the record, we do know (for the most part) what whales do with their massive brains. Most of the processing power is used for moving, keeping the heart beating, knowing when to surface for air etc. When you have that much body to control, you need a lot of neurons. Brain to body weight ratio is a more useful metric for guaging intelligence

  • @huntercool2232
    @huntercool2232 Month ago +10

    1:36 Fun fact, they used to get even larger just a few centuries ago. Nowadays bull sperm whales only reach around 50 to 60 feet in length, but in the 1800s before the pressures of commercial whaling bulls could reach anywhere from 60 to even 70 feet in length on average. And regarding the reports of the Essex survivors (the real whale attack story that inspired the book Moby Dick) they estimated the whale that attacked them was 80 to 85 feet in length. Meaning he was a true giant.

  • @jackwatt8988
    @jackwatt8988 Month ago +4

    5x larger than the human brain seems really small. I was expecting the brain to weigh as much as a car.

  • @insolence3239
    @insolence3239 Month ago +57

    Legend has it that one of these sperm whales is called ‘The Pallid Whale’ and may contain a captain and her crew living inside it.

  • @ratvomit874
    @ratvomit874 Month ago +6

    You definitely don't want to be an egg shark then

  • @Didymus20X6
    @Didymus20X6 Month ago +6

    The Sperm Whale doesn't even have to attack you to kill you. It just needs to hit you with a radar ping, and you're dead just from the sound of it.

  • @spyder2001
    @spyder2001 Month ago +9

    0:07 - They float like giant stone boulders.

  • @borisdobrijevic7967
    @borisdobrijevic7967 Month ago +148

    You can't directly compare dB in water and air, as water is a lot less compressible.
    To convert you have to subtract about 62 dB from the water pressure.
    So 230 dB - 60 dB is about 170 ish dB in air pressure.
    Which is still about double the loudness and ten times the energy compared to a jet engine.
    Direct conversion without subtracting the correction factor for water to air would mean the whale would be 10,000,000 louder than an jet engine, so approximately the intensity of a small atom bomb.

    • @ChroniclesOfNoregath
      @ChroniclesOfNoregath Month ago +7

      lmao

    • @user-copiadeamigo
      @user-copiadeamigo Month ago

      You’re so cool. Jackass.

    • @dastvan8002
      @dastvan8002 Month ago +14

      No wonder the rest of the ocean goes dead silent

    • @raymondqiu8202
      @raymondqiu8202 Month ago +7

      Damn interesting. Need to subtract 60 to adjust to land db

    • @sen8078
      @sen8078 Month ago +1

      Which is wild, imagine if there was an equivalent of the sperm whale on land, and it just spammed rays of sound devastating absolutely everything.

  • @MerOracle
    @MerOracle Month ago +7

    they were even bigger and badder before the whaling era. thankfully, they at least evaded complete extinction.

  • @HannahSeandigo
    @HannahSeandigo Month ago +6

    11:36 this is also why people tend to not like spiders and snakes

  • @InViSiBlEGuy1
    @InViSiBlEGuy1 Month ago +62

    I am also afraid of them

    • @d-RMI
      @d-RMI Month ago +7

      real man me too

    • @InViSiBlEGuy1
      @InViSiBlEGuy1 Month ago +7

      ​@d-RMIyeah

    • @brianmckee2267
      @brianmckee2267 Month ago +9

      Same, they've sunk boats by ramming them and they could kill you by shouting

    • @vibeytime
      @vibeytime Month ago +2

      ​​​​@brianmckee2267 the Black Canaries of the Seas (Named after a comic book heroine)

  • @sairajmenon556
    @sairajmenon556 Month ago +14

    Just wanted to stop by and say I really appreciated the choice of music!!! It really harkens back to the 2000's when every nature documentary CD used a similar stylistic choice for deep sea animals, combining the music of the ocean with the feeling of dread, loved it!!! If I have one criticism I would request to not use GenAI images, as they do spoil the amazing mood you're going for. I know in this day and age it's hard to avoid it. But other than those few images everything else was really great mate, keep it up!!!

  • @rhynhardtk
    @rhynhardtk Month ago +32

    06:14 I'm sorry, did you just say 'pacifically'?

  • @RobertLeduc-oh9kc
    @RobertLeduc-oh9kc Month ago +4

    soo so cool how they can reach 230db that is incredible. i searched up a video and you can feel the sound go through your entire body if you're anywhere near a sperm whale

  • @ianking-jv4hg
    @ianking-jv4hg 27 days ago +1

    @ 3:00 you have your Oceans misnamed, all three of them

  • @Btdvng
    @Btdvng Month ago +178

    Correction:
    Orcas do actually hunt sperm whales, they just stay away from bulls since those are too big and aggressive.

    • @LEG4CYGD
      @LEG4CYGD Month ago +49

      no? They stay away from bulls because they live on land, while Orcas live in the sea lol

    • @Bo0merBot
      @Bo0merBot Month ago

      Bulls are male sperm whale bruh​@LEG4CYGD

    • @bowadiwadiwa9008
      @bowadiwadiwa9008 Month ago +18

      @LEG4CYGDwoah, your sense. He means bulls as in make sperm whales not actually bulls. Holy shit your dumb

    • @LEG4CYGD
      @LEG4CYGD Month ago +39

      ​@bowadiwadiwa9008I was being ironic.

    • @Greatly_Incompetent
      @Greatly_Incompetent Month ago +1

      Even then I think they have killed males before
      Sperm whales are terrible at self defense

  • @TheCynicalSatyr
    @TheCynicalSatyr Month ago +1

    man you mention a sperm whale falling from the sky and call it unlikely rather than improbable. major missed opportunity. I would have subscribed.

  • @wall-hairvideos
    @wall-hairvideos Month ago +8

    12:48 holy aura

  • @Blaankket
    @Blaankket Month ago +2

    "even louder than a baby on the plane ride back home" is a goated metric

  • @fergal2424
    @fergal2424 Month ago +3

    You got the Atlantic and Pacific oceans mixed up there.

  • @marclenraymagdaraog691

    10:35 assuming so there are huge ass krakens back then but welp Sperm Whales exists back then too so they have no choice but to reduce their size and increase spawn rate for survival..

  • @dirtcollector
    @dirtcollector Month ago +4

    side note but blob fish has to be the wildest name given to a species. ik its not the scientific name but still.
    it would be like an astronaut accidentally dying in space, and an alien finds the gory mess and names our species “explody guts monkey”

    • @Li-ck8ek
      @Li-ck8ek Day ago

      Lmfao 😂 this comment made me laugh way too much

  • @HeleneWheatfield0549

    That was both insightful and fascinating.

  • @lalaland962
    @lalaland962 Month ago +4

    What amazing creatures! They've got it all.

  • @buddhacat422
    @buddhacat422 Month ago

    This was amazingly interesting! Thanks.

  • @cinaralin
    @cinaralin Month ago +5

    I'm not going to pause the video every 30 seconds to convert from US imperial to rest of the world measurements.

    • @twinrixone5295
      @twinrixone5295 Month ago +1

      stop at 5x human brain (=4x non American brain)

  • @cojinmango
    @cojinmango Month ago +1

    All of the number conversions for those that don't use the imperial system:
    0:45 twilight zone 200 - 1000 metres of depth; midnight zone 1000 - 4000 metres; abissal zone 4000 - 6000 metres
    1:36 reaches around 18.288 metres (btw I hate period as a decimal separator)
    2:31 32.18 kilometres
    3:24 reaches 914.4 metres and recorded as deep as 3048 metres
    3:33 1360.77 kilograms
    3:45 blue whale recorded dive of up to 148.64 metres

    • @edinonjunio
      @edinonjunio 23 days ago +1

      Thank you! I don't get why people making scientific informative content don't use the more sensible measurement unit or at least put a conversion on screen

    • @cojinmango
      @cojinmango 18 days ago

      ​@edinonjunioI hope I saved you some time!

  • @N-cromancer
    @N-cromancer Month ago +3

    Brain weight does NOT equal intelligence by any metric. See Corvids and octopuses for example. Or Slime Molds even.

  • @smmoko
    @smmoko Month ago

    First time watching and it’s fire, will be watching more.

  • @Swe3t_Ch0c
    @Swe3t_Ch0c Month ago +20

    4:38 ew either AI or a really shitty rendering

    • @billybobjr6182
      @billybobjr6182 Month ago

      Ur dumb that picture is real. When they come up from the ocean LIKE THE GUY EXPLAINED, their body’s expand and they look like that, hence the name blob fish. This was taken in 2003 way before LLM’s were able to generate pictures. It literally takes a quick google search to find this simple information. Look up NORFANZ expedition blob fish. Don’t speak when you know nothing peasant. I will not tolerate slander of the mighty blob.

    • @duckified.
      @duckified. Month ago +4

      definitely AI

    • @bednap922
      @bednap922 Month ago +3

      Stopped watching when I saw it

    • @murkseye
      @murkseye 3 days ago

      ​@bednap922sensitive

  • @martinroncetti4134

    Hahahahahahaha..."rip its face off"....hahahahahahahahaha!

  • @jamesvance89
    @jamesvance89 Month ago +3

    Blue whales are predators too

  • @abdulkhadeer9726
    @abdulkhadeer9726 Month ago

    I thought Blob fish looked like that normally in its habitat too. Wow, so many new things in your channel ❤

  • @eminkilicaslan8945
    @eminkilicaslan8945 Month ago +22

    Sperm whale: 👹
    The guy who named them: 🤡

    • @wisdon
      @wisdon Month ago +10

      it's because their "spermaceti" organ that has nothing to do with sperm

    • @eminkilicaslan8945
      @eminkilicaslan8945 Month ago +6

      @wisdon I used to think they named so because of their larger head and thinner tail end, like a sperm. But turns out the spermaceti fluid initially thought to be the whale's sperm, that's why the name stuck.

    • @KenGold666
      @KenGold666 Month ago

      ​@wisdonthey thought it was their jizz

    • @EnSkiva
      @EnSkiva 27 days ago +1

      We call them Kaskelot in Sweden in case you want a name for them that doesn't have the word sperm in it 😂

    • @kentjones85
      @kentjones85 26 days ago +1

      Well call them nutt whales over here

  • @johnbeard7404
    @johnbeard7404 Month ago

    Excellent work. Thank you.

  • @JoãoBrazDionisio
    @JoãoBrazDionisio Month ago +2

    Let's be honest, we were all on Mob Dick's side.

  • @AmyDPrice
    @AmyDPrice 26 days ago +1

    4:41 That blob fish fact is so sad 😢 poor thing

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 Month ago +13

    A channel that shows nature in a popular scientific way should use the measurement system that 95% of the world's population uses. Namely metric.

    • @detinator5
      @detinator5 Month ago +1

      WTF IS A KILOMETER 😂😂😂😂 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

    • @cw3229
      @cw3229 Month ago +2

      He did. Did you not see it's weight listed as six elephants? 😂

    • @Swe3t_Ch0c
      @Swe3t_Ch0c Month ago +2

      @c@cw3229 lass, metric is not the elephant weighing

    • @twinrixone5295
      @twinrixone5295 Month ago +2

      ​@Swe3t_Ch0cwow, even the laughing emoji is no match for your lack of humor

    • @Swe3t_Ch0c
      @Swe3t_Ch0c Month ago +2

      @t@twinrixone5295 The laughing emoji is outdated and so was that joke

  • @WeeWeeJumbo
    @WeeWeeJumbo Month ago

    hot damn i never knew they dive as deep as that. i didn’t know their relationship to giant squid. this is a terrific video

  • @Yousaf-i2e
    @Yousaf-i2e Month ago +12

    7:45 "It is the loudest sound produced by any living creature in history of the universe". Lmao, I would understand the world but the universe? how would you know that?

    • @stevecash9761
      @stevecash9761 Month ago +6

      Well, the universe is free to object and present contradictory evidence 😂

    • @Daaaw23
      @Daaaw23 Month ago

      Hw wanted sounds bigger then it is 😂 let him be stupid

  • @billcapehart5238
    @billcapehart5238 Month ago +1

    What's wild is their lack of bilateral symmetry. They'; re just a little lopsided, which is how their sonar works. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

  • @gustavo-fy8tc
    @gustavo-fy8tc Month ago +3

    Hey, if it's not asking for too much, could you please write the measurements using the metric system between parentheses? It's fine if you want to talk about "feet" and "miles" and "pounds", but you could at least write in the video the equivalent measurement in units that the rest of the world outside USA could understand with no effort or having to pause the video to convert and have the true scale of whatever you are explaining. Thanks!

  • @jeromeisaacs4428
    @jeromeisaacs4428 Month ago

    Dog like creatures became Masters of the Ocean, incredible

  • @drewf8619
    @drewf8619 Month ago +21

    Knowing how intelligent they are... The way humans hunted and killed these animals; is truly horrible.

    • @shiki325
      @shiki325 Month ago

      Cmon human kill each other all the time, u think we wont kill other animals? Lol

    • @drewf8619
      @drewf8619 Month ago +5

      @shiki325 A group of human beings torturing an innocent person to death. Is also horrible...
      What's your point and what about it was funny?

    • @anneliselim602
      @anneliselim602 Month ago +2

      @shiki325desensitisation is bad. If this happens to you, would you still give them a pass because “that’s what human do”?

    • @shiki325
      @shiki325 28 days ago

      @anneliselim602 No I am a hypocrite so I naturally wouldn't like it lmao

    • @shiki325
      @shiki325 28 days ago

      @drewf8619 My point is that, we are not equal being with them for a reason.

  • @joemoore4027
    @joemoore4027 Month ago

    Excellent video, enjoyed it very much.

  • @daveechronic
    @daveechronic Month ago +3

    Didnt know the Atlantic ocean was off the coast of California....

  • @DusterV2
    @DusterV2 Month ago +1

    The first scene with the whales sleeping triggered my thalassophobia and megalothalassophobia so badly bro

  • @christiannnnnnnn25
    @christiannnnnnnn25 Month ago +9

    You forgot the only predator they have is humans, and we would kill them with technology from the 1800’s

  • @quangminhnguyen6541
    @quangminhnguyen6541 Month ago +2

    Sperm whale isn’t the monopoly of the abyss. Vast quantities of beaked whale species, elephant seal and narwhal dive to the same depth as sperm whale. Baird’s beaked whale is as big as female sperm whale.

  • @AA-vf9jb
    @AA-vf9jb Month ago +4

    9:55 18000 squid beaks!? Do sperm whales never take a dump?

    • @wanderer314
      @wanderer314 Month ago +1

      ~As I've just discovered in the comments of this video, this is an AI slop channel, and that is an obviously incorrect hallucination~
      Interesting, Wikipedia corroborates this, though I couldn't find the info in the sources it used: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale#cite_note-chip.choate.edu-83

    • @صهصه1
      @صهصه1 25 days ago +1

      ​@wanderer314no, it's true.

  • @Thurston-q6q
    @Thurston-q6q Month ago

    This is a series of commercials with a minute of sperm whale information interrupting it

  • @sagoot
    @sagoot Month ago +24

    Sperm whales don't outclass Orcas in in intellegence or strategy. Orcas have higher brain to body ratio, more wrinkely brains, and use more advanced hunting tactics.

    • @samk2407
      @samk2407 Month ago +5

      We're not even sure humans outclass orcas in intelligence lol. Resident Orca whales demonstrate about the best evidence we've ever seen for culture and language in another species, local groups of these orcas seem have separate but related "dialects" of the sounds they use to communicate, once we observed an orca fashion trend of them wearing salmons as hats, and we're pretty sure they have deeper emotional connections and social intelligence than humans based on the development of that area in their brains and way they behave when losing a loved one. For all we know if orcas has thumbs and access to fire they would be the ones making RUclips videos rn.

    • @vicg281
      @vicg281 Month ago +2

      I don’t see humans performing for orcas, no animal can fuck w a Homo sapiens, a 6 year old with a tablet hooked to a UAV would smoke a pod of orcas. 😂

    • @bobobogongus6901
      @bobobogongus6901 Month ago +1

      @sam@samk2407ntelligent as they are, I don’t think they even pale in comparison to humans

  • @phnx_tom5400
    @phnx_tom5400 2 days ago +1

    It looks an acts like a living submarine

  • @AmeliaBestWaifu
    @AmeliaBestWaifu Month ago +13

    Pretty sure this is AI slop. 3:00 Not one of these oceans is labeled correctly. Or maybe it isn't. I don't think an AI would get a basic fact THAT wrong.

    • @Tubetrolll
      @Tubetrolll Month ago +3

      It’s almost right 😂 what if it’s just human error with cropping it ?

    • @RattvonTratt
      @RattvonTratt Month ago +4

      the script and some of the visuals are ai generated

  • @Xonn-t7n
    @Xonn-t7n Month ago +1

    i genuinely thought you'd have millions of subscribers, this is such a high quality channel, my attention span is very bad but i watch this video fully, I've never been this interested about some sperm whales before, and plus i usually don't appreciate and comment on some videos but man, it's just so good. The clear and simple English also helps a lot. Im glad i found this channel, Keep it up!

  • @polpottopg
    @polpottopg Month ago +5

    Man when you use the phrase “its not just X its actually Y” ect. You have to respect the viewers intelligence by X being something you might genuinely be thinking.
    After hearing all about how honed sperm whales are for hunting no one is thinking other creatures fear them because its just big and scary or whatever. I swear this writing crutch is everywhere nowadays and screams AI usage.

  • @TalRohan
    @TalRohan Month ago +1

    Great video thanks
    I learnt a few things, takes some doing when it comes to species I am interested in
    Thanks for sharing

  • @Zhantivar
    @Zhantivar Month ago +5

    Interresting video, but if you don't cite any sources when you make claims like "it is theorized...", that means it's just you saying that. And I'm not saying that you need to ruin the flow of the video. Just put your sources in the description, or at the end. I'd love to hear more about whales using their sonar as an actual weapon, but i'd also like to know what evidence that idea has.

  • @Sam_IAM013
    @Sam_IAM013 Month ago

    Very informative! Thanks for this! ❤

  • @IDPTheory
    @IDPTheory Month ago +6

    'They float like giant stone boulders' - and with that opening line I'll get my whale info elsewhere thanks

  • @Puffalupagus360
    @Puffalupagus360 Month ago +1

    Pictures of sperm whales sleeping stokes a deep feeling of terror in myself.

  • @dichebach
    @dichebach Month ago +9

    At the factual core, several things are broadly correct. Sperm whales are indeed the largest toothed predators, they do dive very deep (routinely >1,000 m, with rare dives approaching ~3,000 m), they rely heavily on echolocation, they possess extremely loud clicks, they hunt large squid, and adults show scarring consistent with squid encounters. Their lungs do collapse safely under pressure, oxygen is largely stored in blood and muscle via high myoglobin concentrations, and they are globally distributed. All of that is real biology.
    However, the narrative departs from sober science in several systematic ways.
    First, anthropomorphic framing. The script repeatedly assigns human social meanings to ecological facts: “most feared,” “no rivals,” “the ocean remembers,” “tactical superiority,” “biological rail gun,” “acoustic shadow,” “learned trauma baked into DNA.” These phrases are not scientific descriptions; they are cinematic metaphors. Fear, dominance, paranoia, respect, and strategy are imputed mental states rather than demonstrable behavioral mechanisms. Ethologists are extremely cautious about such language precisely because it smuggles intention and agency where selection pressures suffice.
    Second, exaggeration of acoustic lethality. The claim that sperm whale clicks are “loud enough to vibrate a human body to death” or function as a stun weapon is speculative at best. While peak source levels around 230 dB re 1 µPa @ 1 m are often cited, this is a measurement convention specific to underwater acoustics and does not translate directly into lethal effects in air or even into proven biological weapons underwater. The “sonar as a weapon” hypothesis remains debated and unproven. It is presented here as settled fact, which it is not
    Third, misleading claims of ecological monopoly. The video implies sperm whales have a near-exclusive lock on giant and colossal squid. In reality, these squid are rare, poorly sampled, and not eaten exclusively-or even primarily-by sperm whales in all regions. Most sperm whale diets consist largely of medium-sized mesopelagic squid, not mythical kraken-scale prey. The “monopoly” framing vastly overstates the case.
    Fourth, overstatement of dominance over orcas. Orcas do attack sperm whales, particularly calves and juveniles, and documented events show coordinated harassment and lethal outcomes. Adult sperm whales are dangerous opponents, and defensive formations exist, but the claim that orcas “will not try” or are categorically outclassed is false. This is an arms-length stalemate shaped by context, numbers, and risk tolerance-not a clear hierarchy.
    Fifth, teleological evolution language. Phrases like “a genius move,” “decided millions of years ago,” and “evolutionary memory where fear is baked into DNA” are rhetorically powerful but biologically sloppy. Evolution has no foresight, memory is not transmitted as fear, and prey adaptations do not imply conscious avoidance of a specific predator across 20 million years. Selection pressure, not narrative memory, explains morphology and behavior.
    Sixth, false dichotomies. The script repeatedly insists that animals must be either “creatures of the sun” or “creatures of the void,” that trade-offs are absolute, and that sperm whales uniquely “cheat physics.” In reality, many diving mammals (beaked whales, elephant seals) share overlapping physiological strategies. Sperm whales are exceptional-but not singular in kind.
    So how spurious is this RUclips video?
    Not fraudulent. Not crackpot. But structurally mythic.
    It takes real, fascinating biology and runs it through a prestige-nature-documentary-meets-cosmic-horror filter. The result is a story optimized for awe, virality, and narrative coherence, not for epistemic restraint. Facts are real; proportions are distorted. Uncertainties are erased. Metaphor quietly replaces mechanism.

    • @wanderer314
      @wanderer314 Month ago

      This is AI slop. Thanks for the incredibly thorough breakdown. You probably spent more time on this than the asshole "creator" spent making the entire video

  • @Abominatrix650
    @Abominatrix650 Month ago

    It's like they're super-powered. Absolutely remarkable.

  • @samk2407
    @samk2407 Month ago +13

    0:37 uh I don't think orcas are outclassed in intelligence by literally anything lol

    • @saianshvukkalkar4347
      @saianshvukkalkar4347 Month ago +8

      We exist

    • @watch9604
      @watch9604 Month ago +4

      Speak for yourself lol

    • @samk2407
      @samk2407 Month ago +10

      ​@saianshvukkalkar4347no not even humans lol, I literally have a degree in marine biology, and we are very much not sure if orcas are less intelligent than us. They may have real language, they have communities and culture, they pass down information, they have incredibly strong social bonds, significantly stronger than humans, and they live a long time. Their brains are also, while different from ours also extremely large and complex.

    • @CantSWIM_frITSUCKS69
      @CantSWIM_frITSUCKS69 Month ago

      @samk2407dude that’s awesome! How are their brains compared to ours?

    • @AA-vf9jb
      @AA-vf9jb Month ago

      Guess if orcas had access to fire, they would have out-evolved us

  • @stray_editori
    @stray_editori Month ago +1

    I'm back in the ocean fascination trenches (hah)-
    5:00 Flexible ribcages are so interesting! I do wonder if they do change a bit physically or if they feel the change between ocean layers like we do notice for example air density differences on mountains etc.
    I assume so since humans also feel pressure differences when coming up from diving, but still... Super interesting!!
    7:00 they got an oil chamber?? What!

  • @AndrewHarriston
    @AndrewHarriston Month ago +8

    Interesting fact : a sperm whale can not actually vibrate a human to death as that is a myth.

    • @jordanalexander615
      @jordanalexander615 Month ago +5

      But I believe it can cause you harm at close range.

    • @Edelweiss1102
      @Edelweiss1102 Month ago

      To my understanding, it would only be the absolute worst case, and is very unlikely to happen. It can definitely damage your organs, but I think the risk of you drowning from the shock/damage is much higher than the sound itself killing you. You also have to be directly be in front of the whale, and I hope nobody is dumb/brave enough to be in close proximity of a 40 ton and 15 m Apex predator. Finally, the whales only use these loud clicks when hunting far below in the dark, and never at the surface or in the presence of humans. They don't see divers as food or a thread and will only lightly click at them to scan them.

  • @jrayfpv4963
    @jrayfpv4963 Month ago +2

    3:10 you got the Atlantic and Pacific oceans mixed up.

  • @GodToaster
    @GodToaster 10 days ago +4

    Script sounds like it was mostly written with AI

  • @melaniesmith1313
    @melaniesmith1313 Month ago

    Always adored them. Now love them even more. They are beyond awesome.

  • @erikthebuilder564
    @erikthebuilder564 Month ago +8

    “It is a pity that American sizing was used rather than the globally accepted measurement system.”

    • @jayhill2193
      @jayhill2193 Month ago

      Fr, I knew the depths of the mentioned ocean levels beforehand, but I don't know the length or speed of the sperm whale now. A measurement in football fields would have been more helpful ironically.

    • @polpottopg
      @polpottopg Month ago +2

      If you cant convert feet to meters in your head then you are dumb. If your brain shuts off when hearing anything but what you’re used to theres no hope for you

    • @erikthebuilder564
      @erikthebuilder564 Month ago

      @polpottopg Fortunately, I can work it out, but it would be nice if this were explained or mentioned. Not everyone is American, fortunately.

    • @doonewatts7155
      @doonewatts7155 Month ago

      I always go by fence panels which are 6' or 1.8 m. So a sperm whale is 10 fence panels which is huge, obvs

  • @MegaBanne
    @MegaBanne Month ago +2

    When humans are in a vacuum with an oxygen supply, but without a pressure suit, humans will eventually swell in to a jelly.
    First your ear drums will pop like a bubble (extremely painful).
    Then your cells will swell and pop as well (this is what kills you).
    There is a misconception that your blood will boil, but your body is incredibly good at keeping its internal pressure stable.
    That is until your cells starts to break apart from the low pressure.
    That is when you start to swell, because your body can't keep you from swelling any more.
    Eventually you intestines will shoot out of your behind as internal pressure builds.
    This is when you will start to melt in to a jelly/liquid goo.
    Eventually your water will evaporate and what will be left is your skeleton covered in and surrounded by a dry dust (you minus all the water).

  • @rdifuria
    @rdifuria Month ago +8

    0:31 hate to be the corrections officer, but killer whales hunt sperm whales routinely not vice versa

  • @aresfan7438
    @aresfan7438 Month ago +4

    military sonar is 235 decibles

  • @akumaryoshi5341
    @akumaryoshi5341 Month ago

    Aura so strong, it renders you senseless and paralyzed.

  • @YorksGamingEmporium
    @YorksGamingEmporium Month ago +7

    2:50-ish? What the hell is that?

  • @Trockenfurz
    @Trockenfurz Month ago +1

    you know, you could've just explained "if orcas are space marines and giant squids are chaos marines, spermwhales are custodes"

  • @Night-Jester
    @Night-Jester Month ago +2

    Pshh I eat whales that look just like sperm whales all the time! They're like gold fish.

    • @vibeytime
      @vibeytime Month ago +1

      Pshh I eat shark fins too. Delicious 😋