Whale Poop Helps Cool Our Planet
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2021
- You might not think of a sea creature as helpful in the prevention of climate change, but sperm whales have been doing their part to cool the planet by doing what most animals do best: pooping.
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Does this mean that if one would add iron to the ocean, we could create blooms to slow down climate change (in a significant way)?
Is March going to be “Toilet humor month” for this channel?
How did the lack of whales affect their prey populations
If iron is important for algae imagine how algae would have grown on mars
Brilliant video
“What every animal does best”
Tree sloth disagrees.
Tree sloths go on epic tree-sloth adventures to do their business. They may not all survive, but that doesn't mean they're not the best at it.
They’re the best at being slow
I only understand this comment cuz of WTF 101 xD
@@codybear5840 me too, and I made the comment lol
I love the way he just says, "Deep sea noms" without cracking a smile!
I just kept bursting into laugther, it makes everything so comical!
Hank's gonna Hank
He would have broke if he had to say "nom-nom", I'll bet
It's a scientific phrase
My theory of Hank always handling the "anus and poop" subjects holds true...LOL
In many of Hank's personal vlogs it becomes pretty clear that he likes talking about farts and butts. And poop is in the same general area. He's the kind of person who will fold his straw just to make sure he always draws the shortest one for hosting these videos.
@@chillsahoy2640 Haha! I'll have to check out those vlogs! I can respect a person with a comedic defecation fascination! I'm 50, and I still giggle at farts and poop,; but I play an adult in real life...
He’s their go to guy for anything butt related. He’s their buttman: the hero they need but not the one they deserve
Also, every tangents episode ends i
On a butt related funny stinger
Hes the only one with a funny delivery
"To hunt a specie to extinction is illogical", ST IV The voyage home.
INDEED! 🖖
Is it time for a colorful metaphor?
@@barrydysert2974 I read that in Teal'c's voice. Wrong universe oops
"Who ever said the human race was logical?"
Just a reminder that every system on this planet is connected.
That's what i've been thinking about all along....
except Aye Aye's they're up to something, they have disconnected from the nature link 😒
So, does this mean that "I'm going to cool down the planet" is the polite way for whales to say that they're going to take a dump?
Alright, what do you get if it's a bloom that comes from the iron from a mining operation on land, specifically middle earth?...
An ore-land-o-bloom.
You may see yourself out.
*throws chair*
When someone investigated those blooms, how did they react when they realized it was whale poop? I can imagine it would have been fun
They likely knew it was whale poop, as people have been using it for many products like perfume for hundreds of years. But humans usually need to stumble on whale poop; we are nowhere as efficient as those blooms on locating it. 😀
@@JustMeJH poop is different from ambergris. Ambergris is the product of indigestion that took years to form before being expelled
@@sabrinaelisa94 yep, ambergris is much more like ivory than it is like your average whale poop. it almost always kills the animal it is gotten from (though admittedly ambergris isnt anywhere near as unethical as ivory hunting)
Blooms generally happen with an influx of nutrients, so it's not really surprising that it's something's poop.
So we need less cow fart and more whale poop? 🐄💨👎 🐋💩👍
I love learning with SciShow
I concur!
I love staring at Hank
Scishow is awesome
Yes sirrr
Pretty epic ✊
me with an iron deficiency: so.... whale manure huh
I didn't expect to ever read a title like this...
Every time SciShow talks about butts and poop, I giggle through the whole video.
I am a grown woman, I swear!
[So this following reply wound up in the wrong thread after hitting the post button.]
Where do the whales get the iron? Or right they eat meat (krill). They do so probably so they can dive and stay submerged for extended periods. Their poo is black and contains iron because they likely dispense dead red blood cells in their solid waste due to extended time spent underwater. So they can only do this because of evolution and because their diet allows them to quickly replace dead RBC. Ultimately their waste is still incredibly high in CO2 as well as methane like human solid waste is. Of course while plankton are feasting and multiplying they consume some of that CO2 gas, but not all of it before the excrement sinks to the ocean floor. As I mentioned in another comment planty of blooms make their way to the shorelines before sinking and they're large enough to be seeb from space unlike our own plastic islands. So the whales aren't helping out as much as the story makes it out. Ultimately as I have stated many times before. *ALL LIFE* contributes positively to the carbon cycle.
To quote the sage Jimmy Buffett, "I'm growing older, but not up!"
Poop comes out of the end of a whale.
That's the meaning of the phrase, "all's whale that ends whale."
I didn't think this was going to be what I watch while eating dinner, but here we are.
I've never clicked on a scishow upload so fast
Omg same lol
Why am I like this
Another poop episode? Count me in!
Sci Show covering the if's, the and's, and especially the butts.
Love the recent pee, poop, and butt content from SciShow. Keep it up.
Star Trek was right. We have to save the whales.
🖖
Guess what I was doing when I started watching the video. Clue: it's what animals do best.
Eat😃
(he was pooping)
So we need less cow fart and more whale poop? 🐄💨👎 🐋💩👍
Me too!
Animals poop the best,??? Idk we eat pretty good. Alot of us are constipated but eatings easy. I vote eating is easier
Same holds true for cows rotated on a pasture.
Y’all are really building up to that April fool’s day upload haha
Cruise ships are something a lot of people hate too, but, they are very careful and and green as possible with their waste. They recycle all of their paper and plastic and burn and process all of the leftover food stuff. They release that sludge any time they are 15+ miles away from shoreline to "feed the fish" :-) but it's good for the corals too
I honestly think this was one of my favorite Sci Show videos yet. 👍
As a marine trace metal chemist, I quite enjoyed this. (Also, my first thought was, 'wouldn't it be cool to run across a giant whale poop on my next research cruise? I would love to take some water samples of it!')
Always love these videos!
You guys mind doing a video on the exchange of thermal energy and speak about things like cold static fluids vs warmer moving fluids on a surface?
Loved the video! Keep up such good work :D ur amazing!
Clicked on the video, and immediately heared Hank's voice. As expected, he always gets the tricky ones
Great video, keep up the great work, i love SciShow ❤
I agree, SciShow always makes great videos, they make learning fun
@@treymoodley3349 Yes, i agree
Hi 😋
@@thasmerahamid5208 hi😛
Scishow: *whales help cool the planet*
Me: *whales have the runs*
Wow, ecosystems are so delicate and beautiful. This reminds me of the documentary on how wolves change rivers.
But with more whale poop 🤔 lol.
Trees in yellowstone too.
well yeah the world works on the circle of life and that includes the emissions. plant consumes co2 then animal consumes plant. animal shits farts and buprs out co2 that then get eaten by the next plant that then get eaten again by the animal and thats how the world just balances itself. problem now is that we are using old plants that never got consumed and insted just collected in the bottom of the oceans. so the oil we use is co2 that got removed from the earth millions of years ago and now we take that stored crap and release it again. it's like if we put lets say 500billion USD in a bank and forget it there for like 100years. let's say the value of money has not changed during the 100years so the currency and it's value is the same. when we take that 500billion dollars 100years later we sudenly put in 500billion dollars that got removed from the economy and now we have suddenly crashed the economy by putting those 500billion back in there.
Me: What happens when these plankton blooms make it to the shore before dying?
Sci-show: 'Well it's not a perfect system.'
Whales are so awesome even their poop is great, i already knew about Ambergris but this is just took Whale poop to a different level.
Thank you
Hey guys, love your videos, blablabah.
This channel ils becoming such a valuable ressource of vulgarisation. My wife is a doctorate bioinformatics researcher and this is really valuable for her.
And thisis just me and my wife, and just one of your videos.
and Hank ohmagah you got the moves man :D
Another amazing connection
I really love the deeper breakdown about the relationship between ecosystems and really forming a picture how important the ocean is for life on land.
Scischow should do an updated video on the carbon cycle, including how fossil fuels tie into it and the true result of what is essentially trying to recreate the environment of the late miocene.
-I haven’t even started the episode, but I’m guessing it absorbs CO2 dissolved in the water?- Not even close. So much cooler!
Where do the whales get the iron? Or right they eat meat (krill). They do so probably so they can dive and stay submerged for extended periods. Their poo is black and contains iron because they likely dispense dead red blood cells in their solid waste due to extended time spent underwater. So they can only do this because of evolution and because their diet allows them to quickly replace dead RBC. Ultimately their waste is still incredibly high in CO2 as well as methane like human solid waste is. Of course while plankton are feasting and multiplying they consume some of that CO2 gas, but not all of it before the excrement sinks to the ocean floor. As I mentioned in another comment planty of blooms make their way to the shorelines before sinking and they're large enough to be seeb from space unlike our own plastic islands. So the whales aren't helping out as much as the story makes it out. Ultimately as I have stated many times before. *ALL LIFE* contributes positively to the carbon cycle.
Love your video!
I'll get the scuba gear, you get the krill shaped laxatives
Thats some cool $h!t
I see what you did there XD
The hard hitting poop news I have come to expect
The way to save humanity: Whale poop.
Ooh ooh! Now do a video on geoengineering featuring seeding the ocean with iron to foster phytoplankton blooms!
One obvious way they could cut down on excessive boat noise, would be hybrid boats, except instead of electric and gas like a car,
it would be sails for when there's wind and engines for when there isn't, whether those engines are gas or electric who knows.
Cow poop bad. Whale poop good.
I think we need whale cowboys, ranching the ocean.
Great video
The snowball effect in action.
So what I'm hearing is that I need to learn how to speak whale, record some "Mood Music" for whales, and play it non-stop from a ship I take around the world. Got it.
Also best in aftershaves
I certainly never thought in a million years that I'd be fascinated by what whale poop has to offer. Thank you.
At first, I thought you were going to say the carbon in whale poop sank and was sequestered in the deep ocean and was surprised when you said they add limiting nutrients to the surface phytoplankton to increase growth. Many geoengineering advocates support fertilizing the ocean especially with iron which is a limiting nutrient. To think the whales were doing this for free! I always loved seeing pods of up to two dozen Humpback whales at a time while kayaking the inside passage in B.C. and AK.
This was good info
Essentially, what you described is a mineral cycle, where the whales bring up the iron from deep waters and expel it as poop in the shallow waters - where there's light. And poop in general is a VERY nutrient rich substance. It may stink, but the things that make it stink are used by a LOT of plants, microbes, and even other animals.
There's another mineral cycle that's quite famous: The phosphorous cycle. Phosphorous is common in the ocean but very rare on land, and it is a *vital* nutrient for plants. Phosphorus has only two ways to get to the land: By geological cycling of ocean bed to land masses, or by birds pooping. Yep. Seabird guano is one of the richest sources of phosphorous on Earth, and before we figured out how to make artificial phosphorous-containing fertilizer, guano deposits were more valuable than gold.
That's the coolest poop I ever heard.
It seems oddly appropriate that the inaugural video of Hank's soul patch is about whale poop.
This is amazing!
I always wanted to know how to make decisions with manipulated data. I will look up Brilliant.
I really feel like Hank wanted to host this episode specifically
"By doing what every animal does best, pooping"
*Me, constipated and having difficulty pooping: [Sad noises]
I can't put my finger on it. Hank seems sassier today. Sassier hands.
2:25 the e in Fe is lowercase
Coprophagia has never looked this good lol
Now this is a topic I can get down with
Giant ocean crop dusters!
Would gigantic ships of manure be of help? Having a very slow moving slowly dropping manure across deep waters would help cool off the planet?
For our size, the average person eats more food per year than the whale does.
Smaller animals eat a LOT more food per unit of flesh than large creatures. There's a rough equation somewhere.
Smaller engines, less efficient = more waste.
@@tomf3150 There's also the matter of relatively more surface area meaning we need a higher metabolic rate to stay warm. Conversely, whales can't have as high a metabolism because their waste heat would cook them. I'm not sure actual metabolic efficiency varies all that much between species, it's all mitochondria in the end.
Is there a way to help do this? Maybe fit ships with fe2+ sprayers that spray the top of the oceans as they travel?
"There's rocks, there's WHALE POOP...and then there's you."
Even in this context, marine biology is insanely fascinating to me.
Well why don't we just dump that kind of iron into the ocean?
Well it seems that there is some research into that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
Emily Litella on Saturday Night Live actually was right: It IS endangered feces.
1:14 Guys, don't offer a BABY SQUID when you want us to identify with their predators. Just Saiyin.
When you realize that the ocean water is more packed with iron than you think.
I'm implying something. I hope you get the point.
@Jehmarxx: What? Giant magnet to command the tides? You want cartoonish supervillainy, go to Kyle Hill's channel.
@@sdfkjgh Kyle's got what every super villain wants me needs
@@sdfkjgh Yeah, but I'm implying that the ocean water contains more poop and pee than you could've imagined. Gonna have to sleep with that thought tonight.
1M wales has about 20M tons of carbon storage capacity. Invest in wales! Very good storage :D
It's all about the poops n the butts lately!😂😂
So, what we need to do is to throw lots of "Iron-II bombs" into the waters to feed the green stuff to help get things into balance, given there's plenty rusty cars in scrapyards, a little chemistry to convert them from Iron-III to Iron-II and hey presto, plankton food... :P
As if Wailing couldn't get any worse
Headline of the century right there.
There are still commercial whaling vessels actively engaged in whaling as of 2021.
hank tell me where you got that excellent hoodie
2 minutes in and I’m still thinking ‘Where’s Hank going with this one?’ 😂
Make that 3 minutes
Another fun fact about whale poop: the iron colours it red so that tourist often confuse it for blood, so they get scared when the endangered whale releases a cloud of 'blood', but no, just poop...
Just think about this, the glass of water / bottle you consumed was once Whales' piss!
What if we went to places with low iron content and dumped a lot of Iron 2 there periodically, always giving the algae enough time in-between to die? Could this be a way to slightly combat climate change?
4:10 "drop in the bucket" is that a greta thunberg joke?
Am i wrong? Poop and farts are a few of the many features of this channel.
'Which is a lovely visual!'
reminds me of the idea to see the oceans with iron to stimulate phytoplankton growth
Some countries still do whaling :(
Whale fertilizer is awesome, like chicken poop. Some of you never lived on a farm, and it shows.
It would be nice to save the whales. But could we sprinkle Iron to grow phytoplankton too?
HOW THIS IS NOT A MORE COMMON KNOWLEDGE? #whalepoopiscool
Misunderstanding science data on purpose:
So we should dump iorn 2 into the ocean to counter global warming
That's actually been proposed in the past
I have Iron sheet metal, I add second Iron sheet metal, it becomes Fe^2 right? if not I just littered metal into my local harbour... well at least I tried being part of the solution 🤷♂️
wonder what effect on the food chain, ecosystem, animal populations of not having as many whales so not eating squid and stuff so more squid. I read commercial fishing has allowed an explosion in jellyfish.
Hank !!
My bathroom just warmed up 3 degrees!
?
There was a proposal back in the early 80's/late 70's to seed the southern Pacific Ocean with iron to do just this.
🧻😏 "I know, and you're welcome!"
I saw the subject was whale poop and I knew immediately that Hank would host. Because, after all, who can put more ironic drama into the phrase "whale poop"?
I thought I could handle drinking my coffee while watching this video. I was wrong.
I should probably read the title before eating next time