Inside the World’s ONLY Whale Warehouse 🐋
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Long before the days of fast-fashion and chain restaurants, humans were busy hunting down whales and nearly wiping them out... The efficiency of 20th-century whaling had a devastating impact. Join host Shane Campbell-Staton as he visits Paleontologist Nick Pyenson at Smithsonian's Whale Warehouse to uncover the history of whaling and its impact on our oceans.
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Felt a shiver down my spine hearing how much biomass we were able to take out of the ocean.
We really like playing with fire until it burns us.
And that number continues to rise with japanese whaling, and overfishing
I had to stop the video and relisten to that part. That butchery was an “ecocide”, akin to the Tyranids in Warhammer or the Flood in Halo just consuming a world.
And knowing how intelligent whales are makes it all the more tragic that we burned them for lighting our homes. And it was only for a few decades in a small number of industrialized countries…
Stop crying . Animals go instinct so the time . Dinosaurs also went instinct because their time was up. Humans will go instinct when our time is up too. So don't assume yourself like superhero social justice warrior for whales.
@@bendover-bz4bc Why are you yucking my yum?
@@bendover-bz4bcyou sound stupid
I grew up on Cape Cod and remember going on field trips to whaling captains houses. One house had 2 jawbones forming an arch over the driveway that cars could drive through. Nantucket and New Bedford were the whaling capitals of the world. It was said that a man couldnt get married on Nantucket until he had speared his first whale, or survived a "Nantucket Sleigh Ride", when they harpoon a whale from a dingy then hold on till the whale tires, or the boat breaks. There were so many whales in cape cod bay that sources from the 1600's and 1700's said you could "Walk across their backs to the other side"
It breaks my heart now knowing how intelligent whales are, I really hope we can get it together and bring them back.
Defo agree wit you . Why wud we as human beings want to harm , kill, and eat this beautiful animals . I can't get my head round it .The people who do need to get ther karma . Horrible , pathetic humans I'd say 😡
Impressive
A friend of mine in New Zealand has tons of sperm whale teeth. His garden has an archway made from the jaws of blue whale
@@ianlucas7679 The reason was fuel. Humans will do anything for a cheap source of energy.
@pjk9225 that is the captain Penniman house in eastham but they took the bones down because they were deteriorating
This must have had a devastating effect on the ocean floor where Whale falls probably supported life there too!
Yes, we've been destroying the oceans for centuries.
@@hansolowe19not just the oceans, the entire planet
@@goosenotmaverick1156 I know.
People care more about which bathroom to use than our planet
@@julianleivers1608 that's the truth.
Thank you PBS for making shows like this possible. Great episode. But I feel devastated.
Great presentation Shane.
thank you. glad to know i wasn't the only one who had a reaction of "this is incredible.. and also i hate it... "
"..in 1972, 99% of the blue whales that were alive in 1900, were gone"... Well yeah, no shit, there life span is only 80-90 years. Obviously over 90% of them are going to be dead... This is exactly what mathematicians/statisticians mean when they say misleading stats.
Yes, but if you you want to make a show like this, make it right.
Chilean here. Two things.
Until the 70s, you could buy whale meat at the fish market. I ate whale several times. Very much like beef, but with a distinct "fishy" taste, not at all off-putting. I remember at the time there were news about krill, how abundant it was, how it could be processed to make krill sticks and other delicious foodstuffs. After a while, no more news. Whale meat was not available anymore at the fish market. This episode explained both disappearances.
Second thing. Trekkie here. It has been said that the fourth Star Trek film (1986, the one with the whales) helped to change people's minds about whaling. Maybe yes, maybe not, but the pro-whale message in the film is unmistakable. Also, it's a great movie, one of the best in the franchise. Space people from the future (including an alien who has just resurrected - and is slightly amnesiac) comes to the 1986 America because they need a whale to answer a message from a gigantic alien spaceship or Earth will be destroyed. Whales are extinct in that future. So, clueless future people trying to navigate 20th century culture - lots of fun!
One of the most fun Trek movies ever. "There be whales here!"
@@Tser "Maybe he's singing to that man."
People can eat you too, you know. It won't taste musch different.
@@srwla2501 I presume you are aware that in the years of the 7th decade of the 20th century, whaling was legal everywhere, and very few people were concerned or knew of any threat to the survival of whales.
I presume you know that commercial whaling was forbidden in 1986.
I presume you know that currently, Iceland, Norway and Japan continue to commercially hunting whales for their meat and other body parts, and indigenous peoples from Alaska and the Faroe Islands hunt whales for their survival.
I presume you know the meaning of "you are barking up the wrong tree."
"..in 1972, 99% of the blue whales that were alive in 1900, were gone"... Well yeah, no shit, there life span is only 80-90 years. Obviously over 90% of them are going to be dead... This is exactly what mathematicians/statisticians mean when they say misleading stats.
This is absolutely incredible. I'm so impressed with what's being studied about whales and the entire eco system they are part of. Thanks for sharing.
New favorite phrase “there’s knowledge in the stank” 😂🖤
I feel like I need this on a t-shirt XD
It blew my mind when they said the blue whale jaw bone isn't just the largest bone on earth, but the largest to have ever existed!? When I think about the absolutely humongous sauropod called Argentinosaurus. But after doing some maths it seems the largest blue whale on record is still quite a bit larger and much heavier than the Argentinosaurus. 🤯
The blue whale is the largest animal that ever existed on our planet. If there is/was a larger dinosaur, it hasn't been discovered yet.
@@myriamickx7969 It's also unlikely there ever could have been due to the laws of physics, things can get much larger in the water than they can on land, even were a larger animal to exist it's extremely unlikely that any single bone on it would be as large as a blue whale's jaw bones.
The amout of opportunities people passed up to call it a Whalehouse is unforgivable.
I didn’t even watch the video. It was in my recommended and I clicked strictly to make sure this comment was here lol.
36 secs that music is so out of pocket i can't😂
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This was absolutely amazing on so many levels. Thank you for sharing!!
Almost cried when I realized the magnitude of the biomass loss so recently.
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learned a lot, thanks PBS! great episode
Amazing! I'm always here for the whale content :) One whale fact I never considered was the role that whales played in moving biomass vertically through the water column! I couldn't even imagine how whales hunting in the deep and defecating on the surface sustained zooplankton until this episode
This was beautiful and super depressing, but it highlights those OTHER things about the food web we often forget. Through better understanding hopefully we can help restore some of the balance, because it is clear that this anthropocene extinction is not slowing down at the moment.
This is my first time watching this show, and I'm really digging it! Also, I wonder how bottlenecked the blue whales' total genome has gotten from their near extinction. I have to imagine it's pretty pared down.
Of course, long-lived, slow-developing animals tend to have some mechanisms to speed up genetic diversity development, so hopefully that's helping keep the populations healthy and able to fend off disease.
That was a thought that crossed my mind, an idea I learned about on PBS Eons' episode about Mammoths and their extinction.
The Blue Whale is so cool!
It hurts to see how much damage to an entire beautiful species just decades of human abuse cost. Thanks for making this, all of us hope the whales make it through and thrive
It's sad to think many classic works of literature were written by the light from whale oil 😢
including Moby Dick 😒
No, what is sad is that you can't see all of existence is 1 thing playing out. So the classic works of literature coming into creation by the light of whale oil is a tiny piece of the one giant story of existence unfolding.
The discovery of petroleum was a miracle for whale populations of the world, the fact that J.D. Rockefeller saved more cetaceans than Green Peace could ever dream of is kind of poetic irony.
Speaking of oil, the whale oil that permeates the warehouse is rancid which is why it smells so funky.
Well, that depends. If you calculate in the devastating effects of climate change (still to come), he might as well have killed more animals than any other person.
Rockefeller did not discover or even popularized drilling for oil. He was just the most successful businessman, like implying Steve Jobs is responsible for the computer.
When you consider how much of that oil has been dumped into the ocean to the detriment of not only citations, I think it comes out at an even score.
I wish I could see the ocean before we ruin ones it, it must’ve been so full of life and just down right beautiful
Hearing old timers on the river talk about the good old days, then hear them brag how much roe they have in the freezer. No wonder we have it bad
@@JohnJames. imagine how much more lively the ocean felt, old shipmen must’ve seen so many more animals, especially large curious ones like whales.
I really enjoyed this show Just wonderful PBS Never Disappoint 🐦💙
Glad you enjoyed this episode of Human Footprint!
I love the chemistry with these two gentlemen. ❤
A hundred years after man is gone, the earth will never know we were here.
Can’t wait
Dude just told the bro to smell his giant whale finger 😂
9:29
Warehouse owner: "the fortunate thing is, they [whales] didn't go extinct! so I think we have a second chance in the 21st century to make a greater impact."
Japan: "And I took that personally"
Some new discoveries around Sauropods are putting into question the idea that the Blue Whale is the largest living animal ever, but I don't think any Sauropod will have a bone that outmatches the blue whales jaw.
I especially appreciated the debunk of the "less whales means more krill right" assumption.
Many cycles are more complicated & have more unseen steps than you might think. We can't rest on assumptions.
When we talk about ancestors that relied on hunting for survival.. i can understand hunting a whale here & there. BUT, if it gets to a different lvl. Where Tons of people r just wiping out whales. That is just utterly unacceptable. It's Like what people did with the Bison. We take something that can be acceptable & sustainable and instead of utilizing it & realizing how important it is for our surrounding environment to flourish for Us to have a chance to flourish too... Yet people repeatedly mess up, destroy, devastate entire ecosystems. We need our habitat's to thrive alongside us in order for us to live our best life's. The planet/the food chain/the weather/geographic diversity/habitat & biodiversity all depends on if Humans are capable of NOT destroying the balance in our ecosystems.. I don't get why this is such a hard thing for us humans to understand? Especially since the industrial revolution era onward.. we gotta do better. The better nature is doing, the better we all can be doing. We cannot take it for granted and throw it all away for a quick buck.
100%, but human population has to be reduced. The more people, the more likely for some to take advantage and undo the good of others. I hope we can find balance. It took millions of years for Earth ecosystem to find balance. We destroyed it in less than 1% of that time.
Your iPhone wouldn’t exist without whale oil, because the industrial revolution would have never happened
Funny thing is; before the video even began, I wanted to know what that room smelled like. I got my answer, thank you.
They are not the only warehouse, there is one in Argentina I was fortunate enough to visit in Usuhia
A word about krill: it seems that, now that our species has let the whale family recover some, we are exploiting their most important food supply: yes, krill. I’ve read that, in the Southern oceans, industrial fishing fleets are "harvesting” krill to provide cheap food for fish farms. On the other hand, no one knows how krill will be affected by climate change, which means warming oceans with higher acidic content. Will we threaten the whale population a second time through starvation?
I'm really loving this series. I love how it connects different scientific disciplines and shows how humans are deeply connected to and affected by the world around us and the history of the world, even though a lot of times we try to pretend we're removed from nature or above it somehow. Like. I know these things, more or less, in the back of my mind. But the way these videos link all those facts and figures in a way that tells a coherent story of HOW connected we all are to the world we live in is great, thank you~ ❤
Why the intro montage go that hard tho. 😭😭
Whalehouse is RIGHT THERE.
For some reason. It hurts seeing our ancestors doing that to the animal that has been living in peace.
Felt a shiver down my spine hearing how much biomass we were able to take out of the ocean.
We really like playing with fire until it burns us.
Love Shane’s commentary
Amazing video, in so many ways. Whale anatomy is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
Really like Shane Campbell-Staton as host
Daymmmm, I didn't expect the intro to go so hard, the music caught me off guard 😅
You shouldn’t need a economic reason to not kill whales
Edit: You can do the same thing with a lot of issues.
“You shouldn’t need a economic reason to not knowingly pollute the atmosphere and poison all life on Earth.”
“You shouldn’t need a economic reason to alleviate the suffering of sick people.”
“You shouldn’t need a economic reason to house homeless people”
These are all examples of the tail wagging the dog.
Instead of humanity controlling its own economic system for its own benefit
We have our economic system controlling humanity for its own benefit.
I like the first class and coach example.
People in first class are never going to voluntarily give up their leg room so those in coach can have more.
They also see any decrease in their own leg room as a negative, even if that means those in coach have more.
Furthermore, those in first class get to decide how leg space gets allocated.
Haha I love this guy. He can host my educational videos any day 😂. Sees a whale bone and is like bruuhhh
These are the same people that tells other country to stop hunting because they've fucked up in the past. And same people nuked japan and tells other country you can't have nuke in case you're just as crazy as we were and still are.
Please no extinctions prayers 🙏 😢
How do people back when haul a blue whale from the ocean to shore!
Great episode!
We can't have nice things. Ever. The krill paradox is similar to how, when the buffalo, the wolves, and the beavers were hunted to near extinction, their ecosystems started to collapse. It was until then that we realized, oh, we needed the wolves to keep the buffalo healthy, and we needed the buffalo to run through the plains and valleys and trample and fertilize the grass to keep those ecosystems healthy, and we needed beavers to keep the rivers healthy and to prevent erosion. Without those more complex animals that were higher on the food chain actively applying pressure to their environments, their food supplies and environments would collapse. How stupid we are, as a species, to make the same mistake over and over again.
Okay, now that I see all the carnage I have to look away. Those sweet animals we just decimated them
Totally agree.
Looking away is what allowed the decimation to go on for so long. Because people only cared about their needs not the ecosystem.
Yes why did you do that
It wasn't 'we'... I've never hunted a whale in my life, nor would I... it was humans, but it wasn't this human...
STOP ALL WHALING!!!😢
It's not a warehouse. It's a horrifying mausoleum. ☹️😣😢
Its like a holocaust display of victims....
It's a whalehouse.
@@RealPlatoisherethats a real garbage take.
If it were in any other context than scientific knowledge, you'd be correct.
"Akchually" there is another whale bone repository in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, maybe not so complete though.
Good stuff!
I've never heard such a fire soundtrack on a PBS film 💯
Whats the Name of the First Song ?
@@greenfire7236Megadeth
Live and you learn, still doesn't make humans evil
It's mind boggling to me how humans thought that it's okay to kill as many animals as needed and never once stop to think it might lead to something terrible for our planet and our future, what everything else gets blurry in the name of money?
Great video. I remember watching Animal Planet shows that detailed Greenpeace fighting against whale killing. I was shocked to see that although illegal, Asian countries still killed whales almost at will as long as it was done for “research purposes”. As this was some years ago, I hope that too has been outlawed.
Wish we removed so much trash as much as we did whales
Very interesting
Immediatly ordered Nicks book.
'Spying on Whales' is a very good read. He's a good presenter, too. He did a lecture, at my invitation, for us at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
thanks.
To think that discovering and using petroleum/oil saved the whales from extinction is crazy!
Excellence in presentation this should be shown to all elementary students world wide
We killed 99% of a giant.species in 100 years 😭🤬
Nope, not 'we'... I know I wasn't there... I've never used, or had in my possession, any type of whale product...it was humans, yes, but not this human...
@Road_Rash so sorry you missed out. Whale meat is good.
"Humans eradicated whale biomass equivalent to 2 to 3 times combined biomass of all wild mammals present on earth" this is what happens when survival hunting becomes economic and interest based hunting😔😔
This was so fascinating whales are some of my favorite animals
😮😮😮😮
I learned a lot.
Did I just hear gangster rap on PBS. Things have changed since I was a young boy many years ago.
And Japan is still whaling in the guise of research....
You managed to throw in some militant rap music in the background
Just came here to say that just because America stopped hunting whales doesn't mean everyone else did. Japan, looking at you.
How about all the bisons we destroyed??? How about all the wolves??? The foxes??? The coyotes???
Without humans, almost no animals would still be alive
Especially the predators
Different videos, I'd guess
My dad worked at a whaling station in Northern California shortly after marrying. He said it was messy and smelly work.
Now we know what happened to hiruko’ whale body when ushio vanished it.
New England baby . Setting trends for 300 years
They are the buoyancy of the sea.Just imagine if all the sea creatures became extinct how would it affect the ships traveling to and from?
This being a docu type of production but having a pimp my ride audio kinda threw me off lmao.
What is with the hip hop and “hell to the ya”? This is PBS, not MTV Cribs.
They always ruin things for us
Hydrogenation of whale fat made it palatable - it was used to help renutrution of post WW2... mostly by the UK who continued to support whaling in the southern ocean long after it was even deemed 'necessary'.
This host is great!
We need to protect these amazing animals
Wow it's Long beach Griffy hosting a documentary on whale bones!
You’d think a goddamn whale would just stay deep where we can’t reach em lol
This is actually what happened with the giants, they were dumb enough to think they can mess with humans
They breathe air, you know, right? And krill isn't a deep sea animal.
The song at the beginning wasn't it😅
Wow. We were so close to losing the largest animal on earth. Good thing we're more enlightened now and we still have whales. The behavior of our ancestors are so cringey. Hopefully our society will cobtinue to move forward to path of goodness for the animals, the earth and for ourselves.
I wonder what the oceans would look like now if we had left the whales alone. Our oceans would be fertilized and lush, dense with life and always changing and growing. All those whales who should have lived their lives out at sea should have it end there too, all those whale bodies that never made it to the bottom of the ocean to feed the deep sea ecosystems... Whales are so vital to the world, it makes me so sad that we would want to take advantage of these beautiful creatures.
Thank you for the video. If this is for kids, the language seems a bit rough. Thank you!
Do we need that rap intro for a history lesson
Never in my life have I seen a civilian wear tanker boots
Come on, the "Whale Warehouse".... It should have obviously been the "Whalehouse
Nothing says “Let’s learn about whales and the past!” like rap music.
how do you even a hunt a whale that size
Human brain is out of this world
@@us3rG its not like you hunt them like deer or anything else... dont be a dick hence why there so many dumb cunts out there
Can we call it a Whalehouse instead❤
I wonder if there’s any study on how this has contributed to rise in avg global temps
I can't watch full episodes because I'm not in the US. 🙁
I wonder how does it smell it there
How do I add a skull to my home? Price? Would be a marvelous talking point for kids and parents that visit! Great but tragic history!
They should call it the whalehouse
Well, are humans included in the "wild mamal" comparison?
And to think, I got online to take a break from reading Moby Dick.
All of London lamps were powered by whale oil. The largest industrialised city on the planet at the time. Imagine the number of dead whales.