What Happens When a Whale Dies?

Whale falls can provide food in the deep sea for 50 years. Usually deep sea creatures survive on tiny bits of organic matter, known as marine snow, that constantly float down. A whale fall is a much heartier food source for these animals that never see the light of day, but it is not a guarantee they will ever come across one in their lifetimes.

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[surajbarnwal]

Imagine being so big that upon dying you create an entire ecosystem

[nirmalsuki]

The term Whale fall is so poetic in a melancholy way. It's not just the literal fall of a whale to the bottom of the ocean.. the whale has fallen, and everyone else around comes to clean it up over the course of years.

[hoddtoward]

i know its just how nature works, but i think its so cool that the ocean all relies on itself to stay alive

[Vintenuthewizard]

Dead whales underwater: creates ecosystem with corpse
Dead whaled on land: KABLOOEY 💥💥💥

[bennyjet]

“In the kitchen of Earth, nothing is wasted.”
“YES CHEF!”

[miles_giovanni]

in a weirdly dark and sad way this is really beautiful

[BobJackJillZorroKoshekZuko]

Whales get so old and tired they can’t come up for air so they slowly sink and drown, It’s scary how that works

[tatianagranger]

Whales have always been an obsession of mine, passed down from my mom. She used to say, if these exist, then anything is possible. I still haven’t seen one but when I do…heck I’m crying right now thinking of it!!!!

[Clemsnman]

A lesson to take from this is that every aquatic fossil was only preserved due to being covered up in some earth movement or calamity. Otherwise they would have been eaten up.

[zebradgr]

Just in case you didn't know ....when they die and the carcass floats on the surface it is regarded as a hazard to maritime transport...so EOD divers have a procedure on how to place explosive charges to sink the carcass

[TrippClark-zjxt]

If a whale dies on land it explodes, but if it's in the ocean it just becomes an ecosystem

[PokerRenegade]

One of the best shorts I've seen in a while

[theroyalsilverowl]

Legitimately it never occurred to me that sea creatures die of natural causws

[iNSANITY-kq]

*10 seconds in*
"Wow! This is so cool and interesting!"
*"then zombie worms burrow into the bones."*
*New fear unlocked*

[eugene]

So this is also one of the reason some sea creatures from millions of years ago were extremely hard to find and will remain undiscover

[ninjaguysith]

I like how the whale's diet is mostly plankton. The biggest feeds on the smallest.

[jorismilleret]

I never hear about "zombie worms", that's an interesting fact

[swimtwin]

Makes you think how many species have gone extict with no fossil remains

[paulg]

Mufasa: "Our bodies become the grass, and so is the circle of life "

[eylam]

"Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.". E. Tolle