How Does Whale Baleen Work?
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- čas přidán 12. 12. 2022
- In this video I explain how whale baleen works.
This is whale baleen from a humpback whale.
#shorts
Specimen use made possible by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology - Věda a technologie
"It looks like a filter."
"Acts as a filter."
Fascinating *Snaps picture*
the word ."Baleen" comes from "Baleine" that is the french name for "Whale"
@@caliguladeux les anglais sont pas les seuls avec des mots qui, ont dirait ont inspiré d'autre language !
@@caliguladeux (unrelated to last comment) baleen sounds fancy contrary to baleine
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…
Anything that exists:
HUMAN: “Sniff”
Make sure you add the “Edit: People will bitch about anything on the internet” when enough people reply
When received my semen analysis results, they said that it smells like chestnut blossom 🌸.
@@trymai_kavun Точно нет. Она пахнет перекисью водорода и хлоркой
@@trymai_kavunточно нет. Она пахнет перекисью водорода и хлоркой
Seriously especially food tho clothes too🤣
my ass thinking that was a big ass eyelash💀
bro no way 😭
Me too 💀💀💀
I'll admit, I wasn't curious about what it smelled like, but I'm glad you included that.
257 like but no comments?
Let me fix that! 😊
Edit: I’m the 257th like 😮
"Maybe they're born with it,
Maybe it's whale baleen"
loooooooooooool
😂😂😂
**MASSIVELY UNDERRATED COMMENT**
Your whack
I feel kind of dorky for laughing out loud at this 😂
"Its hard and stiff, and kinda smells like cat food"
I've heard that a few times.
😂😂😂 ewwww
I've said that a few times.
They keep giggling-schmiggling at me & leave.
😶 I don't get it. Someone explain pls
@@equityjustice2695 The person is talking about their genitals, I'm talking about.
Actual factual lol. 🤌😹
Crazy these things went from land animals to perfect adaptations like this
I've got a bridge you might want to take a look at
Your dumb if y think this created itself
No wonder nemo’s dad couldn’t get through.
No replies? Lemme fix that
Omg facts
👍
Yep I thought he could’ve just swam through it like hair but I was wrong.
He was swimming thru a wall this whole time not a brush
"ahhh, you got some krill stuck in your baleen there."
"Thanks, I hate it when that happens."
More like “I love it when it happens!” Lol
more like *whales talking*
I thought it was the largest eyelash in the world for a bit
@@upsidedownv1nceoh god 🤣🤣
I’m crying 😭😂
"it's hard and stiff"
"Tangled hairy mess"
i don't even know anymore
😒 you're nasty
You do know there are sites for that kind of thing? What about the, "smells like cat food", part? Was that your happy ending? 😂😂😂
Then clean it !!
Uwu🥵🥵🥵👑👑👑👑👑✨✨✨✨🥵🥵💅💅💅💅💅💅💅👆
marlin was not kidding
“Hold on, I’ve got some hair in my teeth… oh wait, it’s just my teeth”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"I've got a few teeth stuck in my hair, lemme get it out real quick"
@@BatkoBrat legend says he is still trying to get it out.
Hahahaha after sending the kelp and snail soup back twice.🥣🐋
Hahaha 😆
Strangely, It reminds me of a mango seed
Oh yes you are right
@@Pikachu-ls5qy Never thought I’d find someone with a similar Profile Picture!
Oml you’re right lol
lmao that’s what i was thinking too
Huh, yeah I can see that.
The whale that donated his whole baleen is a legend (edit): TYSM FOR 70
LIKESSSS
It is 69 likes now.
Ye ik the 65 was a long time ago
69 isn’t right I upped it.
@@jamesstewart8377 OMGGGGGGGGGGG I GET TOO MUCH LIKES
Hahahaha I thought you meant like the whale is saying thanks for 70 likessss 😂
How did this even evolve like this, I can't imagine the mutations along the way
Baleen is made from the same material as hair and skin so it very rarely fossilises so it's evolution isn't completely understood. Whales at one point had teeth, but when the Antarctic broke off from gondwana to form the Antarctic circumpolar current, the number of prey available in oceans increased. around this time some whales changed strategies from using their teeth to kill singular prey, to using their tongue to suck in water so they can feed on multiple fish at the same time (still with teeth). The problem though is that they can't just swallow all that water so they have to let some of it out without letting the fish out. One idea is that baleen originally formed as a sort of keratinous filling between the teeth, to reduce the size of the holes fish could potentially escape through. Over time the structure of the keratin became more intricate, while the whales lost their teeth, until you're left with modern day baleen. Another idea is the keratin in their gums might've been serving an entirely different purpose, but when switching to suction feeding it was repurposed into baleen. Another idea is that rather than just switching to suction feeding there was some kind of intermediary strategy that used suction but not as as their main method of hunting, perhaps only to keep the prey from escaping once caught. Or maybe it's a combination of all of these. Again, baleen is essentially specialised skin, so fossils of this stuff are extremely rare, so we only have proposed mechanisms and no confirmed ones.
@@user-fg5xs9lh7s what always fascinated me, is the existence of evolution itself. Isn't it kinda weird? Like what makes the next generation's genes go, oh we need a thing over here to filter out fish. Like the idea that there is some sort of mechanism that makes these changes and iterations. Like I know it's a long process and all, but still. It's almost mystical to me. Know what I mean?
Like the whale wanted to do one thing and the next generation just slowly adopted these features...idk .... how does a desire of a whale turns into genetic code and translate to another generation 😮
@@TheThingoftheSky The "secret sauce" is sex. Organisms that reproduce sexually have a lot of variation in them. Other than biological twins you probably won't ever find humans that look the same, for example, because of sexual reproduction. Asexual organisms don't have even close to the same level of variation, because their genes don't get swapped with each other. Basically what that means is, nothing needs to really be invented. If a characteristic is going to be beneficial, some guy somewhere probably has it, and it's the same with whales.
Some whale somewhere might've been weird and had different shaped lips that help contain fish or something like that. And then in later generations some whale was weird and it changed more. And then in later generations the skin hardened into keratin. Etc etc. like I said before nobody knows the exact evolutionary pathway baleen took this is just an example.
But the trick that makes it work is that no individual step needs to be invented, because of sex. If a trait could be an advantage, some guy somewhere probably already has it, and as the traits get selected they'll keep piling on over and over. Think of it like you're blindfolded, and I hand you a bag full of Lego bricks. Most of them will be flat with the stubs sanded off (non-beneficial traits), but some of them will have the stubs intact still (beneficial traits). If you keep smashing random legos together eventually just from trial and error you're gonna have a pretty big tower of bricks.
@@user-fg5xs9lh7s so there's no "magical mechanism" involved (that would give the next generation a trait that the previous one really wanted lol), it's just genetic code piling up, kinda
Yea?
@@TheThingoftheSkyOR maybe just maybe the idea of evolution is just an invention to sidetrack us from the truth that God created everything exactly how it should be in the first place. That way we don’t need to evolve as everything works in perfect harmony from the get go.
I was thinking about baleen before I fell asleep last night and ended up dreaming about wondering what the heck baleen even is. Then I woke up to this! Baleen is made of keratin right?
Yes it's made of Keratin.
It feels a lot like cow fur in stiffness!. I don't know what exactly it is homologous too, but I do know it is not a tooth. My guess is it's modified whiskers.
Wow it really is made out of the sane stuff as our nails... wack lol
i actually also thought about baleen yesterday and now i see this..
@@LolBoontai because ✨ *GOD* ✨
Eyelashes in 2040:
If the eyelashes are big in 2040, then the humans should’ve been bigger in 2040
czcams.com/users/shortsOqdmXFo0Chs?si=w7IbskkOqAQi3iWF too late 😂
@ALoserK wtf bru
💀
@@WilliameTheMonkehmonke
screw the other loops videos this is the best loops ive EVER seen
Normal people: that’s actually quite fascinating
Me: forbidden toothbrush
Brush your teeth with teeth!
Normal people : "hey cool video"
You: *posts dead meme*
This is like the biologist version of NileRed
Needs more jar breaking.
Not getting the teenage homosexual vibes though...
That’s exactly who I was thinking of too
evenanimalspecimens..
"This is bromine"
"This is baleen"
It’s basically highly specialized keratin in the place of teeth for filter feeding.
Weird how keratin is always used as natures multitool material.
@@TheDJOblivionnatures plastic sort of
God truly is the best designer
@zechariahcifuentes7002 yeah interesting!!!
@@humzaalam4072 why is there always 1 person who just has to mention God
"It's hard and stiff, and kinda smells like cat food"
**Sighs**
**Checks comments in disappointment**
He just shaved the Lorax for that 💀
😔😔🥭rip
Aint no way he sniffed it💀
Lmao
You should always do a sniff test
for science
u always need someone to sacrifice
🤣🤣🤣😭🤦🏾♂️
I remember drinking orange juice as a kid with my teeth closed to filter the pulp out and I’d always feel like a whale
Omg this comment makes me so happy I did/do this too but didn’t know if others did. Knew others did it
@@Audreyperson37 I’m glad to hear this made you happy
I filter lemon pulps like this 😂
I eat toothpaste
@@wetshart5860 very good
That would be really cool like mounted and under glass
"Oh that? That's just my whale baleen center piece."
Dude i legit thought it was the whales teeth
“And kind of smells like cat food…”
Cat food company CEO: “hahaha, yeah, isn’t that JUST a weird coincidence, hahahaha”
Lol
*nervously sweating 😂😂😂
You missed the 'hard and stiff' part too
😂😂😂
@@unnati_hulkealso forgot tangled hair mess in its mouth
This is one of those rare 'not a complete waste of your time' shorts, fair game my good man
Right!?
Hello does anyone here believe in Jesus Christ?
In your opinion
@@connorlancaster7541 ofc
@@Silentef Praise the lord he is beautiful. Do you obey Jesus?
Whale: WHERES MY TEETH😭😭
You got a like and another subscriber! Keep it up, short but detailed! 👍
So it kinda looks like a giant eye lash extension 😅
came to say the same🤣🤣🤣
Yas
🤣🤣🤣💯
Or the clown ITs hair but not orange enough.
This humpback whale was named shaniqua
“My whale’s breath smells like cat food”
My cat food smells like whales breath
@@staypositive5718 there ya go 👉🏾
That’s what you called honeymoons breath 😳😜🤣🤦🏻♂️
I read this in ralphs voice lol
@@Nonse7seCongratulations on comprehending the joke.
Im always waiting for the “but i was wrong” it gets me every time💀
I love seeing these short clips that have a ton of good info. Thank You
"It's hard, and stiff, and kinda smells like cat food."
That's what she said! 😏
If it has an odor you should probably have that checked out my guy.
make sure you bury the cat
@@scorpionwins6378or just shower regularly dudes today be musty
Just because my erectile disfunction and excessive discharge may resemble the smell of a freshly mangled walrus fetus stuck in the gross filter maw of a whale doesn’t mean anything! Okay!? God please someone I’ll do anything 😭😭😭
the whale:
“those damn humans done snatched my teeth”😂
😂😂😂😂
Unfortunately, the whale doesn’t have enough money to afford dentures. I’m starting a gofundme to get this whale the dentures it deserves
😂😂😂
I read this in a voice of a southern old lady 😂😂😂
"OOOOOH, HE BIT ME WITH MY OWN TEETH!"
Influencers eyelashes:
True😂😂
lol 😂😂 - mental picture of some Drag Queen struggling to strut down the runway with two of those attached to their head 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Underrated comment
@@AndybloxTS thanks lol
Lmao
At first I thought I was looking at trumps hair lol
I immediately thought car air filter
I thought we learned this in finding Nemo or am I trippin
Yes.
My stupid as* childhood doesn't learn anything from that movie🤦🏻♂️
We learn that it's like a brush, but its really like lasagna with hair on the side
I learned this in octonauts dude
@@KartoonKenz
LET'S GOOOOO
that transition was so clean i had to watch it again to make sure my eyes weren't tricking me again
@ahmedn3555 there was no ending pause tho so that's cool I guess
@@ThatNoobKing I mean, it might be cool if the purpose wasn't to literally trick people into giving more views
@@TheTuttle99 fair judgment? I think?
It's just cutting a video in the middle and putting the first half in the back and the last half in the front.
I thought it was whale makeup like LASHES 😂💀
I love the hand movements, wouldn't have understood without them
“Baleen, baleen, baleen baleeeeeen. I’m begging of you please don’t take my man.
-Dolly Parton
So glad someone typed this out, I also started humming Jolene as soon as he said it lol
This is criminally underated
That’s the goddammed best comment I read all week. I will not have the urge to comment on anything else today. Thank you
- the krill
@@otek_ same 😭
“Bro has been Mewing since day one 🗿”
“Excuse me, do you have a 4 foot toothpick? I have this krill stuck in my baleen and it’s driving me nuts “
The whale: "damn give it back"
“It’s hard and stiff, and kinda smells like catfood” no need to humiliate me 💀
XD
@@leechrec 😭
Whale things
You did that yourself just now with this comment
Ew
I forgot whales got tongues😂
I didn't know whales ate the Lorax!
FYI when you read that corsets back in the day were made of whale bone, they’re actually referring to Baleen. They never used anything that wasn’t flexible. With the heat of the body baleen forms to it and makes a perfect mimic of the body so you’re fully supported.
wow 😳 interesting 🤔
“Kinda smells like cat food” I don’t know why I started to laugh so hard…
Edit: wow…never ever thought I’d get this much likes!
🤭Same🤷🏽♂️
Oh, I didn’t.
Same. 😆
No i dont understand...ha..ha....ha..
😐😐😐😐😐
Creator of nature is really really appreciable
Is it just me or was that the cleanest transition I've seen in a while?! 😅
The contrast between the yellow Baylen, the blue gloves, and blue background is awesome
Smh. From all that was presented you go for the colors. Smh. If you are in or went to a university, that was a waste
Bro your account is less then a week old. Are you a bot? lmao @@JosephWallace-xo8sg
@@JosephWallace-xo8sg😐
@@JosephWallace-xo8sgbro let the guy think
@JosephWallace-xo8sg what would you point out, oh God of wisdom?
It's 1:20AM. This is exactly what I needed
Me to i am watching at 1.00 am in the future
IT WAS 12:20 EXACTLY WHEN I READ THIS
The time is 1:40 here brothers
I hear ya it's 1:32 did you know it smells like cat food 😂😂😂😂I came here to find this information now I can sleep
1:19 here
BRUH I THOUGHT IT WAS THE TOOTH😭💀
It's actually neat seeing baleen up close.
10/10 would brush my hair with it
I wouldn't be surprised if it hasn't been used for that before
Yayy cat food hair
Tooth brush*
10/10 would get tangled in your hair.
Whole new meaning to toothbrush
I’m honestly so happy they told us what it smelled like, it’s a question that isn’t usually answered cause it’s considered weird for some reason
Smells like that probably because they ate fish/ krill there whole lives
Right, now I can rest easy knowing whale breath probably smells like meow-mix.
Yea. I would have smelled it to but cat food smells very dif depending on what brand and ingredients so I wish it was more descriptive. It's like saying it smells like fast food.
Exactly, as someone with a very sensitive nose, smell is actually really important to know ab- 😭😭
am I wrong in this? but don't all sea animals smell like that to a certain degree?
I for real thought it was a real tiny filter for krill to slide through 😭
Anything that exists:
My cat: **Sniff sniff**
"I thought Baleen was a bunch of string or hair" I thought it was their teeth my whole life.
SAME😭
Same!! It's tripping me out
Came here to say the same thing 😭😭😭 i feel dumb
That's freaking hilarious 😂
Same
“Smells like cat food”
I’ve never considered what a whale’s breath would smell like, and now I know it’s horrible 💀
Om sayin🤣🤣🤣
Im just saying, its a fish. Cats eat fish. Cat food is usually fish infused.
@@breadloafREVO Whales are not fish, but mammals.
@@user-bs4qu7tb2g u dumbass moron he was saying that catfood consists of fish
Whales eat fish which is why their breath smells like cat food. look at the comment again stupid dipshit!
@@user-bs4qu7tb2gmammals that eat fish
“No whales were harmed to make this video”
dont let nile red get his hands on this, he’s gonna turn it into an oreo mcflurry
I've always been amazed that something SO big survives on something so small!!
I've always seen it more as them not exactly eating the krill but the krill swarms. Like, for us, it would be like us surviving on a burger rather than the molecules of a burger.
@@jdantas6612 I think a more realistic comparison is humans eating bugs. Bugs are very nutritious despite being so small, much smaller than that the smallest of animals a human can eat. You would think humans would not be able to survive on bugs alone since they are so small and humans are big, but there are millions of bugs in the planet, many more bugs than all other animals in the world combined, we would run out of beef and chicken before we ran out of bugs. Same thing with whales eating krill, krill is small but it's one of the most plentiful food sources in the ocean.
funny how you say small because theyre animals, nobody would say the same for an elephant or big herbivores im general
@unapologetic cosmos Except have you seen how much an elephant can eat in one bite? A watermelon isn't anywhere NEAR a mouthful for a hippo either.
Well, they do eat a literal ton each day, it’s not that hard to believe tbh
“This is Bayleen from a humpback whale” hey put that back he needs that
This is sarcasm
i loooove your channel sooooooooo much!!!!!
I learned so many things from this short I’m not even kidding
Very interesting 👌 Thank you 👍
I always wondered how that works.
Same. I learned a lot from this.
Im surprised by how much I knew. Where did I even learn? Science class?
Finally that one scene in Finding Nemo makes sense.
Believe it or not I was thinking tht exact same scene. People say there's no use in watching cartoons but I guess I learned a lot too😂😂😂😉.
damn imagine how many micro plastics a whale eats everytime it does that
Baelin: "goodmorning! nice day for fishin' ain't it?"
Ah another VLDL connoisseur I see!
I mean c’mon, that smell test was needed for people like me😂
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE NEED TO KNOW!
Do you think it smells like cat food or seafood’ish ?
Random whale: Alright can I have my teeth back?
Edit: “DAD IM FAMOU-dad, where are you? “
Not teeth at all. Only toothed whales have real teeth like orcas, dolphins, belugas and narwals.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse thanks Captain 🧑✈️ Obviously
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse basically not whales
@@Spectrallian basically whales. Belugas are called white whales, orcas are called killer whales. All those cetaceans are called toothed whales because they are whales and have real teeth. The big whales have baleen. Baleen is not a tooth or a set of teeth. They're more like hair or bristles.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse also known as dolphins
Here's a fun fact: There was such a thing as Baleen armor during medieval times.
Not me thinking he was holding a big ass eyelash😂
Fun fact: Baleen gets soft when warm, something that made it great to use in corsets - provides support but remains flexible. Nowadays, there is plastic that can imitate baleen.
I complain when there’s a hair in my food… idk if I could deal with a whole lions mane of hair in my sensitive ass mouth
that's why you're not a whale.
you ever shot water out of your mouth between a gap in your teeth? That's how I imagine it feels for the whale. but all those bristles, yeah, a furry mouth? no thanks
@@alderblanco2362 nah that’s some weird shit. You must have some sandy cheeks ass teeth to do that
On the other hand I imagine the whale saying "I can't imagine having marbles in my mouth that can hurt real bad if not thick enough" lol
@@ivyme5783 lmao 😂
I didn’t realize baleen was so furry looking.
Baleen filtering is exactly like how you know imagine your dad would eat an all-liquid diet if his mustache got in the way everytime.
It’s a lot more creepy if you remember how tiny we are
Wait until you learn about outer space
@@iciclearms outer what-now ;) ?
@@Thyinternet OUTER SPACE! BEYOND THE MILKY WAY! BEYOND ... the universe. The lawless realm. What's beyond the universe to kick-off the universe?
@@VinnyUnion 😳…
Ty for telling us how it smells. I'm weird about having to smell things 😅 and my first thought was, "i want to smell that!"
Disgusting
@@NonProphetz thanks
You must be a Smart fella 😏
Noooo....I thought, Ok, that weird, so a Whales breath smells like cat food...but what are we talking here?? Wet fish filled cat food? Dry moist (lol) cat food that has more of a meaty playdough scent....?? WHAT KIND of cat food???!! Sigh, he totally left us hanging!
@@Em22-wtf im gonna guess the fish one
I love your videos. TY
It’s all fun and games until you think of those plates as teeth and it hits you just how big this creature is
For a second I thought these are the fake eyelashes my wife glues on 😂 😂
Doh!!!😅
Ohh 🤣🤣
Aah 😅🤣
lol
O my dam😂
You have to be amazed how such a giant creature only eats things that are smaller than your hand.
i wouldn't want it any other way. now imagine that huge, and eats the size of humans.
maximum kills
@@phantompepperoni7235 Maximum krils
@@erkling5865 orca
Whales just be drinking smoothies all day.
I'm pretty sure Finding Nemo taught us what we need to know about this
French people : I am very confused right now
"Its hard and stiff and kinda smells like cat food"
I've heard that before
ayo what?! 😂
🤣👌
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😝😝😝🐋🐳🐳🐳🐋
STOP 😂
I can imagine kids everywhere in the world going "OOOOH that's what that is!"
bro could smoke a cig and he’d still find a way to filter the bad shi out
Me casually watching this while ignoring my missed tests
Me 2
My bed time. Damnit
Guess they're gonna filter you out.
Bro I got Hughes bet too bro
It's 6am and my exam is at 9am
Every else: ohhh it’s like a filter!
Me: *IS THAT THE LORAX?*
😂
Nahh man it’s Donald Trump
NOOOO!!! They Also Processed Lorax into a specimen!!!
Stoop ahhs.
Lollllllllllllllll
I always wondered if it was more similar to bristles or some sort of crest. Thank you greatly for answering my age old question!
Why did I always think those were teeth 😭😩 you learn something new everyday 🙌🏾
“Its hard, stiff and smells like cat food.”
Like my co-
@@GorgeousFaustinaI just said that too
💀🤣
literally my peni-
Sounds like a fun time
"it's hard, stiff, and smells like cat food"
Same...
Wha-
That's what she said
@@LisaAnn777 that is not what she said…
What have you been doing with your cat food!?!?!
no wonder all my cat food has a hole in the middle of them
“I gotta comb my teeth”
-whale probably