Whales don’t spray water from their blowholes and other myths, debunked

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Whales don’t spray water from their blowholes and other myths, debunked
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We're setting the record straight on some of the most common myths about these marine mammals...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever existed. Learn why they're larger than any land animal and why they were hunted for years, making them endangered.When a whale surfaces after this impressive breath hold, Garrard says the tell-tale noise you hear “is them breathing out” before they inhale and dive back underwater. Often depicted in cartoons as a spout of water, she clarifies that “what we’re actually seeing is the whale’s breath.

The misconception that water comes out of a whale’s blowhole can be harmful when well-meaning members of the public do the wrong thing when trying to rescue a stranded whale. Dan Jarvis of the describes instances of people finding a stranded whale and “pouring water directly into the blowhole thinking it's a fish and it needs to be filled up with water.” Sadly, they have unintentionally killed the animal as a result.Most people are familiar with whale song: the sequence of predictable and sometimes complex sounds that can travel forWhale song is documented in baleen whales, such as

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