Melbourne, AustraliaDoes harvesting renewables like solar and wind change the planet slightly? Is there a tipping point where this harvesting becomes as harmful as the effect of fossil fuels?.
Melbourne, AustraliaDoes harvesting renewables like solar and wind change the planet slightly? Is there a tipping point where this harvesting becomes as harmful as the effect of fossil fuels?Evolution!
There are far gigantic aquatic creatures in the oceans, they are much less friendly
It is the same thing asking why some NBA players are mostly 6 feet or more in height and others are just 5 feet…
Bcz. no other aquatic animals have the genes(responsible for gigantism) that whales posses.
Depends on how you look at. Your question makes sense when you look at it from evolution. Their size is irrelevant when you look at them from a creation perspective.
Not quite as big as whales, the giant squid is a large aquatic animal. There are quite a few more.
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Any bigger and they become a decent sized snack for cthulhu.
Whales need to hold a large amount of oxygen for long periods of time and collect large amounts of food to maintain such a large body.
Oxygene
Why stop at the size of a whale?!
Nature needed someone to fight the Kraken.
Metabolismo
because
Low energy cost to eat plankton + a lot of available energy from eating low on the energy pyramid (primarily producers and consumers). In most ecosystems, the largest animals are herbivores (primary consumers).
Because God made them that way….
Everything has its own intention.
I would have said, because there is only room for one animal in that niche. But the fact is, there are many species of whales.
1 idea: SNP(s) resulting in gigantism also lead to sexual incompatibilities due to size differences between individuals, preventing such mutations from ever reaching fixation (and no speciation would occur thereby). But tbh I don’t know if whales became whale-sized “overnight”
Buoyancy not gravity dominates the oceans. With gravity bone strength grows as square of size (cross section) while weight grows as cube of size (proportional to volume) and therefore bone strength has limit. Environment created a size/volume niche, which evolution has filled 🤷
Because they're extinct?
In the beninging there was your Mom. Then, on the second day, your Mom did go swimming in the vast ocean. 'This is where whales come from, kids.' On the third day thy father did get eaten by the whale, and is to this day stuck in the belly of the beast.
Other sea creatures are not able to grow as large, because they do not have the abundant food source advantage that whales do. Whales eat krill which is available in abundantly large quantities
They need large quantities of food for sufficient nutrition and have to travel distances to find enough....which burns energy and makes heat. Body volume greater than surface area, so in cold sea they produce more heat but lose less from skin, so keep warm.
Because they eat bone broth, do HIT workouts, practice mindfulness, and watch Joe Rogan on YT? 😛
Haemoglobin mutation - enable higher O2 retention - enable deeper dives - spur evol of larger lungs, in colder water - bigger bodies/fat required - mutations favour larger frames. So root cause, a mutation that no other animal got. Not to say it won't happen again.
Availablibility of high quality food (fish, krill etc) Large mass is supported by buoyancy. On land gravity would be a major issue for something as big as Blue Whale. Large size requires long pregnancy & only one offspring per go. So a long lifespand permits multiple offspring.
Pertenecer a la parte débil de la cadena alimenticia y ser a la vez alimento codiciado en un medio hostil y las migraciones a través de los mares requieren un crecimiento que les brinde supervivencia y defensa a través de un gigantismo.....
No structural limits on size Water usually cooler than blood, as they are mammals. High heat loss when immersed, which means cube-square (skin surface) makes large animals more thermally efficient. (Hence also blubber)
Whales occupy a particular niche in the oceanic ecosystem. Since whales have the advantage of being naturally equipped to monopolize a particular resource, it is very difficult for a competitor species to evolve and usurp them.
Whale sharks?
That... is a unique engineering of God, the Sovereign Creator of Life. It's quite simple to understand if one believes in the rule of creation must have a Creator. _ A design, requires a 'Designer'. Something can NOT Autonomously form from nothing. It's impossible!
Cowardice
RebeccaRHelm is this a bubble that you want to pop?
They evolved that way.
Whales evolved when their main food source ranges, density, and nutrition increased - it became a feedback loop for whale size. You'd need to create a wide-ranging, dense, high nutrition food source for another animal to evolve into;and, it's not going to happen in today's oceans
Nature decided to leave whale enough alone.
What about whale sharks? They’re larger than many whales.
More underwater=larger lungs=larger body size(I'm assuming as body grows along with lungs ability to absorb oxygen is more compared to per KG weight of animal).....Am i right
1.) Large animals require a lot of energy to maintain their body size, and this energy must come from food.
Because the whales are eating them
Maybe to balance aqua eco system....larger the size of body....lot of food required....so every living things in water can't be that big as whale....what will whale eat than?
Because your mum couldn't swim for as long 🤙
Weight displacement.