#Cetology

[victusinveritas]

Careful, intricately-patterned drawings of whales, accompanied by the co-ordinates of where they were spotted, from the logbook of the ship Indian Chief kept by Thomas R. Bloomfield (1842–1844). ⁠

https://archive.org/details/ms220log119/page/n3/mode/2up

https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/the-art-of-whaling-illustrations-from-the-logbooks-of-nantucket-whaleships-

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-whaling/

[pocket-sized-gentleman]

Painting based on a whale dissection I watched! This one is 1m tall.

[arminreindl]

Today, while researching a recently described fossil whale from Peru, I learned that we have fossil remains of a 6 meter long beaked whale from freshwater deposits of Turkana, Kenya, some 600 kilometers from shore.

On the one hand that is absolutely mindblowing, given that modern beaked whales are generally open ocean deep divers (tho their ancestors may have been more like dolphins back in the day), to see one that made it this far inland is incredible.

Now cool as the idea of a freshwater beaked whale of that size (or any size really) would be, as the author points out its probably more likely that it swam so far on accident and that this was not its usual habitat.

This wouldn't be without precedent, as there are examples of modern baleen whales randomly popping up far inland even today, like a 5.5 meter long Minke whale being found 1000 km into Amazon in 2007 and another, 4 meter long, Minke whale being discovered 150 km up the Thames in London as recently as 2021.

repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/2649/1975c-file.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

[livyamel]

Two of my strangest but biggest pet peeves/red flags when meeting people:

1)People who act like whales are fish

2)People who act like mushrooms are plants.

Why do I always like fields where people annoying confuse things for other things lololol

[saranilssonbooks]

My sibling just sent me a picture of a sticker they recieved with some stationary. I dropped many a hint that if they would find no use for it... y'know.

[averysmallcetacean]

science is trending yayayay!!!!

science is awesome

space is awesome

the ocean is awesome

whales are awesome

they're so cool

cetology is awesome

fun fact: bowheads can live for 200 years possibly even longer, we know this cause there are individuals who are still alive with harpoon remnants embedded in them that can be dated to 200 years ago!!!!

btw I can remember if I have mentioned this but a couple of months ago I saw SOUTHERN RIGHT WHALES, my favourite species!!!!! I SAW 2 GREY MORPHS, TOGETHER, AAAAAAAAAA, It was the best day of the year and I was there BY CHANCE

IT WAS AMAZING

[appendingfic]

Can't believe people are siding with Ishmael-haters when "smooth sharks" and "it's a dog because fluffye" are such popular posts here

[whale-osha-violations]

Chapter 32: Cetology

Number of regulations violated: 0

This is a notable infodump about whale classifications. While I am by no means an expert in marine or evolutionary biology, it is hard not to at least be frustrated at Ishmael���s insistence on calling whales ‘fish’. From my personal, modern point of view, I wish I could explain DNA sequence classification to Ishmael as a much more precise and objective taxonomic method. Getting back to the actual objective, none of these descriptions include any explicit danger, and there are no violations here! 

That's all for now, and

Stay safe sailors!

[xerox-candybar]

“Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.”

Every time I see Herman Melville refer to whales this way, I hear a little “Janet From The Good Place” voice in my head, politely correcting Jason: “not a girl fish”

[ulfrsmal]

just learnt Long-John was another name for a fin whale and now I have incoherent ideas about long john silver allegories

[victusinveritas]

[erkasuniverse]

Herman Melville what are you doing in my feed?

neither alive nor dead but a secret third thing (at sea)

[mybuddyjimmy]

Cetology

Cetology [see-TA-lə-gee] Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, 19th century 1. The branch of zoology that deals with whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Examples of cetology in a sentence “The marine biologist was specifically an expert in cetology.” “Captain Ahab was obsessed with cetology after his years of pursuing the white whale.” #wordoftheday

[string-star-lights]

it’s always sunny on the pequod

[saranilssonbooks]

A true pioneer in his field!

Everyone talks about the anatomy of the whale sections of Moby Dick, but nothing could prepare me for Ishmael going "no scientist has attempted to do phrenology on a whale, but I will now" and proceeding to tell me about the whale's intelligent brow

[mukuharakazui]

you'll forever be a cringey immature straight girl no matter if you call yourself a he or a xim or a identify as a table leg, no matter how many bone-eroding cross-sex hormones you take or whether you amputate or boobs or not. biologicallly you will always be a female heterosexual since that's what you were born as. neuroscience proves that heteros aka opposite-sex attracted people have distinct brain phenotypes from gay people, regardless of if they identify as trans or not. heterosexual aka male-attracted 'transmen' have the same brain chemistry as any normie het woman, proving both that sexuality is only determined by sex and that transness isn't innate the way homosexuality is. you can larp as whatever, call neuroscience and basic knowledge on sexuality 'stinky doo doo opinions' like a petulant child who just realized santa isn't real. the only thing you're doing is embarrassing yourselves in front of anyone with the slightest cerebral functionality because you're mad we're calling out your gay-fetishizing homophobic anti-scientific bs for what it is unlike the tras who pretend to see you as 'gay' 'men' because they feel sorry for your mentally ill ass and your internalized misogyny. sure you het women will never be in an equal relationship with a male because straight men see you as throwaway sex toys and free domestic servants but this isn't an excuse for you to fetishize gay men and pretend to be them, certainly not an excuse to expect them to go along with the charade and put up with you het weirdos preying on them. het males aren't dumb when it comes to manipulating women for easy p*ssy which is why they're already on grindr with your het ass, pretending to be QWeEr and non-binary to get that mentally ill gullible cooch. no actual gay male will look at you and have any other emotion aside from anger and pitiful laughter. even if you 'pass' completely, they'll be disgusted after learning you have female genitalia and lose any attraction they may have had because het sex is abnormal and undesirable to gay people, not falling for and not wanting to fuck the opposite sex is the literal essence of our sexuality which you are diametrically opposed to. you'll just rub your nub away to yaoi like any other fujo who is either an ugly woman or understandably disillusioned with men but the only outcome is that you'll be a bitter p0rn sick lonely coomer just like those crusty basement-dwelling straight men who can't get laid. the worst part is that nearly any het woman like yoy can get laid, that's no achievement, het men will even pretend to be bi or gay to use you as a fleshlight but no gay male will ever want your musty homophobic vag, they want none at all and deep down you know it. that you'll never be loved and wanted by a gay man, that you'll never be seen as gay or male by anyone. you'll never know the ultimate compatibility and sublime equality that only exists in same-sex love. and now that you've ruined your straight woman privilege, only the most abusive and weird straight men will go after you, whose only purpose is to take advantage of you. what a sad existence, foaming at the mouth at gay people for standing up for ourselves when you fake progressive breeders try to brainwash your fellow homophobes into your heteronormative bioessentialist homophobia, insisting gay people could be bisexually attracted as long as you wear 'boy clothes' and cut your hair off. congrats on alienating the very people you pretend to be, most of us were 'trans allies' just a few years ago before you went full crackhead and started pretending sexuality is based on a made-up gender not biological sex. enjoy withering away in your early menopause knowing no gay person will ever love or desire you, knowing you'll never be us and should be grateful since you couldn’t stand a day of real oppression. choke on as much d*ck as you'd like, it only proves what a wanton female hetero you are and that straight males would stick their d*ck in anyone female

Why are you so desperately obsessed with transgender people that you would spend the time typing this out and sending it to me, a cisgender man, over Tumblr