38
Does anyone else find baleen whales to be creepy as hell? Is this just me being odd again?
(hexbear.net)
Seriously, these things are the closest we have to an eldrich abomination in mammal form. They're so bizarre, probably because they're mammals, so familiar yet alien enough that it turns into uncanny valley.
Their weird upside down mouths give me the heebie jeebies. Who the hell has hair for teeth? That is the stuff of nightmares. Imagine getting tangled up in that gross stuff. I bet they wouldn't even notice because they're terryingly huge.
The way they float in the deep blue void of the ocean reminds me of some kind of alien creature floating through space. How can a giant air breathing mammal live like that?
Dude gives me the willies.
Balleen whales are a very advanced and wise mode of being. Biologically, we are not predisposed to investigating grains and locating them into heaps. Balleen is straight up a grain sorter mounted to their faces. In a sense their whole lives are spent making a heap--and what a heap it is--the largest, most successful animals of all time
tell that to the next person who says philosophy isnt important; the more heaped up the animal the bigger and better it is