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Does anyone else find baleen whales to be creepy as hell? Is this just me being odd again?
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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.
There has been no recorded case of a baleen whale killing a person who didnt try to kill them first, it's actually anatomically impossible for them to swallow you. They have a huge moth but a really narrow throat, people have been sucked up but they get spit back up immediately.
Im not saying its a well founded, evidence backed belief to think whales are coming for you, just that its a natural reaction to be afraid of a thing that large that can move that fast through an environment you're basically helpless in.
I agree there. I would also be scared of anything that bif around me. I just also think its really neat that they've never killed anyone unless in self defense and even the it was cause they sank a boat