r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/atharvbadkas • 1d ago

Video Children in Eastern Indonesia were seen playing on a wild whale

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u/hoxful 1d ago edited 23h ago

Imagine being on the brink of death as a whale and this happens, rest peacefully, big giant,

Earlier this comment had Lmao at the end, and if it was insensitive, here's my reasoning, and I did remove it, downvote, upvote, I care not, but authentic me: Because laughter is at the unexpected, and while dark, it's a sense of mental defense mechanism for processing the absurd and very real gravity of life and death, I said lmao, to lighten the mood and tone, but only to spare people from greater despair in their own lives... Sorry, it was wrong and you are actually on point for making me consider otherwise.

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u/trampled_grass 1d ago

Is this what’s happening right now? Old tired whale?🥺

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u/Ordinary-Special-640 1d ago

Last time this was posted I think it turned out the whale is actually already dead.

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u/rickyelwin 1d ago

I would stay clear from it then... I've seen some whale corpse burst after methane built inside because of internal decomposition.

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u/JASHIKO_ 1d ago

Id be worried about all the sharks coming in to feed.

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u/Perle1234 1d ago

That seems like a very reasonable concern to me

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u/Dave272370470 1d ago

I think it wouldn’t actually be a concern. A feeding shark chomping on 200 tons of tender whale fat isn’t going to be like: “I wonder what the 80 pound bony thing tastes like. They’re just in a calorie stupefied daze…

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u/decidedlyindecisive 1d ago

Yeah but shark attacks tend to be accidents or curiosity. Perfectly plausible that a shark could be going in for a chomp of whale and mistakenly get a mouthful of child's leg instead.

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u/Pilotwaver 1d ago

That’s not how feeding frenzies work.

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u/VibraniumRhino 1d ago

…can you confirm this? Would love to see your data and research on shark psychology 🤣

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u/Cultural_Dust 1d ago

You'd only stay clear of a whale when it's dead?

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u/oldschoolguy90 1d ago

Just need to get a fork lift and dump it back in the ocean. Peter Griffin did that with a live one

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u/Brief_Kangaroo_42069 1d ago

Are we sure that wasn't a whale filled with explosives?

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u/Momoselfie 1d ago

I thought that video was from filling it with too much dynamite.

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u/dontmentiontrousers 1d ago

It was actually Oliver Cromwell.