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Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bonus bonus: a blue whale’s throat is so small it could choke to death on a grapefruit.

I'm sure their throat can be blocked that way; but if they can't breathe through their mouth anyway, is it actually choking? Or just terminally blocked?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fair point. I didn’t even consider the ramifications of wording it like that instead of just saying it has a small throat. I tend to use analogies a lot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nah, it makes sense, and ice heard this phrasing before - just always wondered if they meant the poor whale couldn't breathe, or basically just had indigestion!