The Mighty Cachalot: Sperm Whales of Kaimere
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- The sperm whale is the largest of Earth's toothed whales. On Kaimere, a related species called the Kaimeran cachalot is one of the largest animals on the planet.
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Very cool. Glad to see even in a world with mosasaurs, Megalodon and elasmosaurs that the sperm whale still stands out as a top tier player.
Absolutely
Gonna be honest I would place my money on toothed cetaceans in such a scenario.
I would play as one of the big three crocodiles
@@baneofbanes in the warmer waters I think the mosasaurs would dominate.
@@anon9579 that’s a fair point.
This is the second time I’m making this joke today but
*insert Chased by Sea Monsters theme
17:14
Cachalot bull: "if i go down... I';M TAKING YOU WITH ME!!!"
Guppik may have been a poor Whaling Hound, but he certainly proved himself in the most important way a dog can to their master.
100%
Largest toothed predators on Earth. Grow even greater in Kaimere.
Happy Birthday, Keenan.
Glad to see the cachalots are doing well, despite the presence of large mosasaurs, Megalodon, and other such marine giants.
I’m excited for the southeast Asian harvest next week.
Let us SING For him!!!!
Happy Birthday To You!!!
And Many More!!
Thanks!
Happy birthday Keenan Taylor! Sperm whales are rad and you certainly did them justice. The art is on point and the music choice is perfect, awe-inspiring.
Thanks so much!
Happy Birthday to you Keenan! What a wonderful look into one of Kaimere's iconic leviathans! A part of me is kind of proud that only Earth still has the blue whale, but the diversity and abundance of Kaimere's giants never fails to astound me.
Yes indeed! I quite like that for all the giants of Kaimere, Earth still has the biggest animal
Wow. That orchestral score was amazing! Complete with a equally great & educational video too.👍
Thank you very much!
Safe!
Oh, happy birthday!
Thanks!
@@TalesofKaimere you're welcome 😊
A more in-depth look at Kaimere's whales is something I wished for, for a while now.
Woah it's really nice to see this group revisted
also happy birthday
Thank you! Was long overdue
It’s always a good day when a new video from you drops. Also happy birthday
I appreciate it!
Just picked up the first anthology on Amazon yesterday, loving it so far! God bless you!
Also: happy birthday!!🎉
Thank you hope you enjoy!
@@TalesofKaimere finished it yesterday and waiting on the second to arrive 😂😂
Cachalot are probably up there as among my favorite cetaceans as I remember being obsessed with this book about them as a little kid lol. On a side note, happy birthday! My birthday is on April 25th which is also World Penguin Day, which is great because penguins happen to be my favorite animals lmao
Thank you, and happy late birthday! Penguins are awesome
Glad to see that also the biggest (but gentle) predator on Earth is a Kaimere 's host
For sure!
Yes! i love whales! glad to see youre going into more detail on them!
Me too man I love sperms so much!
Heck yeah!
Happy Birthday K, wish i could see the mongoose and mustelids
Thanks! We just might have something in the works for the summer!
@@TalesofKaimereso do dolphins, penguins and stuff?
Happy Birthday Keenan!
Whales are some of my favorite animals, especially the Blue Whale. Sperm Whales are not just the largest toothed predator on Earth, they are the deepest air-breathing diver and just about the loudest animal of all. I read Herman Melville's Moby Dick in the past, and while impressive, it obviously exaggerates the beauty of these beasts. They can live to almost 80 years old and there have been instances of albino Sperm Whales recorded in the Atlantic and southern Pacific, so there really are "great white whales" out there.
There's a very interesting level in Endless Ocean Blue World involving the Sperm Whale. You are diving in a deep crevasse and there's a cave you need to get into, but it's blocked by a Giant Squid. To get rid of it, you have to call a Sperm Whale over using a whistle to lure it into battling the squid so you can get by. It's pretty intense.
Here's to the Sperm Whale and cetaceans everywhere!
Ay, happy birthday and fantastic episode! I enjoyed the revisions made to the cachalot’s design! Can’t wait for more in depth episodes on the other sperm whale species! It’s on my list of episodes to sponsor as well as the dire bonito whenever Icome across enough money.
I wonder if there were any prehistoric or extinct kaimeran species that got larger than the blue whale of earth…..
I think Keenan mentioned at one point that Kaimere's most recent ice age was during the Permian dynasty. If that's the case, I suppose it's likely that some aquatic filter-feeding therapsids or fabadonts grew absolutely massive, although I wouldn't bet on any growing larger than a blue whale.
"the assembly prefers cachalot, for obvious reasons"
Happy late birthday, I feel like they are the Guardians of the deep and cetaceans of Kaimere
Happy birthday 🎂 Keenan.
Though I thought it would be a coverage of all speed whales, the focus on a single species was an interesting choice. Was it planned thar they'd be harvested in the same harvest that the next video is on
Thanks! Would have been a much more expensive episode to cover all species. Maybe down the road. Their harvest being covered next week did indeed influence placement!
Loved this one. Beautiful art and clever use of mixing older pieces together.
Thanks!
I mean, when you think about how gravity works, it makes sense that the earth still holds the largest animal record.
I believe you said somewhere Kaimere is larger than Earth, which means it likely has a stronger gravitational pull.
The square-cube law indicates how big something can get without collapsing. Gravity affects this formula, so a larger planet with stronger gravity would have a lower cap of just how big life can get on it. I don't know how drastic the gap between earth's and Kiamere's gravity, but there still would be a gap.
Edit: also happy birthday.
Thanks! Gravity is actually comparable due to the lower density of the planet but indeed Earth still holds the title for the largest animal
then again kaimere is more tropical, so it doesnt have the modern earth current that concentrated most of the nutrient in the polar seas, thus not favoring modern baleen whales in bulk feeding and growing very large like what they did in the pleistocene
Yo isn’t this week supposed to be South East Asian Harvest or did I missed something?
Anyways, the intro art is so cool, I’m going to enjoy this.
I thought so as well
Wait a minute yeah!
Watch the video, the sperm whale was introduced from the South East Asia Harvest...as far as I understand
Yeah my April schedule got thrown out of wack
I think in Kaimera, the sperm whales will devolve into Livyatans, Sperm whales are Livyatans that eat 🦑 because it is plentiful than whales, but because of diversity of large marine animals, they would devolve into Livyatans and became the apex predator in the oceans.
Happy birthday! What an awesome video, whales off all kinds have soft spot in my heart, from dominative terrestrials to the largest and heaviest ocean going leviathans known to humankind. Truly awe inspiring! And the music, just wow, it really conveys the majesty that is the cachalot.
Glad you enjoyed it! The music was a great fit as soon as I heard it
Happy birthday Keenan, I hope you have fun today! The new cachalot art/design looks awesome and it was great episode as usual. I'm also very excited for the SE Asia harvest to be covered.
I know this may sound odd, but im glad you dont just make an animal that's larger than the blue whale like so many other specevo works do. Heck, even today, people are finding the "largest animals to ever exist" only for the blue whale to still be the largest which honestly im happy you can make such amazing creatures while still giving respect to the queen of giants. Still amazing video.
Thank you! Yeah it's actually something a few folks have pushed against but I think the blue and fin are so tied to the colder context of Pleistocene and Holocene oceans that it just wouldn't make sense for a hothouse like Kaimere to get that big. I also just like that for all the big beasts of Kaimere, in many cases outsizing their Earth counterparts, we still have the biggest animal on either planet.
Happy Birthday! This was a great and enjoyable episode, I'm glad Sperm Whales are getting the attention they deserve.
Thank you!
Happy birthday man! Sperm whales are very interesting and are by far my favorite large whale species.
Thank you! They’re so rad
I know it's not the focus but damn hearing the phrase the God-Shark Megalodon is just so awesome! Great episode!
Hell yeah they really were peak
Also happy birthday! @@TalesofKaimere
Happy Birthday Keenan🎉. Have a great year ahead. This was a great episode and I was looking forward to it. Really great to see Sperm Whales survive in Kaimere despite so many predators.
Thanks! Yeah they definitely needed a focal episode
So happy to see my favorite animals ever getting some attention, wish i was wearing my catchalot belt buckle right now lol
Happy birthday, Keenan! I gotta get back to reading the first anthology!
Thank you, hope you enjoy!
Happy birthday.
Also hope there are some other whale episodes in the pipeline. I love your depiction of the humpback as a surprise success story.
Thanks! They are another favorite and their bubblenet feeding seems a good hack for the context of Kaimere!
19:00 “this seems like the work of the Blue Whale Lobby…”
I’m not in a legal position to go against their lobby or Big Whale in general
Happy Late Birthday, Keenan!
Thanks!
A fellow cachalot enjoyer, respect granted.
Hell yeah they deserve it
Happy birthday! The music in this video reminds a lot of the movie "In the Heart of the Sea" which makes it all the more fitting!
Thank you! I quite liked that one.
The thing make sperm whales dangerous is they're sonic waves, especially if sperm whales rely in they're sonic waves for defense.
Sonic waves can sometimes break the skeleton or paralysed the nervous system if the area is dense.
1) First before all, Nice Birthday !
2) Interesting to see that the Cachalot species we have on Kaimere isn't the same species than on our.
Because, for example, as we have the as one of the three Orcinus Orcas on Kaimere the modern and current species, Orcinus orca, on Kaimere and as a widespread species like on Earth, as well thans everal species of Earth Dolphins like the Common Dolphin, I and most others people would have think wat first that the Cachalot here would have been in a similar case.
So it turn out a surprise to see that isn't the case and that was actually the mother species of both the earth and Kaimeran species that was harvested instead to give afterward birth to both species on their respective planet.
And that such large animals with a slow pregnancy are still able to evolved into another species in such a geological short tie frame that around 1 mya is.
3) I'm a bit confused about the release of the episodes this month.
The Snouters episode at the start of this month said the SE Asia harvest episode was to be released the 16th of April, then was moved to the last day, 30th, of this month, then in the last episode about "Cannibalism on Kaimere" to this day 23th, to finally being replace at the 30th...
There was a problem in the schedule or something.
4) Still an enjoyable episode of its own noneless, well realized and pleasant to watch.
5) Hope one day more episodes on the Toothed Whales on kaimere are sponsorized, as the Dwaf Sperm Whale and others dolphins families still are also wonderfull animals on their own !
Sperm whale: devolve time.
Mosasaurs: Devolve, are you idiots, Evolution mean being strong and devolution is the opposite.
Livyatans: Man, look at my teeth.
Mosasaur: Fuck.
Happy birthday!
Great and interesting video.
Thanks!
Question; if I were to end up in either the ice age or the wilds of Kaimere, what could I use as the head blade of a scythe? 🤔
Very cool video, and happy birthday!
Thanks so much!
Happy birthday man, and keep up the good work, i love your videos!!!
Thanks a ton! Will do!
I would love to see a " krakens of Kaimere " .
Would be a great one!
Happy Birthday Keenan.
I'm glad to see these magnificent animals thriving. It's... Sad how whales almost gone extinct, but I guess that's human nature mostly....
Indeed is unfortunate
@@TalesofKaimere I hope that we do get the lesson as a specie before.... Yeah.
Let’s go ironically enough I was talking to my friend today about marine biology and this beast always comes up in our chats, nice to know they are alive and well in Kimere
Absolutely! One of the best animals
@@TalesofKaimere happy birthday as well
I just love that Kaimere is filled with huge and amazing animals, but the blue whale still has them all beat.
Cheers🎉 for your Birthday.
Haha yup! Partially it's because the blue whale is really reflective of our colder modern climate compared to Kaimere so a filter feeder or really any animal of those dimensions doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it's also funny to me that Kaimere has all these big animals but at the end of the day Earth still has them beat.
Caught a glimpse of them rewatching the megaraptoran videos and here comes a video on spermwhales themselves 😅 lucky
Happy Birthday
Now I’m trying to remember if I was into Sperm Whales before or after I was into Dinosaurs when I was a kid
Thank you! For me it was concurrent
Amazing episode. Happy birthday!
Thank you!
Happy birthday!!
Thanks!
Holy cow Kurajaku is that *big?*
Well, it's rare to reach those dimensions. Like 20+ meter cachalot, it's like 1-3% of adult males in a given population that reach those sizes.
@@TalesofKaimere still, that's huge. I didn't know Kurajaku could get up to whale size.
Happy Bday! Awesome episode, I loved the squid silhouette shot and the sonar sounds. Was fine with the old design but the darker grizzled design looks way better and fits more with our species. That kraken dunk is raw too
1. How do Cachalot interact with Ghost Kraken? They're obviously too big to be food but are they treated like any other filter feeder or differently since they're a squid?
2. Was the design inspired by the High-finned sperm whale or is that a coincidence?
3. What species is represented in that squid silhouette shot?
4. You say smaller krakes in the food that must be broken catalogue. Are there larger krakes off the menu?
5. Do Northern Hemisphere Cachalot still dive for avoidance or does the Qomanqa complicate things?
Thanks! Can thank Wikipedia for the sounds. I definitely prefer the new design especially after further study.
1. Generally ignored, though it takes many years to reach such sizes. They will hunt young ghost kraken.
2. Coincidence. A taller fin stabilizes them. Means they're not as agile which has its downsides, but stability when fleeing an incoming mosasaur is of great benefit.
3. Don't have its phylogeny or species finalized yet so just assume its Humboldt-adjacent.
4. I don't have a full and final list to say, but yes. There are some individuals too big. No species is immune of course, as baby horned kraken are definitely on the menu even if only the largest bull cachalot can kill a big female kraken.
5. Qomanqa do not intersect with female and calf cachalot so it's not really an issue. Qomanqa need cold water, cachalot calves need warm.
Happy Birthday Keenan!
Also a question, are we ever getting a video on the Grandfather whale? ive seen older videos mentioning its still around in waters near kaishel, but now im not sure if the livyatan is still thriving in modern kaimere
Livyatan is not in Kaimere anymore. They went extinct during the Anchored Period. The grandfather whale is an independently massive macroraptorial sperm whale likely descended from something like Acrophyseter. As for if we'll get a video, that's entirely up to sponsors! I don't choose many topics these days.
Are these guys heavier than Ichthyotitan?
Happy birthday 🥳 such an amazing episode
Thanks!
Happy bday! Also, great episode
Thank you!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEENAN!!!!🐳🩵
Thank you!
Awesome video mate.
Thank you!
I love sperm whales, they look so gorgoeus. Also happy birthday :)
They're absolutely fantastic. And thank you!
Any future plans for doing a video on sea monsters of Kaimere? By sea monsters, I don't mean species already well known, but instead refer to unconfirmed species (sailors described something that doesn't match any known species, but could be a case of misidentification or folklore), as well as "unnatural" species, such as creations of the First Children (like genetic chimeras using whales/mosasaurs/etc...) or creatures altered by Magic (like was mentioned in your video on manhunters of Kaimere).
Would be a lot of fun!
Do you have any other favorite animals that you need or want to include in Kaimere?
Nah I actually inadvertently avoided a lot of my favorites due to harvest placement. Wolves and jaguars didn’t coincide with harvests and Asian elephants didn’t make it.
Awesome episode! The largest animal in Kaimere currently is so interesting. Also, Happy Birthday!
Also, is there anywhere i can download the picture at 20:57? I really really like it, so I might want to set it as my desktop background.
Thank you! And here's a link to the piece on my DeviantArt page: www.deviantart.com/illustratedmenagerie/art/Breaching-Dispatch-1044976948
oh... happy birthday :D
Thanks!
Happy birthday to our God of Kaimere
Fuckin awesome!! And happy birthday man. Cachalots are some of the coolest sea beasts kicking! Something about them just sits right with me.
Heck yeah they're peak animal
Happy birthday Keenan! I hope you're doing well!
Thanks!
I have to ask; what is it with spec projects refusing to ever go any bigger than blue whales?
I can't speak to broader projects, but for Kaimere, it's a matter of planet warmth preventing filter feeders of such sizes getting access to sufficient concentrations of prey to survive. I also like the juxtaposition of all these giants of Kaimere yet modern Earth still having the biggest animal.
@@TalesofKaimere Fair enough. It's more of a pet peeve of mine, I suppose.
How could a Cachalot bull stand against the other giant carnivores of the Kaimere seas?
Generally quite well.
Ok I’m new here, is kaimere like one of those evolutionary experiments where people discuss speculative evolution?
Yup! It's basically what if animals were taken from earth throughout history and set free to evolve independently. Sort of an alt prehistory
@@TalesofKaimere ahhhhhh ok thanks 👍 also I subbed
HRAAAAGH HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY GUY
Thank you!
Amazing video as always! One question, How do kaimereans react to the Blue Whale?
Thanks! It's quite impressive to them to be sure
Awesome episode! Are there any giant predatory whales like Livyatan in kaimere?
Yes, there's the grandfather whale which is a large species mostly found south of the Known World. It used to be a species of Livyatan in earlier stages of development, but later Keenan changed it so that it's a descendant of a much smaller macroraptorial sperm whale. Thus Livyatan itself is extinct in Kaimere. There's also the Sohiajoon which is another large macroraptorial sperm whale. It's smaller that the grandfather whale, but is still pretty big and is more widespread.
@@Andrey.Ivanov Thanks! I’d heard about the Grandfather whale in older episodes but I didn’t know what it’s status was now
Kraken whale are the kings of the deep
Hell yeah
Are there any known predatory behaviors of Cachalot towards other whales? also happy birthday!
Thanks! There are no documented cases of cachalot eating other marine mammals, though it's not ridiculous to think now and then they took a dolphin instead of a shark or large fish I suppose. While they have a preference for squid they do dabble in other seafood
Happy birthday keenan! So is the grandfather whale getting save for another episode?
Thanks! This budget was just for one species. Wasn't so much saved as not in the budget, but I'd definitely be open to giving it a focal episode at some point!
what place would you visit in your world?
I would love to work at the Great Library in the Empire
Happy Birthday !!
Thanks!
Happy Birthday to you.
Thanks!
Please you can making *Cnidarians of Known World* are a phyla of invertebrates are *Myxozoans,Corals (like Sea Anemones)* and *Jellyfish or Sea Jellies*
2 kilometers is deep man.
Sure is!
@@TalesofKaimere, 2 kilometer or 2, 000 meter or 6,000 feet, man that deep, Can a normal sperm whale dive that deep?
Happy Birthday!
Thanks!
Love me some giant whales
Hell yeah they don't miss
So exceptional Cachalots are the largest animals known on Kaimere.
What is the largest species on average? Qomanqa and Megalodon? Do Grandpa Whales fail to rival large Cachalots in size?
Well, it must be said average qomanqa and megalodon are much smaller than the maximum. Like cachalot, the giants in that slide make up the top 1-3% of the oldest individuals. I'd say since cachalot populations are much larger than meg and qomanqa at that size, they likely are larger on average. Same could be said of sun and humpback whales: their larger populations means that even if most are smaller, their largest individuals are more common. As for grandfather whales, they rarely exceed 15 meters and usually 12-13, so not a major contender for the biggest beast title.
Happy birthday dude.
I absolutely love sperm whales, the way the look, the things they do, its all incredible.
I especially love the story of moby dick, the white whale.
The trope of legendary beasts amazes me quite a lot.
Thanks! Absolutely, they are very impressive animals. I quite liked that book. It's been over a decade since I read it but is on my list.
@@TalesofKaimere where can I purchase some of your books actually.
Are they in the video description?
Happy birthday bro🥳🥳🎉🎉
Thanks!!
Amazing content as always and I wish you a very Happy Birthday 🎁🎈🎉🎂🎊 🐋
Thanks so much!
Oh happy birthday
Thanks!
The maximum size for bulls is nuts. Even the average bull size is still enormous. Do the Akanuk regularly attack female pods? I wonder if that may be a reason as to the bull’s tendency to attack whaling ships.
Cow pods are often targeted. It is definitely a contributing factor, though bachelor pods are often targeted too so there's a double incentive both from memory as a calf and as an adolescent for large bulls to attack
Happy Birthday.
Thanks!
Surprised we didn't get a mention of the Grandfather Whale, Livyatan, can it interbreed with Cachalot, do they compete? What about size?
Grandfather whales are not found in the known world (only occasionally do they leave the south polar waters) and are a lot smaller (bulls are the same size as cachalot cows, so 10-13 meters) and have a much different diet (marine mammals and fish rather than squid). They cannot interbred.
@@TalesofKaimere do they predate cachalot calves? since even cows can reliably defend themselves let alone a whole pod.
Keenan, do you have an atlas/encyclopedia/“animal-pedia” on your website? Would love to be able to have some sort of document/website/program to use to reference all the different creatures and cultures you’ve built in Kaimere
Not yet! Someday I plan on making one but I first want to finalize more designs. It would be a lot of work to make and editing would only add to the workload. However, there is a pretty fantastic fan wiki out there for where things currently stand! tales-of-kaimere.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_Kaimere_Wiki
@@TalesofKaimere thanks so much! Bookmarking this wiki
who would have guess also are you going to make single profiles for many of kaimere's animals
also lovely redesign and lore to accompany it!! also Happy birthday lord Keenan Taylor
Is the motomazor a reptile?
Yup! It’s a mosasaur.
Happy birthday 🎉
Thanks!