Inside the World’s ONLY Whale Warehouse 🐋
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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Long before the days of fast-fashion and chain restaurants, humans were busy hunting down whales and nearly wiping them out... The efficiency of 20th-century whaling had a devastating impact. Join host Shane Campbell-Staton as he visits Paleontologist Nick Pyenson at Smithsonian's Whale Warehouse to uncover the history of whaling and its impact on our oceans.
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Felt a shiver down my spine hearing how much biomass we were able to take out of the ocean.
We really like playing with fire until it burns us.
And that number continues to rise with japanese whaling, and overfishing
I had to stop the video and relisten to that part. That butchery was an “ecocide”, akin to the Tyranids in Warhammer or the Flood in Halo just consuming a world.
And knowing how intelligent whales are makes it all the more tragic that we burned them for lighting our homes. And it was only for a few decades in a small number of industrialized countries…
Stop crying . Animals go instinct so the time . Dinosaurs also went instinct because their time was up. Humans will go instinct when our time is up too. So don't assume yourself like superhero social justice warrior for whales.
@@bendover-bz4bc Why are you yucking my yum?
@@bendover-bz4bcyou sound stupid
This must have had a devastating effect on the ocean floor where Whale falls probably supported life there too!
Yes, we've been destroying the oceans for centuries.
@@hansolowe19not just the oceans, the entire planet
@@goosenotmaverick1156 I know.
People care more about which bathroom to use than our planet
@@julianleivers1608 that's the truth.
I grew up on Cape Cod and remember going on field trips to whaling captains houses. One house had 2 jawbones forming an arch over the driveway that cars could drive through. Nantucket and New Bedford were the whaling capitals of the world. It was said that a man couldnt get married on Nantucket until he had speared his first whale, or survived a "Nantucket Sleigh Ride", when they harpoon a whale from a dingy then hold on till the whale tires, or the boat breaks. There were so many whales in cape cod bay that sources from the 1600's and 1700's said you could "Walk across their backs to the other side"
It breaks my heart now knowing how intelligent whales are, I really hope we can get it together and bring them back.
Defo agree wit you . Why wud we as human beings want to harm , kill, and eat this beautiful animals . I can't get my head round it .The people who do need to get ther karma . Horrible , pathetic humans I'd say 😡
Impressive
A friend of mine in New Zealand has tons of sperm whale teeth. His garden has an archway made from the jaws of blue whale
@@ianlucas7679 The reason was fuel. Humans will do anything for a cheap source of energy.
@pjk9225 that is the captain Penniman house in eastham but they took the bones down because they were deteriorating
Thank you PBS for making shows like this possible. Great episode. But I feel devastated.
Great presentation Shane.
thank you. glad to know i wasn't the only one who had a reaction of "this is incredible.. and also i hate it... "
"..in 1972, 99% of the blue whales that were alive in 1900, were gone"... Well yeah, no shit, there life span is only 80-90 years. Obviously over 90% of them are going to be dead... This is exactly what mathematicians/statisticians mean when they say misleading stats.
Yes, but if you you want to make a show like this, make it right.
The amout of opportunities people passed up to call it a Whalehouse is unforgivable.
I didn’t even watch the video. It was in my recommended and I clicked strictly to make sure this comment was here lol.
Chilean here. Two things.
Until the 70s, you could buy whale meat at the fish market. I ate whale several times. Very much like beef, but with a distinct "fishy" taste, not at all off-putting. I remember at the time there were news about krill, how abundant it was, how it could be processed to make krill sticks and other delicious foodstuffs. After a while, no more news. Whale meat was not available anymore at the fish market. This episode explained both disappearances.
Second thing. Trekkie here. It has been said that the fourth Star Trek film (1986, the one with the whales) helped to change people's minds about whaling. Maybe yes, maybe not, but the pro-whale message in the film is unmistakable. Also, it's a great movie, one of the best in the franchise. Space people from the future (including an alien who has just resurrected - and is slightly amnesiac) comes to the 1986 America because they need a whale to answer a message from a gigantic alien spaceship or Earth will be destroyed. Whales are extinct in that future. So, clueless future people trying to navigate 20th century culture - lots of fun!
One of the most fun Trek movies ever. "There be whales here!"
@@Tser "Maybe he's singing to that man."
People can eat you too, you know. It won't taste musch different.
@@srwla2501 I presume you are aware that in the years of the 7th decade of the 20th century, whaling was legal everywhere, and very few people were concerned or knew of any threat to the survival of whales.
I presume you know that commercial whaling was forbidden in 1986.
I presume you know that currently, Iceland, Norway and Japan continue to commercially hunting whales for their meat and other body parts, and indigenous peoples from Alaska and the Faroe Islands hunt whales for their survival.
I presume you know the meaning of "you are barking up the wrong tree."
"..in 1972, 99% of the blue whales that were alive in 1900, were gone"... Well yeah, no shit, there life span is only 80-90 years. Obviously over 90% of them are going to be dead... This is exactly what mathematicians/statisticians mean when they say misleading stats.
I want to shoutout PBS for still having amazing content that educates after all these years. I grew up on this channel and love seeing it still thriving ❤
This is absolutely incredible. I'm so impressed with what's being studied about whales and the entire eco system they are part of. Thanks for sharing.
New favorite phrase “there’s knowledge in the stank” 😂🖤
I feel like I need this on a t-shirt XD
.........those poor , beautiful , gentle animals😢😢😢😢😢. what a pitiful waste...........😠😠😠😠😠😠..........
What's crazy is people didn't even see them as gentle back then and called them things like "hellfish" I don't know if that's because people thought it was more romantic that men done battle with demonic creatures than murdering intelligent beings or if it's another reason.
Every little fish has its place in the eco system we need them all
Oh I don't know. We seem to be able to wipe out damn near anything we touch
We’re next
This was absolutely amazing on so many levels. Thank you for sharing!!
36 secs that music is so out of pocket i can't😂
DMTBKA
This is my first time watching this show, and I'm really digging it! Also, I wonder how bottlenecked the blue whales' total genome has gotten from their near extinction. I have to imagine it's pretty pared down.
Of course, long-lived, slow-developing animals tend to have some mechanisms to speed up genetic diversity development, so hopefully that's helping keep the populations healthy and able to fend off disease.
That was a thought that crossed my mind, an idea I learned about on PBS Eons' episode about Mammoths and their extinction.
It's sad to think many classic works of literature were written by the light from whale oil 😢
including Moby Dick 😒
No, what is sad is that you can't see all of existence is 1 thing playing out. So the classic works of literature coming into creation by the light of whale oil is a tiny piece of the one giant story of existence unfolding.
It blew my mind when they said the blue whale jaw bone isn't just the largest bone on earth, but the largest to have ever existed!? When I think about the absolutely humongous sauropod called Argentinosaurus. But after doing some maths it seems the largest blue whale on record is still quite a bit larger and much heavier than the Argentinosaurus. 🤯
The blue whale is the largest animal that ever existed on our planet. If there is/was a larger dinosaur, it hasn't been discovered yet.
@@myriamickx7969 It's also unlikely there ever could have been due to the laws of physics, things can get much larger in the water than they can on land, even were a larger animal to exist it's extremely unlikely that any single bone on it would be as large as a blue whale's jaw bones.
This series should more appropriately be named “Human Atrocities.”
When we talk about ancestors that relied on hunting for survival.. i can understand hunting a whale here & there. BUT, if it gets to a different lvl. Where Tons of people r just wiping out whales. That is just utterly unacceptable. It's Like what people did with the Bison. We take something that can be acceptable & sustainable and instead of utilizing it & realizing how important it is for our surrounding environment to flourish for Us to have a chance to flourish too... Yet people repeatedly mess up, destroy, devastate entire ecosystems. We need our habitat's to thrive alongside us in order for us to live our best life's. The planet/the food chain/the weather/geographic diversity/habitat & biodiversity all depends on if Humans are capable of NOT destroying the balance in our ecosystems.. I don't get why this is such a hard thing for us humans to understand? Especially since the industrial revolution era onward.. we gotta do better. The better nature is doing, the better we all can be doing. We cannot take it for granted and throw it all away for a quick buck.
100%, but human population has to be reduced. The more people, the more likely for some to take advantage and undo the good of others. I hope we can find balance. It took millions of years for Earth ecosystem to find balance. We destroyed it in less than 1% of that time.
Your iPhone wouldn’t exist without whale oil, because the industrial revolution would have never happened
It hurts to see how much damage to an entire beautiful species just decades of human abuse cost. Thanks for making this, all of us hope the whales make it through and thrive
This was beautiful and super depressing, but it highlights those OTHER things about the food web we often forget. Through better understanding hopefully we can help restore some of the balance, because it is clear that this anthropocene extinction is not slowing down at the moment.
Amazing! I'm always here for the whale content :) One whale fact I never considered was the role that whales played in moving biomass vertically through the water column! I couldn't even imagine how whales hunting in the deep and defecating on the surface sustained zooplankton until this episode
I really enjoyed this show Just wonderful PBS Never Disappoint 🐦💙
Glad you enjoyed this episode of Human Footprint!
I love the chemistry with these two gentlemen. ❤
No doubt we could have done to Dinosaurs as well, its shameful to be human sometimes.
this gives me 2010s discovery channel nostalgia love it
Wish we removed so much trash as much as we did whales
I wish I could see the ocean before we ruin ones it, it must’ve been so full of life and just down right beautiful
Hearing old timers on the river talk about the good old days, then hear them brag how much roe they have in the freezer. No wonder we have it bad
@@JohnJames. imagine how much more lively the ocean felt, old shipmen must’ve seen so many more animals, especially large curious ones like whales.
Interesting connection between krill and whales. They are dependent on each other. Ecosystem engineer.
The discovery of petroleum was a miracle for whale populations of the world, the fact that J.D. Rockefeller saved more cetaceans than Green Peace could ever dream of is kind of poetic irony.
Speaking of oil, the whale oil that permeates the warehouse is rancid which is why it smells so funky.
Well, that depends. If you calculate in the devastating effects of climate change (still to come), he might as well have killed more animals than any other person.
Rockefeller did not discover or even popularized drilling for oil. He was just the most successful businessman, like implying Steve Jobs is responsible for the computer.
When you consider how much of that oil has been dumped into the ocean to the detriment of not only citations, I think it comes out at an even score.
So glad YT rec'd this show to me. Well done, thank you for making content like this.🐳🐳
Almost cried when I realized the magnitude of the biomass loss so recently.
Weak
Soft
Snowflake
The Blue Whale is so cool!
Dude just told the bro to smell his giant whale finger 😂
In the not too distant future, scientists will rate mass extincion events on a scale as a percentage of the 20th century:
The great meteor impact that marked the end of the Jurassic era was almost 70% as bad as the 20th century.
Jurassic era?
@@ExtremeMadnessX it was a different era, I know, but it eludes me which one. The metaphor still works I think.
learned a lot, thanks PBS! great episode
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Warehouse owner: "the fortunate thing is, they [whales] didn't go extinct! so I think we have a second chance in the 21st century to make a greater impact."
Japan: "And I took that personally"
Not so fun (in fact quite horrifying) fact: On the Faroe Islands, they still practice a tradition called grindadrap. This is a form of whale hunting where they use boats and jetskis to scare the pilot whales into beaching themselves, taking advantage of the herd nature of whales, they stick together and follow the other whales onto the beach. Then a bunch of guys with spears run out and start stabbing. Usually they kill *hundreds* at a time, it looks like a war atrocity. It's truly terrible to watch, especially because they include young kids in this and seeing a 10 year old stab a whale with bloodlust in his eyes is really something you never forget.
These are not people who are starving to death on some uncharted island either, most people don't even eat the whale meat anymore, and lightbulbs are much better than oil burning lamps, so they are basically just killing them for fun and getting zero usefulness out of the animal. At least 19th century whalers had a reason, access to reliable lighting pre-electricity was massive and changed the entire world. They weren't doing it for shits and giggles, or to "maintain tradition". Whaling was like working on an oil rig or being a coal miner today. It paid well, but its a job few people wanted to do because it was so dangerous. It definitely wasn't treated like a fun family tradition you bring your kids along to like they do on the Faroe Islands.
You shouldn’t need a economic reason to not kill whales
Edit: You can do the same thing with a lot of issues.
“You shouldn’t need a economic reason to not knowingly pollute the atmosphere and poison all life on Earth.”
“You shouldn’t need a economic reason to alleviate the suffering of sick people.”
“You shouldn’t need a economic reason to house homeless people”
These are all examples of the tail wagging the dog.
Instead of humanity controlling its own economic system for its own benefit
We have our economic system controlling humanity for its own benefit.
I like the first class and coach example.
People in first class are never going to voluntarily give up their leg room so those in coach can have more.
They also see any decrease in their own leg room as a negative, even if that means those in coach have more.
Furthermore, those in first class get to decide how leg space gets allocated.
A word about krill: it seems that, now that our species has let the whale family recover some, we are exploiting their most important food supply: yes, krill. I’ve read that, in the Southern oceans, industrial fishing fleets are "harvesting” krill to provide cheap food for fish farms. On the other hand, no one knows how krill will be affected by climate change, which means warming oceans with higher acidic content. Will we threaten the whale population a second time through starvation?
How do people back when haul a blue whale from the ocean to shore!
Is it just me or the presenter was much more interesting and relating to than your usual boring script reading ones? :D
Seeing this thumbnail while scrolling was like that scene from Ace Ventura, way to fk my vibe far the fk up with this “lovely room of death”
Edit: tried watching it, that stupid edit with that cheesy song sent me. Fk this video and why it even exists to begin with. Fricken humans man.
Though we appreciate the attention to detail in adding specific background music, could it be turned down in future videos? It makes it difficult to focus on the dialogue. Thanks!
The tons of whale poop from all whales all across the oceans provides food for plankton !!! 😮
Some new discoveries around Sauropods are putting into question the idea that the Blue Whale is the largest living animal ever, but I don't think any Sauropod will have a bone that outmatches the blue whales jaw.
“Theres knowledge in the stank”. Truer words have never been spoken.
Why the intro montage go that hard tho. 😭😭
Funny thing is; before the video even began, I wanted to know what that room smelled like. I got my answer, thank you.
We killed 99% of a giant.species in 100 years 😭🤬
Nope, not 'we'... I know I wasn't there... I've never used, or had in my possession, any type of whale product...it was humans, yes, but not this human...
@Road_Rash so sorry you missed out. Whale meat is good.
These are the same people that tells other country to stop hunting because they've fucked up in the past. And same people nuked japan and tells other country you can't have nuke in case you're just as crazy as we were and still are.
A hundred years after man is gone, the earth will never know we were here.
Can’t wait
They are not the only warehouse, there is one in Argentina I was fortunate enough to visit in Usuhia
Great video, well presented, and Shane has SUCH clever turns of phrase! Enjoying this series quite a bit!
The thing that astonishes and dismays me most is that - while we were doing all of this to get whale oil - how much of the other whale products ended up being wasted? I know in some parts of the world whale meat was eaten and so in those areas maybe the animals did get used (though perhaps when speaking of industrial level hunting we can't say used "with respect" ) - but what did people do with those carcasses? I know that in cultures where whales are taken specifically for survival, there's not a single part of that creature that isn't used for something, so what I'm curious about it just what the "Civilized World" did with those parts that weren't rendered down for oil or eaten. Whale bones for corsetry, perhaps? But how much bone did that really use? It makes me curious.
I know most of the time we think of industry (especially the industries of a hundred years ago) as being wasteful and terrible and kinda the source of all our current troubles, but I feel like that's an oversimplified view. Not so much inaccurate as incomplete. We got where we are through many, many small steps, after all, and getting through this predicament will take many, MANY small steps as well. I do believe we can repair our planet, and even manage to do it in about the same amount of time it took us to break everything. But I'm always interested to learn the complexities of HOW we got here, what people did to survive, to thrive, to turn a profit or to eradicate something they saw as terrible. Folks don't go around killing whales while twirling their mustachios and yelling MUAHAHA, so it's always fascinating to understand what drove the choices made by our ancestors.
I especially appreciated the debunk of the "less whales means more krill right" assumption.
Many cycles are more complicated & have more unseen steps than you might think. We can't rest on assumptions.
"Akchually" there is another whale bone repository in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, maybe not so complete though.
Haha I love this guy. He can host my educational videos any day 😂. Sees a whale bone and is like bruuhhh
What is with the hip hop and “hell to the ya”? This is PBS, not MTV Cribs.
They always ruin things for us
STOP ALL WHALING!!!😢
🤬🤬🤬🤬 Again it's hard to be glad I'm a human 😞😞😞
Time and time and TIME AGAIN 😞😞😞
Like WOW....
But the problem is that certain countries STILL hunt them....
That guy really love what he do…. And I am feeling uncomfortable
Brilliant video 👏🏽🐋 This issue is so clear, so it’s just hard to understand how to this day, it continues to happen (in similar ways). Just look at the yearly slaughters on the Faroe Islands… and the whole world just lets it be 💔
Why would you choose gangsta rap as an intro to a science show, and why speak ebonics?
Great video. I remember watching Animal Planet shows that detailed Greenpeace fighting against whale killing. I was shocked to see that although illegal, Asian countries still killed whales almost at will as long as it was done for “research purposes”. As this was some years ago, I hope that too has been outlawed.
"Humans eradicated whale biomass equivalent to 2 to 3 times combined biomass of all wild mammals present on earth" this is what happens when survival hunting becomes economic and interest based hunting😔😔
The coolest thing to me was that the biggest bone in the world was right there for scale
It's not a warehouse. It's a horrifying mausoleum. ☹️😣😢
Its like a holocaust display of victims....
It's a whalehouse.
@@RealPlatoisherethats a real garbage take.
If it were in any other context than scientific knowledge, you'd be correct.
We can't have nice things. Ever. The krill paradox is similar to how, when the buffalo, the wolves, and the beavers were hunted to near extinction, their ecosystems started to collapse. It was until then that we realized, oh, we needed the wolves to keep the buffalo healthy, and we needed the buffalo to run through the plains and valleys and trample and fertilize the grass to keep those ecosystems healthy, and we needed beavers to keep the rivers healthy and to prevent erosion. Without those more complex animals that were higher on the food chain actively applying pressure to their environments, their food supplies and environments would collapse. How stupid we are, as a species, to make the same mistake over and over again.
Hydrogenation of whale fat made it palatable - it was used to help renutrution of post WW2... mostly by the UK who continued to support whaling in the southern ocean long after it was even deemed 'necessary'.
In Pakistan two minorities temples are demolished please make a voice guys to make world a safer place 😢
IDEOLOGICAL PARASITES!!!ANOTHER PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW TWO WRONGS DO NOT MAKE A RIGHT!!!!!! Please do not let messages like this distract us from the material knowledge that has been provided, so we may form our own opinion on the subject in this video. The creators proudly made well versed and researched content, while this guy or girl tries to insert their ideology. Kind of like the legislation that is supposed to protect farmers while it gives corporations undue enrichment. Call it piggybacking But I see it for what it is. Ideological parasitism. AKA Ideal parasites.
@@jasonstinson1767 just like you ideological parasite . Your father Joe Biden and obama comments on how minorities in India are not safe why are you inserting your ideologies ?
While on the other hand we can see what's happening in Pakistan with minorities
I want to make the innocent us people aware of the reality.
If fools like you are finding it distribution then it's must be something wrong with your violent brain .
Ask your father whoever it's is whether it's Trump/obama or Biden or Soros to stop interferening in the other democratic countries. And stop inserting your stupid violence creating ideology
Okay, now that I see all the carnage I have to look away. Those sweet animals we just decimated them
Totally agree.
Looking away is what allowed the decimation to go on for so long. Because people only cared about their needs not the ecosystem.
Yes why did you do that
It wasn't 'we'... I've never hunted a whale in my life, nor would I... it was humans, but it wasn't this human...
Why do we have to produce a video with a rap beat bc the host is black?! Can’t just be a regular song or he be in trouble with the crew if he didn’t ?
Shit is so corny. I know the money is good tho goood for him but damn
Wow. We were so close to losing the largest animal on earth. Good thing we're more enlightened now and we still have whales. The behavior of our ancestors are so cringey. Hopefully our society will cobtinue to move forward to path of goodness for the animals, the earth and for ourselves.
For some reason. It hurts seeing our ancestors doing that to the animal that has been living in peace.
How about all the bisons we destroyed??? How about all the wolves??? The foxes??? The coyotes???
Without humans, almost no animals would still be alive
Especially the predators
Different videos, I'd guess
One of the best contribution I';ve ever seen. Thank you.
Excellent program! Thank you! ❤
Apply the reliance of whale oil, which at that time would have been critical to human comfort and existence, and something we could not live without, with our reliance on fossil fuels ... there is always an alternative, we just need to stop letting big corp and their political enablers rigging the system and forcing us make bad choices in their favour.
My great granda was a whaler from Shetland
Even I'm not into men, I'm completely into women, I'm heterosexual, but I must commit, the black guy is really good lookin'. Go girls, and get him!
Was lucky enough to see Blue Whales and…their poop. Volumnous, Not green,…about the color of Cheetos (krill) and stunningly pungent!
That music is too funny 😂
DMTBKA
I live on the island of Newfoundland and as a result have seen hundreds of whales in my lifetime. Each and every time it’s a shock, awe, and amazement to see them. Thank God we never killed them all
For the future or re-releases, the sound mixing should keep the music much quieter; it's making the dialog hard to hear, and I don't even have hearing loss which would make that effect worse.
I wonder what the oceans would look like now if we had left the whales alone. Our oceans would be fertilized and lush, dense with life and always changing and growing. All those whales who should have lived their lives out at sea should have it end there too, all those whale bodies that never made it to the bottom of the ocean to feed the deep sea ecosystems... Whales are so vital to the world, it makes me so sad that we would want to take advantage of these beautiful creatures.
Live and you learn, still doesn't make humans evil
Rap music really set off how woke and perfect this video is. You think this video is mainly watched by rap loving people? What’s wrong with yall.
😮😮😮😮
I learned a lot.
And Japan is still whaling in the guise of research....
Wow. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
This was so fascinating whales are some of my favorite animals
Amazing video, in so many ways. Whale anatomy is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
Whalehouse is RIGHT THERE.
Can we call it a Whalehouse instead❤
Just came here to say that just because America stopped hunting whales doesn't mean everyone else did. Japan, looking at you.
I gotta watch this series. 👞👟👠👡👢
Awesome~👍
Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
Yo yo yo my homies check out these dope whales.
PBS didn’t have to go that hard on the beat. 😆
Daymmmm, I didn't expect the intro to go so hard, the music caught me off guard 😅
The only one.. besides the illegal ones we don't know