Whales' Unspeakable Itches: 'Healing' Through Ship Collisions

Whale dolphins are marine animals that rarely use lungs to breathe, which is also the reason why they often come to the surface of the water. They are very fond of jumping into the water. But besides playing, there is another reason why they have to jump into the water. Let's take a look at it together today.

In fact, a large reason for whale dolphins jumping is due to itching. But since they don't have ‘hands’ to scratch, they can only jump into the water to use inertia to remove the dead skin attached to their bodies or various barnacles, whale lice.

Generally, those who choose to jump for this reason are slower-moving large whales. For example, killer whales, dolphins which are quick-moving whale dolphins will easily get rid of these attached objects.

These slower-moving large whales are difficult to solve these attached objects, over time, these objects become more and more, and the whale fins, nostrils, eye sockets, and reproductive holes, which are important parts due to skin folds, are easily attached to a large number of barnacles and whale lice, causing a lot of damage to the whale.

Although whales often jump into the water to remove these attached objects, it is difficult to achieve the effect. These attached objects try to fix themselves more firmly on the whale’s body, even though the whale’s skin is thick, it cannot withstand the invasion of numerous barnacles, so it feels very uncomfortable.

Furthermore, the barnacles attached to the whale are very large, and they can grow to the size of a fist, as if they had been stung by a giant bee, causing a large number of ‘bumps’.

And these attached objects are attached to the whale, making the whale, which is already slow-moving, even slower, and it is more difficult to remove these things. In order to remove these things from the body, the whale floats to the surface of the water, allowing seabirds to prey on the attached objects, or rubs against people's ships to remove these attached objects, but the huge impact will also cause harm to the whale, but there is no way to avoid it.

Some netizens said that the whale looks like it has a strong-minded phobia. It seems to help it remove them. Some netizens said that these attached objects have no enemies?

More netizens said to put an octopus up, all suck them out. Netizens’ opinions are diverse.