The discovery of a large, smooth, pink, severed flesh tentacle-thing on an Australian island beach has sparked speculation about what type of animal it might be.
Afri Gregg, TikTok user found and filmed the “giant random animals part”. It quickly went viral and attracted millions of viewers sparking lots of speculation about whale penises.
It is huge, it is! It’s my foot. It’s about the same size as my leg. Eeew. Disgusting!” Gregory exclaimed in the footage. It was taken off the coast of Queensland near Townsville.
@bootscootinaf I replied to @Dave. Here is a better version. It is what do you think? #australia #northqueensland #fyp
Vanessa Pirotta, a Macquarie University Zoologist, warns that we don’t know what the meter-and-a-half of dismembered flesh actually is.
It could be anything. [a]The juicy part of a random marine creature [such as a]She ate shark liver Telled Newsweek. However, she admits that its shape, size, and overall similarity do look like a whale’s wang.
Cetacean skeletons were long adapted to floating in the ocean. However, sexual selection is still a concern. remained attached to their pelvic bonesThis gives their strong penis muscles something to hold onto. This gives marine mammals more control over the flailing of their penis, which can lead to some reproductive advantages.
The explanation for at most one has been suggested to be the dexterous movement. Sighting of legendary sea serpents. Pauline, a 19th-century sailing ship. WitnessIn 1875, they believed it was a sea snake attacking a group whales.
…with one more encounter – the Pauline sighting in 1875 off the coast Brazil, also suggested as a whale-wang sighting… pic.twitter.com/P9bJmyd5c5
— Darren Naish (@TetZoo) April 8, 2021
While hazy glimpses of whale penises might make for a good hypothesis, there’s no reason to think all – or even any – serpent sightings are the result of whale flashings.
However, we are not used to seeing these sights while strolling along tropical beaches. We can therefore be excused from stopping and staring.
Blue whales are the largest known animal to have ever existed.Balaenoptera musculus) naturally also have the most giant of penises in the animal kingdom – averaging about 2.5 to 3 meters (8 to 9.8 feet) long. If a penis is what we are looking at, the most likely contender is a Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), as they’re currently in the Queensland waters to breed.
For many years, researchers have studied the mating organs of Humpback whales to gain more information about their mating patterns. 1955Researchers concluded that whales are seasonal breeders by studying their testicles. The length of a whale’s penis can also be used to measure this. How sexually mature the animal may be.
2002 Researchers filmed13 whale erections were captured over 121 hours in 630 different humpback pods. This revealed that penis extrusions most often occurred during male dominance contests. But humpback’s are baleen whales – they don’t have teeth – so a rival or spurned lover could not have done such damage to a whale’s erection.
The study also showed that lone males can sing for company while extending themselves. Perhaps the latest discovery on Australia’s beach was the result of a lonely male who sang his sexy song too close to an orca.
It will be difficult to determine if the remains are actually from the ocean, unless an expert visits.
Pirotta said, “It provides an opportunity for peoples to learn more regarding whale reproduction or other juicy parts of animals that might washe ashore.” TelledThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“I see why people are so interested all over the globe, but we don’t know” what the fleshy part is. Pirotta said.
