WEBVTT 00:11.468 --> 00:19.292 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Freaky Fana Friday, where every Friday we take a little time and explore some of the freaks of nature from around the planet. 00:19.772 --> 00:21.233 [SPEAKER_00]: We cherish so deeply. 00:21.853 --> 00:25.655 [SPEAKER_00]: So please jump aboard and let's explore the wilds together. 00:31.458 --> 00:34.000 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to Freaky Fana Friday. 00:34.680 --> 00:38.262 [SPEAKER_00]: I am the Great and Peaceful Mystery and I am Jay. 00:39.552 --> 00:41.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we're going to talk about one of my favorite animals. 00:42.255 --> 00:42.975 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, what is that? 00:42.995 --> 00:43.596 [SPEAKER_00]: You got a guess? 00:44.297 --> 00:46.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we already did the boof in, so that one's out. 00:46.739 --> 00:50.443 [SPEAKER_01]: We've been doing freaking fun for a while, so yeah. 00:50.523 --> 00:51.744 [SPEAKER_00]: I love all these animals. 00:52.805 --> 00:54.026 [SPEAKER_01]: One of your favorite animals. 00:54.426 --> 00:56.068 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some type of salamander. 00:56.348 --> 00:56.528 [SPEAKER_01]: Nope. 00:57.109 --> 00:58.510 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it some sort of amphibian? 00:58.711 --> 00:58.891 [SPEAKER_01]: Nope. 00:59.371 --> 00:59.972 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it a fish? 01:00.532 --> 01:00.712 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep. 01:01.213 --> 01:01.814 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, all right. 01:02.314 --> 01:03.175 [SPEAKER_01]: Really narrowed it down. 01:03.541 --> 01:10.444 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess most diverse group is vertebrates is an extinct fish. 01:10.804 --> 01:10.984 [SPEAKER_01]: Nope. 01:11.544 --> 01:11.844 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 01:12.025 --> 01:16.706 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I don't know. 01:17.307 --> 01:18.707 [SPEAKER_00]: A basking shark. 01:19.067 --> 01:19.588 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay. 01:20.488 --> 01:22.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that plays into the rest of this week's episodes? 01:22.949 --> 01:23.269 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 01:23.949 --> 01:28.931 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, everybody I know and we've said it a hundred times, but for new blisters, we record the weekend reverse. 01:29.432 --> 01:29.992 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we do. 01:30.973 --> 01:56.181 [SPEAKER_00]: So the basking shark is known for its giant mouth in extremely oversized gills, it has been called the elephant shark due to the appearance of their snouts as being a large trunk, kind of pro basket, they have a pro basket, yeah, it's not like extreme, but it's almost like an elephant seals, I guess you, I guess especially that mouth close, you can see 01:59.861 --> 02:02.122 [SPEAKER_01]: almost like a goblin shark but not as pointy. 02:02.442 --> 02:04.103 [SPEAKER_00]: It's much more like soft. 02:04.303 --> 02:04.603 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 02:05.104 --> 02:09.286 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, yeah, goblin sharks is more like a paddlefish is where it's a hard extension of bone. 02:09.426 --> 02:09.746 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 02:10.286 --> 02:12.247 [SPEAKER_00]: This is more of just a big fleshy nose. 02:12.407 --> 02:14.228 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they're mouths close, it kind of hangs down. 02:14.268 --> 02:15.189 [SPEAKER_00]: They look like an old man. 02:15.629 --> 02:15.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Huh. 02:16.309 --> 02:18.030 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, like a blobfish kind of. 02:18.050 --> 02:20.391 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a broken blobfish. 02:20.651 --> 02:20.832 [SPEAKER_01]: Mm. 02:22.072 --> 02:24.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Cito Reithius Maximus. 02:25.475 --> 02:26.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there a scientific name? 02:26.616 --> 02:27.136 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a cool name. 02:27.276 --> 02:29.037 [SPEAKER_00]: In Greek, do you want to get for that translates to? 02:29.998 --> 02:32.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Big, sunbathe in shark. 02:33.441 --> 02:35.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Great, nosed sea monster. 02:35.562 --> 02:36.283 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there you go. 02:37.604 --> 02:42.467 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though, or even though they are the second largest fish on earth, who's the first Jay? 02:42.607 --> 02:43.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the whale shark. 02:43.428 --> 02:43.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep. 02:44.269 --> 02:47.391 [SPEAKER_00]: Basking sharks are completely harmless to humans. 02:48.332 --> 02:48.732 [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of. 02:49.713 --> 02:50.073 [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of. 02:50.542 --> 02:52.666 [SPEAKER_00]: They will not go out of their way to hurt anybody. 02:52.847 --> 02:53.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 02:53.127 --> 02:56.234 [SPEAKER_01]: They are gentle giants because they're big like filter feeders, right? 02:56.254 --> 02:56.434 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 02:56.575 --> 02:56.835 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 02:56.895 --> 03:00.463 [SPEAKER_00]: They are true gentle giants and they feed primarily on plankton. 03:02.324 --> 03:06.986 [SPEAKER_00]: So like the dangers with basking sharks, which we'll talk about some of their freaky fun of facts. 03:07.846 --> 03:11.948 [SPEAKER_00]: But the dangers with them is getting knocked out by them just being near them. 03:12.008 --> 03:13.169 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because it's so large. 03:14.169 --> 03:19.851 [SPEAKER_00]: Same with whales and whale sharks is that whale sharks have accidentally killed a couple of people. 03:19.871 --> 03:21.812 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's because people weren't paying attention. 03:22.192 --> 03:25.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, hit in the back of the head with their tail and so they get knocked out under water. 03:25.915 --> 03:27.155 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's not a good combo. 03:27.235 --> 03:29.416 [SPEAKER_00]: But will sharks never haws any harm. 03:29.436 --> 03:30.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Baskin, sharks don't have the arm. 03:30.636 --> 03:32.296 [SPEAKER_00]: And basking sharks jump. 03:33.396 --> 03:33.936 [SPEAKER_01]: They jump? 03:34.236 --> 03:34.496 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 03:34.596 --> 03:35.277 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that. 03:35.517 --> 03:36.417 [SPEAKER_00]: So nobody knows why. 03:36.457 --> 03:37.937 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's, we'll get to that in a little bit. 03:37.957 --> 03:41.438 [SPEAKER_00]: But that can be the other big danger is if you actually don't get in the way. 03:41.838 --> 03:42.858 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, under it. 03:43.178 --> 03:45.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, no, you're in a little boat above it. 03:45.478 --> 03:47.059 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and it sham moves over you. 03:47.399 --> 03:48.899 [SPEAKER_01]: There are three or is that free willy? 03:48.979 --> 03:49.839 [SPEAKER_01]: That's free willy. 03:49.919 --> 03:50.119 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 03:50.199 --> 03:50.919 [SPEAKER_00]: It's through you. 03:51.279 --> 03:51.699 [SPEAKER_01]: Through you. 03:51.979 --> 03:52.580 [SPEAKER_01]: That would be bad. 03:53.340 --> 03:55.360 [SPEAKER_00]: Because there is one kayak video where that happened. 03:56.120 --> 03:56.720 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay. 03:56.981 --> 04:00.202 [SPEAKER_00]: These people, and certain areas, you can go and tie with these guys. 04:01.983 --> 04:09.667 [SPEAKER_00]: So coast on oceanic waters around the world can't host basking sharks, and it's heavily dependent on the season and plaitonic blooms. 04:11.108 --> 04:13.269 [SPEAKER_00]: They can be found in any ocean worldwide. 04:13.850 --> 04:16.511 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, their life span is 50 to 60 years old. 04:17.431 --> 04:21.434 [SPEAKER_00]: The largest document in modern day we have is about 36 to 40 feet long. 04:21.454 --> 04:22.074 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 04:22.094 --> 04:22.994 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some historic evidence. 04:23.014 --> 04:24.055 [SPEAKER_00]: They may have got a little larger. 04:25.647 --> 04:27.549 [SPEAKER_00]: They weigh about nine to 10,000 pounds. 04:28.851 --> 04:29.672 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sorry. 04:29.892 --> 04:31.634 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just laughing in the back. 04:31.654 --> 04:32.716 [SPEAKER_00]: We're still recording the house. 04:33.537 --> 04:35.419 [SPEAKER_00]: They can be gray, blue, and gray brown. 04:36.020 --> 04:38.663 [SPEAKER_00]: OK, the gray brown being the most common, blue being the rarest. 04:39.577 --> 04:42.559 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the rare blue you would think there be more blue. 04:42.799 --> 04:43.319 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess not. 04:43.339 --> 04:50.124 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know they are more in like heavily algae water, they are more in a little bit colder water. 04:50.144 --> 04:50.784 [SPEAKER_00]: So whale sharks. 04:52.405 --> 04:53.706 [SPEAKER_00]: niche partitioning is what it's called. 04:53.746 --> 04:54.986 [SPEAKER_00]: So big filter feeding fish. 04:55.307 --> 04:55.567 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 04:55.867 --> 04:59.849 [SPEAKER_00]: So even though they both can be found in tropical and kind of like whale sharks don't like cold water. 05:00.230 --> 05:00.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 05:00.730 --> 05:03.151 [SPEAKER_00]: They stick to the tropics, but they'll travel through cold water. 05:03.552 --> 05:03.832 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 05:09.055 --> 05:12.038 [SPEAKER_01]: How do you just pull that fat out of your heart? 05:13.000 --> 05:13.941 [SPEAKER_00]: It's needs partitioning. 05:14.141 --> 05:14.962 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 05:15.262 --> 05:15.923 [SPEAKER_00]: They're very similar. 05:15.943 --> 05:20.148 [SPEAKER_00]: And the third one is Mega mouth sharks, which is, there's even, which are the deep sea version of both. 05:20.608 --> 05:20.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 05:21.369 --> 05:22.931 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the other niche partitioning. 05:23.311 --> 05:23.732 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 05:24.523 --> 05:30.669 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably that no niche partitioning is early animals, different animals doing the same job, but they separate certain ways. 05:31.069 --> 05:31.750 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't compete. 05:32.370 --> 05:37.735 [SPEAKER_00]: That would be there as tropical, cold, and then a deep water would be the three big filter feeding sharks. 05:37.835 --> 05:38.176 [SPEAKER_00]: Gotcha. 05:38.356 --> 05:40.478 [SPEAKER_00]: And the other three of the sharks are very close to related to each other. 05:40.998 --> 05:41.419 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really. 05:41.439 --> 05:43.841 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a, uh, best purchase. 05:43.981 --> 05:45.602 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that co-version evolution kind of? 05:45.622 --> 05:45.823 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 05:46.063 --> 05:46.263 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 05:46.643 --> 05:52.449 [SPEAKER_00]: Baskin sharks are more close related to like, they're not very close related to them, but like, great whites in that group of sharks. 05:53.230 --> 05:57.634 [SPEAKER_00]: We all sharks are carpet sharks, which are ancient sharks more close related to race. 05:58.294 --> 05:58.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay. 05:59.536 --> 06:03.279 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's not a lot known about many of them else, but they're related to the deep sea sharks more. 06:03.299 --> 06:03.459 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 06:03.619 --> 06:05.221 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we don't explore the deep sea too much. 06:05.501 --> 06:08.127 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're, they're all three of them are pretty rare. 06:08.628 --> 06:09.631 [SPEAKER_00]: They are the rarest. 06:09.731 --> 06:10.553 [SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha, okay. 06:10.713 --> 06:11.855 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you probably count on both hands. 06:11.875 --> 06:15.002 [SPEAKER_00]: How many times have they been seen by people alive? 06:16.093 --> 06:22.357 [SPEAKER_00]: They are very, very slow about two and a half to four miles at full speed. 06:22.917 --> 06:26.259 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so they're just like, there's lazy river in the long. 06:26.299 --> 06:29.281 [SPEAKER_00]: They have, yeah, they're how their bodies are designed low. 06:29.441 --> 06:33.924 [SPEAKER_00]: So they're designed to process food and use as little energy as possible. 06:33.944 --> 06:35.345 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why they're another freaking fun. 06:39.568 --> 06:42.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Like Docs flying in the V. Yeah, it's to reduce drag. 06:42.915 --> 06:46.241 [SPEAKER_00]: So whoever's in the front has the most drag, but they all take turns. 06:47.021 --> 06:48.202 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, like, like, an Indian run. 06:48.282 --> 06:48.862 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't school. 06:48.982 --> 06:49.823 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember every ever you do that? 06:50.203 --> 06:54.426 [SPEAKER_01]: Where the, uh, basically, like, conditioning for sports, or whatever, you'd start in the line. 06:54.666 --> 06:59.509 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone, you know, you all want run together in one big line, but the person in the back has to run to the front. 06:59.970 --> 07:00.710 [SPEAKER_00]: This is opposite. 07:00.850 --> 07:01.070 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 07:01.110 --> 07:01.391 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 07:01.411 --> 07:02.671 [SPEAKER_01]: So they'd take turns out that way. 07:02.852 --> 07:07.555 [SPEAKER_00]: So same with the geese and ducks, when they fly in the V4 page, and the who's in the front will look to the end. 07:07.655 --> 07:08.075 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really? 07:08.215 --> 07:08.395 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 07:08.515 --> 07:08.816 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. 07:08.836 --> 07:10.076 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not there was one leader. 07:10.096 --> 07:11.157 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, follow me. 07:11.277 --> 07:11.998 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it changes. 07:12.438 --> 07:13.659 [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, I didn't know the same with these guys. 07:14.459 --> 07:19.143 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, they're main predators are both killer whales and great white sharks have been seen prying upon younger individuals. 07:19.944 --> 07:21.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Killer whales will target the adults as well. 07:21.965 --> 07:22.126 [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm. 07:23.106 --> 07:26.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Interactions between these though are very rare or very early document. 07:26.469 --> 07:26.749 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 07:27.170 --> 07:29.211 [SPEAKER_00]: There's only one species found worldwide. 07:30.112 --> 07:30.492 [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm. 07:30.512 --> 07:30.772 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 07:30.812 --> 07:33.655 [SPEAKER_00]: They have some of the biggest habits that range of any living animal. 07:33.895 --> 07:35.917 [SPEAKER_01]: The world, the world, the world's ocean. 07:35.937 --> 07:39.920 [SPEAKER_00]: And they are constantly on the move so they do share genetics across their whole population. 07:39.980 --> 07:40.620 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's critical. 07:40.760 --> 07:41.041 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 07:41.241 --> 07:42.482 [SPEAKER_00]: They are endangered. 07:43.889 --> 07:45.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow. 07:45.470 --> 07:48.171 [SPEAKER_00]: There are only three large filter feeding sharks alive today. 07:48.311 --> 07:51.252 [SPEAKER_00]: They consume plankton, whale sharks have made them out to the other two. 07:52.052 --> 07:53.953 [SPEAKER_00]: They're nicknick, they're their name basking shark. 07:54.313 --> 07:58.034 [SPEAKER_00]: It's inspired by the shark's tendency to swim extremely close to the surface and search a food. 07:58.874 --> 08:03.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Often having their nose, their tail fin, and their dorsal fin above the water. 08:04.436 --> 08:08.618 [SPEAKER_00]: They have also been called sail fin sharks, or, you know, the sunfish. 08:09.584 --> 08:12.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, did they have like a big fan on their back? 08:12.346 --> 08:13.327 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a big dorsal fan. 08:13.387 --> 08:15.048 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like the typical shark. 08:15.228 --> 08:17.149 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but these guys is much rounder. 08:17.569 --> 08:17.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 08:17.890 --> 08:18.490 [SPEAKER_00]: It's huge. 08:18.530 --> 08:19.131 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't get me wrong. 08:19.151 --> 08:19.351 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 08:19.671 --> 08:21.132 [SPEAKER_00]: It is, I mean, it's the size of a man. 08:21.472 --> 08:21.732 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 08:21.892 --> 08:22.693 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's much rounder. 08:22.713 --> 08:24.914 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not as sharp as like a white shark or a bull shark. 08:24.934 --> 08:25.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 08:25.235 --> 08:25.575 [SPEAKER_00]: Like that. 08:26.892 --> 08:31.475 [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, so that's why they're often times called the sale fish shark and sale fin shark. 08:32.416 --> 08:40.461 [SPEAKER_00]: They're found worldwide in warm to temperate waters where they follow play tonic plankton blooms and they migrate with the seasons. 08:41.762 --> 08:54.951 [SPEAKER_00]: These large slow moving creatures are usually solitary, but sometimes they'll swim in pairs and they can group up in really rare rare situations up to 100 individuals in the summer months. 08:56.772 --> 08:59.936 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they're in these big groups, they'll randomly jump and nobody knows why. 08:59.956 --> 09:01.118 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 09:01.839 --> 09:03.080 [SPEAKER_00]: And they'll fully get out of the water. 09:03.601 --> 09:05.383 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the fastest they ever go in their entire life. 09:05.924 --> 09:10.710 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody's ever measured the speed of it, but they go quick enough to get their whole body out of the water. 09:10.770 --> 09:12.852 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's gotta be pretty fast because they're huge. 09:13.073 --> 09:13.253 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 09:14.645 --> 09:22.793 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, they were commonly hunted, oh, sorry, due to overfishing and having a destruction, basking sharks are now currently endangered and are right on the precipice of becoming critically endangered. 09:22.973 --> 09:23.774 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's not good. 09:24.414 --> 09:34.864 [SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, they were, um, they were commonly hunted for their liver oil, which can be incorporated into cosmetics and perfumes, as well as their fins being used in shark fin soup. 09:35.524 --> 09:37.446 [SPEAKER_00]: My, one of the worst things we've ever made. 09:37.646 --> 09:37.926 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 09:38.787 --> 09:47.498 [SPEAKER_00]: Starting in the 1990s, countries made additional efforts to protect basking in shark populations by regulating fishing practices and protecting them. 09:47.538 --> 09:55.868 [SPEAKER_00]: So these are one that's really, really hard to manage from a conservation effort because they are, they, one animal in its entire life can end up at all the oceans. 09:56.188 --> 09:56.489 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 09:57.092 --> 09:57.472 [SPEAKER_01]: That's neat. 09:57.492 --> 09:58.313 [SPEAKER_01]: That's really neat though. 09:58.453 --> 10:02.257 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's hard to protect that in right and you'd have to win Japan spirit. 10:02.277 --> 10:03.037 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm all the deaf. 10:03.057 --> 10:03.458 [SPEAKER_01]: Gosh. 10:03.518 --> 10:05.540 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can't stop it from going to Japan. 10:05.740 --> 10:05.940 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 10:05.960 --> 10:06.621 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly. 10:06.641 --> 10:11.425 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you don't even know like you'd have to like track them all to even keep an eye on them. 10:11.605 --> 10:13.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know that a lot of them have tax. 10:13.146 --> 10:16.229 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but still it's not, you know, it's only so much. 10:16.950 --> 10:18.651 [SPEAKER_00]: So to the freaky fun of facts. 10:19.732 --> 10:21.434 [SPEAKER_00]: They have an impressive collection of teeth. 10:23.130 --> 10:28.496 [SPEAKER_00]: Baskin' Shark's house approximately 1,500 tiny teeth in their colossal mouth. 10:29.076 --> 10:32.079 [SPEAKER_00]: Their upper jaws have 6 rows of teeth and their bottom contain 9. 10:32.340 --> 10:32.700 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow. 10:33.381 --> 10:37.164 [SPEAKER_00]: They aren't needed when they used to suck in tiny zoo playing through without chewing. 10:37.645 --> 10:39.407 [SPEAKER_00]: But nobody's really quite sure what their purpose is. 10:40.089 --> 10:42.130 [SPEAKER_01]: wonder if it's an old like leftover. 10:42.470 --> 10:47.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Some people think it's for breeding is a lot of sharks will bite dorsal fins to hold on to each other. 10:47.772 --> 10:48.472 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 10:48.512 --> 10:50.373 [SPEAKER_00]: That may still be used as a grip. 10:50.653 --> 10:51.994 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 10:52.474 --> 10:56.896 [SPEAKER_00]: Or it could like you said a hold over, but they seem to have a purpose because they're just they're just tiny. 10:56.996 --> 10:58.116 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like not gone. 10:58.516 --> 11:00.197 [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if they have to do a thinning of the 11:01.503 --> 11:28.839 [SPEAKER_00]: uh... you know how that the man to raise have the weird gill racers that have the shape they're shaped to filter out particulates out of the water yeah they have the same kind of gill racers all they do okay their mouth can stretch up to over a meter across that's big there when they open their mouth it's three feet wide like five and a half feet tall oh yeah i could stand i could walk in there almost oh i know a human could uh... a smaller human could stand up in their mouth oh yeah 11:30.984 --> 11:33.766 [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, their throats are extremely small, though. 11:34.266 --> 11:37.269 [SPEAKER_00]: As humans could never actually be worried of being swallowed. 11:38.550 --> 11:40.771 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you get stuck in their mouth, they're just going to spit you up. 11:40.951 --> 11:41.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 11:41.292 --> 11:42.893 [SPEAKER_00]: They're soft against it about the size of your fist. 11:42.913 --> 11:44.474 [SPEAKER_01]: Just watch their gill rayers and teeth. 11:44.534 --> 11:45.395 [SPEAKER_01]: Might be a little sharp. 11:45.855 --> 11:46.315 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 11:46.335 --> 11:48.116 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, their teeth would be like sandpaper. 11:48.137 --> 11:48.757 [SPEAKER_00]: They're that small. 11:49.057 --> 11:49.457 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really? 11:49.477 --> 11:49.938 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 11:51.335 --> 11:54.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Thousands of gallons of water filled through through their gills per hour. 11:55.577 --> 12:02.541 [SPEAKER_00]: So to the feed, basking shark filter over 2,000 or 2,000 gallons of water through their gills each hour. 12:03.121 --> 12:07.023 [SPEAKER_00]: They isolate the small organisms such as zoo plankton and small crustaceans from ocean water. 12:07.624 --> 12:08.764 [SPEAKER_00]: They push it into their mouth. 12:09.305 --> 12:15.668 [SPEAKER_00]: Filter is driven forward by the motion of the sharks through the movement and their specialized gill rakers push food to the back of the throat. 12:15.868 --> 12:16.068 [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm. 12:17.609 --> 12:19.270 [SPEAKER_00]: They are expert divers. 12:20.577 --> 12:25.341 [SPEAKER_00]: They're able to withstand extreme pressures and are found at great depths of up to 3,000 feet. 12:26.522 --> 12:26.962 [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty far. 12:26.983 --> 12:35.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though they can do this, they usually stay really close to the surface during some months and in the winter, they dive deeper levels to find more food. 12:37.556 --> 12:42.440 [SPEAKER_00]: these differences in diving are believed to be attributed to change in food densities in the ocean over the years. 12:43.001 --> 12:43.181 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 12:43.741 --> 12:45.122 [SPEAKER_00]: So they think that's a more modern thing. 12:45.743 --> 12:45.983 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 12:46.003 --> 12:49.806 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some plain tonic crashes going on due to pollution and rising ocean temperatures. 12:49.887 --> 12:50.467 [SPEAKER_00]: That makes sense. 12:50.507 --> 12:52.309 [SPEAKER_00]: So they're forcing them to go deeper. 12:52.729 --> 12:56.893 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's problem because they're how they're going to be in competition with other mega mouth sharks. 12:57.133 --> 12:57.353 [SPEAKER_01]: Yep. 12:57.713 --> 12:59.495 [SPEAKER_00]: So the mega mouth shark will probably lose that. 13:00.295 --> 13:03.218 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot more basking sharks than there's mega mouth sharks as far as we know. 13:03.418 --> 13:03.638 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, 13:05.190 --> 13:08.211 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, next one is, well, you know, nothing, we're really almost nothing about the reproduction. 13:09.392 --> 13:13.373 [SPEAKER_00]: Despite their size, not much is known about regarding to reproductive behaviors of basking sharks. 13:14.253 --> 13:20.015 [SPEAKER_00]: Emails are thought to have roughly a gestation period of about three years after which live pubs are given birth to. 13:21.496 --> 13:28.278 [SPEAKER_00]: Pregnant basking sharks are so, so rarely seen, leaning research respect, a tendency to sharks to keep to themselves while just dating. 13:28.598 --> 13:31.319 [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if they, uh, do they give, they get birth to like, 13:35.721 --> 13:47.331 [SPEAKER_00]: That's really interesting to like others in their group do that to like white sharks and that kind of stuff But they think what the two to three years while they're just dating They do they go somewhere where other basketball sharks are they were they become recluses. 13:47.431 --> 14:04.345 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and it's probably because they're they're pretty much more vulnerable They're already very slow moving So they may be in the deep sea They can breach like white sharks Like great white sharks basking sharks can breach meaning they can propel themselves out of water 14:05.103 --> 14:07.704 [SPEAKER_00]: They are the largest type of shark to be able to do so. 14:08.444 --> 14:10.864 [SPEAKER_00]: This has been suggested that act of breaching requires. 14:11.645 --> 14:13.925 [SPEAKER_00]: 32 times more energy than normal swimming. 14:14.125 --> 14:14.685 [SPEAKER_01]: That's wild. 14:14.905 --> 14:16.106 [SPEAKER_00]: And nobody knows why they do it. 14:16.166 --> 14:17.386 [SPEAKER_01]: That's gotta be, oh yeah. 14:18.086 --> 14:23.188 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess obviously there's gotta be some kind of reason, but I mean, you gotta remember the animals. 14:23.408 --> 14:25.108 [SPEAKER_00]: There's always that chance they just like doing it. 14:26.001 --> 14:26.842 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess so. 14:27.102 --> 14:34.511 [SPEAKER_00]: So like we recently talked about Oh gosh, it was thin whales and blue whales at a giant feeding frenzy off the coast of California. 14:35.412 --> 14:38.736 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was the first time ever recorded a thin whale completely got out of the water. 14:39.156 --> 14:45.063 [SPEAKER_00]: The second largest species of whale and blue whales is first time they'd ever even seen a tempting to jump. 14:46.424 --> 14:53.051 [SPEAKER_00]: And they were just get their heads out of the water, their massive heads, but it's because they had so much available food that they could frog. 14:53.452 --> 14:56.415 [SPEAKER_00]: These big animals could afford to waste calories by playing. 14:56.855 --> 14:57.316 [SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha. 14:57.835 --> 14:59.175 [SPEAKER_00]: So there's always that chance. 14:59.255 --> 15:04.557 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it kind of like, you know, like, when you see a horse get like when it gets the what's the word assuming. 15:04.597 --> 15:05.157 [SPEAKER_01]: The zoomies. 15:05.217 --> 15:06.897 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, does like a flip and lens on his head. 15:07.457 --> 15:07.917 [SPEAKER_00]: There you go. 15:07.937 --> 15:08.738 [SPEAKER_00]: It could be something like that. 15:09.358 --> 15:12.598 [SPEAKER_00]: It could be for, uh, so sturgeon do it to alert calls to each other. 15:12.658 --> 15:17.740 [SPEAKER_00]: That looks a little smack the water with their, yeah, like, other big animals do it to knock off parasites. 15:18.140 --> 15:21.260 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, okay, so it could be a myriad of different reasons. 15:21.300 --> 15:27.222 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but like when you research these big animals, there's always a chance that they just like to do it. 15:28.562 --> 15:32.604 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's hard to really pin point down something if it's a biological reason. 15:32.704 --> 15:35.825 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, their skin feels like sandpaper. 15:36.385 --> 15:36.845 [SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, yeah. 15:37.025 --> 15:41.626 [SPEAKER_00]: Like other sharks basking shark skin is covered with small V-shaped scales called denticles. 15:41.646 --> 15:43.587 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, are the same stuff as teeth? 15:44.427 --> 15:44.607 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm. 15:44.947 --> 15:51.049 [SPEAKER_00]: These denticles help them minimize drag, allowing the sharks to glide through the water much more smoothly and efficiently. 15:52.370 --> 15:52.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Makes sense. 15:53.998 --> 15:55.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Baskin' sharks migrate between the seasons. 15:56.219 --> 16:04.701 [SPEAKER_00]: When the water becomes warmer in the spring and summer, Baskin' sharks will migrate to coastal waters near Scotland and northeastern Canada, traveling right up to near the Arctic Circle. 16:05.642 --> 16:09.143 [SPEAKER_00]: In the winter, though, they'll travel out into deeper waters where it's warmer. 16:09.603 --> 16:09.943 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 16:11.396 --> 16:14.278 [SPEAKER_00]: B-mails take a lot longer to reach maturity. 16:14.939 --> 16:20.203 [SPEAKER_00]: On average, male basking sharks, reach maturity between 12 and 16 years. 16:20.363 --> 16:24.026 [SPEAKER_00]: B-mails in their hand, do not reach maturity until approximately 20 or 22 years of age. 16:24.907 --> 16:25.247 [SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha. 16:25.287 --> 16:26.748 [SPEAKER_00]: You see the same thing in a lot of large fish. 16:27.869 --> 16:30.471 [SPEAKER_00]: Sturgeon whale sharks, the whole board. 16:31.012 --> 16:32.433 [SPEAKER_01]: Take a long time to get to. 16:32.493 --> 16:34.274 [SPEAKER_00]: B-mails always take longer than males to mature. 16:34.395 --> 16:34.775 [SPEAKER_01]: Gotcha. 16:36.336 --> 16:39.118 [SPEAKER_00]: Their fins are extraordinarily valuable. 16:40.138 --> 16:45.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Almost all countries have banned the thinning of basking sharks, with the exception of Japan and China. 16:46.622 --> 16:51.005 [SPEAKER_00]: It's certain areas shark fin soup is unfortunately still considered to be a rare delicacy. 16:51.685 --> 16:55.728 [SPEAKER_00]: The demand has fueled the continuous fishing practices despite dwindling shark populations. 16:56.548 --> 17:01.871 [SPEAKER_00]: A fresh pair of fins can be sold for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of basking sharks. 17:01.891 --> 17:02.632 [SPEAKER_01]: That's ridiculous. 17:03.416 --> 17:09.179 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's the Japanese government allowing it to try and he's government allowing it right if anybody's not new to the show. 17:09.879 --> 17:14.702 [SPEAKER_00]: I absolutely despise the Japanese government and their practices on endangered species. 17:14.842 --> 17:18.144 [SPEAKER_01]: What just him ocean ocean life in general. 17:18.204 --> 17:18.544 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 17:20.095 --> 17:22.277 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, they have ever heard me say anything bad about it. 17:22.297 --> 17:22.718 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why. 17:22.738 --> 17:30.805 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's still whales have, I mean, I'm, I'm, I was still wailing, but we commercial wailing. 17:30.825 --> 17:32.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, not subsistence wailing. 17:32.807 --> 17:33.188 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 17:33.208 --> 17:33.848 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like them. 17:34.389 --> 17:42.877 [SPEAKER_00]: We just had a 30 minute conversation with the whale this year where he was trying to find out somebody to help and we're, they're still stabbing them to death. 17:44.428 --> 17:47.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, anyways, basking sharks are sorry. 17:47.729 --> 17:52.770 [SPEAKER_00]: A basking shark was responsible for the only shark induced death in the UK. 17:53.370 --> 17:55.691 [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm. 17:55.751 --> 17:55.971 [SPEAKER_00]: Another. 17:56.011 --> 17:59.092 [SPEAKER_00]: 1937 of basking shark caused a boat carrying three passengers to cap size. 17:59.512 --> 18:02.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, all three died as a result of the incident being smashed. 18:04.422 --> 18:10.765 [SPEAKER_00]: So they were literally in a like a kayak or canoe looking at asking sharks and one jumped and killed them all. 18:10.966 --> 18:11.866 [SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy. 18:11.886 --> 18:12.967 [SPEAKER_00]: The shark didn't do it on purpose. 18:13.027 --> 18:13.547 [SPEAKER_00]: No, yeah. 18:13.847 --> 18:18.169 [SPEAKER_00]: And the people, it's a high thing to do in Scotland and the UK is when they're there. 18:18.630 --> 18:19.390 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to go see them. 18:19.410 --> 18:20.671 [SPEAKER_00]: They like people kayak with them. 18:20.831 --> 18:21.071 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 18:21.131 --> 18:22.772 [SPEAKER_00]: And you can touch their fins and stuff like that. 18:23.072 --> 18:25.753 [SPEAKER_00]: They're normally, they're, they're always docile. 18:26.734 --> 18:30.316 [SPEAKER_00]: But when they jump randomly, if you're in the way, you're just in the way. 18:30.336 --> 18:32.437 [SPEAKER_00]: 10,000 pounds and 45 feet long. 18:32.597 --> 18:32.797 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 18:34.618 --> 18:38.301 [SPEAKER_00]: land and ride on you going through you and then landing back on you when it lands. 18:39.241 --> 18:40.442 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's probably not going to end well. 18:41.023 --> 18:44.425 [SPEAKER_00]: Despite their size, they do have a fish predator. 18:45.406 --> 18:49.288 [SPEAKER_00]: The killer whales will even attack the largest animals to ever live the blue whale. 18:49.869 --> 18:50.349 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll eat them. 18:51.710 --> 18:58.474 [SPEAKER_00]: While basking sharks to the second largest shark in the ocean, killer whales have been observed feeding on basking sharks up the coast of California and New Zealand. 18:59.095 --> 19:03.238 [SPEAKER_00]: They are not normally, they don't go after them like they do with white sharks, but they still 19:05.281 --> 19:08.806 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the last flag is not a great one. 19:09.987 --> 19:12.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, there are not many left on the planet. 19:13.091 --> 19:13.451 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 19:14.456 --> 19:15.697 [SPEAKER_00]: They are in endangered species. 19:15.797 --> 19:20.520 [SPEAKER_00]: It has been estimated that there are only 10,000 basking sharks left or less. 19:21.101 --> 19:21.441 [SPEAKER_01]: Dang. 19:21.701 --> 19:23.903 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the world for the world populations. 19:23.923 --> 19:26.845 [SPEAKER_00]: The global population, every ocean on the planet, every country. 19:28.006 --> 19:39.094 [SPEAKER_00]: Due to their long-dustation period in extremely still-of-movements, making them easy targets for commercial fishing, saving basking care population has been a challenge for many conservation groups, with that are unsure of their future. 19:40.235 --> 19:42.537 [SPEAKER_00]: So long-dustations, it's called low-fac Kennedy. 19:43.437 --> 19:47.601 [SPEAKER_00]: means that they do not produce a lot of offspring and it takes them a very very long time. 19:47.841 --> 19:48.101 [SPEAKER_01]: Great. 19:48.181 --> 19:48.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 19:48.381 --> 19:51.564 [SPEAKER_01]: Before to the rate is really slow before humans. 19:52.885 --> 19:57.308 [SPEAKER_00]: That wasn't a problem because there's they didn't need a lot of them because they were so rarely preyed upon. 19:57.749 --> 19:58.509 [SPEAKER_00]: They're good moms. 19:58.589 --> 20:00.571 [SPEAKER_00]: They just they did them to be very very large. 20:00.591 --> 20:02.292 [SPEAKER_00]: They come out you know six seven feet long. 20:02.773 --> 20:03.173 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay. 20:03.313 --> 20:06.155 [SPEAKER_00]: So they already skipped a lot of the predators of early life. 20:06.235 --> 20:06.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 20:06.556 --> 20:07.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 20:08.057 --> 20:11.099 [SPEAKER_00]: So most of them made it into adulthood or at least a teen age years. 20:12.260 --> 20:17.405 [SPEAKER_00]: And great, well, I'm sorry, great whites, eat them, and orcas eat them, but it's very, very rarely seen. 20:18.006 --> 20:20.649 [SPEAKER_00]: The commercial fishing of them has been just a nail and they're coughing. 20:20.829 --> 20:21.149 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 20:21.369 --> 20:28.116 [SPEAKER_00]: So when they hit critically and right at the right at the tipping point, or I'm after this episode come out, they could be critically endangered. 20:28.136 --> 20:28.476 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 20:29.572 --> 20:40.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, the critically endangered, the new kids book kind of explains that the difference between endangered and critically endangered is the risk of extinction is like five years versus 20 years. 20:40.439 --> 20:40.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. 20:41.279 --> 20:44.481 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you're endangered, your risk of going extinct than a 20 year period, roughly. 20:45.362 --> 20:46.923 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you're critically endangered, it's five years. 20:47.403 --> 20:47.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, gosh. 20:47.963 --> 20:49.084 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have enough resources. 20:49.104 --> 20:52.086 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have enough population, of enough genetics to make it another five years. 20:52.326 --> 20:52.506 [SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm. 20:53.026 --> 20:54.968 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're a species that's ancient. 20:55.688 --> 20:56.388 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, in general. 20:56.489 --> 21:02.592 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're up there with manties for me that they just don't do nothing to nobody. 21:02.632 --> 21:02.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 21:02.832 --> 21:03.492 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't harm. 21:03.992 --> 21:05.293 [SPEAKER_00]: They want to just stay out of the way. 21:05.313 --> 21:05.914 [SPEAKER_00]: They're huge. 21:05.934 --> 21:07.214 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not hunting anybody. 21:07.494 --> 21:11.637 [SPEAKER_00]: They've caused very, very few deaths and every death has been an accident. 21:12.837 --> 21:15.158 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the same thing that I don't I try to I don't think man. 21:15.178 --> 21:18.298 [SPEAKER_00]: You've ever killed anybody But if they like on purpose. 21:18.738 --> 21:20.939 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they ever have I try to find it the one time. 21:21.099 --> 21:26.820 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and if I did I just couldn't believe it because even Our families been hugged by them and stuff like that. 21:28.240 --> 21:39.462 [SPEAKER_00]: You can leave Yeah, but you did not like to do gone or like which is a sea cow would have killed people They'll just like they just want to play with your whole jet and then but if you don't want them to 21:43.843 --> 21:54.627 [SPEAKER_00]: of that, but it's a big version of that where I've seen people, it's diving with them as much rare because their open ocean, they don't congregate nearly as much as whale sharks, there's a lot less of them left. 21:54.867 --> 21:55.187 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 21:56.187 --> 21:58.728 [SPEAKER_00]: And where they do congregate is normally a lot colder. 21:59.308 --> 22:00.849 [SPEAKER_00]: It's warm for them, but colder for us. 22:01.109 --> 22:01.389 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 22:01.529 --> 22:02.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Like off the coast of Scotland. 22:03.230 --> 22:04.010 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's pretty cold. 22:04.250 --> 22:07.491 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not, I mean, it's warm, but it's not like Florida Beach. 22:07.671 --> 22:09.031 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's cold for ocean 22:11.012 --> 22:14.296 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so it's rare to die with them and they're they're always on the move. 22:15.177 --> 22:19.902 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's the people that get to die with them are like watching for them for weeks or months. 22:20.603 --> 22:21.584 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a fleeting moment. 22:21.624 --> 22:21.784 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 22:21.884 --> 22:23.707 [SPEAKER_01]: You get to enjoy if you get to enjoy it. 22:23.727 --> 22:24.848 [SPEAKER_00]: Giant ocean travelers. 22:25.208 --> 22:25.388 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 22:25.529 --> 22:27.291 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that has been the basking shark. 22:27.311 --> 22:28.472 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any questions, Jay? 22:28.692 --> 22:29.674 [SPEAKER_01]: No, I don't. 22:29.714 --> 22:37.704 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I remember reading about these guys when I was a kid in like elementary school in this shark book from the library And I remember there's the basket charts. 22:37.724 --> 22:44.974 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just being huge and they were always so scary and then you then you read that entry about them and it's like, oh That the gentle giants 22:46.183 --> 22:52.125 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the only way you can get killed by a basking shark is I accidentally letting them kill you. 22:52.885 --> 22:53.845 [SPEAKER_00]: He's getting in their way. 22:54.465 --> 22:57.346 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's just like, they're not going to hurt nobody on purpose. 22:57.386 --> 23:02.888 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but if you stand in front of a bus, right, it's time to bus, right? 23:03.368 --> 23:07.829 [SPEAKER_01]: Basically, yeah, if you're going to die from a basking shark, it's probably your time. 23:08.764 --> 23:10.685 [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, I've been the great and peaceful mystery. 23:11.045 --> 23:11.606 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been Jay. 23:11.906 --> 23:12.706 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, she actually guys. 23:12.966 --> 23:13.607 [SPEAKER_01]: Bye!