9 surprising facts about why whales are awesome creatures

We all love whales, right? We give you 9 little-known, suprising facts that will make you love whales even more.

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1. INTELLIGENT AND EMOTIONAL CREATURES
Their big complex brains have the same neurons that allow humans to feel complex emotions.

2. THEIR BRAIN NEVER TOTALLY SLEEPS
When they sleep, they rest one half of their brain at a time while the other is awake.
Why? To come up to the surface to breathe and to be alert to any danger.
Every two hours, the brain roles reverse.

3. CRUCIAL IN FIGHTING GLOBAL WARMING
Whale poop stabilises the offset of carbon in the atmosphere.
Each year 400,000 tonnes of carbon are extracted thanks to whales.

4. HUGE ROLE IN OUR ECOSYSTEM
1. Whales help stabilise the aquatic food chain and reproduction of other species. A blue whale can consume as much as 40 million krill per day!

5. THEY’RE HUGE
Whales are the largest animals that have ever lived on Earth!

6. EAT NOTHING FOR SIX MONTHS
Despite their massive size, whales go about half of the year eating nothing at all.

7. Ancient Greeks believed whales were sea monsters.
When they saw the cresting backs of a group of whales,
they believed them to be a one giant sea serpent.

8. SOURCE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
Scientific studies of the cetacean species led to many discoveries and advancements in echolocations, marine life and environments and marine mammal intelligence.

9. ECONOMIC VALUE
Whale watching and other spectating activities have brought billions of dollars, leading to economic growth in cities and countries.