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Whale poop 🐋 💩 (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's believed half of all produced oxygen is done by sea and whale poop is incredibly important for providing nutrients to the surface to help this process.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man if the whales die out, entire countries are going to have to take turns to shit in the ocean.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

UK water companies trying as hard as they can

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Phytoplankton is photosynthetic. It would be more accurate to say that it is fertilised by whale poop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Still consuming it; so just "feeding" it in a different sense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That’d be an absolute unit of a mug