(A big thanks to Carla Mitroff for generously sharing her photo for this post! Also, for more fun gray whale facts, check out my post Gray whales: on the road again. My favorite is when someone yells, “Get a lagoon!”Īll I can say is that I really hope to see a pink floyd myself one day, but from a distance of course, definitely from a distance. A few dolphins also seemed interested in the action, along with a paddleboarder who seems way too close. 50 Accurate measurements are difficult to take because its erect length can only be observed during mating, 51 which occurs underwater. If you would like to see more of this gray whale mating encounter, some of it was also captured on video by Captain Dave’s Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari (see below). The blue whale has the largest penis of any organism on the planet, typically measuring 2.43.0 m (810 ft). It has great elasticity and can be moved all around and positioned by the gray whale for maximum effect and in this case maximum spectacle.It’s whipped out and retracted through an opening within the skin called the uro-genital slit.It’s stored within the gray whale’s abdomen underneath the skin (otherwise it would cause a lot of drag).It’s about six feet long (gray whales average 40 to 45 feet, so that’s just par for the course).Here are a few interesting facts about a gray whale’s penis: The two whales were caught in the act by a team of marine biologists studying their behaviour off the south Argentine coast near the province of Chubut. It’s not super common to catch whales in the act off Southern California, but common enough that whale watchers have dubbed a whale’s penis the “pink floyd” (see photo above for explanation). From the disposable penis tips of the sea slug to vaginal techniques used to ward off unwanted males, to the sizable blue whale penis, the world of animal genitalia is quite different from our own, which is what makes it so fascinating. Suddenly a male’s privates were not so private if you know what I mean. This exciting encounter included a great flash of a gray whale’s penis. On Sunday, January 26, 2014, a lucky group of whale watchers got to witness gray whales mating just off the backside of Catalina Island.
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