A new study shows that whale pee plays a similar role, ferrying nutrients horizontally across oceans.
Because of their size, whales are able to do things that no other animal does.
Nutrients are coming in from outsideand not from a river, but by these migrating animals.
Whales carry tons of nutrients in their pee thousands of miles across the oceans.© Martin van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476
Its super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean.
Whales undertake the longest migration routes of any mammal.
At first, the calves dont have the energy to travel long distances like the moms can.
The whale conveyor belt. © A. Boersma & Nature Communications
Animals form the circulatory system of the planetand whales are the extreme example.
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