#7 I believe you have watched Avatar 2. Today it is roughly about Tulkun alias whales on the planet Pandora. While watching the movie, I wondered if any other mainstream movie captured the wonders of one of the most intelligent species on Earth.
I am sure for 100 percent that James Cameron modeled Tulkan entirely on whales. What he showed on screen was typical of whales and how they live, except for the direct conversations. Even the Tulkun hunting for amrita can be likened to whale oil hunting. The amount of inspiration Cameron took was clear to me in the introductory scenes of Tulkun named Payakan. Remember, there was a scene where a harpoon-like anchor stuck on the fin. And then Lo’ak removes it, freeing up Payakan. A similar incident was recorded on camera in a documentary produced by Cameron. In this case, a deep sea fishing net gets tangled with the fin of an Orca whale. A person with the documentary team then goes to untie the net while the whale stays still, with the understanding that someone has come for me.
As you know, whales breathe air and must come to the surface once in a few hours. Whales getting stuck in deep sea fishing nets eventually results in their death. If you have thought about why whales breathe air, you might want to know their evolutionary story. Ancestors of whales were four-legged animals that, over time, ventured back into the sea. Perhaps a unique U-turn nature took in an otherwise general narrative that life journeyed from water to land.
If you still haven’t understood how great whales are, understand whales follow intricate matriarchal family life. A family has a grandmother who passes knowledge and skills to the younger ones. A mother assumes leadership and ensures that the family is fed. Teenagers take care of babies when their mother goes hunting. The family has conversations in their language comprising sounds, whistles, and songs. We have also been able to record an astonishing fact about humpback whale songs. Humpback whales are known to take, revise and adapt songs from other humpback families. This eventually leads to the songs spreading across the world, like a song would go popular among humans. Such humane behavior makes the Earth’s most enormous creatures a wonderful creation. To end this, one more fact. In the spectrum of life, with Prokaryotes on one end, whales mark the other end of Eukaryotes. And being the largest living entity, they are the least prone to cancer. If every cell in a being has an equal chance of being cancerous, then the more cells, the more should be a chance of occurrence of cancer. However, it is the lowest in whales, known as Peto’s Paradox.