Whale Pumps

An illustration of the oceanic whale pump showing how whales cycle nutrients through the water column.

from The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13255, Roman J, McCarthy JJ

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    The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and whales wee in the ocean
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    So basically this is what I want to study, but in lakes.
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    Since South Korea says whales are damaging fish stocks. (haha)
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