Being swallowed by the whales we see in cartoons and stories can sound a little scary. We have witnessed several examples of this situation in the world. Pinocchio swallowed by a whale; As he described the inside of his abdomen as a dark, cold and wet spot, this moment was visualized in our eyes. Well, in real life the wilderness of the oceans if we were swallowed by one of the whalesWould we be as lucky as Pinocchio?

If you’ve never seen a whale in real life, it’s hard to guess just how gigantic these animals are. If we look at the blue whale, the largest animal in the world, we can understand this situation more easily. The mouths of blue whales alone weigh more than the average elephantwhich means that an average of 400 people can fit in the whale’s mouth!

Judging by the anatomy of whales, is it really possible for them to swallow humans?

Even though their mouths and stomachs seem gigantic, whales their throats are surprisingly narrow. The structure of their throats is barely wide enough for a human arm, the researchers say. A little hard to believe, we admit. They should only be able to cut and swallow a human anyway, which doesn’t seem possible. Because most whales don’t have teeth to tear us apart.

Instead of feeding “whale stick” they do with. Whale stick is a tooth-like limb found in the mouth of toothless whales, in the form of thin long plates up to 4-5 m long, arranged as two rows of fringes along the upper jaw, resembles a toothbrush and serves as a tooth so that food can collected and held in the mouth.

In 1891, sailor James Bartley was recorded being swallowed by a sperm whale.

Known as the most dangerous of the species sperm whale There is something more interesting than the person who has been swallowed by the whale, namely the announcement of James Bartley himself, who has been swallowed by the whale. According to the story, the sailor’s ship was attacked by a whale; The sailor who was attacked by the giant whale was swallowed by the whale during the attack and did not appear until the next day!

The crew, searching for Bartley, encountered their friends when they neutralized the whale and looked inside. Reportedly, Bartley’s arms and face turned white from the acids in the whale’s stomach; these are her eyes He was blinded by the acid.

So is stomach acid the only thing to worry about if you swallow it from a whale?

Actually, the first thing you should worry about whales with teeth The teeth are as sharp as a chef’s knife. Can you imagine being about 8 inches tall and between 40 teeth? You can’t because you probably won’t be alive to get through the sharp teeth.

Let’s say you are lucky enough to pass all these teeth. What will happen next?

Your first stop is the whale’s throat. Here both dark and slimy owner. Even worse, it is very low in oxygen and very rich in methane gas. Therefore, breathing in the throat part will become more and more a torture.

At that moment, the throat of the whale you are trying to swallow twists in and out. will contract, As these contractions take place, it will hurt you and you will gradually begin to feel the hydraulic acids penetrating every part of your skin.

When we learned this, we all thought the same thing, didn’t we? Yes probably by James Barry The famous story that he was swallowed by a whale was either a lie or an illusion.

Where is the next stop?

Whales with four stomachs The first stop after passing through the throat is the largest stomach. Here you will spend some painful time with the bioluminescent squid. After having spent the good time with the lit squids, you pass from this stomach to the other stomach.

In the second stomach, where the grinding process takes place, acids break your whole body into small particles. After that, the few remaining main bones will be ground up and expelled with the whale’s excrement. So if you get swallowed by a whale, the possibility of you coming out of the whale’s stomach and this story tells isn’t even a possibility really.

Fortunately, we need not be afraid. Humans are not an attractive food for whales.

How wild and big the animals look from the outside, it’s strange that Whales don’t care about humans. Both their anatomical structures are not suitable for swallowing a human and they mostly feed on marine animals.

But assuming an exception has occurred, it will probably persist. You have 3 minutes before you drown. Because whales don’t have oxygen in their stomachs to breathe. This gives us an average of 3 minutes.

The researchers found that the odds of anyone encountering a sperm whale in the ocean are one in a million, specifically, because these whales are about halfway across the ocean. 3 thousand kilometers He states that he lives deeply. We don’t have to be afraid!