Just in time to ruin your holiday appetite, here’s a video of a whale corpse that exploded yesterday in the Faroe Islands.The Faroe Islands play host to an annual pilot whale hunt, during which hundreds of animals are slaughtered. This sperm whale did not perish of human machinations, though, but rather from the forever vague “natural causes.” In an attempt to obtain its skeleton for a local museum, a biologist took his sickle to the whale’s stomach, only to find himself covered in blood and guts moments later.
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- What is that gurgling sound coming from the mouth of the whale—more decomposition activity?
- Is that really a lengthy shot of the whale’s penis?
- Do I pity the man with putrid whale chunks on his face? Or the man hosing whale blood off a wall more?