
Ergo, the e-mail's claims about the ejaculatory habits of this creature (400 gallons of sperm per emission, 360 of which ends up in the ocean) should be viewed as literary embellishment. Regarding how much sperm a blue whale ejaculates, we've yet to encounter the researcher who would admit having studied this. (Male sharks perform their part of the mating process with the aid of their two claspers, rod-like appendages of their pelvic fins that are rotated and inserted into the female's cloaca at mating time.)Īs to what the item hanging down is, the best guess from folks who study sharks has it that part of a female shark's intestines extruded through her cloaca, probably because of the ropes cutting into her.

The retracted penis curves in an S-shaped loop and stays inside the body. It is fibroelastic like those of the blue whales artiodactyl relatives. Blue whales also have a distal spiral valve as a spermatic tube.

When erect, it peaks out of the genital slit. It is fibroelastic like those of the blue whale's artiodactyl relatives. The whale shark (like all sharks) lacks a penis, so the circled item in the photo above is not that anatomical item, no matter what it looks like. An erect blue whale penis is 12 inches in diameter and ten feet in length. An erect blue whale penis is 12 inches in diameter and ten feet in length. An average one will be about 80 feet long and weigh about 120 tons. In contrast, blue whales can grow to be 94 feet long and weigh up to 174 tons. On average, they reach about 25 feet in length. Specimens of this species can grow to be 46 feet long and weigh up to 15 tons. The star of this celebrated picture is actually a whale shark, a genteel marine critter which is not a whale but rather a member of the shark family. You wonder why the ocean is so salty … Don't swallow the water! So 360 gallons are spilled into the ocean every time one unloads. Whales often mate in groups so while one male is busy with the female, the other male just pops his d k out of.

Email text: A blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates, but only 10% of that actually makes it into his mate. Sweet described in a subsequent tweet why blue whales like to breach penis-first.
