Sunday, December 8, 2019

Narwhal facts

After hearing about the heroic chef from the London fishmarket fending off the knife guy with a narwhal tusk, I've been looking up narwhal facts. So here are narwhal facts:

"The tusk is an innervated sensory organ with millions of nerve endings connecting seawater stimuli in the external ocean environment with the brain. The rubbing of tusks together by male narwhals is thought to be a method of communicating information about characteristics of the water each has traveled through, rather than the previously assumed posturing display of aggressive male-to-male rivalry. In August 2016, drone videos of narwhals surface-feeding in Tremblay Sound, Nunavut showed that the tusk was used to tap and stun small Arctic cod, making them easier to catch for feeding."