VIDEO: Whale Found In Very Rare Position

I always love finding weird things that science just cannot explain. It's comforting to know that sometimes there is something that even the smartest people on earth are just like, "yeah, we have no idea what the hell is going on." In this case, it's why whales stick their tails out of the water and just chill there. Apparently, it is called Tail sailing, and no one knows why the hell whales do it.  

Tail sailing refers to the action of whales lifting their tails clear of the water for long periods of time.[1] The process is rarely observed by humans, and the precise motivation for this phenomenon is unknown.[2] It is thought that whales either undertake this activity to catch the wind and 'sail' through the water, or as a method to cool down. A third theory suggests that the whale is feeding close to the sea floor.

Scientists believe that tail-sailing is fairly common amongst certain species, such as the Southern right whale.

This is one of those things I feel like early sailors would just roll up on and be like, "Yeah, that's a sea monster," and then proceed to paint a big sea monster on that part of the map because they had never seen a whale upside-down so they just labeled it monsters and kept on sailing. Or some reason, they thought it was a big ole mermaid, and these horny ass sailors were so down bad they wanted to fuck the whale. Look there were a lot of down bad dudes who were trying to bang anything that barely resembled a human woman back then. Columbus almost tried to have sex with a Manatee because he thought they were mermaids:

On January 9, 1493, explorer Christopher Columbus, sailing near what is now the Dominican Republic, sees three “mermaids”—in reality manatees—and describes them as “not half as beautiful as they are painted.” Six months earlier, Columbus (1451-1506) set off from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean with the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, hoping to find a western trade route to Asia. Instead, his voyage, the first of four he would make, led him to the Americas, or “New World.” 

Fellas, it's been 6 months at sea, you have scurvy, and you roll up on this woman of the sea…

Would you smash or pass?