Phytoplankton is photosynthetic. It would be more accurate to say that it is fertilised by whale poop.
Whale poop 🐋 💩
Submitted 5 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Still consuming it; so just “feeding” it in a different sense.
sunoc@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
That’d be an absolute unit of a mug
RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 days ago
It’s believed half of all produced oxygen is done by sea and whale poop is incredibly important for providing nutrients to the surface to help this process.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Man if the whales die out, entire countries are going to have to take turns to shit in the ocean.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
UK water companies trying as hard as they can