Many whale species feed in the depths of the ocean where prey is plentiful, but where the water pressure is immense. At depth, says David King, a chemist at the University of Cambridge in England, many whales find that “their orifices are jammed shut.” So, to properly relieve themselves, they head toward the surface, where their defecations bring a steady flow of nutrients—such as iron, nitrogen and phosphorus—to a part of the sea where they’re typically in short supply.

Interesting. I never thought about how whales poop before. I wonder how critters that live at the bottom of the ocean do it.

Humans will never stop fucking with the ecosystem.

It’s a little unclear why the answer isn’t “boost whale populations back up” instead of creating whale poop manually. It’s good to understand that whale poop is important for the ecosystem and why, but it seems like the article should’ve said something about “we’re doing this as a stopgap until whales populations rebound”