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Do whales pee and poop out the same hole?

I have done my research and I have concluded that if whales or any other aquatic mammal pees and poops out the same hole then they are not really pooping. When whales poop it is akin to us having diarea which if it came out of a pee hole would be peeing. Please I need help!

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  • Gary
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Diarrhea is not the same as peeing. Urination is the emptying of urine from the bladder. Diarrhea is a condition which involves loose or liquid feces.

    I did some Googling, and I found some pictures of whale poop:

    This one appears to be very liquid:

    http://marinelife.about.com/od/watchingandphotogra...

    Here is a blog post about attempts to study whale poop. There's a picture, and it doesn't look to be totally liquid.

    http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2008/08/elbow_d...

    This whale poop looks more well-formed:

    http://marinelife.about.com/od/watchingandphotogra...

    According to this source, ambergris is also thought to be expelled from the whale's anus:

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=s...

    I found a picture of a model of a whale's vagina. It doesn't look like everything happens from the same hole to me. I think the slits on the sides are where the nipples are located, but I'm not sure.

    http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/179e45/

    I also found a book, which describes whale urethras:

    "The whales do not differ much from the typical mammals in the structure, location, and function of the urethra. There are very few differences in the female whales, but, in the male whales, the small glands surrounding the urethra in other mammals are all missing except the prostate gland, which is diffuse in nature and which discharges its fluid through a series of openings along the urethra. "

    http://books.google.com/books?id=ASIVAAAAIAAJ&prin...

    And another quote:

    "The whales differ little from other mammals in the structure and use of the anus. In all whales, the faecal discharge from the anus is a cloudy liquid."

    So some of the pictures above may disagree with that, but there's your information about the placement of the anus.

    I hope that helps you in your quest to learn more about the digestive habits of whales.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Do Whales Poop

  • Toy C
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    i am not a whale, so sorry

    but in reality, mammals use different organs to eliminate bad stuff from their bodies

    so my answer would be NO, they pee and poop from the different organs

    this is a hard question because whales aren't regular fish but mammals

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