18/10/2013
Mistakes in the movie Finding Nemo..
- Contrary to what you may have seen in movies, whales don’t spray water out of their blowholes. When the whale resurfaces, they have to release the used up air back into the atmosphere just like all other mammals do. This results in a spout, but it isn’t water (at least not at first). The air inside the whale is typically quite warm from the whale’s body heat. When it’s exhaled, it meets the much cooler temperature of the air outside and immediately condenses, making it look like a spout of water.
- Further, the whale’s trachea doesn’t connect to the esophagus of the whale; so when Dory and Marlin went down the whale’s throat, in real life, they’d have simply been eaten.
- As a rule, baleen whales—those whales who don’t have teeth, but rather have baleen plates to filter food out of the water—have two blowholes, while toothed whales have just one blowhole. Types of baleen whales include the humpback, blue, and gray whales. (This is, of course, another inaccuracy in Finding Nemo as that was a humpback whale that they showed having only one blowhole) and when they depict the whale as having a uvula- whales don’t have those.
- When the mother clownfish died, the father would have turned into a female and become the mother- clownfish are all born male with the dominate male of a group becoming female when the female of the group dies. Also, Coral, Marlin’s wife, should have been bigger than Marlin, not smaller as depicted in the movie.
- After a female clownfish lays her eggs, neither she nor the male fish that fertilized the eggs have anything further to do with their offspring.
- “Mr. Ray” was depicted as a female, lacking claspers used for mating.
- Dory and Marlin should have never been able to encounter an angler fish, as they are found in depths of greater than 1,000 meters- an environment the stalwart pair could not have survived in.
(http://gizmodo.com/whales-don-t-spray-water-out-of-their-blowholes-1445483468)
