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Yeah, I'm thinking about whales. Hi.

[Thank God for Jotaro Kujo.]

Hi. What kind of whales?

Baleen whales. Ones that filter-feed, I mean.

They're huge, but everything they eat is microscopic. Plankton and krill. How do they eat enough to survive and not get hungry?

I know what a baleen whale is. Isn't the water filled with plankton, though? Millions and millions per cubic centimeter?

Yeah. Still, if they're eating thousands of kilograms of it a day, that's a ton of plankton.

Trying to imagine that much of it being in the ocean for the whales to subsist on it...it puts in scale just how big the ocean really is. It's got to be so big you can't even comprehend it, really.

Hm. How many whales are there in the ocean, roughly?

I think the figure is somewhere around two million?

Two million. All right. So two million whales need to sustain their weight - they must have a fairly slow metabolism or it would be impossible . . .

How often do plankton reproduce?

Um. Under favorable conditions? I think by about thirty percent a day.

Millions and millions of plankton reproducing at thirty percent a day for a couple of million whales spread out all over the world . . .

...I guess so long as the whale population's consumption never exceeds more than a third of the plankton's population, it'd have to be self-sustaining. More than that, the whales' feeding would keep plankton populations stable, neither increasing nor decreasing.

Nature tends to have its own system of checks and balances like that.

Yeah. It's the same reason why prey animals have evolved to have such large litters, it's to compensate for the fact that some of them will get caught by predators.

...

Sorry, you didn't call just to talk about whales.

How do you know I didn't?

Because unless you're turning into my granddad, you didn't know I was thinking about whales.

Your grandfather is psychic?

His Stand is. That might be the reason why he can do that stupid trick he does, too.

He knows what you're going to say before you say it. I hate it when he does that.

Is that why you don't talk much? So he can't predict what you're going to say?

. . . . . . . . .

[Yes, this sassy asshole really did just send a series of ellipses for the sake of affirming the point.]

[You are so great. You are his favorite. God, he is so incredibly--]

Ti voglio bene, Jotaro.

...Daisuki da yo, right?

That's right.

[He is moderately surprised. Kakyoin were you wrong . . .]

Did you know that, or did you have to look it up?

I didn't know for sure until just now. Educated guess.

Not asking questions about things you don't know tends to lead to stupid and unnecessary misunderstandings.

WAS there a misunderstanding?

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