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could a virus wipe out all marine life?
if someone goes to the beach while having the flu or the covid, another animal could get the virus and spread it, according to virology theories.
should we ban humans from going to the beach? we don't want everything in the sea to die
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there has been no recorded instance of cross-species transmission between warm and coldblooded animals.
Last edited by Jazz; 3 hours ago
Originally posted by Jazz:
there has been no recorded instance of cross-species transmission between warm and coldblooded animals.
coldblooded animals like whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and seals?
A 5°C increase in ocean temperatures would be enough to trigger a mass extinction of marine animals. It would intensify algal blooms, which would reduce the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water, ultimately leading to suffocation.
Maybe that's why every few years there's high numbers of dead sea mammals reported to be washed up on beaches.
Originally posted by allegedly:
Originally posted by Jazz:
there has been no recorded instance of cross-species transmission between warm and coldblooded animals.
coldblooded animals like whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and seals?

Whales, dolphins and seals are warm-blooded marine mammals,...... tuna however are partially warm and cold-blooded, but yes, sharks are cold-blooded.
Originally posted by asarokk:
Originally posted by allegedly:
coldblooded animals like whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and seals?

Whales, dolphins and seals are warm-blooded marine mammals,...... tuna however are partially warm and cold-blooded, but yes, sharks are cold-blooded.
there are fully warm-blooded fish like the opah
ok so i googled it and there has been instances of cross-species transmission between seals and whales and humans, but overwhelmingly its the animals infecting humans, not the other way around. no evidence of transmission between humans and any of the other marine animals you listed. warmblooded animals are overwhelmingly outnumbered by coldblooded animals in the ocean too, so... the answer to your question is still no.
This can't be a serious thread.
Originally posted by allegedly:
Originally posted by asarokk:

Whales, dolphins and seals are warm-blooded marine mammals,...... tuna however are partially warm and cold-blooded, but yes, sharks are cold-blooded.
there are fully warm-blooded fish like the opah

I'm aware, I didn't intend to list every single marine animal that's cold-blooded, warm-blooded, partially warm-blooded or the exceptions like (great white, salmon sharks and mako which are warm blooded). Just correcting your incorrect statement;

Originally posted by allegedly:
coldblooded animals like whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and seals?
You have to have spent an extended amount of time with a animal to have much of a chance at all transmitting viruses. Most of our current viruses are cross transmitted with pets and livestock, both with prolong exposure with humans. There ae a decent number of exceptions, however, but most of those are either so weak or so lethal the virus does not get a chance to mutate into something that will allow it to pass to other humans.
Originally posted by asarokk:
Originally posted by allegedly:
there are fully warm-blooded fish like the opah

I'm aware, I didn't intend to list every single marine animal that's cold-blooded, warm-blooded, partially warm-blooded or the exceptions like (great white, salmon sharks and mako which are warm blooded). Just correcting your incorrect statement;

Originally posted by allegedly:
coldblooded animals like whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and seals?
so we are warmblooded and it turns out a lot of animals in the sea are also warmbloooed
Originally posted by steven1mac:
You have to have spent an extended amount of time with a animal to have much of a chance at all transmitting viruses.
that's not what virologists say
Originally posted by allegedly:
Originally posted by asarokk:

I'm aware, I didn't intend to list every single marine animal that's cold-blooded, warm-blooded, partially warm-blooded or the exceptions like (great white, salmon sharks and mako which are warm blooded). Just correcting your incorrect statement;
so we are warmblooded and it turns out a lot of animals in the sea are also warmbloooed
less than 1% of ocean animals are warmblooded. hell it's closer to 0.1%
Last edited by Jazz; 2 hours ago
Originally posted by Jazz:
Originally posted by allegedly:
so we are warmblooded and it turns out a lot of animals in the sea are also warmbloooed
less than 1% of ocean animals are warmblooded.
every comment you change your mind
so, is it possible for a virus to go from some specie to another or not?
Originally posted by allegedly:
Originally posted by asarokk:

I'm aware, I didn't intend to list every single marine animal that's cold-blooded, warm-blooded, partially warm-blooded or the exceptions like (great white, salmon sharks and mako which are warm blooded). Just correcting your incorrect statement;
so we are warmblooded and it turns out a lot of animals in the sea are also warmbloooed

Yes.
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