You see all the time images of whales and seals and other marine mammals with injuries due to boats and stuff that have healed. There was even that picture of that whale with a fin injury that was photographed 30 years later or something like that. I would think being submerged in dirty water would make those wounds dangerously infected though. Are humans just super fragile mammals and the rest can handle wounds much better?
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1)they probably do die of infection, a lot, but most of these cases are probably lost in the vastness of the ocean and what you are talking about is a tiny almost impossible chance of cases that we see.
2) most injuries sustained are from predators and chances are that predators will finish the job and kill off mammals with a wound. Again the cases seen are a tiny fraction of all cases
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