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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Well, ignoring the bit about dirty water for the moment–how do you know that they don’t? If a whale or whatever gets injured by a boat and then dies, the corpse will sink to the bottom of the ocean and never be seen again. There’s a degree of confirmation bias here due to that.
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