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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2019
Closed door, open heart New study shows large role
diet plays in whale size
Dear Annie: One of my cousins are very kind to invite your cousin
lives about two hours away. Her par- over for the holidays and family gath-
ents are deceased, and she is estranged erings. Setting boundaries with fam-
from her siblings. She has been in the ily members is the right thing to do. It
hospital several times for men-
is your house, and you have a
tal health care. I believe she is
right to keep it as is.
DEAR
bipolar but don’t know that for
It sounds like she might be
ANNIE
sure. Because she lives alone
experiencing a manic episode.
now, we invite her to family
Sometimes during a manic
gatherings for the holidays.
episode, people can experi-
About once a month, I will
ence risk-taking behaviors,
receive a burst of text messages
hyperactivity or impulsive
from her, sometimes 20 or
decisions. Check-in with her
more at a time, telling me about
and ask her how she is feel-
something that is going on in ANNIE LANE ing, how life is going and if
Creators
her life. Recently, in one of
she is getting treatment for
Syndicate Inc.
those bursts, she said she wants
her mental health. Really lis-
to move and might like to rent
ten, too. It has to be diffi cult
a room from a relative. I reminded her for her to be completely estranged
that she has a comfortable home in a from her siblings. Maybe this could
place where she already knows people be an opportunity for her to seek some
and that it can be hard to establish a real help.
new network of friends and support in
In no way, shape or form are you
a new place. She said she knows all of responsible for her. Be kind and lov-
that but wants to move anyway.
ing to her while protecting your per-
I am worried that she is hinting sonal space. Everyone will be better
that she would like to move in with off for it in the long run.
my spouse and me. We have a large,
Dear Annie: “Daughter of a Nar-
comfortable home with spare bed- cissist,” please write a book! Your let-
rooms now that our children are on ter was the best article I’ve ever read
their own. But we enjoy our home as about narcissism. I am going to repeat
it is and don’t want anyone else liv- the “phrases” until they are etched in
ing here with us. I know that is selfi sh, my mind. — Wife of a Narcissist
but I just don’t see how it could work
Dear Wife of a Narcissist: I am
to have my cousin live with us. If she printing your letter in hopes that
asks directly if she can move in, I plan “Daughter of a Narcissist” sees it
to tell her no. Am I wrong? — Car- and takes you up on your suggestion.
ing Cousin
Knowing that there are other peo-
Dear Caring Cousin: There is ple out there who understand exactly
nothing wrong with enjoying a quiet what it is like to live with a narcissist
home with you and your husband. You could be comforting for others.
By MALCOLM RITTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Whales are
big, but why aren’t they big-
ger? A new study says it’s basi-
cally about how many calories
they can take in.
That’s the conclusion of
researchers who used small
boats to chase down 300 whales
of various species around the
world. They reached out with
a long pole to attach sensors
to the creatures with suction
cups, allowing them to record
what the animals were doing
on their dives for food.
The results suggest body
size is controlled by how
whales capture prey and
how much food is available,
researchers reported Thursday
in the journal Science.
The study included 90 blue
whales, the biggest animal ever
to live. Size estimates vary, but
the American Cetacean Soci-
ety says blue whales can grow
about 100 feet long and weigh
more than 100 tons. The study
also included the biggest whale
with teeth, the sperm whale,
which can stretch about 60 feet
long, the group says.
When toothed whales hunt,
they capture one prey at a time,
seeking them out in the murky
depths with a sonar-like detec-
tion. The study found that as
body size increases in such
whales, they become progres-
sively less effi cient as they
hunt — they recover fewer cal-
ories from their meals per cal-
orie burned in each dive. That
results from limits on avail-
ability of prey.
“It looks like you cannot
be much bigger than a sperm
whale” when hunting the way
it does, said Nicholas Pyenson
of the Smithsonian’s National
Museum of Natural History,
who was part of the research.
The blue whale can be big-
ger because it feeds in a much
different and highly effi cient
way, the study says. It opens
its mouth wide and engulfs
an immense volume of water,
even bigger than its body
size, as it swims along. Then
it closes its mouth and strains
the water out through a sieve-
like fi lter, which traps huge
amounts of tiny shrimp-like
creatures called krill.
That “allows them to
exploit a very large prey
resource that’s very rich in a
small amount of time,” said
Jeremy Goldbogen of Stanford
University, another researcher.
“They get a huge bang for the
buck.”
So why aren’t they even
bigger than they are? Maybe
blue whales are limited by the
seasonal nature of the most
nutritious krill patches, which
grow gigantic and dense in
the summer, Goldbogen said.
And calculations indicate that
to sustain a blue whale that’s
115 feet long, “you’d need a
density of prey that is just not
seen anywhere in the world,”
Pyenson said.
But maybe there’s also some
kind of limiting factor in how
their bodies function, Gold-
bogen said. He noted a recent
study that found a blue whale’s
heart beats up to 37 times a
second after deep dives, and
that appears to be about as fast
as the organ can pump.
Another limiting factor
could be a whale’s ability to
process the food it takes in,
said Terrie Williams of the
University of California, Santa
Cruz, who did not participate
in the research.
The study provided a com-
prehensive look across big
whale species, and the success
in collecting the data “boggles
the mind,” she said.
“You try to go out and put a
tiny tag on the back of the big-
gest animal in the world,” she
said.
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