What would happen if whales were exinction?

Answer 1

Various answers believe there would be a change to the food chain and the ocean environment:

• The way I see it is that, whales eat planktom by the tons being as large as a bus. When they become extinct, there would be an overpopulation of planktom which will affect the ecosystem in a way not experienced before.
• If whales were extinct, it is likely that a lot of the smaller fish would take over the ocean because there's not much there to eat them. Whales keep the life cycle in the ocean alive.
• I think that the prey of the whales will overpopulate and effect the food chain of the ocean.

We can only speculate what might happen if whales became extinct. We should already be seeing the possible effects due to the vastly reduced numbers of various whales. Please see the discussion below for a link to an interesting read about the effects of whales on the environment.

Answer 2

Well, whales eat krill, millions and millions of krill for each whale. so if they go extinct, krill will overrun the oceans until they run out of their food source which is plankton, and quite a few species of marine life start of as plankton so most of the plankton will not survive and that means very few animals will reach adult hood and that causes less food for other species and there would be a chance of a mass extinction after a few years of the whales extinction.

Answer 3

First off, all of the "whale meat places" will slowly shut down and less people will make money. Then humans will run out of oil since whales make the oil we use, which means gas from cars won't work as well. Lastly some sharks will die since they hunt whales very often

Answer 4

The food chain would be unbalanced, causing an overpopulation of what whales eat in the environment.

Answer 5

sharks will take over or maybe another predator will evolve maybe another type of whale or even a new fish bigger than sharks the new animal might even like the taste of humans

Answer 6

The oceans would cease to resonate with their haunting songs, even as their carcasses provided food for scavengers.

Answer 7

there would be no mare gray whales and the eco system would be disrupted causing more animals to become extinct and eventually nothing will be alive.

Answer 8

that would be the end of BELUGA WHALE'S !

Answer 9

people who have diet on fish cant go fishing