Hibernating Whale

Also known as the corpse city whale or smelly island whales, these gargantuan cetaceans feed themselves until going into a sort of feeding coma, they only wake to feed or to reproduce, as they have no natural enemies to speak of.
== Appearance ==
They have no natural enemies once they reach adulthood, as they are protected by a thick, nearly two meter thick layer of fat, are roughly 200 meters long, and weighing up to 1150 tons which makes the effort of fighting them generally not worthwhile.
== Hibernation ==
The food coma is to process the food in order to produce their reproductive cells.
They also wake when their mating call is heard.
Before hibernating they dig themselves into the sea bed, to cover their backs in dirt and salt, float to the surface and let themselves drift across ocean currents, this avoids the near extinction of the island whales feeding habits.
== Death ==
When they do die, it is generally for having eaten themselves to death, and their corpse floats to the surface.
Their corpses then float to the surface become temporary islands that last generally last hundreds of years. This is due to the whale's lungs filling with gasses as it decomposes, but the lungs are made of supple bone that do not decompose, allowing the whale’s corpse to stay at the surface.
== Corpse cities ==
Colonization of these islands is possible, as the silt from the bottom of the sea is generally very rich and fertile, and the whale’s body is generally stable, allowing for small villages to be built. However, after a few decades the stench of the rotting whale corpse generally leads to the island being promptly abandoned, and the resulting ruins of civilisations who attempted to settle the whale are dubbed corpse cities.
Category:Fauna of Welt
Category:Biology of Welt
Category:Cetacean