HOW MUCH OF THE OCEAN IS JUST WHALE PEE?

It's not true that the seas are salty because of whale pee, although a single fin whale can produce as much as 250 gallons of urine a day.

- LOU GRANT, BIRMINGHAM

Admittedly, no one's worked out the exact volume urinating cetaceans add to the oceanic mix, but what marine biologists have recently revealed is that whale pee is crucial for healthy seas by moving masses of nutrients from place to place.