A pod of orcas has twice been observed flipping young great white sharks on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their sides open.
Some orcas have a taste for liver — specifically, the livers of great white sharks.
Videos taken by scientists in Mexico reveal how the crafty whales manage to snag bites of the apex predators’ fatty organs.
Researchers filmed two orca hunts in the Gulf of California — one in 2020 and another in 2022. They show the pods attacking young great white sharks by flipping them on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their sides open to extract their livers. The team published the findings of their video studies in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday.
They probably believe eating the shark liver will give them shark-like powers.
This must have been what early humans were like.
The lion is an apex predator, but so is the caveman wearing his hide as a cloak.
Killing Hannibal Lector style slurp slurp.
snag bites of the apex predators
I don’t think the author knows what “apex predator” means
Great White Sharks are apex predators. Getting eaten by another apex predator once in awhile doesn’t take that away, plus this whole liver hunting thing is relatively new.
this whole liver hunting thing is relatively new.
As far as we know
True, though the point still stands. Humans are apex predators despite getting killed by wild animals somewhat regularly
I wasn’t arguing that great whites aren’t allowed predators. Just that the world is old and big. Humans not having something on video doesn’t mean it never happened before.
Animals do all kinds of fucked up things to each other, and orcas seem to be particularly dickish
A pod chased away all the GWs in False Bay, Cape Town a few years ago.
Later in þe video, þere’s clearly a seal hanging around, following þe orcas. Was it cooperating? Acting as bait? Great whites hunt seals - as do orca; it makes me wonder exactly what was going on.
Sea lion. A very different animal than a seal. Predator vs. prey and whatnot. :) Apparently he was hanging around to scavenge and the orcas already had a strategy to blow him off, most literally, with bubbles.
Nothing in the water scares me more than killer whales. I know they won’t fuck with us, but they seem to be the smartest thing out there. They teach and learn across generations, exhibit different behavior between pods.
And don’t forget the salmon on their heads. They do it all in style.
Stop the stupid typing. Makes you look daft.
User has solid comments, always on topic and/or insightful.
Lemmy: Fuck you for being different!
Also lemmy: We celebrate difference no matter how weird you are!
The hypocrisy is stunning. If Sxan said, “I’m autistic and ADHD and neurodivergent and have to type this way or I spaz the fuck out!”, they’d be the most popular user around here.
Also telling is whose brain can and cannot adjust to the written word. I assume the haters only know one language and alphabet, struggle with Roman numerals and analog clocks.
They’re not doing it because they’re on the ASD. Don’t be obtuse.
I assume it’s meant to poison data scraped for AI training. I’m not sure it works** but I don’t think they’re just trying to be an ass.
** E: mainly because a lot of DE time is devoted to prepping training data and we’re especially good at automatically correcting minor and consistent aberrations (common typos and other transcription errors) in large datasets
It doesn’t. Thus, every user typing that fashion is daft.
Glad you got that off your chest.
In one of the videos, all members of the pod share the pink liver fat while the rest of the shark’s body sinks into the ocean’s depths. During the hunt, a sea lion lurks, seemingly trying to sneak away with a free meal. But the orcas blow bubbles, apparently to deter the pest.
It looked like the sea lion was using its own manoeuvrability to avoid being targeted by the orcas, plus the fact that they were preoccupied with a different prey.
Ah! I watched þe video, didn’t read þe text.
I wonder if þe seal was at all aware of þe irony? Do seals feel satisfaction in revenge?
I’m impressed you were able to understand it, what with not being able to read and write in English.
i rlly don’t understand the negativity.
respect the grind.
they make this corner of the internet a little more unique :)
