cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/66607
Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as whales, larger than themselves. They use a wide range of strategies to hunt and kill prey, but now, in the Gulf of California, researchers have observed one that hasn't been described before.
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14 Comments
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 14d
Orca Piñatasnoons@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 14d
You're right, it was a birthday party.
Quokka@quokk.au · 16 pts · 14d
Wow. That video is terrifying.
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 14d
In fairness, if any other species watched a video of what we do to other animals, it would garner the same response.
Orcas aren’t scary because they are more cruel than us. Humans just don’t like realizing that we may not be the only ones playing the game
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 14d
I grew up when Discovery Channel wasn't bad reality tv shows and it was always about actual nature. We do things on a large scale, but a ton of the animal and insect world is WAY more brutal than humanity. Like, way worse.
Valo85@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14d
Everyone needs to calm down the sunfish was already dead it isn't like the orcas did this while the sunfish was half alive or semi conscious.
This is just the human equivalent of popping corn or putting stuff in a blender. It's just processing the food.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 14d
I think it was a birthday party, in the ocean. Except the pinata was a fish.
brap@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 14d
Wow indeed. Absolutely obliterated. Was not expecting that.
halfapage@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 14d
snoons@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 14d
At least we're not mushrooms.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918473117
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 14d
Shit, dawg. Go look at the stuff insects do. Like stab another insect, lay eggs inside, then hatch and larva slowly eat it from the inside out, but they intentionally leave all the vital organs alone so you live as long as possible before they feel like bursting out the side and finally letting it die.
sapo_peta@fedia.io · 11 pts · 14d
Gender reveal parties are getting out of hand!
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 14d
Never mind the orca behavior; I want to know why the fuck a sunfish shatters like that!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 14d
IIRC they're basically giant bits of cartilege and jelly; like, the vast majority of their body is non-living tissue.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14d
The mola cult will not be happy