Orcas Are Kerploding Sunfish Into A Thousand Pieces

https://defector.com/orcas-are-kerploding-sunfish-into-a-thousand-pieces?giftLink=a4f80d32ea1c48693dd65fa1d6a26478

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RollForInitiative@feddit.org · 38 pts · 31d (7 replies)

Oh, i thought the title was clickbait, but it really is not. Poor sunfish, but i guess such is life if you're not an apex predator.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 30d (3 replies)

It somehow makes it feel a bit better knowing that the fish are apparently already dead.

Nautalax@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Not all sea critters are so “kind”

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d

Well, the seal's not exploding it. Orcas just chow down on those floating snack pods too.

Keilik@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 30d

They are ocean sunfish though, if there was ever a creature to dunk on it’s absolutely them.

SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 30d

Sunfish are about as far from being apex predators as you can get. Insert copypasta here

DrPop@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 30d (1 reply)

If it helps their brain is the size of a walnut and they probably didn't feel any pain.

MrChewy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 30d

"-except way smaller, and this is what my dong brain looks like" [mouth made explosion noise]

ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 21 pts · 30d

I figured it was a bit hyperbolic, but they seriously sploded them. I have to wonder sometimes how these behaviors first get discovered, from the orca perspective that is.

bowroat@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Ayres and colleagues have dubbed this new behavior "ram-to-fragment."

That's my band's name

After the sunfish has shattered, the orcas frolic in and feed on the fragments of its flesh.

Metal AF

Read to the end, another video

deacon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 30d

Nature is, in fact, fucking metal.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 16 pts · 30d

Orca SLAMS Sunfish

FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 30d

"A thousand pieces" is NOT an exaggeration, that shit DETONATED

PrinceOfSloth@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 30d

orcas are basically humans at this point .

CyroSignal@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d (1 reply)

That's why I hate the ocean.

Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 30d

Not gonna lie, if you read the article (other orcas wearing sunfish as a hat, others cooperating to raise one above the surface and keep it there while alive, for shits and giggles), that's not the ocean that is terrifying, Orcas are hella human-like, I'd say

norbert_waggletail@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 30d

"Such is the life of such a big, defenseless fish. On good days, you might become a hat. On bad days, you might become confetti."

Weird notion of having a good day, but ok.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 30d

"The orcas carefully feed the fish Taylor farms iceberg lettuce."

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d

Confetti! Yay!