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Tweet not found it says for me. What was it about?
No clue, brother. Way too far in the past.
I can't even remember what I posted an hour ago.
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Awww, I feel for you, sadly for the rest of us, there is always something you posted that we remember.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity!Awww, I feel for you, sadly for the rest of us, there is always something you posted that we remember.
How do these creatures survive in the wild?
My biggest wish as a child was a pet panda. This video just reminded me that it still is
or tame...
I bet Mavericks is off the chain...
Makes Newquay look a bit silly...
Mad that, had fish and chips there back in May, kids playing on the beach just in front of that wall.
Hippos are crazy. And dangerous. And cute when they're neither.
Must have cost a fortune in lube...
Humpback sex photographed for first time – and both whales were male
Scientists confirm sighting of two same-sex marine giants copulating in amorous encounter off Hawaii coast
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...k-whales-sex-photographed-homosexual-behavior
Humpback sex photographed for first time – and both whales were male
Scientists confirm sighting of two same-sex marine giants copulating in amorous encounter off Hawaii coast
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...k-whales-sex-photographed-homosexual-behavior
A 60 years old female orca charging and taking down a great white shark, viewed from above.
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I have probably said it before in this thread, but orcas are amazing. I wonder how fast the orca is going when it attacks the shark!
I absolutely love them.
Orcas top speed can go up to about 35 mph. Obviously she wasn't that fast when she took that shark down, but what amazes me is the acceleration burst, underwater. Absolutely incredible for an animal of that size. The violence of the impact directly in the gills means that the shark probably got instantly knocked out. It looks like it got hit a by train.
They're the true apex predators of the seas and one of the most intelligent species on the planet. There's still so much to discover about their society, customs and behavior. I plan on taking a dive with them in Norway as soon as I can. Hopefully this summer.
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Yeah, that's what I meant. The size of a truck and launches and smashes into that shark like a cannonball. Absolutely spectacular.
Just don't have that happen to you on your swim.
Nah, orcas in the wild are quite chill with humans, playful and very curious about us (see videos below), as much as we are about them. There's never been any recorded attack from orcas on humans in the wild, ever. They're an absolute nightmare to any other creature in the ocean, except us. We're dealing with a highly intelligent species, not mindless predators and even a short encounter with them in their element is worth a lifetime.Yeah, that's what I meant. The size of a truck and launches and smashes into that shark like a cannonball. Absolutely spectacular.
Just don't have that happen to you on your swim.
And if I'm wrong... Well, by the look of it, I don't think that I'll even have time to regret it.
The unedited version:
Here's another one:
The last one explains a great deal about about orca pods and their behavioral rules:
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I suppose they can recognize humans are not food then - and anything that isn't food can be played with. I'm sure I'd be scared shitless, but then I'm a poor swimmer anyway, so I think I'd simply be scared by being afloat somewhere in the ocean in the first place.
There is at least one Orca attacks on humans is there not (sometime in the 70s maybe) although given the chap survived, I guess there was no murderous intent.
I do think it's odd that they don't attack humans. They hunt and kill mammals regularly. Why not us?
We’re just lucky they agreed to a peace pact after Free Willy, otherwise we’d be fecked eventually.
We're not oily/fatty enough.
I suppose they can recognize humans are not food then - and anything that isn't food can be played with. I'm sure I'd be scared shitless, but then I'm a poor swimmer anyway, so I think I'd simply be scared by being afloat somewhere in the ocean in the first place.
Good swimmer or not Michael’s Phelps ain’t getting away from one of those. Hasn’t there been a recent upsurge in Orcas attacking fishermen’s boats in the last few years?
They're apparently specifically targeting the rudder of boats somewhere near Spain, I think it was.
Yeah i’m sure that was it even though I guess they were just playing.
Feck jumping in up close and personal with one though, prefer keeping my feet dry and trunks clean.
It happened in 1972 and the orca quickly let go. Other than that nothing. What we do know is that they don't do well with captivity. At all. There's been indeed humans killed by orcas, and all of the four fatal recorded cases as of 2023 involved captive orcas. One of them, "Tilikum" being alone responsible for three deaths.
Orcas are quite the picky eaters and never hunt or eat anything else than what they've been taught by their mothers. We don't belong to the menu (too low on fat), and their intelligence goes far beyond any other predator of this planet.
You ain't running away from any motivated big sea predator when it's in the mood. Orca or not. They're simply built different.
The orcas targeted boats not humans, and specifically their rudder in order to disable them. Scientists think that it may stem from the pod's Grandma (aka the Don) experiencing a traumatic event involving a boat (injury by propeller comes to mind) and consequently taught her offspring how to attack them. Another hypothesis is that fishermen were seen as a direct competition for the tuna hunt in the region. Both of them aren't mutually exclusive. Boats were perceived as not only intruders but also as a potential existential threat by the pods and dealt with accordingly, hence the attacks. For me, another sign of their incredible intelligence and the fascinating way "traditions" are passed from generation to generation within the orca pods.
In short, orcas don't perceive us as a threat or food when we're on our own, pathetically wiggling in the ocean. Being surrounded by them actually means that you are in the safest place the ocean could ever provide.
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I agree and guessing you a right but feck would I want to be surrounded by an Orca pod in the ocean.
Fascinating creatures and love the story of how they attacked a Great White Shark and the other sharks in the area swam to a different ocean (or crossed the Atlantic)
Very rarely but they had been seen killing and eating a swimming moose
A friend of mine calls "I am going to free willy" when he goes to the toilet. Yup necessary for the conversation
That's crazy fast. As I understand, they only consume the rich grease liver, right?
I had no idea and i didnt need to know, thanks. Now im forced to share it with my gf that will not like it either. Look what you make me do
You guys never read Charlotte's Web?
When we were 7.
I googled and is a english book for kids . I had my local language ones.
It explains that? I knew that Spiders were found thousands of km up in the air. But I though it was involuntary, not that they were ballooning on purpose