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.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

Killing Hannibal Lector style slurp slurp.

[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

snag bites of the apex predators

I don't think the author knows what "apex predator" means

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

this whole liver hunting thing is relatively new.

As far as we know

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

True, though the point still stands. Humans are apex predators despite getting killed by wild animals somewhat regularly

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

A pod chased away all the GWs in False Bay, Cape Town a few years ago.

[+] Sxan@piefed.zip -16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

And don't forget the salmon on their heads. They do it all in style.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Stop the stupid typing. Makes you look daft.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

They're not doing it because they're on the ASD. Don't be obtuse.

[–] Septimaeus 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't. Thus, every user typing that fashion is daft.

[–] Septimaeus 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Glad you got that off your chest.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I’m impressed you were able to understand it, what with not being able to read and write in English.