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[Neptonic]

Was that a robot filled with blood?

Oh man you gotta watch Evangelion

 

[M.W.]

https://youtu.be/20LYKnFryns

 

[Prinz Eugn]

Humpback whales have a long history of interfering with killer whales' hunting habits, but researchers still aren't exactly sure why they do it.

I mean, it's going to take decades for science to confirm it, but it's because fuck killer whales.

 

[Fuzzery]

At least killer whales know better than to mess with humans

 

[wamberz1]

High five!

This would freak me the fuck out so much. Imagine being near a creature that size in the water. It must feel crazy.

 

[lastplayed]

Orcas are amazing hunters. They gotta eat too.

 

[Tigress]

Gah so much hate just cause an animal hunts for its food. I guess you guys all hate cats and dogs too. They kill and eat cute animals as well.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Orcas are amazing hunters. They gotta eat too.

yeah, they're clever as fuck

 

[TAJ]

How am orcas Kill Gray Whales but not Humpbacks?

Same reason elephants aren't prey for lions.

 

[DonMigs85]

Awesome pic from the article

 

[H.Cornerstone]

Same reason elephants aren't prey for lions.

Are humpbacks that much bigger than grey whale?

 

[TAJ]

Are humpbacks that much bigger than grey whale?

Only a little longer but they've got that girth.

 

[One Eyed Willy]

Orcas are fucking awesome. My guess is the feeding "frenzy" is likely the adult orcas teaching their young how to hunt and the gray whales are slow, easy targets. IIRC, Gray whales migrate from Alaska to Mexico to breed, so on their trip back I'm guessing they're traveling with their own young, and the orca's being smart hunters are targeting them.

 

[hamauzu kaito]

I was really enjoying it until this bit.

Black thinks the humpbacks may be fighting back against the orcas out of instinct, even though in these cases, they're not the ones being hunted.

As for those who think the humpbacks are behaving altruistically out of a desire to help gray whales, Black said, "It would be hard to believe they're doing it for that reason, but we don't know for sure."

I can't handle that type of anthropocentrism in science. A scientist making a biased statement like that really confounds me. Her job would now be to try and find out what the cause of this behavior is after witnessing it, but with a statement like those above you cannot even trust that she is open to finding the real answer. I guess we will be waiting to 2021 when they translate dolphin speech to recognize cognitive abilities in the rest of the animal kingdom. :/

 

[Htown]

Humpback whales have a long history of interfering with killer whales' hunting habits, but researchers still aren't exactly sure why they do it.

In fact, killer whales are some of the only animals who prey on young humpbacks.

Truly, one of the great mysteries of science

 

[Toa TAK]

Truly, one of the great mysteries of science

LOL

 

[Forerunner]

This always gets me. He's just like well I'm fucked.

 

[AgentP]

We should be learning the language of the Humpback whales. That or the Orcas to tell them to fuck off!

Orcas are predators. Humans eat other animals too. Stop projecting some Disney nonsense onto wild animals.

 

[Oblivion]

Humpback whales have a long history of interfering with killer whales' hunting habits, but researchers still aren't exactly sure why they do it.

Probably for the same reason elephants do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z834x4Qk_pM

 

[FlyinJ]

 

[metalslimer]

lol these gifs are sad but so damn funny

 

[MMarston]

Was that a robot filled with blood?

It's a looooooooooooong story.

 

[Aaronology]

I never thought someone could make me laugh at something related to the original gif, but here we are.

Good job.

 

[Steel]

This would freak me the fuck out so much. Imagine being near a creature that size in the water. It must feel crazy.

Imagine how a small dog feels being picked up and put on someone's lap.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

I've considered orcas asshole since that video of the guys in a boat in the middle of them hunting seals and this poor little baby seal jumps on their boat terrified.

Fuck you free willie

 

[andythinkpad]

I've considered orcas asshole since that video of the guys in a boat in the middle of them hunting seals and this poor little baby seal jumps on their boat terrified.

Fuck you free willie

That's a vertical video. I am on team seal snacker.

 

[Saya]

 

[Clydefrog]

https://youtu.be/20LYKnFryns

holy fuck

 

[Tizoc]

This is gonna be in blue planet 2 right?

 

[highrider]

I can't be against orcas, they are awesome predators. Remember these bigger whales are slaughtering krill and plankton in bucket loads! Granted they aren't as cute as seals.. But c'mon, seals are like the meatballs of the sea.

 

[Cuburt]

Humpbacks know Orcas are the asshole of the ocean and probably have lost a family member to their vicious ways. It makes tons of sense that instinctually they know how to protect and fend against Orcas and happen to extend that protective instinct to other whales and mammals.

 

[MattKeil]

Crazy how Jaws turned a very quiet and aloof and introverted apex predator like the Great White Shark which lives in isolation, rarely attacks humans, kills quickly into a killer shark monster that people fear and kill. And Free Willy instead turns another apex predator, one that is violent, social, and brutally tortures and kills prey either by tossing seals until they tear, bullies whales and dolphins sometimes into an almost dog style pet to be loved.

We see more of ourselves in the Orca.

This is gonna be in blue planet 2 right?

If I were BBC Earth I'd have my crew on a boat out there yesterday.

 

[Militaratus]

I guess even in nature:
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Not Ian Malcolm

 

[Delio]

Orcas are amazing hunters. They gotta eat too.

Orcas are some of my favorite animals.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Huuuuuooooohh uhhhoooooahhhh

 

[superdeluxe]

How am orcas Kill Gray Whales but not Humpbacks?

Because humpbacks can kick their ass

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Orca's deserve to be ugly with a dumb name like Humpbacks and Humpbacks deserve to be cute and have a cute name like Orcas.

Humpback... people?

 

[Off-Kilter]

Fuck off orcas

 

[OdinDemonZero]

Best watch yourselves around Humpbacks as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ut7wK9l9mk

 

[AcademicSaucer]

Truly, one of the great mysteries of science

Indeed

 

[DiscoJer]

Crazy how Jaws turned a very quiet and aloof and introverted apex predator like the Great White Shark which lives in isolation, rarely attacks humans, kills quickly into a killer shark monster that people fear and kill. And Free Willy instead turns another apex predator, one that is violent, social, and brutally tortures and kills prey either by tossing seals until they tear, bullies whales and dolphins sometimes into an almost dog style pet to be loved.

You're doing the same thing though, humanizing animal behavior. Orcas don't kill that way because they are sadistic, they are just hunting the way that millions of years of evolution has taught them how to hunt.

(Well, not taught exactly, but the ones that didn't hunt that way died while the ones that did presumably survived to have children and thus passed it on to their children)

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

Edit: another

Lmao the second one is brutal. The look in the Seal' s eyes. Damn.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

But who will protect them from the Japanese

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Crazy how Jaws turned a very quiet and aloof and introverted apex predator like the Great White Shark which lives in isolation, rarely attacks humans, kills quickly into a killer shark monster that people fear and kill. And Free Willy instead turns another apex predator, one that is violent, social, and brutally tortures and kills prey either by tossing seals until they tear, bullies whales and dolphins sometimes into an almost dog style pet to be loved.

Thankfully there's a movie that gets it right.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Lmao the second one is brutal. The look in the Seal' s eyes. Damn.

His fate was sealed at that point.

 

[GeoNeo]

Killer Whales the humans of the sea. 😍

 

[Amalthea]

Yeah, because human altruism is totally not instinctive too, it's not like we are social animals.

 

[Tizoc]

Crazy how Jaws turned a very quiet and aloof and introverted apex predator like the Great White Shark which lives in isolation, rarely attacks humans, kills quickly into a killer shark monster that people fear and kill. And Free Willy instead turns another apex predator, one that is violent, social, and brutally tortures and kills prey either by tossing seals until they tear, bullies whales and dolphins sometimes into an almost dog style pet to be loved.

Clearly u never watched the 1970s novie Orca
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1256364

 

[Violet_0]

the might mess with them, but in truth they know they need killer whales to keep the asshole dolphins in check

 

[MarveI]

Orcas are AWESOME. My fav sea creatures. Incredibly smart and social but a predator nonetheless. Never harmed a human being in the wild. Only harmed them in captivity.

Now Dolphins are the real pricks of the ocean.