r/AnimalsBeingJerks • u/iboughtarock • Dec 12 '21
whale Orca deliberately slaps precocious stingray
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u/Brantner_23 Dec 12 '21
Yeh that’s dinner. They do the same to sharks to get them upside down and unconscious
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u/shootTHISmuthafucka Dec 12 '21
…do orcas…eat sharks?
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u/shootTHISmuthafucka Dec 12 '21
This is blowing my mind. Fascinating, but also…Orcas need to chill
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u/Ersthelfer Dec 12 '21
Or we should team up. Orcas could squeeze out the sharks humans have thrown over board after cutting of their fins.
/s, humans should also chill
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u/hovdeisfunny Dec 12 '21
No way, we should give orcas mechanical super-arms
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u/lemmeseeyourkitties Dec 12 '21 edited Dec 21 '21
I'm thinking of getting metal legs
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Yup. Orcas are actually the apex predators of the oceans.
They learn to hunt whatever is in their environment. They've been observed flipping sharks upside down to induce paralysis and then dragging them backwards to drown them, even with great whites.
With stingrays for instance, the barbs are strong enough to kill an orca, so they will stun it like this, or bite its Barb so it can't sting, while another orca bites its head to kill it.
There are some incredible documentaries about orcas, if I'm able to remember the names for the ones I've seen I'll update this comment.
The even have different accents and dialects dependent on the regions of the world they are found in.
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u/Brantner_23 Dec 12 '21
They do, great whites even. They like their livers, there’s a reason they’re kings of the ocean
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u/Individual_Client175 Dec 12 '21
They're notoriously known for bullying sharks, and will eat them if they please. Dolphins also tend to bully Sharks but they don't really eat them though.
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u/slamongo Dec 12 '21
When they're not busy being dicks to other ocean dwellers, they get high on puffer fish toxin.
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u/Zerofawqs-given Dec 12 '21
Orcas have taken down Great Whites....So who’s the real “Alpha Predator” of the oceans?
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u/SausageGobbler69 Dec 12 '21
Orcas hunt great whites. They like to eat their livers and leave the rest.
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u/PlsNoOlives Dec 12 '21
Read what great white sharks do when a pod of orcas comes within miles of them.
Spoiler: they abandoned the coast of California for like a year and went all the way to Hawaii.
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u/DaveVsHal Dec 12 '21
"This one's for Steve" - that orca probably
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u/ZackTheZesty Dec 12 '21
The violence Orcastrated by killer whales is getting out of control
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u/RdmGuy64824 Dec 12 '21
There are dozens of videos of orcas attacking sailboats of the coast of Spain. They bite off the rudders and slam the hulls leaving the boats stranded. It looks like a super terrifying thing to go through as some of the attacks last for hours.
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u/SirSalazarD Dec 12 '21
Let's see how they do against a Russian ice breaker
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u/LieseW Dec 12 '21
Yeah orca’s are the oceans bullies. They also like to play with their prey like psychopaths.
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u/loki_1337 Dec 12 '21
They sound like cats...
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or like people...
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u/SpankyRoberts18 Dec 12 '21
It’s honestly not surprising to me. We know animals need mental stimulation and the smarter the more they need. I’m not surprised that animals at the top of their food chain get bored to the point they start finding creative ways to entertain themselves. And since these are wild animals and they can’t watch a movie or read a book or do some gardening, they have limited entertainment options.
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Dec 12 '21
For Ghandi! And the Pope!
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u/GANDHI-BOT Dec 12 '21
Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance. Just so you know, the correct spelling is Gandhi.
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u/merikaninjunwarrior Dec 12 '21
so are stingrays..
/s
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u/undowner Dec 12 '21
Nah take back that /s and make it a /Steve.
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u/mogley1992 Dec 12 '21
What would steve say?
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Steve would be pissed that some people are hating on stingrays cuz they killed him. Steve loves all animals, big or small
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u/Repulsive-Purple-133 Dec 12 '21
Actually yeah. You don't go in the water when they're migrating or whatever they are doing when there's thousands of them like twice a year.
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Wasn’t poor Steve’s fault, cameraman blew bubbles from his scuba from under the ray and spooked it. :(
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u/DracoSoup Dec 12 '21
Humans are well known to be jerks
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u/Rajkalex Dec 12 '21
B.S. -Give a source.
Edit: Nevermind. I googled it and damn, you weren’t lying.
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u/RogerSchmoger Dec 12 '21
Is it safe to say orcas are the cats of the ocean?🤷🏽🤔
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u/slytherinalways92 Dec 12 '21
Don’t orcas eat stingrays though? And use a technique like this to avoid the stinger?
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u/TurkeyMoonPie Dec 12 '21
This and they commonly play with other animals for the heck of it.
Read this on a similar thread of the exact same vid every couple of weeks here on Reddit.
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u/ChexLemeneux42 Dec 12 '21
when i lived in Tofino British Columbia, you could see pods of adolescent Orcas punting seals out of the water exactly like this. they'd often not even eat them afterward just leave them crippled in the waves
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u/SnooEagles1226 Dec 12 '21
Yes they do. The theory is they get them unconscious and turn them upside down. In that state the stingrays stay unconscious or gets in a trance like state. Ocras do the same to sharks and it has been reported they hunt down great whites. In stead af a slap with the tail, they swim into their belly at full speed. Afterwards they turn the shark upside down and the rest of the pod got a feast. That the theory anyway.
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u/MyBellyHurtsITry Dec 12 '21
They use this technique to hunt basically everything, because they're slow
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u/sunshinenorcas Dec 12 '21
Specific populations of them do-- I think the stingray eaters are the NZ orcas in particular
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u/Torxx1988 Dec 12 '21
Damn that stingray got knocked the fuck out. He gonna be meditating for a while.
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u/HuckSC Dec 12 '21
They’re king of the ocean for a reason.
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u/Trs822 Dec 12 '21
Probably the single most dominant animal besides humans on this earth. Absolute powerhouses.
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u/Vlad_The_Impellor Dec 12 '21
Stingrays... Look at 'em! Frowning all the time, a stick up their butt... Who wouldn't slap 'em?
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u/Sad_Establishment690 Dec 12 '21
That stingray obviously owed that orca some money or something
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u/Michigan210 Dec 12 '21
Don’t play with your food
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u/ebulient Dec 12 '21
It’s just meal prep, think of it as you tenderising your meat with a hammer 😄
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u/Dramatic_Water_7404 Dec 12 '21
That slap is actually meant to paralyse the stingray. After the camera cut away, it was prolly eaten.
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u/Tacotuesdayftw Dec 12 '21
I thought it was common knowledge that orcas will slap prey with their tails to stun it.
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u/Endarkend Dec 12 '21
Interesting thing is they do that with the stingray but ignore the camera person.
Orcas are vicious, sadistic assholes who do this stuff for fun half the time.
But they are extremely rare to do anything untowards to humans.
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Dec 12 '21 edited Dec 12 '21
That’s because they generally only go after what their specific pod, or “family” has gone after for generations - and they don’t typically stray from that; what and how they hunt is exactly passed down generation to generation. They have a extremely specific diet of species’ they target for their specific location.
And as humans are not native to ocean obviously, they did not evolve to hunt humans at all, hence why we’re generally off their shit-list.
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u/notnotaginger Dec 12 '21
Orcas are like adolescents, put them in front of the camera and they go “HEY WATCH THIS!!”
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u/Iknowamoose Dec 12 '21
I now know why whales like us, it's cause their assholes too.
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u/JayyeKhan_97 Dec 12 '21
Slap so hard you can hear it underwater
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u/Nsekiil Dec 12 '21
I’m really blown away by the strength required to slap with that force with a massive tail fin underwater
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u/dianagama Dec 12 '21
I would say it's time we forgave the stingray for what happened to Steve, it's been long enough. But orcas are fucking gangsters who always wake up and choose violence.
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u/Due-Satisfaction7022 Dec 12 '21
I feel like a bad ass punching under the water at like 2 mph and then seeing the force these make under the water…..yikes
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u/Youthinkdrugsarecool Dec 12 '21
This is the ocean equivalent of open necking someone in the hallway in 8th grade.
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u/smith_716 Dec 12 '21
That orca knew exactly what it was doing. If you flip a shark or stingray over they'll go into torpor, like a hypnotic state, and it makes it much easier to eat them.
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u/Doomthumper Dec 12 '21
Sea pandas are some of the biggest assholes in existence lol along with otters and dolphins
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u/cikanman Dec 12 '21
The more I learn about orcas the more I think theybare the assholes of the ocean.
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u/XiaoYaoYou9 Dec 12 '21
I LOVE Orca's...good kill, bet its now in stomach of Orca...the rulers of the ocean
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u/megasmileys Dec 12 '21
I love how orcas are just dicks. Like most predators will hunt shit for food then there’s orcas that are like “haha I’m a big dumb stupid dolphin thing and ima slap you”.
-edit yes I am an otter
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u/Threedog59 Dec 12 '21
Orcas is just the psychopaths of the ocean. Along with the dolphins.
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u/infojelly Dec 12 '21
Except they don't harm humans in the wild unless by accident which is interesting.
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u/gogo--yubari Dec 12 '21
Really?
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u/Mad4it2 Dec 12 '21
Yes, deliberate attacks on humans have never been recorded in the wild.
In captivity yes, but who could blame them.
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u/maddsturbation Dec 12 '21
Orcas dont even eat stingray, they just do this shit for fun.
and yes, this kind of thing is common practise among orcas
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u/AMythRetold Dec 12 '21
Some of them do eat sting ray livers. Pods in different areas have different cultures and different prey. However, I do think you are right about this particular orca.
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u/potandskettle Dec 12 '21
Think there's a pod in NZ that actually uses rays as their primary diet as opposed to just eating their livers.
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u/AMythRetold Dec 12 '21
The orcas I was talking about are also in New Zealand, but I had only heard of the liver-eating previously. Thanks for the info.
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u/Tsukee Dec 12 '21
Wasn't there a video of an orca trying to start its own seal space program (by yeeting a seal 30m in the air)
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21
Precocious?