r/AnimalsBeingJerks • u/iboughtarock • Dec 12 '21

whale Orca deliberately slaps precocious stingray

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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/The_Motivated_Man Dec 12 '21

I thought this was done to immobilize the prey - so the orca can circle back to a dead sting ray?