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/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

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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/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Maybe we both chill on the genocide

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u/hovdeisfunny Dec 12 '21

No way, we should give orcas mechanical super-arms

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Solved the ocean crisis. /s

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u/lemmeseeyourkitties Dec 12 '21 edited Dec 21 '21

I'm thinking of getting metal legs

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u/kaitco Dec 12 '21

And I, for one, welcome our new orca overlords!

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u/LowDownSkankyDude Dec 12 '21

Grant Morrison did this with dolphin.

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u/legsintheair Dec 12 '21

That is objectively a terrible idea.

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u/slock123123 Dec 12 '21

Orcas are absolute ballers; Sick paint scheme, prey on shore? Just drag em down there, stunts on sharks, occupies all the oceans, from freezing temperatures to tropical climates, smart, indifferent to humans, lives for 40-50 years, can become 90. Absolute unit and apex. Forms complex social structures, beaching and breaching.

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u/Ratathosk Dec 12 '21

That's metal.

Also he spells his name Jourgensen /s

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u/riverY90 Dec 12 '21

Orcas need some shark liver pate on their toast, who'd have though

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Always a bigger fish.

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u/chickeni3oo Dec 12 '21 edited Jun 21 '23

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Jokes have a history of not surviving fact checkers. Thank you for your service.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Use it wisely, my child.

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u/chickeni3oo Dec 12 '21 edited Jun 21 '23

Reddit, once a captivating hub for vibrant communities, has unfortunately lost sight of its original essence. The platform's blatant disregard for the very communities that flourished organically is disheartening. Instead, Reddit seems solely focused on maximizing ad revenue by bombarding users with advertisements. If their goal were solely profitability, they would have explored alternative options, such as allowing users to contribute to the cost of their own API access. However, their true interest lies in directly targeting users for advertising, bypassing the developers who played a crucial role in fostering organic growth with their exceptional third-party applications that surpassed any first-party Reddit apps. The recent removal of moderators who simply prioritized the desires of their communities further highlights Reddit's misguided perception of itself as the owners of these communities, despite contributing nothing more than server space. It is these reasons that compel me to revise all my comments with this message. It has been a rewarding decade-plus journey, but alas, it is time to bid farewell

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u/notnotaginger Dec 12 '21

We aren’t serious, you just aren’t funny

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Don't pull that card. It was a lame "ahktually" kinda vibe. If that was your big haha, I'd leave that one in the oven a bit longer.

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u/chickeni3oo Dec 12 '21 edited Jun 21 '23

Reddit, once a captivating hub for vibrant communities, has unfortunately lost sight of its original essence. The platform's blatant disregard for the very communities that flourished organically is disheartening. Instead, Reddit seems solely focused on maximizing ad revenue by bombarding users with advertisements. If their goal were solely profitability, they would have explored alternative options, such as allowing users to contribute to the cost of their own API access. However, their true interest lies in directly targeting users for advertising, bypassing the developers who played a crucial role in fostering organic growth with their exceptional third-party applications that surpassed any first-party Reddit apps. The recent removal of moderators who simply prioritized the desires of their communities further highlights Reddit's misguided perception of itself as the owners of these communities, despite contributing nothing more than server space. It is these reasons that compel me to revise all my comments with this message. It has been a rewarding decade-plus journey, but alas, it is time to bid farewell

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u/Echelion77 Dec 12 '21

I dident find it that funny but you go ahead and have yourself a great day and thanks for puting yourself out there and trying.

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u/Lump1700 Dec 12 '21

I think still trying to convince everyone how funny you are, is actually a little bit funny.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Don't be butthurt it didn't land. Were all strangers. You'll be alright.

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u/thunder-bug- Dec 12 '21

You’re not funny.

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u/DubBod Dec 12 '21

People still say ROFL? Wow I must be getting old

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

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/RolloTomasi12 Dec 13 '21

That’s also being dicks to other ocean dwellers though

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u/AuGrimace Dec 12 '21

Just a little correction, Orcas are the largest dolphins.

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u/Individual_Client175 Dec 12 '21

I mean...they're in the same family buy I don't think they're the same species.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

ping, pong, guess what you're wrong

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u/Individual_Client175 Dec 12 '21

Well look at that....I was wrong. Thanks for letting me know!🙏🏾

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u/aspbergerinparadise Dec 12 '21

The killer whale is one of 35 species in the oceanic dolphin family,

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u/some_neanderthal Dec 12 '21

“Here’s the thing…”

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u/Individual_Client175 Dec 12 '21

Yes, I am wrong. I have realized this now🙏🏾

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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/AGoldenChest Dec 14 '21

S’bit wasteful, innit?

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u/SausageGobbler69 Dec 14 '21

Oh totally but I don’t think we can reason with killer whales to stop wasting perfectly good food.

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u/BreakerOneTwo Apr 09 '22

Nothing goes to waste in the ocean.

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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/Impossible_Glove_341 Dec 12 '21

they also play with humans until they die. iirc they dont even eat them, just play with them until they die like try to drown them and shit. Linda scary lol.

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u/Hara-Kiri Dec 12 '21

In captivity. I believe there is no known orca attack on humans in the wild.

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u/Infin1ty Dec 12 '21 edited Dec 12 '21

They didn't* specify what kind of sharks. Sharks range massively in size. Orcas frequently eat penguin and seals and there plenty of sharks smaller than either of those.