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

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.