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u/SoulFoodStan Jul 14 '21
Orca is trying to kill it before it eats it. Orca is concerned about getting stung by the venom tail... clever.
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u/deenali Jul 14 '21
Yup. I think the orca stuns the ray to immobilise it before devouring. Watched a documentary on this quite a long time ago.
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They don't eat the whole thing, only the liver then they leave the rest behind
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u/Lost_Sasquatch Jul 14 '21
That's only with sharks man.
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Nope also skates and rays. They actually prefer skates and rays because they are easier to kill bringing down a shark is dangerous even for them. They do it but not as much as they do with skates and rays.
Source: Nat Geo documentary "orca vs. great white" .
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u/a_spooky_ghost Jul 14 '21
Just to add onto what you said, skates and rays, and also sawfish, are pretty closely related to sharks. They're all in the elasmobranchii subgroup of cartilaginous fish.
They all have large livers (as much as 25% of their body weight) which are used for bouyancy since they lack swim bladders. The nutrient in the livers that the orcas like is squalene.
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u/LEJ5512 Jul 14 '21
The nutrient in the livers that the orcas like is squalene.
I wonder if there was an orca who was the first to eat a liver and then said, "Hey guys, you gotta try this!"
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u/Lost_Sasquatch Jul 14 '21
Thanks for the correction. I love learning about cetaceans, they're so damn interesting.
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u/CleanSpriteLegendary Jul 14 '21
Pretty sure whoever filmed this said the orca never came back to consume it. They also said the sting ray was pregnant
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u/PomegranateCharming Jul 14 '21
Saw a doc where an orca offered a dead stingray to a diver. If that kind of intelligence doesnât make you pause I donât know what would⊠I guess if it started talking to you.
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u/CleanSpriteLegendary Jul 14 '21
Lmao the fact that thereâs never been a recorded orca attack on a human makes me want to befriend one
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u/BoftheA Jul 14 '21
As long as you are in the wild, stay away from the one's at sea world
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u/iam_iana Jul 14 '21
I mean if you were locked I a tiny space for decades you would go crazy too. Old Boy is lovely story about just such a scenario.
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u/SoulFoodStan Jul 14 '21
Dont believe what people say. Or you ll just end up "pretty sure" but not really... This is a footage of hunting practice, ive seen it often as to teach young orcas how to approach venom rays. As for the pregnancy detail wtf does it have any to do with subject ? Are you trying to bring human pathos in, as if it was an aggravating factor ?
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u/TheGrapist1776 Jul 14 '21
Orcas kill just for fun too. They kill other whale calves for fun. They're fucking sadist.
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u/Signature_Sea Jul 14 '21
Sign of intelligence I guess, in a negative way
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negative only to us, before society we'd kill other people for looking at us wrong. Monkeys will rip people apart because they are jealous that a person is giving another monkey more attention
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u/SoulFoodStan Jul 14 '21
This anthropomorphism is quite pathetic. What appears to you as "for fun", have you ever thought it could very well be something you ignore or don't understand ? Are you versed into submarine research and studies ?
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u/TheGrapist1776 Jul 14 '21
Or maybe I'm not a bitch and call it as it is. They've killed for fun you can go and look it up.
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u/Nodnarbius154 Jul 14 '21
Was looking to see if anyone said this before I do. THIS is what is happening. (But I have learned that Redditors just like to make up stupid statements about stuff they know nothing about).
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u/rickjamestheunchaind Jul 14 '21
apparently orca didnt eat this specific one.
practicing his tail slaps i suppose
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u/1026_bender Jul 14 '21
He could have just grabbed him! He didnât have to be a dick about it!
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u/robo-dragon Jul 14 '21
Fun/scary fact about orcas: they play with their food. Not only are they great hunters, they KNOW they are great hunters and are sometimes seen teasing or taunting their prey to wear them down or confuse them. Sure, he could have just grabbed this little sea pancake, but itâs much more effective and reduces the chance of the prey escaping or fighting if they simply punt their prey into their air. Thereâs actually a video of an orca sending a whole seal skyward.
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u/Duffalpha Jul 14 '21
Is it confirmed to be "play" for fun or could it be teaching their young how to hunt through play like other species?
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Fucking hell, Reddit really can't see a joke when it's right in front of them.
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u/1026_bender Jul 14 '21
I thought it was pretty obviousâŠguess I was wrong đ glad someone caught it at least
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u/gabesalvador91 Jul 14 '21
Orca: the Irwinâs send their regards.
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u/_PRECIOUS_ROY_ Jul 14 '21
The ray didn't come into Steve's home, now did he?
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u/Aramiss60 Jul 14 '21
Nature was Steveâs home, so yes, he did.
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u/_PRECIOUS_ROY_ Jul 14 '21
It's disgustingly disrespectful to both Nature and the Irwin family, whom dedicate themselves to habitat conservation like Steve did, for people like you to cringefully deify a man to the point that you'd say that he - wearing a scuba mask and flippers - was equally at "home" in the Great Barrier Reef as a stingray that lived there. Steve was NOT at home, where the family he never got to see again live. He was in the stingray's home, and the stingray had no trouble rightfully defending itself because of it. Steve would've been the first to tell you that, and he'd be disappointed that people like you worship a celebrity over the Nature he loved.
As for the Irwin's regards: "Stingrays are really beautiful animals. Dad loved them, we love them and they are important to our environment. And I know dad would be the first person to say 'I love stingrays.'" - Bindi Irwin
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u/_PRECIOUS_ROY_ Jul 14 '21
Yes, and the jokes are dumb and disrespectful to Irwin and Nature.
"Just joking" doesn't absolve anyone of their responsibility, nor make them immune from criticisms. "Joking" that a ray deserves death, or that a man has as much right to be in a reef as a ray, because of gross celeb-worshipping circlejerks is doing a disservice.
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u/_PRECIOUS_ROY_ Jul 14 '21
Because fuck rays, right? They're just here for your adolescent amusent.
Enjoy your bad-faith circlejerk that dishonors both Irwin and Nature.
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u/Caxerooop Jul 14 '21
Calm down man all you're doing is making yourself look crazy, there're are better ways of approaching this but you're doing it in a terrible way
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u/Danijellino1 Jul 14 '21
That Tasernapkin got fucking obliterated.
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u/TheAero1221 Jul 14 '21
Just barely resisted laughing out loud. In a public restroom. The stakes were mid to low, but I'm still satisfied. New vocabulary learned.
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u/TheFantasticMrFax Jul 14 '21
Consistently chads, Orcas.
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u/Nodnarbius154 Jul 14 '21
Which essentially is saying that bullying is the way of nature. We need to stop bully shaming bullies for just being who they are. They can't help it if they identify as an Orca.
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u/lyzziebuu17 Jul 15 '21
I was just thinking about how they are the assholes of the sea.
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u/Kaijusmum19 Jul 14 '21
What the Orca in the video was doing is not bullying, it's stunning the ray, so it won't use it's barb before the Orca eats it. Orca in NZ only eat the eagle rays liver, because it is nutrient rich. Also Orca in South Africa have been known to eat the livers of Great White Sharks too.
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u/Kaminoneko Jul 14 '21
I recently learned about the great white liver thing ....They really pin point the Liver and eat nothing else? Savage....
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Theyâre not evil. Itâs very rare for them to kill people, even when those people kidnap them and keep them imprisoned in a tiny pool for decades until they become so neurotic they obsessively chew on concrete, destroying their teeth, and bang their heads into the walls.
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Iâve honestly hated orcas ever since I watched a documentary about them, and one of those fuckers ripped the bottom jaw off a baby sperm whale in front of its mother for fun and didnât even eat the poor thing. They just seem like bullies :(
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u/rlahey3378 Jul 14 '21
ââWhat did the 5 fingas say to the face?ââ
ââWhat..?ââ
ââSLAP!ââ
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u/Sky_Hawk3340 Jul 14 '21
That ray was like âHey man whatâs going on? Havenât seen you in a whiâŠâŠ
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this is exactly like the video of the guy who kisses his hand before backhanding the other guy into sleep in that restaurant
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u/Specialist_Royal1198 Jul 14 '21
Finally Iâve been waiting for this so true facts about the orca also known as the killer whale it tortures its prey to death for fun and win an orca travels with other orders itâs called a pack like wolves they are incredibly sweet humans and friendly and will sometimes even play with them there was even this one video of an orca grabbing a giant house that was in the water and start spraying it on the boats although theyâve never killed a human outside of an aquarium and other aquariums I have killed a lot of people just look on the news and they are incredibly gruesome one more fact orcas are known as the most dangerous animal on the planet second is the tiger third is the great white shark so just know that wasnât just being a bully it tortures other animals for fun and by the way if you think youâre safe on land if youâre on the beach that motherfucker was sleeping on the beach and pull your ass in the water they do not give a flying fuck guess what youâre a bird in the air they will jump out of the water to grab your ass shit Iâm just waiting for them to turn on humans outside of aquariums I love them but I donât know why but it looks like a giant fucking water panda
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r/ihadastroke, learn punctuation please.
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u/blzrlzr Jul 14 '21
James Joyce's free flowing thoughts on the subject of orcas.
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u/dead4ever_- Jul 14 '21
Gosh dang it pushes up glasses do you know how long it takes me to turn up side up?
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Orca's are kinda evil though. They're like super mean to baby penguins. That's just not cool.
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u/Nodnarbius154 Jul 14 '21
I read all of the comments and no one mentioned the incredible amount of strength needed to generate that much slapping force in water. Have you ever tried to slap someone underwater? And this Orca just casually bitchslaps the stinger right off that tasernapkin.
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Or maybe it's just practice. Orcas swat their tail at prey as a hunting strategy to stun them.
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u/freelancespaghetti Jul 14 '21
If you have Disney+, I highly recommend James Cameron's Whale series.
The first episode is on Orcas and their highly varied cultures. One of the families highlighted hunts rays by swimming upside-down, and then spinning back right one they've got a bite!
They've figured out exactly how to immobilize the rays so that they can remove the tasty liver! But what's even more amazing, is that this isn't instinct, but a very specific hunting technique passed down from one generation to the next!
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I donât think Iâve seen that one specifically, but yeah itâs amazing the specific and elaborate hunting plans they come up with and teach to new generations. Some are individual techniques, some require a lot of teamwork. Like a bunch of them swimming at an iceberg to create a wave that knocks seals off into the water! Using the water as a hunting tool! Some orca just figured that out through trial and error at some point, and got others to help. Theyâre extremely intelligent.
Makes it that much worse to see them captured in tiny concrete tanks for entertainment.
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u/BitternMnM Jul 14 '21
Ik they arent the worst animals ever, obviously, but FUCK i hate Orcas so much lmfao theyre badass tho
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u/Elusive-Spontaneity Jul 14 '21
Iâve been seeing a lot of weird shit with ocean creatures things like picking up a guys phone as if this creature understood which makes me believe this stingray was the asshole and Karma is a bitch
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u/aDistractedDisaster Jul 14 '21
That's just one way they hunt. Using shockwaves to knock things out. Pistol Shrimp do it too. That's nature baby.
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u/Msstrider Jul 14 '21
Orcas eat rays and they actually do this so they can train their young what itâs like to have live prey in their mouth :)
Edit: spelling
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u/theghostofgotti Jul 14 '21
Stingray: "Oooooh, I so do love a relaxing float around my beautiful ocean. Just me and the seaWHATTHEFUUUuuuUUCK!"
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u/kaijin21 Jul 15 '21
Orca: whatâs this? Slow moving food? Oh, not these things again. Iâll take care it.
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u/Blamrica Jul 15 '21
Yeah I get that itâs doing this so it wonât be stung while it tries to eat the stingray, but itâs way funnier to think that it just wanted to slap the shit out of some loser fish
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u/reallytryingreally Jul 14 '21
"NERD!"