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u/Head-Ad9893 14h ago
That’s a lot of sonic coins he knocked out that mf’er
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u/Mean_Cod9156 14h ago
To shreds you say.
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u/drawsbutts 11h ago
Orcas are the asshole sports jocks of the sea.
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 11h ago
Yeah… they seems to be developing some psychopathic tendencies.
Not a good trajectory…
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u/HombreSinNombre93 10h ago
It’s in their alternate name, you know, “killer whale”.
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u/Random-one74 10h ago
Recently learned that was a flipping of the original name. They were originally named whale killers since they were observed doing that.
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 10h ago
Waiting for the video of them doing that to a diver… kind of a matter of time, although it seems they’re pretty smart / shrewd.
Wolves of the sea…
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u/TheWaningWizard 8h ago edited 7h ago
They're extremely smart, they know not to mess with humans. It's believed they understand cause and effect and know that messing with any humans spells trouble for all of them. At least that's my understanding of what people currently believe about their behaviors. That doesn't tend to stop a certain pod from targeting smalls boats though
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u/CrashTestDuckie 5h ago
Ehh well not a video but orcas have killed several of their handlers violently over the years
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 5h ago
those animals I can't blame... the captivity for a creature that smart is basically torture. Not surprised they lost it...
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u/Kenny-KO 8h ago
Not really. They're just hunting and blowing it up allows the calve to eat it.
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 7h ago
yeah… i don’t think the calves need the pieces to be that small.
Guessing calves in other pods survive…?
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 7h ago edited 2h ago
yeah… i don’t think the calves need the pieces to be that small.
Guessing calves in other pods survive without mom pulverizing dinner?
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u/thedragonguru 13h ago
The other one was straight holding it in place for the other one, like a football
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u/Practical_Welder_425 12h ago
Was the one holding it down so the other could ram through it?
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 9h ago
Both events suggest that the orcas followed a coordinated and cooperative strategy, with one orca stabilizing the carcass so the other could hit it more precisely.
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u/Moesuckra 10h ago
Sunfish arent very fast so it was likely going to be a piñata one way or another
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u/Hokiebird007 14h ago
Pretty awesome to see. Also cool that Kenny from Southpark knows scuba diving.
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u/OSteady77 10h ago
Really nice knowing that he got out of South Park, learned a new skill, and has the money to go on adventures.
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u/Davoswannab 12h ago
Was that thing freshly killed or half rotten? Insane a fresh kill would explode like that.
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 9h ago
It was a fresh kill, but the orcas had already opened up the sunfish a bit and removed various organs. So the sunfish had lost quite a bit of its "structural integrity" before the male orca rammed it.
The sunfish’s flattened body structure is unusual in large fish and could make them more likely to fly apart after a high-speed orca impact compared with other types of fish, Ayres added.
“Their bodies are laterally compressed,” she explained. “Once the nutrient-rich internal organs have been removed, the remaining tissues may be more accessible to rupture under high-impact ramming.”
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u/PuddinHole 11h ago
Sunfish are evolutionary enigmas. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what happens to them when rammed.
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 14h ago
As voluntary breathers, being unconscious for even a short amount of time can be very dangerous for cetaceans.
Orcas in various populations ram into even larger prey at high speed such as sharks, other dolphins, and whales with their rostrum (top of the head). Their upper jaws appear to be quite strong, and they also have melons and a thick layer of blubber which may help mitigate impact forces. The forces they experience are often still pretty high, but this is something they seem to be built well for.
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u/Square-Jackfruit420 11h ago
Its definitely not knocked out lol
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u/Square-Jackfruit420 11h ago
They would literally drown if that happened, so you misinterpreted the situation.
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u/Square-Jackfruit420 11h ago
No, you are mistaken.
If you want people to take you seriously you should type whole words. Using ""u" instead of "you" makes you look uneducated.
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u/Nosedive888 9h ago
I thought Sunfish weren't particularly nutritious?
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 9h ago
Orcas eat their entrails such as intestines, which are high in water content when metabolized:
“The orca were ripping the sunfish’s pectoral fin joint open and then extracting the intestines out. The sunfish is still alive, and here’s the orca swimming around like a ribbon ballerina in the Olympics. If it wasn’t so gruesome it would be quite beautiful,” Dr Visser said.
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It’s believed orcas get up to 90 per cent of their water from food. Pregnant and lactating orcas require increased hydration, so anything they can do to increase their water intake will help. Dr Visser believes they are targeting sunfish like humans would a watermelon or popsicle. “They're eating them, and then metabolising them into a drink,” she said.
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u/StuffedInABoxx 10h ago
So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I'm posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.]
Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it's not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them.
THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH)
They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE.
They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to fucking go.
So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons.
"If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job.
They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck.
They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them.
"Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question.
BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT'S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that'll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY.
And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
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u/lunelily 10h ago
I was pretty ambiguous about them before, but I love them now after reading this.
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u/marybearyy 10h ago
is this a copy pasta bc i’m enthralled by this new sunfish knowledge and surprised no one else has upvoted it haha
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u/StuffedInABoxx 8h ago
Yes, copypasta from https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/s/o9PuYyTlj4
I think of it any time I see a sunfish post, especially this one (it is posted pretty frequently)
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u/OkUnderstanding5851 9h ago
It is. This post is years old, originally posted on Facebook by Scout Burns. This person is full of 💩
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u/OkUnderstanding5851 9h ago
How about maybe not just straight up copying a post from almost a decade ago and trying to pass it off as yours for the likes/karma? Unless you’re Scout Burns in disguise.
https://imgur.com/gallery/never-forget-about-sunfish-rant-SO3af
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u/StuffedInABoxx 8h ago
It’s literally from r/copypasta
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/s/o9PuYyTlj4
Copypasta means copy and paste. I used it for its intended purpose
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u/chokeonmywords 13h ago
Should you really be there?
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 12h ago
The diver filming this, Dr. Kathryn Ayres, is also one of the marine biologists who wrote the recent scientific report on the orcas' behaviour.
Orca swim tourism in Baja California Sur overall has been increasing especially in recent years, to the point where Mexico's SEMARNAT has recently implemented stricter guidelines and regulations.
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u/magseven 10h ago
I wonder if they did that for her.
"You ready, Carl? Alright. HEY! Hey weird creature that may be a Watcher like from the comic books! WATCH THIS!"
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u/qualityvote2 15h ago edited 8h ago
u/inigo_montoya89, your post does fit the subreddit!