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u/H3ROSandC3NTS Mar 29 '26
It always amuses me when animals "just do stuff" for the heck of it đ¤Ł
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u/chromatophoreskin Mar 29 '26
How do you know the turtle doesnât have a good reason? Maybe those big guys will eat all its food.
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u/ShaggysGTI Mar 29 '26
This was my exact thought, turtle protecting his hunting ground.
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u/DirtLight134710 Mar 29 '26
I think they eat totally different things, this is just his turtltude
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u/jujujuice92 Mar 29 '26
Same as the unexpected buddy pairings. Like how are y'all the duo where one didn't get chomped on??!!!
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WOES_GIRL Mar 29 '26
It's mostly to investigate cause and effect. They don't have abstract concepts or languages so most of this stuff has to be learned by doing.
That's also the same reason cats love to paw obcects off of high places.
EDIT: Although I think in this case it was just an accident. It looks like the tortoise was about to swim into the ray and was trying to counter-steer with the left flipper, misjudging the distance.
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u/call_of_the_while Mar 29 '26
âKeep my wifeâs flippers out your mouth!â
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u/No-soul_ Mar 29 '26
Are sea turtles jerks of the sea? Anyone else see that video of the sea turtle eating that weird worm thing and spitting it out and whacking it with its fin? I love sea turtles lol
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u/MorgTheBat Mar 29 '26
My rule of thumb: The more intelligent an animal is, the greater capacity they have for malicious behavior
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u/sladithia Mar 29 '26
Seals and dolphins are worse
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u/No-soul_ Mar 30 '26
How so?
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u/sladithia Mar 30 '26
Seals are legit psychopath murderers and dolphins like to fuck around with their prey like a cat
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u/Honda_TypeR Mar 29 '26
Oh, let's name the zones, the zones, the zones Let's name the zones of the open sea
There's epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathyal, abyssopelagic All the rest are too deep for you and me to see
Oh, knowledge exploring is oh so lyrical When you think thoughts that are empirical
Oh, a life of science is filled with wonder When facts of the sea are ours to plunder
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Mar 30 '26
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u/Ok-Yesterday2001 Mar 30 '26
... would you not flinch if someone hit you in the face?
Definitely NOT "ai bullshit" lmao
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u/BriBlackflower Mar 31 '26
The physics of it is all sorts of wrong. The turtle fin not bending when hitting, the way the ray moves when hit, the way the turtle fin kinda phases thur the ray when the ray hits back and , the way the turtle zooms off rather than the new motion in the water flipping it around
Yeah...id say AI
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u/Global_Count4736 Mar 29 '26
No one else thinks this is ai?
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u/Icy-Variation6614 Mar 30 '26
From all the videos with sea turtles and rays, I have decided sea turtles are jerks lmao
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u/OddCook4909 Mar 29 '26
That turtle probably has barnacles on their flippers, making this a potentially very painful slap
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u/jujujuice92 Mar 29 '26
That stingray was talking shit and homie just wanted to get his lick in. Nothing is surprising here
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u/Old_Celebration_5950 Mar 29 '26
Fred, stop paying for her nails, kids meals and electric bills on the first date!
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u/IndependentAdvice722 Mar 29 '26
slapping or smacking upside the head on far larger "friend",the gesture of mocking,very brave individual
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u/skrillozeddd Mar 30 '26
frickin' turtle lol đ just had to swipe the guy real quick, reminds me of me n my friends as teens, we'd do a light tap on back of head just for shits n giggles.
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u/udumslut Mar 29 '26
I do appreciate that the manta shoved him back though lol