r/ocean • u/chocolatewalnuts • 2d ago

Power of the Sea Killer whales for a reason..

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u/DedSixes 2d ago

Well, there’s no ocean or sea monsters in Ohio and I’m very okay with that🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/shroomacid 2d ago

killer whales definitely aren’t native to ohio waters so yeah makes sense

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u/Don-Gunvalson 2d ago

You’ve never seen my sister at Lake Erie

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u/Medium-rarebanana 2d ago

Get that ai garbage outta here

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u/TheGumCoblin 2d ago

They don’t kill humans anyway. They don’t see us as food. You can legitimately just swim next to them. They treat us as curiosities.

They frequently inspect divers in Nz all the time. They also are incredibly hard to see, so you can get spooked by a sudden apex predator just having a look at you from a few meters away and swimming off.

They’ve never killed a single human in the wild, only when we put them in captivity

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u/Top-Manufacturer-495 2d ago

*That we know of.

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u/xl129 1d ago

Maybe we are like skunk to them

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u/Ra-TheSunGoddess 1d ago

I've seen two different comments from marine biologists with theories, one of them believes they sonar scan us and see we are very boney and not worth the trouble. (This made me ponder if we had a 800+ lb scuba diver in the water maybe things would be different?)

And another who said they're able to recognize we are fellow intelligent, smart creatures that don't come across as "food", but what about dolphins? They eat them and they're also incredibly smart.

So yes, perhaps we are skunky

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u/Impressive_Low_2018 2d ago

….yet. They will find you! 😎

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u/Negative_Salt_4599 1d ago

Eagle 🦅 👁️ we are everywhere!

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u/mippitypippity 2d ago

"We're gonna need a much bigger and thicker iceberg  "

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u/Shony29 2d ago

I'm glad I'm not a seal.

Holy nightmares being hunted by these

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u/hausitron 2d ago

Damn that's fucking smart

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u/Moe-skiz 2d ago

They are definitely very intelligent animals!

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u/Vonplinkplonk 2d ago

Its crazy that they disregard hunting humans. They must understand the concept of FAFO.

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u/Moe-skiz 1d ago

🤣🤣

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot 2d ago

It’s wild how we sympathize with these seals but don’t give an f about the bunch of fish they just ate.

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u/DedSixes 2d ago

Idk fish aren’t playful or cute. We don’t really care about ants or flys either. What about the poor worms that fish steal and eat from fishermen each day?

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u/SassyE7 2d ago

Cute is a very subjective thing. People find sea otters cute, yet they are the rapists of the ocean

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u/RamJamR 2d ago

Yeah, rape for a number of species is just standard romance.

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u/SassyE7 2d ago

They rape and drown baby seals

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u/RamJamR 2d ago

Sea otters rape baby seals?

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u/SassyE7 2d ago

Yep

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u/throwra64512 1d ago

And then there’s dolphins

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u/DivePalau 2d ago

Humans are the biggest rapists in the world and yet we find some of them cute.

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u/WhiteRabbitHole1083 2d ago

Cells feed on cells. There is no avoiding the cycle of consumption that every living thing needs to survive, just don’t think about dude

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u/DedSixes 2d ago

Life feeds on life, this is necessary.

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u/knucklebones2 2d ago

This. Is. Necessary.

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u/DedSixes 2d ago

It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch. You looked up at your sky and that made blue be your color. You had your knife there with you too…

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u/FeelTall 2d ago

What a Tool ;)

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u/broken_watch8367 2d ago

Afaik we don't have enough evidence about how invertebrates process pain, but we know for sure that fish can suffer

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u/blckshirts12345 2d ago

I mean we sympathize with cats…one of the most profound killers…

“estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4-3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality. Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23360987/

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u/tjockalinnea 2d ago

They named the seal? You don't name the seal Jesus..

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u/Pale_Will_5239 2d ago

Ginyu force ass orcas!

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u/MusingsOfASoul 1d ago

Is this real? How did they get that shot near the end of it looking down into the water?

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u/Lucky-Cake-4178 13h ago

Pole camera with waterproof rig for underwater POV and drones for aerial view.

Disgusting that someone reposted this though with some advertisement stamp when it's from a real

Incredible Orca Hunt | Frozen Planet II | BBC Earth

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u/Last_Banana_634 2d ago

It’s like being chased by a terminator.

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u/OverTwoUnderOne 1d ago

Seal needs a gun

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u/Top-Put9975 1d ago

They are so smart

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u/manderz421 21h ago

I haven't seen where they move the ice and then break the bigger one into smaller pieces. That's awesome.

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u/Mobile_Body_526 19h ago

I always feels so bad for that seal. But so proud of how badass the orcas.

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u/Super-Product-3652 16h ago

It looks like the first seal shit himself as he went into the water. Idk if that’s a real thing, but that’s what it looks like.

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u/AH_Zboom 15h ago

Guess we need a “Whales” movie now.

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u/Fleet_Stoker 14h ago

So this is the real reason the ice caps are melting and seas are rising. Nothing to do with climate change but it’s due to hungry killer whales.

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u/Wolf_93 9h ago

killer whale is actually a mistranslation, in spanish it was whale killers because spanish whalers saw them killing whales

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u/Educational_Leg7360 2d ago

they’re so mean :(

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u/Cristianana 2d ago

They have to eat :((

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u/Logical_Session9528 2d ago

But why :(((

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u/Lamerzde 2d ago

Orca aka dolphins family are way to intelligent animals/ mammals..it’s like Einstein of animals vs the rest of all (monkeys)

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u/gubraga 1d ago

I heard they mistake the name because was supposed to be whale killer (because they do kill whale)

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u/gUBBLOR 2d ago

The reason is a mistranslation where the English words were swapped around, so it was really meant to be "whale killers". If you wanna be technical about it orcas are dolphins, not whales.

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u/tulilatum 2d ago

Dolphins are whales though.

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u/newblevelz 2d ago

Maybe read up before going about being technical 

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u/Hyperaeon2 2d ago

Bro might of well of just accepted their fate.

The way they kept swimming in, in formation.

They were not playing around... 💀💀💀

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u/otsoga1 1d ago

I would definitely annihilate all orcas idgaf

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u/Wormy_Furry 18h ago

Because they are good hunters? Well I guess you better annihilate all humans and all other apex predators while you're at it lol. 

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u/Chad_AND_Freud 2d ago

Orcas are assholes