lemmy.net.au
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
allende2001@lemmygrad.ml to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun

phys.org

external-link
message-square
33
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • science@lemmy.ml
96
external-link

Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun

phys.org

allende2001@lemmygrad.ml to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago
message-square
33
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • science@lemmy.ml
Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as whales, larger than themselves. They use a wide range of strategies to hunt and kill prey, but now, in the Gulf of California, researchers have observed one that hasn't been described before.
  • raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    2 months ago

    The video in that link is absolutely crazy. It doesn’t even make sense that an animal body would do that.

    • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      2 months ago

      My first thought was maybe it had been dead for awhile and was decomposing?

      • raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        2 months ago

        According to the article it was already dead, but I inferred that the orcas had killed it. The authors posit that perhaps this species of sunfish has a fleshy structure that makes this kind of explosive deconstruction possible.

Science@hexbear.net

science@hexbear.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !science@hexbear.net

Welcome to Hexbear’s science community!

Subscribe to see posts about research and scientific coverage of current events

No distasteful shitposting, pseudoscience, or COVID-19 misinformation.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 5 users / day
  • 127 users / week
  • 288 users / month
  • 930 users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 23.9K subscribers
  • 143 Posts
  • 814 Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • gaycomputeruser [she/her]@hexbear.net
  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net
  • Wake [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org