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Orca hyperfixation is a top tier fixation. Thank you for the info!
Very cool orca facts thank you!
population of very small, yellowish-grey orcas in Antarctica that form groups of hundreds of members to hunt penguins
huh that sounds logistically challenging
Cool argument, however i have represented you as the southern hemisphere ross sea orca (with diatoms) and myself as the Type 2 Eastern North Atlantic orca
it’s joever, they gave us diatoms
Omg thank you for all the orca lore! I love these creatures so much, and everytime I learn something new, I’m reminded again of why I love them.
You wouldn’t happen to have any more cool facts?
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Thank you so much, I’ll check it out!
Nobody writes an article about me when I do this.
The video in that link is absolutely crazy. It doesn’t even make sense that an animal body would do that.
My first thought was maybe it had been dead for awhile and was decomposing?
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.
The gelatinous layer that covers sunfish, known as the capsule, and their skin host a distinct microbiome. If this tissue is shattered, the microbial taxa inhabiting it are dispersed into the water, where they alter the nutrient composition. Tissue fragmentation could therefore facilitate contact between sunfish and orca microbiomes, which could provide nutritional or other benefits, such as immune regulation.
This was actually discovered by an Orca about five years back; Dr. Free Williamson PhD of marine biology noted that when some seals had been battering a nearby sunfish until it exploded, that the parts that were left behind had an interesting effect on his assistant, Dr. Free Williamson 2. Their advancements in marine biology have led to a form of reverse taxidermy exercises; they discovered if you apply sunfish once weekly that your gastrointestinal health improves markedly.
So the orcas are taking their probiotics this way.
Need two big ladies to do this to me
Holy shit that description is not an understatement.
It’s the sort of thing you see in a horror movie where the slasher is having some fun
Scuba diver horror. The villain forces their diver hostage to watch this happen to a sunfish, then releases the orcas and one grabs the diver by a limb.
Everyone’s so focused on the fish explosion but i think the coolest part of this is the orca holding it steady and then letting go, showing both cooperation and the ability to time things
You reckon an orca has ever
another 
I love how you can hear the camera person yelling HOLY SHIT over and over again into their scuba mouthpiece
I too started going “HOLY SHIT” over and over again when I saw the video. Dudes rock.
I was going to say they’re not eating it so they clearly just did it for fun, but then an orca eats exactly 1 piece near the end
Knowing what i know about orcas that was probably the best tasting part of the sunfish, it’s like ovaries or some freaky shit ofc orcas are into
Orcas of the North Star
jfc lmaoGod forbid someone has hobbies.
why would a fish explode for fun? I think it was the blunt force trauma
I mean I’d try exploding by orca at least once just to see if it was a good time
To shreds
