Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz
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This bit is a little Hannibal Lecter. Fava beans and Chianti with that Keiko (Willy)?
*"When the white shark carcasses washed ashore in 2017, Kock and colleagues suspected the orca duo was to blame. They performed CSI-style necropsies on the bodies, which were intact, save for an impressively neat tear between the two pectoral fins. Apparently the orcas knew exactly where the liver was located, and sucked the organ out of the open wound. (Watch a video of killer whales attacking a blue whale.)
Similarities between the white shark and sevengill carcasses led Kock and colleagues to believe the two orcas were also responsible for their deaths. Also, amateur video footage from the 1997 California attack suggested that the South African orcas also may have similarly worked together to take down the white sharks.
“It’s fascinating that these two whales seemed to have kind of honed this to perfection where it’s almost a scientific extraction of the liver,” Schulman-Janiger says—“like an operation with a scalpel.”
It was “a great opportunity to study it in detail and particularly being able to follow up with carcasses, which we were never able to do” in California, Schulman-Janiger adds.
It’s likely that orcas target shark livers because they’re high-fat and delicious. “People do the same thing [with] butter, bacon."*
Hmmm, bacon...
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@Snowy yea they are very 'tribal' supposedly with unique languages/dialect for regions, similarly their feeding habits.
Parts of Canada they feed on Porpoises, the ones in south Georgia beach themselves for seals etc (the NZ ones on Rays)
When I went to the poor Knights last year we saw a huge pod, the bull was MASSIVE.
Video file be too big to upload into here.
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Orca and Snow Leopards are top of my cool animal list.
Polar Beers too. Mainly because i won't be anywhere near a polar bear pretty much ever.
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Interesting "fact" I once read was that of all the animals on earth, only two instantly recognise humans as food; crocodiles and polar bears.
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@mariner4life did you see the recent Attenborough series? Those fuckers are genius too.
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@antipodean said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Interesting "fact" I once read was that of all the animals on earth, only two instantly recognise humans as food; crocodiles and polar bears.
Clear was my isp for six years and their " interesting fact of the day "on their homepage was that polar bears are black under their fur and they had that up for the entire six years .
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Four years after he stepped down Key still consumes some left wing weirdos
what an earnest young man
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Another summer and the usual stories about freedom dumpers,
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