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feddit.org

Oh, i thought the title was clickbait, but it really is not. Poor sunfish, but i guess such is life if you're not an apex predator.

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lemmy.world

It somehow makes it feel a bit better knowing that the fish are apparently already dead.

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Well, the seal's not exploding it. Orcas just chow down on those floating snack pods too.

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They are ocean sunfish though, if there was ever a creature to dunk on it’s absolutely them.

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DrPopreply
lemmy.world

If it helps their brain is the size of a walnut and they probably didn't feel any pain.

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"-except way smaller, and this is what my dong brain looks like" [mouth made explosion noise]

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I figured it was a bit hyperbolic, but they seriously sploded them. I have to wonder sometimes how these behaviors first get discovered, from the orca perspective that is.

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infosec.pub

Ayres and colleagues have dubbed this new behavior "ram-to-fragment."

That's my band's name

After the sunfish has shattered, the orcas frolic in and feed on the fragments of its flesh.

Metal AF

Read to the end, another video

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Not gonna lie, if you read the article (other orcas wearing sunfish as a hat, others cooperating to raise one above the surface and keep it there while alive, for shits and giggles), that's not the ocean that is terrifying, Orcas are hella human-like, I'd say

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"Such is the life of such a big, defenseless fish. On good days, you might become a hat. On bad days, you might become confetti."

Weird notion of having a good day, but ok.

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