Off topic: Nature at its best

[bigbadasian]

well...as much as it pains me to watch these damn shows...i caught a show tonight on National Geographic. it was about killer whales and how they hunt. We all know whales are mammals and have HUGE brains and really know how to use their brains so to speak. well this program was about some rare footage of a killer whale attack. I guess its extremely rare to see such an attack. 3 tour boats were out and about and radio each other to surround the attack and everyone filmed it and watched it. it was a group of 12 killer whales that strategicly(sp) planned and executed an attack on a giant grey whale and her calf.

The killers sent messages toeach other and they 'grouped' together...kinda like at a meeting point, then went out together in search of this mother and her calf! when they got to them, they surrounded the two and for over 4 hours straight slowly engaged in a plan to seperate the calf from the mom.

THey did this by half of the group distracting the mom while the other 6 basically swam full speed at the calf and rammed it..causing internal bleeding and extreme bruising. Throughout the whole time you could see the mom trying to fend off the killers by raising her 400 lbs tail and slammin it on top of them, she would also swim under her calf and raise it out of water so that they couldnt ram it...think about this...the mom weighs TONS already, so she has to support herself along with her calf on top of her stomach while she is upside down in the water..also, they cant breath under water so she has to hold her breath while taking shots from the killer whales as they ram her too! this went on for 4 hours!

THen the mom actually figures out taht killers cant hunt in shallow water so this whole time she pushes her calf in b/t rams towards shallow water! once they got to 60 ft, the killers had to retreat...but the calf was extremely hurt. it was very very sad to watch and really disturbed me to watch it, but it was cool to see nature at its finest. Ppl on the boat at first were excited but when they saw how much the mom went through and how bad the calf was hurt EVERYONE was crying. one boat actually left early...they couldnt bare to watch anymore.

maybe some of you caught this on tv as well. i just had to share this with you guys b/c all of this Vick/animal abuse talk has me thinkiing a lot about animals lately and i find myself watching APL a lot more now too...LOL.

 

[terryd5150]

Damn, BBA. That was depressing.


No more late night posting for you!

 

[sup]

My dad's best friend commercial and charter fished for 25+ years up here in Alaska. He's seen some amazing shit.

One of my favorites was when he had some socal tourists on board who wanted to save a seal from a pod of Orcas.

they literally wanted him to drive his boat over and rescue the seal from the orca's.. (apparantly this pod was teaching the babies how to hunt..had the seal surrounded, letting the babies attack.. etc)

 

[Maverick]

natrue can be beautiful but it also can be effectively brutal. Such is the way of things.....




Mav

 

[LEX]

I love watching killer whales , you seen all those show with um surfing up the beach to get seals...basically beaching them selves then scooting back in the water...then goin out and throwing the seal around before they eat um...the are bad ass....kinda hard to watch but that's how they roll.

 

[jawbreakerkid]

LMAO, I guess I'm not the only loser who watched this last night! I didn't watch the whole thing, but it was pretty gruesome. The sheer size of the mom grey whale is just amazing. I believe they said she was the size of 11 female African elephants! I'm a sucker for Shark week and all of the water biology shows, it has always amazed me.

 

[oldfella]

Yea these things are amazing. It is called survival of the fittest. it is mother nature's way of sorting out the weak from the strong. Natural selection. The big difference between what these animals do and what the scum of the earth do is, the animals do it for survival and to eat. The scum bags like Vick do it for fun and sport. Nature is beautiful and cruel at the same time.