"The Whale That Ate Jaws" - Shark Thread!!!! (1 Viewer)

[gmaw]

I think I saw this. At the end did it show how killer whales will swim together and create waves to wash sea lions off of ice patches?

 

[gmaw]

Here is the you tube of that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3xmqbNsRSk

 

[Ice Bowl]

I think I saw this. At the end did it show how killer whales will swim together and create waves to wash sea lions off of ice patches?

Hmm.... actually, I don't remember. It's been a while since I've seen it. I wouldn't be surprised, though. They're a jolly bunch of pranksters, those orcas!

 

[SaintsFanInLA]

Just watched it. It was very interesting. Although I wish there was more footage of the orca attack.

The fact that the smell of the death of a great white shark is so repellent that it shocks a shark out of tonic immobility tells me that there was probably something in the ocean, prior to these orcas that was so bada$$ that its presence was encoded into the genetic memory of sharks. I mean, anything that can kill an adult gw shark is nothing to be played with.

It might STILL be in the ocean and we just don't know about it.

I mean, for over a hundred gw sharks to give up potentially a year's worth of food due to fear is amazing.

 

[Sarcastic]

Just watched it. It was very interesting. Although I wish there was more footage of the orca attack.

The fact that the smell of the death of a great white shark is so repellent that it shocks a shark out of tonic immobility tells me that there was probably something in the ocean, prior to these orcas that was so bada$$ that its presence was encoded into the genetic memory of sharks. I mean, anything that can kill an adult gw shark is nothing to be played with.

It might STILL be in the ocean and we just don't know about it.

I thought the same thing when I read the OP. Something a lot bigger than an orca swam those oceans a long time ago. Sharks are one of the oldest species in the water, their DNA would "remember".

Remember, the Kracken was fiction until we discovered 60-foot giant squids. You just never know.

 

[ExVASaint]

"The gist of it is, they think that an orca from a southern culture that is known for killing sharks either ranged up to the San Francisco area and killed this one, or taught the technique to an orca from a northern culture. If you know this going in, you'll probably understand the clips a little better."

I know I'm being far too provincial, and that southern and northern orca culture has nothing to do with southern and northern American culture, but this made me smile. I couldn't help but read into it that the Southern orca taught the Yankee orca how to kill sharks!

 

[SaintsFanInLA]

I thought the same thing when I read the OP. Something a lot bigger than an orca swam those oceans a long time ago. Sharks are one of the oldest species in the water, their DNA would "remember".

Remember, the Kracken was fiction until we discovered 60-foot giant squids. You just never know.

Yeah, I am of the mind that there are terrible terrible things yet to be discovered living in the depths of the great trenches in the oceans. I mean, up until recently we thought the giant squid was the biggest squid until the Japanese IIRC discovered the mega squid or something of that name that is even larger.

We still don't know exactly what these great white sharks do or exactly where they go all year round. I liked the part about the shark cafe. Who knows what goes on there? Some sort of shark conclave where they discuss the recent killer whale problems, mate, hunting techniques. I mean, we don't know.

But they said that each seal could provide enough energy for a shark to survive for 3 months and sometimes they've seen single sharks take up to 5 seals. That's a year and half worth of energy and nourishment that they eschewed for safety. And the part where the scientist said that one shark IMMEDIATELY dove to a depth of 1500 feet and swam away from the Farallons after the death of the gw shark. This fear has got to be genetically encoded. I wonder what animal sparked this encoding.

 

[purvis_guy]

I've been watching that show on Nat Geo, "Expedition: Great White", where they catch a great white shark as it cruises off Guadalupe Island near Baja California. They actually catch them and get them out of the water with a lift attached to a larger ship. They attach a satellite tracking device to their dorsal fin to track them as they move around the oceans. The female great whites are much larger and fatter than the males, the males come back to the island every year where as the females appear every other year, the scientists think the sharks come to the island to mate. They feel the females are going somewhere to give birth, they are trying to figure out where.

 

[SaintsFanInLA]

Yeah, I've been dowloafing this show on my dvr on demand. The tags last 6 years. It's gonna be interesting to see the info that comes back.