Posted on 08/16/2014 6:25:35 PM PDT by skeptoid
Sea lion goes flying in video: Guests aboard an Anglers Adventures charter out of Ketchikan got to see more than just scenery Friday morning when their vessel, the F/V Sierra Dawn, attracted a sea lion being stalked by an orca.
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I wonder if the sea lion was devoured later?
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Glad to have seen it, and thanks for the link.
The sea lion was probably hanging close to the boat as shelter from the orca. Then the boat moved off...
Holy Cow!
From the start, it was apparent to me that the sea lion was ducking under the boat like that to try to evade.
I am glad that, for the most part, we live at the top of the chain and not in the middle or bottom.
Heck, the whales are probably smart enough to understand that if they piss us off by killing us, we will come after them with giant, explosive harpoons and worse, and hunt them to extinction. Heck, they would have to come up for air sometime.
THAT is about as unenviable for the Orca with us laying in wait for it, as it is for that sea lion with the Orca circling around that boat.
The orca can probably see in its Orca mind as it reconstructs its environment from the little bits and pieces of sound that are bouncing off things, the hull of that boat and the seal darting about it, and can visualize it just as we could in the middle of the day.
Yep. I don’t mind being at the top of the chain.
Nature takes its course.
I’ve been up close and personal with Orcas when I used to fish in Cook Inlet. They are amazing mammals. I have an old video of one blowing on the starboard side of my boat, going down under it, and blowing again just off the port side. That was, shall we say, an interesting experience.
We are not at the top of the food chain. Armed with a powerful and accurate firearm, we can take down any animal on the planet, but only if we see them first. If a mountain lion, bear, or orca sees you (on an ice floe) before you notice it, chances are it will get you before you have a chance to cover your ass.
We went whale watching in the San Juan islands and my grandson was a year old at the time. Every time he cried an orca would rush right up to the boat and jump up. We called him the whale whisperer. I asked the captain why he didn’t just record a child crying for his trips to attract the orcas and he said they know the difference.
We are at the top of the chain when we maximize our potential. If we put our mind to it, we could mercilessly eradicate nearly anything (except probably cockroaches and rats)
When we allow ourselves to end up floating on the ocean or stumbling around unprepared in the arctic tundra, we are going to end up as worm food. Without our brain and the advantage it gives us, we are pretty much fleshy pulps.
But an Orca...You know they are working things out.
Mark
They toss seal, sea lions, penguins and who knows what else.
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