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Eight-ton orca leaps 15ft into the air to finally capture dolphin
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | July 25, 2013 | Christopher Swann pics, Emine Sinmaz

Posted on 07/26/2013 12:53:57 PM PDT by ransomnote

Edited on 07/29/2013 12:55:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The dolphin was originally part of a small group swimming off the Mexican coast But the others managed to get away - leaving it at the mercy of a whole pod of whales With the setting sun just beginning to turn the sky pink, a killer whale leaps out of the ocean and soars into the air, spray cascading down in its wake.


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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dolphin; killerwhale; orca; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: fwdude
Animals are heartless killers.

I do get your point about the Bambi crowd applying concepts of "nobility" or "honor" to animals. The same thing happens when they get all starry eyed about pre-Columbian America being inhabited by peaceful natives at one with nature. Entire Indian cultures, like the Pueblos, died out from over populating and despoiling their local environment as badly as any European might and tribes fought wars and took slaves as viciously as the rest of humanity.

But I would say that animals are no more "heartless" than nature is "cruel". Neither word really fits outside outside the human context. Animals, to survive, are efficient killers and nature just doesn't give a damn.

61 posted on 07/26/2013 3:48:39 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: givemELL

Mercifully, it is fake. The whale came up and grabbed a seal. The boy was put in the clip later.


62 posted on 07/26/2013 3:50:16 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: dfwgator
"Just remember they would eat you in a heartbeat if they could."

I always wondered why cows look at me that way.

63 posted on 07/26/2013 3:50:47 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: dfwgator

<Weemsco Tuna!

I swear that’s one of Rush’s funniest ‘commercials.’


64 posted on 07/26/2013 4:51:53 PM PDT by radiohead
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To: Grampa Dave

A great white flipped on its back goes to sleep. Well, I learned something new today.


65 posted on 07/26/2013 5:33:04 PM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: Fido969

“Mom! My tuna doesn’t taste right!”

“That’s because it doesn’t have dolphin in it. I had to buy a different brand this time.”

“Mom! My tuna doesn’t taste right!”


66 posted on 07/26/2013 5:48:05 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: nikos1121

I think we stink. At least I hope so. I feel the same way about bears.


67 posted on 07/26/2013 5:50:23 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

“I brought you a tuna sandwich. They say it’s brain food. I guess because there’s so much dolphin in it, and you know how smart they are.”—Marge Simpson


68 posted on 07/26/2013 5:50:26 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Marge always had a very smart, down-to-Earth quality about her. Homer married up. As I did.


69 posted on 07/26/2013 6:06:45 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

“I always wondered why cows look at me that way.”

When you are standing there eating an Arby’s sandwich, they will. Insensitive, to say the least.

;^)


70 posted on 07/27/2013 6:37:57 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Excellence

“A great white flipped on its back goes to sleep. Well, I learned something new today.”

After the youtube with the Orca killing the great white by flipping it over on its back. A sick joke went around the kayakers, surfers and other humans doing their thing in great white territory:

“If attacked by a great white while in the ocean, just flip it over on its back, and it will go to sleep!”

An interesting sidebar re flipping water critters over on their back to calm them down can be used with most fish* of any size if you are try to catch and release.

Instead of grabbing them by the lip or under their bellies, just flip them upside down and hold them until you remove the hook. After removing the hook and put the fish back in the water right side up. Then grab them by their tail and push their head into the incoming or outgoing tide or upstream until they are breathing again. They will let you know when to release them.

*Don’t try this with large fish, over 20 pounds. Never try it with a big Artic halibut. They can break bones and destroy your boat.


71 posted on 07/27/2013 9:00:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Having a discussion with liberals is like shearing pigs. Lots of squealing & little fleece!)
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