Killer whales bring the hunt onto land

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 4-16-08 | Damian Wroclavsky

[ThreeYearLurker]

Lady: Who is it?

Landshark: Plumber.

Lady: I didn't hire a plumber. Who is it!?

Landshark: Flowers.

Lady: What... for who?

Landshark: Plumber

Lady: ...you're...that crazy shark aren't you?

Landshark: No maam, I am just a dolphin.. will you let me in please?

Lady: A dolphin! OK!

[theDentist]

Mall Sharks. Remember, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen a mall.

[Spouting Horn]

These whales are obviously reacting to man made emissions.

We must act quickly to solve this problem.

[djf]

I saw vid once of an Orca that had grabbed a seal.

Kinda reminds me of what my dog did when he caught a garter snake. His head whipped back and forth like ten times a second!

That Orca ripped the crap out of that seal. There was almost nothing left to eat!

[snarks_when_bored]

"Candygram."
"What?"
"Candygram."
"No way."
"Landshark."

[wordsofearnest]

“Jehovah’s witness”

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Only seven orcas in the world are known to hunt this way, all of them members of a pod that patrols the coast of Patagonia's Valdes Peninsula at this time of year.

Interesting learned behavior, obviously being passed on by the older killer whales to the younger ones.

[snarks_when_bored]

(heh)

[travlnmn41]

“Fred Garvin, male prostitute.”

[advertising guy]

I’ve seen it live in the ocean from my sailboat in the day off Ventura ca coast...........what the Orca is doing thrashing his head is literally skinning the seal.

I’ve seen it done about a dozen times, but to me the most I remembered was how big orca teeth are

[patton]

I think what I would most remember, is not to get in the flippin’ water!

[advertising guy]

never said I’d get in the water but a world class sailboat is front row seats

[the_devils_advocate_666]

You have to wonder what PETA thinks of all this. Well, at least no baby seals were clubbed to death.

[patton]

...especially when it sinks.

;)

Never been on a sailboat in my life.

[Tallguy]

I would think that beaching would be limited to certain beaches. Ones with soft, sandy bottoms & steep dropoffs to the surf line. That would be the only way an animal that size could kinda scoot it’s way back out to sea. Plus, you gotta have that food source. This really narrows the number of beaches for this technique. Not surprising that only 1 orca pod uses it. This is their territory.

[17th Miss Regt]

So these whales are preying on children! Well, I’ll bet we can have a legislative fix for that in the next session. A modified form of Jessica’s law or something like that.

[advertising guy]

three back ups..life raft , zodiac dingy and float suit

sailing is like pure bliss

[17th Miss Regt]

Not surprising that only 1 orca pod uses it.

You ever see the movie "White Whales Can't Jump"?

[djf]

Pretty powerful stuff, eh?

I wouldn’t want to be around one that woke up on the wrong side of the lagoon or something!

[patton]

You got me wondering - boats I have been on -

Motorboats, in and around DC - fairly often
Motorboats, Chesapeake Bay
Party boat, Minneapolis
Ferries, Norfolk - Portsmouth
LCM, Panama
Canoes, all over the east coast
Ferry, Japan - Korea
Ferry, NY Harbor
OOPS = Sailboat, CA, circa 1968. Forgot that one.