Comments on: Killer whale kills great white shark

By: bunaen

bunaen — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:36:00 +0000

Yeah, the video stinks.

By: cfiber

cfiber — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:54:00 +0000

Maybe it’s just me but… It seems that when a 6-ton killer whale with 30 tons of biting pressure has a 2-ton fish made out of cartilage in his mouth, he merely needs to bite down. The suggestion that the killer whale must have “a trick about shark anatomy and behavior” seems ridiculous. The dead shark happened to be upside down.

By: BlueSong

BlueSong — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:50:00 +0000

As it happens Channel 5 in England did an hour long documentary about this as part of their Nature Shock series, imaginatively titled – The Whale That Ate The Great White, its a little drawn out but still interesting, heres a link to the first part – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtv08L_FG-k

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:26:00 +0000

Thank you for your kenning response.

By: Lolotehe

Lolotehe — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:49:00 +0000

Well, it kinda worked for what I wanted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/39f0d457-37ba-43b9-b0a9-05214bae5d97

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:54:00 +0000

The video in this post does not have quite the, uh, poetic narration as yours, which is from Good Morning America, a trite morning “news” program(me).
It sounded like it was written in the style of Beowulf.

He left out
“Shark shatterer, bringer of death,
Flips his fluked back
For herring from Wealhtheow’s hand.”

By: MarcVader

MarcVader — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:08:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrklgH8wC0

By: DeargDoom

DeargDoom — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:10:00 +0000

Upon installing the plugin it happened multiple times in row. I tried closing all open tabs in Firefox and then closing and restarting the application and it still happened.

As a test, I have just reinstalled it. It didnt happen at all this time. The tool doesnt seem to work from France though.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:59:00 +0000

That has never, not once, happened to me.
That would be unacceptable.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:50:00 +0000

Look, I get that they don’t show a lot of respect for the environment, but I believe that beavers deserve a bit more respect than you’re showing them.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:58:00 +0000

Thank you for the link! I agree with you on the commentary. The amount of hate against the shark got quite ludicrous for a nature documentary. It made me appreciate BBC/Attenborough that much more for portraying even the most fearsome predators without ever taking away from each animal’s beauty and dignity. Then again, this is from 1997 and I know I’ve seen much higher quality from National Geographic.

I guess the moral of this showdown is, yet again, that one shouldn’t mess with curvy, black and white cuteness larger than a penguin (also see: Pandas)…

By: Jayarava

Jayarava — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:02:00 +0000

The very first commenter posted a YouTube link to the footage that can seen everywhere. Scroll up.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:28:00 +0000

Thanks for the link! Flip a shark upside down and it goes to sleep.

I’ll have to remember that, the next time I’m in shark-infested waters.

By: Tweek

Tweek — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:04:00 +0000

Belize is also on the outs

By: DeargDoom

DeargDoom — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:46:00 +0000

ProxTube seems to send Firefox to the ProxTube Facebook page every time I restart the browser. Not classy.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:29:00 +0000

There’s only one type of mammal that’s doing your sort of FTW – and it ain’t Killer Whales

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:27:00 +0000

There’s a little bit of metal in everyone – especially those of us who have been abducted by aliens :O

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:22:00 +0000

Having been blocked by National Geographic I did a quick search and came up with this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS6NjdGLVZs.

I couldn’t believe the unremitting savagery with which the commentary attacks the English language. It makes me really glad to have David Attenborough narrating my natural history programmes instead of this folksy, pejorative clap trap.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:47:00 +0000

Pics or it didn’t happen.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:46:00 +0000

You are correct, Talia. The metalness comes not from killer whales winning that fight, but from the fact that the fight happened at all.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:45:00 +0000

Yeah, I had that problem in high school. I hope there are some good ASL puns involving this.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:43:00 +0000

Well, I never claimed to be metal. ;)

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:27:00 +0000

Christ, what a blowhole.

And no more heavy metal devil hands for me. I’m doing a heavy metal dorsal fin from now on.

By: Talia

Talia — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:20:00 +0000

I am pretty sure that wasn’t the intent of the post. More along the lines of “one giant huge predator manages to do in another giant huge predator,” just kind of an awesome battle in concept. Neither side is vilified here.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:10:00 +0000

The whole division got sold in 2000. You say we should be blaming Pat?

By: MelSkunk

MelSkunk — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:05:00 +0000

Between this and watching Frozen Planet, Killer Whales are never going to be called the adorable PC term Orcas again. They freak me out.

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:57:00 +0000

“Feel free to make heavy metal devil hands at your computer screen…”

it’s very rare that I actually, literally “lol” at anything online, but that line got me! C’est perfect!

By: dhparlee

dhparlee — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:57:00 +0000

I want my money back. There was nowhere near the implied violence that I was hoping for.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:27:00 +0000

Nah. That’s just stupid. Fuck The World.

By: Chris Perriman

Chris Perriman — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:19:00 +0000

Thanks for that; works like a charm.