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Orcas Are Ramming 2,000-Pound Sunfish Until They Explode - And It Might Just Be for Fun
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Jordan Strickler
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Marine biologists have documented a new hunting behavior in orcas where they ram dead sunfish to break them into smaller, edible pieces. This 'hold-to-ram' strategy is considered a unique display of the species' inventive predatory skills.
Somewhere in the sun-bleached waters of the Gulf of California, a female orca, a.k.a killer whale, clamps her teeth around the tail of a dead sunfish. She holds steady. Several feet away, a male orca — several tons of black-and-white muscle — accelerates through the water like a torpedo. At the last possible second, she lets go.
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