Your pun level just went through the seal-ling

You fin-nished?

@@hungrybear2161 yes finnish

@@orkunayteker9180 sea what I did there?

OMFG...How long did that take you to think THAT one up?!😱😄

But in the end no shark showed up !

Since the water is so cold there you will not find many sharks

Sharks like activley avoid orcas, even great whites leave their perfectly good territory if they even sniff a pod coming by.

😂😂😂😂

Probably a ton but they likely knew Orca's were in the area and likely bolted anywhere but the path of the orca's

Absolutely !

Yes absolutely true ! It is a real changer in studying cetaceans ! A part from the fact that we lost the drone after this video 😞

@@ElephantSealResearchGroup How did you lose the drone after this? Also, how far were you from this site? Thanks for your amazing work!

@@ElephantSealResearchGroup wtf?!?? you better go find my drone or pay me back back foo!!

Drones with be the death of us

they are mammals just like humans :) they must share our intelligence of teamwork

Absolutely agree with you on that! When they finally ripped it open they must've halved the thing,...

Yes its pretty interesting. But its also no just a regular seal either. Its an elephant seal. They are pretty damn big. Alot of them get to be the size of an automobile, and weigh as much as one too. Thats one was obvious not that big, but she definitely had a couple hundred pounds on her. As the commenter before me mentioned..she bled out about as much as a human. Could u imagine one of the massive 15-20 foot long 2000 pound males getting ripped open?!

Thought it was fake too

I thought that was hella photoshop 🤣🤣🤣🤣them seal have a lot of blood

That blood is insane

Hmmm, yes this floor here is made out of floor

Same ! I always imagined it dark ?

@@legendarybackstabber332 defo edited

I think bright red blood is high in oxygen and dark is low in oxygen, in a human anyway. But blood can also be blue, green or clear. Cray cray

geeeez u aint kiddn

That's what I was thinking too

Ah ah I know! But no clickbait !

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Actually I think the sharks would know to stay away until the orcas are done feeding

Sharks will immediately leave the area that an Orca pod is hunting in. Even great whites will swim hundreds of miles from any action involving Killer Whales

@@darman6453 precisely

@@darman6453 correct its just too many for 1 great white....tactical smart evasive Orcas run the ocean they do as they please with the safety in numbers of the pod...this is why they are far more dangerous than a great white but could you imagine if sharks were to maneuver in pods

They’ll get eaten

@@Justinn229 u mean their liver will get eaten

They will never show up with killer whales around.

@@joshseecharan929 their livers

orcas also eats great white yep particularly their liver

And that was just a female elephant seal ! Adult males are a lot bigger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it's amazing watching them ! One of the baby orcas was just a couple of weeks old, but still having a chance to get close to the prey !

If you’ve ever seen space jam when it’s team monstars vs bugs bunny only

I presume so ! But elephant seal pups seem to be totally unaware of the risk, they often swim meters from the orcas as if they where playmates...😬😬😬

@@ElephantSealResearchGroup Oh wow, that's crazy!

PANDA SHARKS LETS GET THE FUCK OUT!!!

Nope they won't see them comin!

I am impressed how big the Seal is actually. And how small the sword whales. And Look at the size of the birds. Lol

This is a female elephant seal, though. Less than half the size of a male. Not that a male would have a chance either.

@@norwegianblue2017 male sea lions and elephants seals actually have good fighting chances against orcas. They main weapons is claws that they use against whale eyes.

@@norwegianblue2017 elephant seals are still all massive though this one was for sure at least 7 feet long. At least.

I have watched videos of male elephant seals attacked by great white sharks. If male elephant seals could not fight back again great while sharks, they should have no chance against a group of orcas

I know. Often nature is quite rude.

Don’t travel my city at night..

That's called a lynching.

Absolutely true. Thanksvfor appreciating it !

Amazing video? This is a sick video according to the elephant seal family.

@@robtangent4664 by that logic, then you should consider how the family of the fish the seal eats feels about it, or how the abandoned elephant seal pups (either abandoned for unknown reasons, something their mother senses is wrong with it,mother not having enough milk to sustain nursing, or become prey while out feeding on fish to produce enough milk) desperate for milk turn to other nursing elephant seal mothers for nourishment and life only to be rejected and chased off at best, and viciously attacked or even killed at worst-how they feel when they turn to their own kind, starving and desperate for life saving sustenance to no avail and at major risk of being killed, but most certainly destined to starve if they don’t try. This is nature and how these animals fuel their bodies with the specific nutrients needed to survive that lead them to prey specific to their nutritional needs. They don’t have the luxury of a grocery store or plant based shakes full of protein powder, supplements and the large quantities of healthy fats they would get from seals that is needed to survive in frigid waters. Honestly, the people in comments under animal documentaries showing animals hunting tactics and behaviors needed to survive crying over the prey and condemning the predator while ignoring the fact that the prey are often also predators that hunt and kill and eat smaller animals. At least Orcas stay with their children and family pods for life, looking out for each other, but ting and sharing with each other, teaching each other, and don’t abandon their young at birth, before nursing is supposed to end or even at 2 -4 weeks when nursing is supposed to end, but then they are left to fend for themselves and hope they can hack it alone like seals do with their young. Honestly, you are watching the wrong video content if you are concerned about how the seal’s family feels about it being eaten by orcas….I’ll tell you how they feel…..they don’t feel because they don’t stay together with their families-never meet their fathers or siblings and are left at a few weeks old by their mothers, so pretty sure the female seal’s family gives zero fucks and won’t even know anything happened because they are solitary animals except when mating, birthing and a few weeks of nursing. The orcas on the other hand would devastated at the loss of one of their young as they are together for life.

@@robtangent4664 err..this is a wild life video, firstly. calling this a "sick video" is really illogical lol secondly, do not twist my words and take it out of context, its so rude. i said its an amazing video as it is showing in real how orcas teaches their next generation.catching this process in real is amazing. again, do not take my words out of context. or if you really must, do it elsewhere and get off my comment, mr.keyboard warrior. thank you for your zero cents.

@@mermaidandpearls Chill out. I didn't say this is a sick video according to human. However, elephant seals would tell you that this is sick if they could talk. Whose POV that you ask....

You meen Mozazaur?

@@oskardrabikowski3780 Mosasaur, Liviyatan, Megalodon, Pleiasaurs especially.

They would win easily with thier vastly superior intelligence.

After watching this video I was wondering the same thing

@@YoJoRockThaBeat what about aliens

Nature is brutal. So is survival.

If you think Elephant seals are timid little seals that dont prey on weaker targets you want to watch more wildlife videos...This is karma.

@@shadowbanned5164 "karma" in nature?) Come on man. This is called food chain. That's all.

Thanks ! They are quite amazing animals!

@@shadowbanned5164 well, more than karma it is nature, and food pyramid. By the way elephant seals feed on squids and fish

Oh yes, elephant seals are bog, and in fact it is not so common to have adult males killed by orcas

Yes. I wonder if they were trying to drown it. I guess an Orca can swim faster than an Elephant Seal and work together well.

@@paddlefar9175 i don't think drowning was the goal. Orcas are pretty ruthless, probably just playing with their food.

@@paddlefar9175 Yeah, that was playing with their food and teaching their young to hunt. You can see they show the younger Orcas all their favorite tactics. Here's how you ram them son. Now Sally grab the tail and Johnny, you squish his head while she holds the seal and mangles his flippers. You see with the kill bite that opens the seal up, that all the prior attacks were training attacks by the younger pod members. Then an adult went, enough rope a dope, lunch and took it out with a single fatal attack. We're lucky they seem to tolerate humans. That attack made Jaws worst attack on film look tame. LOL

Its nature !

@@vini_siq yea that's it cat and mouse is what I was thinking!

I think when that blooshot finally appeared is rigth after the orcas finally sectionated a big artery. The color too looks like artery blood omgg 😭😭😭

@@angeramirez25 the heart was still pumping when they most likely ripped the artery. the same happens when you see people who have been killed the more blood means the heart was pumping -sad bloody truth

Same here. I was shocked!

@@lilmobop Unlikely, this amount of blood can't come even from biggest artery even if heart was still pumping. Looks more like orcas tore body apart causing huge blood rupture.

@Sarah Marie Boulerice What a strange thing to say 😳 I think that comment says more about your way of thinking than ours... 🧐

Thanks ! Yes indeed, it is definitively part of life !

Probably around 500-700 kg, but still a huge animal

Even a single great white can take down an adult elephant seal whether it's male or female and because orcas hunt in groups it seems they too have a liking for elephant seal meat possibly also explains that in seal rich areas their does not seem to be any direct rivalry with great whites indeed the two species tend to avoid each other esp the sharks.

Also I forgot to add only a very few individuals of orca have learnt to hunt and kill great whites but they do so at great risk to themselves so probably only do it when their is a lack of other prey.

Im telling you, orcas see 0 distinction between humans and seals. Just as any and every predatory animal on this Earth if they see you as prey it's game over.

@@dreytonstrickland6302 nah I think they know we're not seals/their food source. But that doesn't mean I would just jump in the water with them.

@@thecrazyslopoke no they will kill us without a second thought there’s not a food they will not go for

@@michaelcollins8992 cool. But the fact that most of the time they're pretty chill with us, means that they're not just killers.

How do you explain not a single attack from a wild orca on a human? They have had plenty of chances.

Yeah! It happens went it got split two

Yup, redder than the red sea... Looks almost like paint!

Opened the poor thing up instantly. Like a can of beans. It's necessary though. Seals breed incredibly high numbers when not in check. They out eat their environment. Sharks and Orcas are keeping much of the order of the ocean in check. Just as wolves and bear do our forest management.

@@Tigershark-qy2gq Humans breed incredibly high when not in check. They destroy their environment and anything within it in their path.

@@emilie7372 yikes

It is surely true that they use these opportunities to teach their youngs, but in this specific case the prey is anyway quite big (adult female elephant seal), so killer whales might want to make her more tired/inoffensive before actually trying to kill her. Bites from a 800 kilos seal could be dangerous even for a orca.

No, all they want is the liver, and it takes a min to find it.

sadistic and animals dont belong in the same sentence

@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 i wouldnt call that sadistic. id call that pretty normal animal behavior

​@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 кошка играет с мышкой, тоже садизм😂

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Orcas replying: Yup we are and you are the main course so get yourself ready, this elephant seal was just our appetizer, we're looking forward for some sharky meal.

@@cesaryaelmurillosandoval3313 😂😂😂

Orcas party !!!

@@cesaryaelmurillosandoval3313 6⁶77

Lol

indeed there is...class is in session...and we brought lunch

Still though

Kids stop playing with your food!

They are always teaching their young to hunt in their pods. This is the most common feeding dynamic they've shown.

Absolutely ! And one of the calves is just 2 weeks old !

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That was completely insanee.. they wrecked that elephant seal.

@@blazingspartan7128 poor baby girl 😢😢😢😢😢😢

That's why killer whales are at the top of the oceans food chain

@@kingofthemountain_1 Then there is this one called the bull sperm whale which reaches lengths of nearly 80 feet.

@@gregoryquint7653 that may be true, but do sperm whales attack other animals in the sea in groups for fun? I may be wrong but the last time I checked, sperm whales go waaayyy deeper than other whales (except maybe the blue whale. I'll have to double check) because their diet consists of pretty much just giant squid (gonna double check this too)

agreed.

It's a girl!

! #FACTS

The elephant was probably bleeding internally from the constant ramming the orcas were doing so as soon as they tore it open the blood just gushed out

@@fengxiong520 Even IF the seal was bleeding internally it doesn’t change the “amount” of blood inside the animal.

Sometimes nature goes farther than click bait 😮

Absolutely true! Thanks for watching !

Especially since orcas sadistically play with their food instead of killing it right away

@@kaijugodofoblivion5955 They were not playing with it, they were ramming the seal to cause internal bleeding, break bones, exhaust the pray...they are smart, they perform very quick attacks in succession to prevent being bitten or scratched by the seal. They always circle the prey so it can't go to the shoreline and escape.

Well, thank GOD for this UNNECESSARY cruelty.

@@clbo9878 this isn’t cruelty, it’s a tactic to kill, it’s a simple as that.

Yeh, Dawn Blanchard agrees

@@itsnotme3882 these animals only killed people in captivity. They never did it in the wild. NEVER.

THESE SO CALLED GENTLE GIANTS, ORCA'S ARE BEING BRUTALIZED AT SEAWORLD, ACROSS THE US AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR INVESTOR'S AND OWNER'S POCKETBOOKS! THE ORCA'S LIVE IN TANKS NO LARGER THAN THEMSELVES! LIKE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, WHEREAS THEY USE TO LIVE IN THE WIDE OPEN SEA! THEY ARE ROBBED OF THEIR NORMAL LIFE IN SEA WATER AND PUT IN SMALL OVERCHLORINATED POOLS! THEY LOSE ALL SENSE OF NORMALCY AND THEN THEY SNAP AND KILL TRAINER'S!! THE ORCA'S MUST BE RELEASED TO THE OCEAN AGAIN AND IT MUST BE MANDATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! NO MORE KILLING ORCA'S AND DOLPHIN'S! STOP SEAWORLD!

We don't know who she was, she was just arriving back to land. But surely she has been unlucky !!!

You don't blame HIM for the orca's decline, right?

@@CoreyMillionaire2029 We should blame them. They were an awful generation that killed everything that moved.

@@acjohn6995 They're trying to make amends and help them now, I'll bet.

He admired them but his generation tried to wipe them out that's so two face and pure stupidity

@@acjohn6995 Much like the current generation, especially where the US is concerned. How many millions are slaughtered globally in illegal US wars? This is a human problem, not confined to one generation. It's just that humanity is generally a shitty species.

More like INK I thought, it was amazing

It's beautiful

A truckload of it. When it bled out, it gushed. That was so surprising. Great footage.

The constant ramming,don't forget about that,It feels like being rammed by mini truck

I think they are going for a specific organ in the seal, like the liver. I know they do this with sharks at least.

Why would they care about a seal's teeth? They are not worried at all they are training young ones on hunting skill here they are not hungry. Only 1 is needed to kill a seal

How u know its female from tue the sky

they're not threatened by the seals mouth at all

Urrrh, no shit, they are bigger. It's like a bus hitting an suv. Both are big, but the bus will obviously win

Orca - 7,000 lbs / Elephant Seal 4,000 lbs

​@@HulkVahkiin why are you arguing against yourself

@@gerardomonreal8513 What argument is there? I'm just making a statement LOL

@@HulkVahkiin *woosh*🤦

No big sharks in that area

Thank you so much for your comment, really appreciated ! Will try to post more footages soon ! Spread the voice ;-)

True

Maybe because this is brutal to watch. Not many people want to see things like this...

@@ElephantSealResearchGroup Adding music on top might help. Just a suggestion.

@@Vingul you are right, I need to work on this ! Thanks !

Yep but that's nature. Elephant seals also eat other animals so it's the cycle of life.

@@dieterrosswag933 I mean that was a LOT of blood probably died fairly quickly

@@user-hv2cq9we1s fairly quickly?!?! They were throwing her broken body around for a good time whilst still alive.

@@TeunR Yeah that wasn't quick, that was the equivalent of being beaten to death

The fear arent great as human, if they have oursense of fear, they will stayed at land mostly

Yes ! And they are not small at all !!!

tones*

Males only

@@johnnybussart4721 That's why it says "up to" 🙄

Yes, and even females can be up to 8-900 kilos !

@@tomatonater9660 tonnes stupid.

Yes, it is a matter of food but surely also a social/learning event

@@ElephantSealResearchGroup The seal was NOT gonna go down with a fight though. She looked like she was trying to take a bite out of the orcas when they came at her!

No elephant seal would go down easily. Their teeth could cause some serious damage.

Tiring it out also ensures lesser risk to the orcas. Elephant seals are no joke. They weigh several tonnes and they have sharo teeth. They could overwhelm it and it would be gone but it will attack them and someone would get bitten or smacked and hurt badly. In the wild where there are no doctors this can be fatal.

Elephant seals have over three times the amount of blood as humans per kg of body weight to allow them to dive long and deep when foraging for food. About a quarter of their body weight is pure blood. If you reckon her body weight to be in the order of 500-600kg she has over 100 liters of blood pumping through her system which is a lot to be released at once.

Totally agree.

Wild dogs attack about the same, biting and ripping apart. I can't imagine the bite of a 35 foot orca.

Nature is probably the best for of art

I know, in particular if the water is not completely clear and still.

Remember some of these orca are as long as a school bus 38'

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I know !

I know, it looks so sad for the prey, but it\s probably all part of their hunting technique and also teaching to their calf

Thanks !

I’m speculating, and my physiology knowledge is human based so I could be wrong: the constant ramming of the elephant seal by the whales would cause enormous internal injuries. That blood is absolutely arterial blood based on how vibrant it is. However, elephant seal blubber can be 6 inches thick so I suspect that the aorta had dissected within the body cavity as a result of the physical trauma and 2:52 is simply where the whales first pierce through the blubber of the seals torso, releasing the build up of internal bleeding

@@TDWPown THank you for that, it was quite explosive.

So is nature !

Its alright to feel for prey animals

I don't

@@spermchef2731 Just remember, the seals are also predators.

@@rogerrabbit80 Yeah, they even eat penguins... ;(

Just think of the poor penguins this seal terrorizes.

Woahh!!

They kill because they're bored. They won't even eat all of it unless they're starving. They prefer certain parts of animals. With lion seals, they'll throw them through the air and smack them to each other with their tails.

Birds always going crazy with all that blood !

like almost every wild animal :D

no, it's that they toy and play with you before eating you alive. look at how much they beat this seal up before blood was drawn. You can see it unconscious or dead before the blood.

They always do that, initially they do not bite, but just hit the prey with their head. This causes internal fractures and bleeding, basically making the prey harmless.

It is !!!

Wrong. It's the kraken

They are not whales, they are dolphins.

@@samlebon9884 even dolphin is a whale.

@@multifandom8274 technically true

Naaahhh its not. Its the tilapia fish!

Freaky shit indeed! 😟

Not the best dream ever 😬

You were probably a seal once or killed by them.

Hmmm, wonder what it means, look up " dreaming of a whale"

@@niamtxiv shit I hope not 😂

Amazing animals !

Not many big sharks around there :-)

Yes, drones are helping study wildlife a lot ! You can observe behaviour very well, which is quite amazing !

Ask the walrus how strong the bite was. Stop guessing 🤣

Totally !

Well that was a big elephant seal female, probably 700 kilos or more...

I think the orcas are the marine humans

Yup, it was not fake! 😯

Crazyyyyy, yes !!!

They want to get their kill away from that blood spill so they don’t get harassed by sharks looking to steal a bite