"Orcas are probably the most cunning and organised predators on the planet." Orcas everywhere spit out their coffee in disbelief at the human saying this.

Orca: Organized mafia of the sea Great white: The tryhard tyrant Pilot whales: Organized yakuza Dolphins: Organized vigilantes Sword fish: Samurai Narwhal: Unicorn

Funny that it's called "Mobbing", when many birds repeatedly attack one bigger animal. Because "Mobbing" is the German word for "bullying"

Fox "Ooh Chicken buffet" Chicken *"Kid you don't know the power of T-Rex descendants"*

It blows my mind to think of all of these different species living their own little lives, passing down survival techniques, unaware of any of us, living without politics, finance, the complications of mankind. Truly life in its purest form.

Anyone who has ever owned chickens would not be surprised by that chicken vs fox story. They can be vicious!

"Sperm whales can make loud noises." Sperm Whales are the loudest animal on the planet.

Orca: we don’t want no smoke Willy ! Pilot whales: I can’t let you get close!😂

the thumbnail made this look like the ultimate clickbait vid but it turned out to be one of the most interesting and informative animal vids ive ever seen!

"Do not come between the Nazgu and its prey."

I love when you drop these 25 min videos❤️

17:48 re animals protecting human from sharks Marine biologist Nan Houser had an interesting interaction. A humpback whale used its body to block a shark from getting to the diver and then lifted the diver out of the water. She thought it was initially attacking her or at least being weirdly aggressive until she saw the shark. A year later, on a return visit to the area, the whale remembered her and they hung out for a while. Search "humpback saves diver"

This video covered a surprising range of topics for something nominally about what orcas found most threatening!

thats who orcas are afraid of the most: "now lets talk about pigs!" i love how the videos can get off topic 😂 love you WATOP!!!!

I guess most people don't get, that chickens naturally are predatory and under certain circumstances higly aggressive birds. Cock fights, even without the added blades, are brutal. There's also a lot of footage of roosters attacking and killing predators like cobras and smaller mammals. While wild chickens usually mostly eat insects and seeds, they wouldn't stop picking off small mammals, reptiles and amphibians when they encounter them.

Orcas have social calls. Where a bunch of pods will meet up. So you will see groups of 40-60 orcas helping each other hunt large prey. Just like pilot whales

I’m from malta and I can tell you our native rosters and hens are quite vicious and can do some damage especially if it’s a particularly aggressive roster.

I came for Orcas... Now I'm over here very interested in Crows... You guys are the next Vsauce. When they were around, and cool.

Narwhals traveling: 'Hey, Tim.. check this out, look over her.... AAHHH!! OMG!! MY EYE!! Why, Tim, why?!?'

When I was researching my book Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs: From Wild Boar to Baconfest, I found a wide range of reasons to be concerned about pigs, feral or domestic. As noted by Edward, Duke of York, in the 1400s, “The boar slayeth a man with one stroke, as with a knife." And in the U.S., feral pigs have been known to kill bears.

Chickens to the fox when it entered their coop: "Welcome to the Gulag"

Love this channel the commentary is so set in perfection. Funny too while you get to learn something.

WOW, THATS A INTERESTING ARTICLE! Thanks for information! John P.

Here in the Gold Coast of Australia, we've had sharks attacking surfers mainly because they sometimes mistaken surfers paddling on their board as turtles.

My guess is that the swordfish stabbed the thresher shark whilst both were hunting fish. Just because you can accelerate quickly under water doesnt mean you can stop quickly. If a swordfish accelerated towards a shoal of fish, if the thresher was on the other side and the swordfish was approaching from the thresher in a side-on collision it'd have no way to redirect or evade in time plunging into the thresher shark.

I have watched sparrows chasing off large hawks when defending their nests. The hawks are bigger and faster, but the sparrows can turn on a dime and can easily get behind the hawks and peck at them.

I hardly see this eagle, but I showed my nephew one...they are HUGE, I was outside of Harrisburg when spotting 2 in YORK, PA, they were hunting wild turkey.

If it's used for defense against orcas they wouldn't need to use it often as orcas are extremely intelligent and would understand there is easier prey in the ocean

i always find it funny how Black bears don't realize how deadly they are and act so skittish

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Maybe the pilot whales are aggressive toward the resident orcas because occasionally the roving nomadic orcas come by and eat them. I could see them not seeing a difference in the 2 groups.

You see, in ages past, unicorns were hunted to the point of fleeing further and further away from their forests into the icy lands. There, they learned to survive on fish, and gradually to swim. And slowly but surely, the unicorn became a narwhal.

If chickens are this frightening I can only imagine the nightmare T-rex really was.....

every day I look forwards to these videos! Awesome work!

I thought this was about to what orcas fear. 8 minutes about orcas,17 minutes that has nothing to do with orcas. I have had enough about sharks. Pigs,rats,walrus,polar bear,chickens,fox,raven. Are you trying to tell us that orca’s are afraid of them. Come on,you were one of my go to channels. This is regodamn diculous.

Orca can swim 35 miles an hour so this guy is confused

Neat video! The orca vs. pilot whale conflict is especially interesting.

Australian "ravens" are called crows. Yes, the Willie Wag Tail is a persistent cheeky bird :-)

As fast as swordfish are, maybe it accidentally stabbed a thresher shark in a feeding frenzy. Swordfish are very fast, and divers filming them have been afraid that they may get gored by accident in a frenzy.

Fun fact not all narwhals have tusks, and a few, including one on display at the Sant Ocean Hall, have two. They are noticeably absent in most females-a mere 15 percent of females have an elongated tusk-like the males.

Orcas aren’t affraid of no one. They are in the summit

"Orcas are probably the most cunning and organized predators on the planet..." Humans: "Am I joke to you?"

Yayyyy WATOP posted

Swordfish and Threshers have similar feeding patterns, just using opposite ends of the body. I'd guess that to be an incidental encounter during a meal.

I love this channel💞 you guys talking about pilot whales made me look up if they're big dolphins like Orcas, they are. Maybe that's why they're fighting, Pod wars!!

Let's just agree that all creatures in the order Odontoceti (toothed wales & dolphins) are fucking terrifying. Most hunt in packs, communicate with haunting calls including sperm whales which are the loudest creatures on earth, and will sometimes kill just for fun. So cool, but so scary.

😁 Those are juvenile orcas. They were probably on a play date and MUCH larger moms nearby. What a thrill! 😁

Boars are frightening! I also love how scientists negate almost any "supposed" fact, like polar bearrs throwing things off cliffs to stun walrus. Of course they also made fun of sailors talking about giant waves. For that matter they were rather disdainful regarding continental drift back in the day as well. There's plenty more examples. Sadly, generally speaking, the scientific community doesn't seem as open to other ideas as they should be. Edit: As the video went on, I thought should post another thought.

pigs are one of the few animals if release or escape from captivity start to change back into a more wild state

9:15 The Turtle 🐢 is holding his head up like : “ I don’t care, I just killed a Great White Shark 🦈 “ !!!😅

In Nature, it's called, 'Balance'!!! 💖👍

Pilot whales roll deep in the deep😂😂😂

I'm surprised how useful the content is given the tabloid voice of the narrator ^^

Crazy. First time I've ever even heard or seen this animal. Thx

Most shark attacks on people happen to people on the surface. They might look like a seal or other food. Divers are seldom attacked because they don't look like food.

The predator-prey relationship is in no way clear-cut. The natural-weapon-science of boars' tusks and such is fascinating. Predators have to get into position to maximize the efficacy of their compact and efficient teeth and claws, they have the elements of surprise and initiative on their side. 'Prey' animals like pigs have only a brief window to react to have a say in the outcome. However, 'prey' can counter the predators' evolutionary investments by going into the opposite direction of "use it rarely but carry a big stick" weapon philosophy - for instance a pig need only wildly swing to the side with its big gnarly tusks in time to sideswipe and gouge the attacker. In the natural world such injuries are a death sentence to predators.

Dolphin's have been known to get over enthusiastic around humans , and play and drown said human , keeping a snorkelling dude underwater for kilometres, amazing behaviour .GO Figure

This guy switches subjects like a stoplight

If you remember this you deserve a veterans discount: Narwhals, Narwhals Swimming in the ocean Causing a commotion Coz they are so awesome Narwhals, Narwhals Swimming in the ocean Pretty big and pretty white They beat a polar bear in a fight

In rare cases there has been one in every pod that has two tusks

learned a LOT! thank you

In the wizard of Oz in the very beginning when Dorthy falls into the pig pen I always thought the uncles were being dramatic when pulling her out. Then I found out how dangerous pigs are

I’m sorry WATOP but 80 shark attacks a year is just a really rough estimate of how many actually take place. I love sharks always have always will but In South Africa Eluxolweni to be specific hundreds of men die every year trying to illegally collect abalones. These attacks go unreported because they would essentially be giving up their lively hood and freedom to report a shark attack. These guys literally swim across a shark Highway to make money from a crustacean to feed their families and have been doing it for years. No one will ever be able to even estimate how many shark attacks actually happen in a years time or even 100 years time because tons of them go unreported

Interesting . I dont know much about pilot whale and never knew they would attack Orcas as Orcas seem to fight anything in the ocean with no real fear unless you're talking about the Adult great whales.

Orcas are most afraid of SeaWorld trainers 😢

Just want to say thank you I watch your channel all the time most of the stuff I see in there I already know but it's interesting and entertaining but today I learned something about pilot 👍

I've read before that porcupine quills have antibiotics in them (because they get quills stuck in themselves sometimes), so they eventually will get pushed out and not usually get infected. Also, I know as well that leopards can also hunt porcupines; there's footage of leopards in African reserves hunting porcupines by exploiting how their quills launch. The quills launch on their own when the guard hairs beneath are touched - the leopard gets behind the porcupine, which is easy for the leopard because that's the porcupines natural defence position, but instead of going headfirst, the leopard carefully brushes the back of the porcupine while keeping postured to the side, to trigger the quills without getting hit. They'll keep doing that until all the quills are released. Would be cool to see explored more in a future video.

The game changer is the mass and density of Orcas. It's like Spiderman fighting Superman.

I've never realised hiw big narwhals are! Usually they are swimming around alone. But seeing them right next to orcas amazed me! I thought they were as bid as dolphins.

I don't think I've seen this animal before 😯 their so coool

What do you call a fish with a cocaine habit? A snortfish

4:08 "...can make loud noises..." lol. it's funny 'cause that's an understatement. I hear it's a very deadly sonic wave

Lots of people don’t know about Pilot Whales, they are not as big as Orcas but the can get big enough to fight Orcas, plus they swim in much larger pods, I’d say Pilot Whales for the win, when I saw the video of all them Orcas getting chased off by the Pilot whales I was “Oh shit” how come I never herd of these animals.

I wonder if narwhal teeth are more used a a sensory mechanism. I'd like to see how they transfer sound and sensation. Instead of breaking ice, maybe they use them to gauge how thick the ice is.

I really appreciate how accurate this channel really is, as compared to the rest. The production, scripts, editing, narration, research and consistency are so TOP you'd expect and perhaps forgive the occasional mistake... But I've literally never noticed any misinformation. You really are TOPS. 💖 Thanks for this video and all the interesting and beautiful photography. I love Cetaceans and could never get enough! 😊

I believe there's a good chance that human involvement I eat the net the shark was caught in killed it. A sea turtles corpse would start decay after a couple days or maybe even a week or two. All the sharks had to do was wait and keep breathing which is very difficult when caught in a net. Or eventually just keep biting down over and over until all the teeth break.

There’s a story of 2 guys sailing along in their sailboat. One guy was below deck and the guy at the helm heard a loud thump and after no answer from below he lashed the helm and went below. There he found his buddy pierced with the sword of a swordfish through the side of the boat through his companion. In guessing the authorities didn’t need to investigate the death as a homicide.

That's one heck of a weapon.

narwhals actually die if they are too scared. they will have a panic attack and die (they are like the shy cousin). also their tusk is actually quite flexible and sensitive. they don't use it to attack but more sense like an antenna on a bug. Its like a tooth, teeth can be quite sensitive and so is their tooth.

A little off subject but I’ve always thought of the manatee as a vegetarian or herbivore, which I later found out to be 100% false. I have witnessed manatee eating fish and was completely shocked.

Adding onto the dolphin one, they don't just not protect humans, it's not super uncommon for them to actively try to drown or s-assault or both to humans

My guy slurping coffee in the intro like its something he done before 😂

" Australian Raven " Raven: Mate, I'm a Crow.

Those chickens ganging up on the fox and killing it reminds me of how Japanese honey bees are known to kill Giant Asian Hornets, their natural predators by balling up against any scouts that enter their hive and turning up the heat to essentially microwave the giant hornet to death.

sword fish generally aren't maliciously spearing marine wildlife, they swim so fast collisions are bound to happen, no doubt some spearings are in self defense but when things like whales turn up with a swordfish lodged in it and the sword through its heart it's hard to believe it's intentional

🐢Tiger shark: Hold my beer:

"Evolution has not given them hands either." Thank god. Sharks with hands would be horrifying.

There's growing evidence of pilot whales somehow scaring Orcas to the point where the Orcas flee from the area.However, apart from Orcas,no species of dolphins are actually capable of ramming large sharks with their rostrums (noses,beaks). It's got something to do with the structure and lack of strength to cope with a heavy impact and the dolphin would fatally wound itself

Narwhals were once Unicorns, driven into the Sea, by the Red Bull.... 😁

We should all be very concerned Orcas are dolphins not whales. Look how smart they are . Dolphins ,we should be wary of them. Love them but be wary of them. My opinion. ✌🤔🐩

These things, the Platypus & the Manatee & a Thresher Shark , & Swordfish need they're own TV sitcom show together since everyone always forgets about them because they're too busy on every other predator or fluffy cut looking animals

Amazing Video !! Well done !! This must have taken so much time and work to create . 🎸

Many years ago I was out surfing. It was stormy weather, and me and my buddies were catching waves. We split up so we wouldn't interfere with each other. We were quite a ways out from shore. When I looked around for my buddies, they were all on shore. I waved them to come out, but they were waving me to come in. I kept trying to wave them out. They gave me a signal to look behind me. When I did, I could see 4 shark fins coming right for me. I started paddling to shore as fast as I could. I kept looking behind me to see how long it would take before the sharks caught up. One time while I was looking behind me, I saw 2 dolphin fins also racing in to where I was. I made it to shore, but all of a sudden there was a ruckus in the ocean. Next thing I saw was the 2 dolphin fins swimming back out to sea. The ocean turned red with blood. Those 2 dolphins saved my life by killing the 4 sharks. I owe my life to those 2 dolphins 🐬. Thank you for sharing this video, it brought back memories of the day.

Im now feeling like pilot whales are the cape buffalo of the sea

You should've named the video "A bit of everything" since orcas take only few minutes of the whole damn 25 minutes video. That was a chaotic video...

OMG IM CRYYING ITS TAKEN ME LIKE 2 YEARS TO FIND THIS CHANNLE

The tusks could be for vibration locating techniques

I love the narrators voice. So nice and human! Porcupine fish? I thought they were called puffer fish...

We need to see a Porcupine versus a honey badger 😂 the two top dogs of weird luck

Bro, Im 47, and this is the first time I hear about this fish 😂