Killer whale v Great White shark

[Escudo]

Did anyone else see that documentary on the telly tonight?

Pictures of this Killer Whale attacking and killing a Great White shark of a similar size.

The Whale apparently stunned the shark and then held it in its jaws upside down on the surface. This caused the shark to sort of fall a sleep until it drowned.

How did the Whale know how to do this?

Another amazing aspect of the story is that all the other sharks in the area then left. Some hundreds of miles from the scene knew it had happened and scarpered.

It reminded me of this bloke who told me that this old cow worked out away to roll over the cattle grid to get to the lush grass in another field.

This was a clever cow. Anyway, apparently once he had worked it out cows nearby (not in the same herd) also started doing this. :shock:

He reckon that the cow told a crow and it flew to tell all the other cows and only those that were brave enough gave it ago.

I just think he was a crackpot. But you never know?

Tony.

 

[OPJ]

Yes, I saw this and I'm looking forward to next week's episode on carnivore hippos, wasn't it?! :twisted: Now, we know what you need in order to survive a shark attack - assuming you cannot blow it to smithereens with compressed air! :wink:

Killer whales appear to be very intelligent creatures - I was impressed by the way they create waves to knock the sea lions of the ice bergs!

 

[Smudger]

They might learn better because they live in social groups, rather like the reason why blue **** learned (en masse) to peck through foil milk bottle tops and robins didn't. There's an account
here.

 

[MikeG.]

It reminded me of this bloke who told me that this old cow worked out away to roll over the cattle grid to get to the lush grass in another field.

This was a clever cow. Anyway, apparently once he had worked it out cows nearby (not in the same herd) also started doing this. :shock:
Tony.

Tony,

yep, loved the shark vs whale documentary.....

The cow wasn't a cow, it was a sheep. In the Lake District, I believe, but may be wrong........and yes, not only did it work out how to do it itself, some of the others in the flock watched it and followed the same procedure.

That isn't actually that surprising, given the expression "follow like sheep", and most mammals learn from watching (as well as from instinct).

Did you see the capuchin monkeys smashing pine nuts with special rocks on "anvils".....after peeling them and leaving them to dry out for a week? It was on "Life" last week, but has been shown a number of times before.

I guess with the shark that there would have been some screams of distress as it was being killed, and that would have scared the others off.

Mike

 

[yo_chuci]

i saw clips of monkeys on the lash last night.
was on a show about a guy looking into alcoholism etc and its effects.
they ran tests on 14yr olds (and found they had a higher tolerance than thought) and also on monkeys because they had been seen stealing cocktails off holidayer's and then falling over and out of tree's smashed lol...
so the test used captured monkeys and they had free choice of liquid to drink and most went for the booze rather than the water.

 

[bugbear]

It reminded me of this bloke who told me that this old cow worked out away to roll over the cattle grid to get to the lush grass in another field.

This was a clever cow. Anyway, apparently once he had worked it out cows nearby (not in the same herd) also started doing this. :shock:
Tony.

Tony,

yep, loved the shark vs whale documentary.....

The cow wasn't a cow, it was a sheep. In the Lake District, I believe, but may be wrong........and yes, not only did it work out how to do it itself, some of the others in the flock watched it and followed the same procedure.

This sounds like an internet urban myth... and yet ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3938591.stm

BugBear

 

[Harbo]

Many moons ago I used to visit a farm which had a lone bull safely enclosed in a field.
The bull had a heavy cast iron sledge attached by a chain to his nose ring - the theory being if he tried to move too fast the chain would trip him up?

One day with the bull chomping away in the far distance I took a short cut through the field, thinking everything was safe, when I heard the sound of hooves getting nearer. The bull had learnt if he kept his head to one side he could still charge.
I was off like a shot and managed to escape by diving under the barbed wire gate - I still have the scar on my forehead to prove it!

Rod

 

[StevieB]

He reckon that the cow told a crow and it flew to tell all the other cows and only those that were brave enough gave it ago

Nah, they heard it on the bo vine...... 8-[

sorry, I'm going now!

Steve

 

[ste_5150]

A National Sheep Association spokeswoman said: "Sheep are quite intelligent creatures and have more brainpower than people are willing to give them credit for."

What is even more surprising is that there is a National Sheep Association..... Must be fun people..... :shock: :lol:

 

[woodbloke]

It reminded me of this bloke who told me that this old cow worked out away to roll over the cattle grid to get to the lush grass in another field.

This was a clever cow. Anyway, apparently once he had worked it out cows nearby (not in the same herd) also started doing this. :shock:

He reckon that the cow told a crow and it flew to tell all the other cows and only those that were brave enough gave it ago.

I just think he was a crackpot. But you never know?

Tony.

I thought for a minute Tony, that you'd found some 'extra aromatic' 'baccy for the pipe :lol: :lol: - Rob

 

[CHJ]

We had a rather active Boar that kept demolishing a hawthorne hedge to get to his preferred enjoyment.

Putting an electric wire along the hedge stalled his wanderings for two days until he learnt that lying on his side and wriggling like a snake got him past it.

Amusing thing was that when he was put back in the same field a few weeks later with no electric fence he still used the same method of passing from one field to the other through the hedge, guess like most pigs he should have gone to specsavers.

 

[BradNaylor]

The cow wasn't a cow, it was a sheep. In the Lake District, I believe, but may be wrong........
Mike

The sheep rolling over the cattle grid story came originally from Blanau Ffestiniog in North Wales. Brian Redhead on the Today programme gave it much prominance - it obviously tickled him immensely..