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Friday, March 11, 2005

*{Survival of the Fittest}*

I watch Animal planet till late last night. Was quite sad but resigned that this is the way of life and this is important to the massive food chain.

Ttwo adult male Killer Whales in pursuit of a mother and calf Gray Whale. It was an incredible sight to see the two males leaping after the Grays in perfect synchrony. After a short pursuit the two males worked as a team to block the Gray Whales' movement. They showed awesome power as the males repeatedly bashed into and body slammed the calf.

Killer Whales are the top predators of the ocean and the only natural predator of the Gray Whale. These events have been occurring for thousands of years and only recently have been filmed and studied.

The mother Gray doesn't have many defenses against the Killer Whales who are just after her calf. The mother often rolled belly up and attempted to keep her calf on her belly and out of the water. But the Killer Whales were intent on pursuing the calf and one adult female Killer Whale positioned herself in a dangerous area between the mother Gray and calf in an attempt to separate the calf. While this female stayed in-between, several other adult females rammed the calf and grabbed onto its flippers.

During this attack, the calf showed amazing resilience in its fight for life, and the terror in the eye of the calf was heartwrenching, but the Killer Whales also had several calves with them and they were learning to hunt and feed on this very important food source, not unlike wolves or lions hunting their prey. Eventually one female Killer Whale got on top of the exhausted and injured calf to finally drown it.

Guess what?! After so much action, the killer whales ONLY EAT THE LOWER JAW AND TONGUE!

Life Suckz!!

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