I am puzzled about the slow news in Australia, how does that relate to the article?
Is it a slow news day in Spain as well?
New Zealand residents were treated to a spectacular event just before New Year, when a beachside encounter between orcas and sharks turned into a surf-churning blood-in-the-water battle worthy of a cheesy horror flick. The bloody battle, captured on video by local residents, took place at Blue Cliffs Beach in Tuatapere in New …
It is pretty much the same place, get over it. Let us review the facts we know about areas. For the first contender we have:
Name: New Zealand
Type: Island
Location: Down to the right
And for the other one we have:
Name: Australia
Type: Island
Location: Down to the right
Yes, that is my hat and coat. Why do you a..oh, you want me to take it and leave, got it
if you have a quick Google you'll find all sorts of references.
such as this from the Torygraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6668575/Killer-whales-attack-and-eat-sharks.html
Being air breathing, Orcas can absorb far more oxygen than gill breathers so can develop a lot more power.
I have seen this and these fights are actually pretty dull.
The Orca hit the sharks and flip them on their backs. They then keep them upside down until they go into a catatonic state. Where the Orca will then start dining at their leisure.
In fight terms it would be a bit like watching Royce Gracie quickly choking out Arnold Schwarzenegger.
People need to forget the Free Willy image of Orca's. They're a bunch of clever, sadistic (seen what they do to seals?), eat-anything-including-you bastards.
Can't help but admire them though, and evolution for coming up with such an efficient air-breathing apex predator.
(For the creationists: What I meant was "Isn't god wonderful for coming up with these 6000 years ago?")
ive seen video footage of orcas taking on great whites and winning.
apparently all sharks become paralysed if they are turned upside down. so the orcas basically ram them from the underside while another distracts the shark. once upside down they stop them turning then they suffocate.
i think this was off the coast of San Francisco. impressive to watch.
"Yes, that is my hat and coat. Why do you a..oh, you want me to take it and leave, got it"
Only if you're in NZ - if you're in Oz they will have been stolen by now anyway, so just focus on the leaving part.
The essential difference between NZ and OZ is that being a Kiwi my ancestors actually bought tickets to get here, as opposed to being given a free overseas holiday.
Indeed. There's a certain tendency for Kiwi yobbos to believe that in NZ they'll be watched, but in a bigger arena they'll be anonymous. So bad behaviour is less likely to be punished.
Now that I think about it that's been going on for a long time. The NZ Army led by General Freyberg in the Second World War was known to some shocked allies as "Ali Baba and his forty thousand thieves".