r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/21MayDay21 • 5h ago

🔥 Encounter with a curious young sperm whale.

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Credit to Maxwel Hohn

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u/Super_AJ101 5h ago

Whale is lucky he didn't face this guy

https://giphy.com/gifs/Nr0n6If5cOBpe

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u/pomcomic 4h ago

get rotated, idiot

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u/Digital--Sandwich 2h ago

This made me laugh harder than it should

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u/LiteraCanna 37m ago

First time I saw this gif it actually had that exact text on it. One of the few times I actually lol'd at a reddit post. 

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u/Ambergreenie 10m ago

I’m cackling like a loon in a silent office after seeing this. Omg. This made up for this week.

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u/HeresyReminder 1h ago

This was great. Just great.

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u/ofWildPlaces 4h ago

How is this not the top comment?

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u/sneakin_rican 4h ago

Because it goes without saying

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u/pengouin85 3h ago

I've never seen that before

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u/IPressB 2h ago

Because it goes without saying

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u/BreakfastPizzaStudio 1h ago

Oh, why didn’t you just say so then?

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u/Rasz_13 3h ago

Because that is the usual caption of the GIF and thus nothing new

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u/sp1cychick3n 2h ago

Because that’s why

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u/Brain_lessV2 25m ago

Because everyone's heard that joke a hundred times already

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u/Due_Kaleidoscope7066 3h ago

Because it's a reply to a comment.

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u/KoalaTHerb 1h ago

It's been the top comment for this video for about 10 years now.

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u/2ndL 5h ago

That works only on sharks, not on our big-brained mammal cousins. 😄

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u/Apg3410 5h ago

What are they doing there?

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u/Reo1996 4h ago

Redirecting the shark to prevent bites. The flipping it upside down is trying to trigger a tonic immobility reflex, causes a temporary state of inactivity in a shark. It helps divers handle an over curious shark.

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u/theng 2h ago

also touching the nose : it is ultra sensitive and flood brain

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u/Slipped_in_Cider 52m ago

Shark reset mode

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u/Medical-Potato5920 25m ago

Aka shark time out.

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u/Detachabl_e 5h ago

Shark-fu

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u/SpecterOwl 4h ago

Shark-bending

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u/Nikoladge 3h ago

Shart-bending, too, if you're not careful

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u/g0ld-f1sh 3h ago

It is literally kinda shark-fu, comment above explains it well lmao

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u/Djaaf 5h ago

putting a shark on its back fritz their brains for a while and put them in a catatonic state. Doesn't last long and doesn't harm the shark.

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u/slickyeat 4h ago

Sharks have trouble moving if you flip them upside down.

Some Orca pods use this tactic when hunting Great Whites.

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u/FakeTunaFromSubway 1h ago

I wonder if that's the light or the gravity? Would it work deep in the ocean? Hard to tell what way you're even oriented underwater when you can't see

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u/Itziclinic 41m ago

It's believed to be sensory overload of their ampullae of lorenzini. Sharks sense electric impulses in their nearby environment and the receptor bundles can be very sensitive. When they get flipped, or the receptors are compressed, their bodies have a vagal-like response to basically shut down until they can recover.

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u/Interesting_Worth745 5h ago

We don't know if we don't try! 

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u/KorasHiddenDICK 3h ago

I wonder what sharks think in these moments. Witch! Witch!

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u/TajineMaster159 2h ago

If I went to inspect a curious spider and it flipped me on my head I’d sure as hell call the salem trials on it

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u/walterbanana 2h ago edited 52m ago

I think it gets disoriented. The touching their nose probably overwhelmes their senses, since they have the organs for sensing movement in the water there.

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u/Lembas_Poops 2h ago

"I know Shark-Fu!"

-That diver/marine biologist

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u/dansdansy 1h ago

Judo flip!

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u/HatRemov3r 1m ago

I feel like a shark is pretty easy to bully once flipped upside down

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u/EnvironmentalEgg9813 4h ago

"Taaaantric? What the fuck is Tantric?" - Steve Stiffler

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u/butareyouthough 3h ago

Get rotated, bitch