Speaking of dolphins, the first thing that comes to mind should be cute and slippery. As an animal whose IQ ranks can be in the top five in the animal kingdom, dolphins are intelligent and docile. Dolphins are known as "human friends", which stems from a habit of dolphins, when dolphins find drowning people, they will withstand drowning people underwater until they are sent back to the shore, it is this innate act of kindness that harvests the favor of humans for it, so dolphins are also called "lifeguards at sea".
Don't look at the dolphins look cute, and they will not take the initiative to attack people or other animals, but this does not mean that dolphins are easy to bully, on the contrary, in the sea, dolphins are objects that even sharks dare not provoke. The reason is simple, dolphins are social animals, and have a certain degree of aggression, which is "good tiger but a group of wolves".
Dolphins are the most representative animals of the dolphin family, but they are by no means the only member of the dolphin family, which has a total of 31 different animals, most of which are close to the appearance of dolphins. However, there is a member of the dolphin family who is more ferocious than any member of the same family. It's killer whales.
Killer whales believe that everyone is not strangers, some people say that killer whales are not a kind of whale? How did you become a dolphin? In fact, dolphins, like killer whales, belong to the cetacean family. Killer whales are the largest of the dolphin family.
Adult killer whales are about 9 meters long and weigh about 9 tons, and the killer whale has about 50 conical sharp teeth in its mouth, which can easily tear off prey, and the dorsal fin of the killer whale is very personal, looking like a flag from a distance.
Killer whales are social carnivores, and their main prey is mostly large animals, such as seals, penguins and so on.
In nature, there is a saying that whether it is a carnivore or a herbivore, in the face of absolute power, all skills are decorations. This is best used for lions and elephants. This means that carnivores cannot pose a threat to herbivores in the face of a great disparity in power.
So how did killer whales become natural enemies of gray whales with an average weight of around 30 tons?
Gray whales are one of the larger of the marine life, adult gray whales grow up to more than 10 meters, weigh more than 30 tons, more than three times the weight of killer whales, and gray whales are also carnivores, and its food is mostly some small marine life. For example, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, fish, shrimp and crabs and so on. (It's hard to imagine that such a big piece of people actually likes to eat small animals, how much to eat to be full)
Unlike killer whales, gray whales prefer to live alone, and killer whales have seized on this weakness. Killer whales, like lions, go out hunting in groups, and although they are large gray whales, killer whales are not afraid, and with sharp teeth and the cooperation of the team, almost all the gray whales encountered by the killer whale swarm rarely escape.
Grey whales besieged by killer whales
Although gray whales can't beat swarms of killer whales, gray whales also have their own life-saving skills, that is, pretending to die. When gray whales encounter swarms of killer whales, they will put their belly up and then float on the surface of the sea, while gray whales are mainly based on fresh meat, so many times, gray whales rely on this method to escape the siege of killer whales several times.
In nature, everything is compatible with each other, and even the most powerful animals will have animals standing on top of this animal.
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