Coordinated hunting: tonic immobility & liver extraction

23:47pushes the shark up to the surface. Then another orca just like punches it, okay? Causing bleeding. And then there's two others that swim around the shark to make it go upside down. M. >> And then once the shark is upside down, you get this thing called tonic immobility where the shark can't really move. >> And then while that shark can't really move, the other orcas then eat out its liver and like they bring out its liver and that photo had the liver there and then they share it with the kids. Inter Oh that are kind of in the waiting in the wings. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That have sort of been like a part of this but not really. >> Right. Right. Right. >> Right. And then and then they had a second encounter two years later at the

24:28same exact spot which suggests that it's predictable. It's seasonal hunting pattern. This time it was an adult male, adult female, two subad adults and a calf. And this time the kid did nothing. Just like wait until juvenile white shark again. Uh much smaller than the orca gets wrecked. And then shark starts bleeding, liver is exposed, they eat the liver and only the liver because the liver is super nutrient-rich >> and has a bunch of like, you know, bang for buck. >> Yeah. And it's per pound. And it seems like they're trying to give it for the young. >> Yeah. They're saving stuff for the young. >> I thought that was really cool. >> That's really interesting. >> Yeah. It's it's a pretty cool toolkit. I mean, they they obviously they're on boats, but a lot of the video and a lot

25:09of the analysis comes from the video from uh DJI Phantom 4 Pro, which is one of those, you know, one of those drones. So, drone photography has really >> revolutionized marine ecosystem behavioral monitoring, right, and sightings. Cuz it looks like there's there it was a multiplatform observation system. There were surface, aerial, underwater, and photo identification. So, it's a multimodal Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And and and the the the trick that they're using is kind of interesting. They're using they're weaponizing tonic immobility. If you've seen like the shark, you know, people who like go in the middle of sharks and they're like nothing's going to happen because I'm going to poke its nose. What they're I

25:49think a lot of times what they're trying to do is like turn it upside down and then it just like freezes and like there's like tricks. But it's cool that like orcas have like figured this out