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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained 📽 by @facundo._.garcia Orcas risk their lives to hunt sea lions at Península Valdés, Argentina, employing a fierce tactic that exploits the region’s rare flat beaches, smooth with pebbles, during high tide to target animals with a high success rate. These beaches are uniquely suited to this hunting style because their gentle slope and slick, rounded pebbles allow orcas to surge onto shore with a tail thrust and wiggle-slide back to safety. High tides provide water depth and wave momentum to support their 12,000-pound bodies and assist retreat, whereas rocky or sandy coasts might beach the orca for good. Dense sea lion colonies, who are vulnerable on land due to clumsy movement, cluster close to the water’s edge on these open shores, enabling the cunning orcas to grab them before they can escape. This strategy’s extreme risk overshadows its effectiveness: if an orca misjudges the high tide’s narrow window, its 12,000-pound body strands on the slick pebbles, and without the water’s buoyancy to keep it afloat, gravity presses the orca’s massive frame downward, gradually compressing the lungs and heart against its ribcage over time, causing organ collapse as tissues are starved of oxygen. This restriction prevents full breaths, leading to progressive oxygen deprivation, while the orca’s body, unable to dissipate the heat of the sun since they are usually underwater, begins to overheat, accelerating dehydration that shuts down vital functions, as seen in a 2022 incident where a pregnant orca died after stranding. Most beaches lack the flat, pebbly terrain, tides you can set a watch to, or dense sea lion colonies required for this maneuver, making the coast of Península Valdés nearly unmatched for this high-stakes hunt, where orcas balance survival against the constant threat of a lethal stranding. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nature Is Metal is powered by you! Did you record a wild video that you would like to get featured here? natureismetal.com/submissions is the absolute best place to send it. Our team checks the submission page daily

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𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐇 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐄
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Can I pet that dog

Reuben "Peter Parker" Samuels
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APEX.

Nathan Herbert
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If reincarnation is real. I hope I can come back as an orca.

SàenZ
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This is prime example why even 2 feet in the ocean is 2 feet 2 deep for me 😂😂😂 we was in cali, and we saw 3 seals pull up 5 feet from people and he dipped out but the locals just swam with em. All im thinking is what eats seals

The Chief💥
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“ I’m gonna just dip my feet in “ 🤣🤣

Dahlika Tanith
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Son hermosas, y grandes depredadores alfa 🙌

Julián Mansilla
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ARRR GENNN TINAAA ARRR GENNN TINAAA

Maggie McCarthy
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their lips are sealed

Jamie
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19,000 psi

De Douglas | Fashion Designer | Founder + Creator
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Humans see a dorsal fin in the water and we like “nahhhh I’m out” sea lions and seals see dorsal fins and they like…”certainly that thing not tryna kill me”

Alejo Márquez 🌒
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ARHENTINA!

Pequeño Bribon
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La cara contra la piedra y la arena en busca de piel y huesos

Luis Burgueño
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Groso @facundo._.garcia

supjuan
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When you drop your Dodger Dog in the stands and you have to crawl through the beer under the seats to get it!

Tanner
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Is that tune ‘ talk show host’? Radio head?

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