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A giant school of mackerel mass together for protection as they are picked off by tuna and dolphins.
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@joycarver3087 2 года назад

Mackerel: gather in something called a bait ball as a defense strategy. Also mackrel: all die in said bait ball. Ok then lol.

@bluedasher74 12 лет назад

I actually felt bad for the mackerel at the end, LOL

@WelcometoAshLand Год назад

I was today years old when I found out birds could deep dive under water.

@Smokinspree 2 месяца назад

You didn’t grow up watching nature docs huh

@Lokki76 12 лет назад

I genuinely want to know how this is an efficient survival strategy. Maybe it works MOST of the time? It sure didn't work for those guys((

@Bredification 12 лет назад

How is this arrangement successful or advantageous?

@benmstewie 12 лет назад

Birds swimming under water?! DAFUQ!

@benjaminhutchison3419 10 дней назад

I don't think the bait ball has ever worked, it should be abandoned, I hope there's a mackerel reading this who can tell his mackerel friends before it's too late

@calixa 12 лет назад

nature is just unbelievable!

@sarah5879034 12 лет назад

HOLY MACKEREL!

@sch001b0y 12 лет назад

swimming birds?! Now I've seen it all.

@thousandin1 3 года назад

Mackerel sashimi is my favorite, I can't see how anyone could turn down that huge buffet

@ChewylovesSlits 12 лет назад

a feast for kings! poor little mackerel... :D

@SniperMod90 12 лет назад

And if you are a tuna, you would wish to be human again lol...

@ShinnyPenny12 12 лет назад

WTF SEAGULLS CAN SWIM?

@hushichou201147 12 лет назад

If I was a mackerel, I'd be wishing that I were a tuna.

@Soarin_Skys 2 года назад

F for Kokomi

@FUreplygirl 12 лет назад

Could you imagine the sheer terror the mackrel must have experienced while enduring this!!! Peta should hold a protest and throw red paint at the tuna!

@occy86 12 лет назад

biodiversity at its best this is a total beauty!

@tbsdrummer87 12 лет назад

ok seein the birds go down with the tuna and dolphins around in there was bad ass

@blackhog42 12 лет назад

When frikkin BIRDS are SWIMMING to catch your ass, your giant fish ball is FAIL.

@OrderRealm 12 лет назад

HOLY MACKEREL is that were the saying comes from?

@Bredification 12 лет назад

It may be said in the video, but you can surmise that it doesn't work very well since it ends with complete death. If the video ends with the death of all of them, then it doesn't discourage predators. The video is, therefore, proof of the lack of a use for this formation; this gathering makes them die. If they die, then there is no discouraging of large predators, and it is bad for them. Hence the question, "how is this arrangement advantageous?" , since they all die through large predators.

@brandonterry6194 2 месяца назад

GRATITUDE💥🐟💥

@AgtBauer24 12 лет назад

lol sucks to be bottom of the food chain.... they'd prob have better luck spreading out and making a run for it instead of being an gigantic visible ball for larger fish and birds.

@M0DiFiEDZ 12 лет назад

It's like those fish were hypnotized to stay & get eaten.

@BrandonElps 2 месяца назад

So you telling me that they've been using this baitball for thousands of years as a defense mechanism and it never has worked once i wonder have they considered it not a defense mechanism but a suicide mechanism because fish arent dumb they do things like this for a reason guess we'll never know

@williamb223 12 лет назад

Dumbeat? You just owned yourself, lol.

@Zkang100 12 лет назад

not realy, it may have been more successful than it is today, the predators evolve to you know

@bkjeong4302 9 лет назад

EPIC FAIL for the mackerels. Normally this confuses the predators, but only when there are a lot more fish in the ball.

@Jaesango 12 лет назад

it says its supposed to help but their video shows it doesn't

@ha1ogen 12 лет назад

dam nature you amazing!

@faiz434 12 лет назад

It is mentioned in the video....

@Myhopeisinhim 12 лет назад

mackerel in the middle? hehe

@Bredification 12 лет назад

You originally replied with an idea about how this was advantageous. You are absolutely right when you directed back to the video, but we are all looking for a more comprehensive answer than what was given in the video. You can't expect to please everyone all the time, anyway. I also wasn't attempting to mess with you; I am just wary of people messing with me. Have a nice day or night, depending on your time zone, and don't stop trying to help people out. The internet is hostile, though...

@DemonBlade008 12 лет назад

Lol seriously? Imagine if fucking hamburgers or some shit were flying in mid air, in large numbers like that. You'd have a damn nice meal, that's for sure.

@alden009 12 лет назад

Those who are in the middle are lucky

@sandyturley1954 12 лет назад

That's why Mackerel is so expensive at the store.

@DeimosEclipse 12 лет назад

At this point shouldn't mackerel be extinct from, you know, sheer stupidity?

@ostube111 12 лет назад

I have nothing to say about this but I am feeling hungry now ..

@Bredification 12 лет назад

I am guessing, upon retrospection, that it is a strategy against somewhat larger predators and not anything dolphin sized. At the same time, it is almost suicidal. There is probably some form of self sacrifice going on, to make this a viable life strategy. It is probably at a similar time to their breeding, that this goes on, and the bits and bobs that come off of the fish feed microorganisms that would otherwise eat their fertilized eggs. I am no expert, though.

@faiz434 12 лет назад

Didn't you even listened to the video?

@squidmilk97 12 лет назад

good to see those type of fish eat dat many fish

@faiz434 12 лет назад

And that is it supposed to ward off predators, but it didn't so the arrangement isn't successful or advantageous at all

@nacho591 12 лет назад

thank you mackerel for making tuna so fat and juicy

@BADFISHHHHHH 12 лет назад

wtf... swimming birds?

@06livefast 12 лет назад

Then that ruins the joke!

@rosanglura 12 лет назад

Filet-o-fish.

@sdavdevi7062 12 лет назад

maha puji tuhan mahanya maha, tanpa ijin dari mu amat teramat untuk di pahami

@Danboy535 12 лет назад

This is making me hungry

@NeroSenpai1234 12 лет назад

Mackeral are probbly the dumbeat fish in the sea

@ASEMALOBAID 12 лет назад

سبحان الله

@plc159 12 лет назад

There are two survivors

@JesusRamirez-oh6wc 3 года назад

Bad strategy, back to the design board nature.

@simoncpu 12 лет назад

Omnomnomnomnom...

@jeffrivera6 11 лет назад

they want to die with dignity.. :))

@faiz434 12 лет назад

Well then the answer he's looking for is all in the video.

@06livefast 12 лет назад

You're just too clever.

@Zelgraz1 12 лет назад

so many lil fishys died

@faiz434 12 лет назад

How am I troll? He can find what he ask for in the video.

@Dylan20121 12 лет назад

oooohh i get it, you repeated what i said. ahahah, how original

@Dimdaku 12 лет назад

Mackerels are pretty dumb, aren't they?

@eezz5 12 лет назад

well thats a pretty big fail

@pie1689 12 лет назад

omg what a fail bait :(

@sandyturley1954 12 лет назад

WoW sensitive!

@bloodcicle3986 11 лет назад

I was going to say the something similar. :)

@lucianabaez6577 10 лет назад

My Biology teacher is making me watch this

@MurkyMists 12 лет назад

If i wz a mackerel id make an epic,heroic kamikaze break from tha pack straight down 2wards tha sea bed,,, He who dares! lol

@Ambersheeep 11 лет назад

Decimate means to tenth, not to completely destroy. aren't these national geo guys meant to know something like that. its common knowledge.

@osborneist 12 лет назад

That's fish genocide they need to take that seriously!!!!

@faiz434 12 лет назад

0:12 to 0:20

@faiz434 12 лет назад

So the answer is, it is not at all, as evident in the video. There. You know what I won't bother replying anybody in this comment section anymore...

@Dylan20121 12 лет назад

don't cry. its just a joke

@Bredification 12 лет назад

I sense a troll, but whatever. I am guessing, upon retrospection, that it is a strategy against somewhat larger predators and not anything dolphin sized. At the same time, it is almost suicidal. There is probably some form of self sacrifice going on, to make this a viable life strategy. It is probably at a similar time to their breeding, that this goes on, and the bits and bobs that come off of the fish feed microorganisms that would otherwise eat their fertilized eggs. I am no expert, though.