@@bkjeong4302 hmmmm sorry but your wrong. “To compliment dolphins' superior intelligence is their incredible speed. They can swim faster than most shark species making them an elusive meal not worth the chase.” They may not be as fast as the likes of a mako but a mako wouldn’t prey on a dolphin and certainly doesn’t have the endurance of the dolphins. Once the dolphins know the shark is there is a no contest, sharks really on ambush
@@andywatson29 Dolphins aren't actually as fast as people think (they have a 30mph speed limit due to cavitation causing physical damage beyond that point). And sharks are faster than people tend to give them credit for. Makos do hunt dolphins, and it is false that sharks are unable to keep up top speed for extended periods-the open-water predators like makos and great whites can and do outright chase down targets; even if a shark misses the first strike it still has a decent chance of chasing down a dolphin or seal and making the kill (plenty of videos of great whites doing just that). Even the intelligence gap isn't actually as significant as people assume-sharks are MUCH smarter than people realize (on par with terrestrial mammalian carnivores like cats). They are not running on blind instinct.
More likely a territorial defense response or a response to the threat that the dolphin represented, after all that dolphin was much larger than that shark.
Is shark considered as a territorial animal? It's new for me... I thought since sea animal moving all day long and more like a nomadic, they don't have a clear territorial.. But who knows i might be wrong :)
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The idea dolphins attack and killed sharks is largely a myth. Unless they have a massive size advantage individually (and even then, not always as shown here), dolphins tend to come out second best against sharks. Even orcas rely heavily on their massive size advantage on the rare occasions they kill great whites.
@@kuroyasha4414 Except that dolphins actually DO come out second best against sharks unless the shark is smaller than them, even in groups. Intelligence isn't that useful if you're not physically capable of putting it to use. Not to mention that the intelligence gap isn't even that big, because sharks are nowhere near as stupid as the public tends to think they are. They're not instinct-driven any more than, say, a dog or cat is.
That dolphin was like “Oh come on I thought all the kids were in for the evening. I just wanted to get a walk in before my shows come on and who left this little bugger unsupervised? Huh?”. 😂
Everybody here sees him/herself like an authority on the matter... spreading machistic nonsense about dolphins beeing immune from sharks, "this shark is been just lucky" and other crap. Everybody forget that even a small shark like this can do a way more serious damage than the dolphin, just with a bite... Sharks eat dolphins folks, they have even a dedicated hunting strategy for them; biting the caudal arterial and let them bleed to death/drowing because of the conseguent weakening. When you have a mouth that is literaly a meat grinder, but with teeth sharper than chirurgical scalpels... any bite you give can be lethal and this "little" shark is not less. There are no medical threatment in the wild... this dolphin knows it more than you i guess. Dolphins can mob the sharks, but only when they are more numerous and the shark is not bigger than them; in this last case they use an other strategy, with the faster members of the pods which work as bite and attract the shark far away from the rest of the pod, than they go away, when the shark is tired (a big shark like great white can be faster than a dolphine on burst, but, at high speed, it gets tired early due its mass) and they return to their pod. Mobbing against predators is quite common among social animals, corvids use the same strategy against owls, eagles, hawks and cats, all predators that can kill them if they catch them. It's a common behaviour among PREY which managed to push away PREDATORS they cannot outmatch in strenght. Dolphins do no exception.
You're mostly correct, except for the bit on dolphins being able to tire out a shark; sharks (specifically the large open-water predators like great whites) have much better stamina than people realize, so even then there is no guarantee the dolphin will escape. There are plenty of videos of great whites managing to capture mammalian prey like fur seals in extended pursuit even after missing the first strike.
@@bkjeong4302 Seals are not even distantly comparable to any cetaceans in matter of speed, hydrodynamics and stamina in a fast walk; they can only be more maneuverable. Regards dolphins and great whites, it's a matter of speed, such as i've jest put now in my comment, a very big shark cannot have more stamina than a dolphin, if it push too much on burst. Moving 3 tons at 50km per hour is not like moving 300 kg, it's not only a matter of stamina itself but also about overheating (a big animal will always overheat more than a smaller one, due to a worst ratio between surface and volume) to the other hand, at lower speed a great white can follow a prey even for hours (they are natural stalkers). Dolphins know this and so they provoke them to commit in sprints which will soon drain their stamina. By the way this is really the only card a pod of dolphins can use to save the day against a mature great white shark.
@@darklight6013 interesting, I have never heard of overheating being an issue for sharks, especially since most are exothermic. Great whites can actually are between endo and exothermic, and blue fin tuna can literally cook their muscles when trying to escape fishermen. What you suggest makes sense, and I'm curious as to where you got info about shark stamina. :)
@@TragoudistrosMPH They are MESOTHERMIC to be clear ;-) a mesothermic animal is an endothermic at any effect, the true difference between us and them is that we are HOMEOTHERMIC; it means our temperature connot change if not in a range of 2-3 degrees, a Great White or a tuna can rise or lower its temperature at needs. I study biology and what i said about the mass/surface ratio and its importance for not overheating it applies at any animal. Btw animals like Lamnids and tuna have a structure named rete mirabilis, a net of blood vessels which can move hot blood from muscles to brain and eyes and vice-versa, keeping the central nervous system warm and cooling their muscles, but there is a limit in the amount of heat they can dissipate, just like you see in overheating tunas.
Well, in shallow water a shark have more advantage than the dolphin when attacking, but the dolphin was not attacking more like playing while leading the shark to deep waters where the dolphin can manuver at full potential and hit the underbelly and gills of the shark with its snouts. i saw while diving years ago 2 dolphins attacking a great white that was hunting a seal, one dolphin was barely moving to get attention of the shark once it got chase by it into deepest waters but still close to surface and out of nowhere the 2nd dolphin ram into the great white belly and then hit by the other in the gills, the shark stop moving dont know if it died from it. The dolphins left after. i have always been afraid of dolphin more than sharks who are barely curius and orcas (who are the one who rule the ocean in my opinion wolf packs) but because dolphins are playfull creatures and hunting is a sport for then sometimes we humans can get tailed down and knock out in the water while surfing by dolphins is more common that you think (been tailed by a dolphin not knock out but had happen multiple time to my friends) is like they are saying “get out of my way pal this is my wave” i love every creature in the world especialy the oceans one and dolphin are an amazing creatures with crazy thoughs love that 😂)
Now just imagine how fast a 1 ton great white is traveling to breach 10 feet out of the water. Most of the footage we see of them is just cruising but they can really move when they want to.
@@betofernandez5524 Depends on species. Medium-large sized sharks (bull sharks, dusky sharks, makos, etc) can and do hunt dolphins (including those similar in size to themselves), as do large sharks like tigers and great whites; a blacktip shark hunting a dolphin would be much more unusual.
@@bkjeong4302 In your opinion, what was happening here? Was the shark hunting that dolphin? If so, why did the dolphin was not defending itself because it seems to me, the dolphin got the size advantage. Or was the dolphin playing around? I am baffled to see this behaviour.
@@wannaim6499 This appears to be a blacktip shark, which isn't a species known to hunt dolphins (due to being relatively small), so it appears to be simply harassing it for some reason (or maybe it's trying to bite off more than it can chew). And the dolphin IS defending itself; it's fleeing. Sure, it's at least twice as heavy and could presumably win the fight but why bother?
The dolphins that I watched, and there are countless, were pretty agile. A shark maybe faster but to me as good as the pictures are didn't bother the dolphin to much. Now a great white chasing a single dolphin would be in an entirely different category.
An attack and a chase can be, but are mostly not the same ( fin) . Much like trying to work out whether I’m gullible or the poster of this video is stupid. Marginal lines between disparity! *returns to shoreline empty handed
@NY Devil Sigh....this "dolphins bully and kill sharks" and "dolphins are more advanced" BS needs to die. Sharks aren't really slower than dolphins, and even the intelligence gap is nowhere near as big as people assume (research has shown that sharks are a lot smarter than the general public realizes, with things like play behaviour and, yes, pack hunting well-documented). More importantly, dolphins don't do well against sharks unless each dolphin is INDIVIDUALLY much larger than the shark.
@@alessandrotavoliere5256 they have a beak that they ran into h the shark yes. But idk if you knew this but getting punched eod a lot less damaging then having your limb ripped off.
Well when one of the largest and most feared animals being the great white shark is nothing more then a quick liver snack for a certain species of Oceanic dolphins and it has cleared out entire populations of great whites it's kinda true
@@davlin7685 Orcas only rarely kill great white sharks (compare the number of known cases of orcas killing GWS to the number of known cases of orcas killing marine mammals, for example). They can definitely kill great whites (which isn't surprising, since they literally weigh 3 times as much as great whites), but don't do it on a regular basis. Thus the idea they're a significant threat to GWS is a myth. Without a major size advantage (like what orcas have) cetaceans just come out second best when put into conflict with sharks, even in groups. And this doesn't even get into cases of sharks stealing kills from mammal-eating orcas, or bait balls where you see dolphins and sharks hunting together. Not to mention large predatory sharks will flat-out eat dolphins (orcas are unusual among dolphins in that they're not preyed on by sharks, likely due to their much larger size)
If this was a great white, tiger, mako or bull shark I wouldn't be surprised (these species are well known to hunt and eat dolphins, in fact tiger sharks are the main predators of dolphins in Australia), but a blacktip? They're not afraid of dolphins but never expected to se one attack a dolphin.
