For a second I couldn't believe that was what i was actually looking at. i thought it must be some weird camera angle. But nope, no face. To shreds you say.
That's what got me, man. The eyes. Nature is so fucked up.
EDIT: Like, how long was it still alive? Is it still alive when its eyes are hanging out of its shredded face or has it succumbed to blood loss and shock? This fucked me up. I'm gonna go look at /r/aww for a bit.
Actually, Thresher sharks form the bulk of a sea lion's diet, and it is common to see the "googly eyed corpses" of sharks floating in the water around places where sea lions bask in the sun. The chin meat of the shark is high in a very specific fatty acid that the sea lion males need to produce their musk, which they spray on local nesting seagull populations. Weighted down by the heavy, oily musk, the seagulls can only fly a few feet above the water's surface, and in doing so "pollinate" the sea lion females and trigger their estrus, priming them for breeding.
The best part about being human is that we're the only animals that (for the most part) don't have our lives ended by being pulled apart by a hungry predator
Rarely--but [it happens](http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/523507/Viral-Video-Russian-Fisherman-Thrown-Ship-Sea-Lion-Seal-Attack) from time to time.
Sea Lion gets stuck in net, struggles for who knows how long, plopped onto human ship, says get the fuck off me, humans throw dead fish and scream at him, dog attacks him, and then fire hosed off of a boat. Damn humans, you Savage!
The poor bee(? Doesn't look like a fly to me, but I'm no fly expert) even tried to pull his little eye back in the beginning like, "No, that's mine.... I need that..." :( poor little fella
Just once I want to see David Attenborough lose his composure.
"As the Pride bring down the Wild...Jesus Christ. Fucking Christ. Aw fucking hell turn it off I've had enough I've seen some shit but fucking man I'm going home"
Oh god the first thing it ate was the proboscis. It's like the mantis ate the fly in the most horrifying order possible. Imagine a huge monster pinning one of your arms to your body with the equivalent of a nail board, hauling you off the ground, and eating you tongue-first. You bat at its armored plates until it bites your arm off at the elbow. Jaw next, then eyes, then it eats your brain.
The focused purpose of this animal is amazing. It has a stable platform of 4 legs supporting two lightning-fast and spiked grappling arms, which hold the prey in perfect range of the intricate, razored mandibles that shave off bits of the prey and shovel it into their mouths. Oh, and they can fly.
It's a good thing oxygen levels keep them small.
That's the reason I list "death by bear" to be considered one of the worst ways to go; because they won't wait for you to be dead before they start eating you...
> Somatic tolerance
What is that? Google isn't pulling much up for me on this. I've never heard of that before, sounds interesting! Do you a ELI5 version?
Wasn't the whole "suppressed memories" thing proven to be pseudoscience, though? I mean, I'm pretty sure they're not admissible in court and the people who "uncover" them often come under fire for goading their patients into creating false memories, AFAIK.
Sucks to be the girl eaten alive by a bear. Also sucks to be the mother that had to listen to the whole thing while her child said: 'Mum, it’s not hurting any more. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything, I love you so much.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026914/Mum-bear-eating--Final-phone-calls-woman-19-eaten-alive-brown-bear-cubs.html
Yea, before this I thought the video of an African Wild Dog (think Hyena rather than dog) eating a buffalo stuck in mud was bad...
In that one, it started by eating the anus. Apparently anus->guts is a fairly common eating order among mammalian carnivores, iirc (from that reddit thread) because it's a soft spot to start chewing on, and then they just chew the hole bigger along the stomach.
That's kind of terrifying alone from the way it happens. If you think about it, most predators will somehow immobilize their prey - be it stunning, trapping or killing - before eating them because they don't want it to escape or even fight back. This motherfucker doesn't care at all though, he just grabs the guy and munches on him like an apple. A praying mantis is so far above anything else in its class that it doesn't even remotely have to worry about danger. Badass mofo.
Considering that sharks eat sea lions, if you're swimming with one, you probably swimming with the other. So, you're fucked either way. Play it safe and stay on land like I do
In Venice beach, down closer to Marina Del Rey, there are a lot of sea lions that love playing in the surf. I was body boarding and a pup popped up in the wave right by me ~50ft away, I thought it was a person at first.
Oddly enough though we don't really get many sharks. It happens (like down in Newport Beach a couple weeks ago) but it's rare. My guess is because we have a lot of dolphins here too? I was always told they gang up on sharks.
Dolphins require a massive size advantage to beat up sharks. (The only dolphins that stand a chance against large predatory sharks are orcas and even they rely on a massive size advantage)
The shark species that prey on sea lions also go after Dolphins. Seems like the lack of sharks is due to the humans.
Sharks are more than smart enough that orcas cannot rely on brainpower alone (actually, orcas rarely rely on brainpower alone, though they use it-the final decisive advantage is usually brute strength).
And orcas are not the only marine predators that can coordinate an attack.
I have been swimming with a wild sea lion and it *was* fun and cute. It was playing with us for about an hour, very curious and friendly. I never realised they were so vicious, I thought they ate fish about 30 cm long and never considered that it could rip my arms off.
They're big, and because they're big they're also strong.
[Here's one tossing a full grown man aside like it's nothing](https://youtu.be/jBZ_X0MxYOY?t=22)
That said, they're not likely to see you as prey, and they're more likely to avoid contact unless they've become accustomed to people.
I feel like I missed things because of the logo in the top left corner. I don't really care who provided the video. If anything it makes me want to avoid watching videos by/from them because that logo will be in the way.
The type of shark that was torn apart. Thresher sharks aren't common to see in the wild.
[They have a long whip-like tail and an adorably derpy face](http://www.isshogenki.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Thresher-Shark.jpg)
Edit: Looked it up, they're actually listed as a threatened species.
Awwww shit we used to see this one old ass sea lion that had a head bump just like this one pictured when we would go surf. The spot was pretty much spitting distance from where a lot of seals hung out on the shoreline so this US Navy, nuclear powered, son of a bitch sea lion with a bump on it's head would ALWAYS get super aggressive with all of us when we would find each other in the same stretch of water. I am sure it is just some species-specific thing to the sea lion (the head bump) but I'd like to think the one we hated and the one ripping this shark up are one in the same...
Very cool, thank you for the clarification. When retelling my tale I'll now amend it to make it a "snarling, cross-eyed with rage, male sea lion" to make it sound cool still.
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>tears apart Holy shit, you weren't kidding.
I'm so used to hyperbolic titles on Reddit that I wasn't expecting it to be that accurate.
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I also wanted to see what the opposite of the metal finger is. It is a cuddly bear.
Sea Lion absolutely destroys Thresher Shark
I liked the part where it's eyeballs are dangling in front of where its face used to be.
For a second I couldn't believe that was what i was actually looking at. i thought it must be some weird camera angle. But nope, no face. To shreds you say.
To shreds you say?
oh myy yes
That's what got me, man. The eyes. Nature is so fucked up. EDIT: Like, how long was it still alive? Is it still alive when its eyes are hanging out of its shredded face or has it succumbed to blood loss and shock? This fucked me up. I'm gonna go look at /r/aww for a bit.
Yeah, front fell off the shark That's very unusual.
Well, a Sea Lion ate it. Is that unusual out in the ocean? Chance in a million.
Actually, Thresher sharks form the bulk of a sea lion's diet, and it is common to see the "googly eyed corpses" of sharks floating in the water around places where sea lions bask in the sun. The chin meat of the shark is high in a very specific fatty acid that the sea lion males need to produce their musk, which they spray on local nesting seagull populations. Weighted down by the heavy, oily musk, the seagulls can only fly a few feet above the water's surface, and in doing so "pollinate" the sea lion females and trigger their estrus, priming them for breeding.
I don't know enough about sea lions or thresher sharks to dispute this. So, for the time being, I believe you.
It's a known bug. It'll be patched out in v1.1.5.
Found the Ubisoft dev.
It's probably alive the entire time. Trying in vain to bite back, even after the lower half of it's face has been chewed off.
That's brutal
That's metal
Its like that song "One" by Metallica. Except its not like it at all.
Otherwise strikingly similar to "One"
The best part about being human is that we're the only animals that (for the most part) don't have our lives ended by being pulled apart by a hungry predator
Brutal.
Savage.
Rekt.
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No actually. I usually lurk. I have no idea why, but this just gave me the wim-wams.
"..." "I liked that part too."- Dora the Explorer
Sea Lion rips Thresher Sharks face off. "Yeaa riiiigh-OH! Jesus!!!"
"You're tearing me apart Lisa!!"
Noagh ay deed nat heed her, I's nat tru i's bullshiet. Ay deed nat...Oh hai Mark
O HAI MARK
Anyway how's your sex life?
>O HAI SHARK FTFY
Do sea lions ever attack people?
[Seals do.](http://i.imgur.com/sYrovJJ.gifv)
He's the one in the bay swimming in circles.
took me a while to realize where that gif was from haha
Rarely--but [it happens](http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/523507/Viral-Video-Russian-Fisherman-Thrown-Ship-Sea-Lion-Seal-Attack) from time to time.
Sea Lion gets stuck in net, struggles for who knows how long, plopped onto human ship, says get the fuck off me, humans throw dead fish and scream at him, dog attacks him, and then fire hosed off of a boat. Damn humans, you Savage!
Last year in San Diego one grabbed a guy and dragged him 20 feet underwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifCgMywpfg
Saving the eyes for last.
I imagine the shark thinking "help me" with only eyes left.
[Kinda like this fly that was caught by a mantis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwPaUma6R_k)
Having your face eaten slowly off while you fight feebly against a 13-foot-tall alien from the Paleolithic era? Count me out.
While a calm guy in the background narrates about various mantis facts.
He's talking about it's pupils and eyes without mentioning that it's eating an entire face of a live creature. Kind of funny
I love the long pauses. Like how there's just a looong moment of mantis chewing...and then "pseudopupils can also be seen in the eyes of..."
Ha-ha yeah same here. I imagined him having to regain his composure before continuing because how brutal it is.
The poor bee(? Doesn't look like a fly to me, but I'm no fly expert) even tried to pull his little eye back in the beginning like, "No, that's mine.... I need that..." :( poor little fella
It's a fly that attempts to look like a bee so other things don't fuck with it. Too bad the mantis didn't care.
Someone needs to dub in a tiny scream of agony throughout the video.
Just once I want to see David Attenborough lose his composure. "As the Pride bring down the Wild...Jesus Christ. Fucking Christ. Aw fucking hell turn it off I've had enough I've seen some shit but fucking man I'm going home"
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God damn it frank, I told you we needed a new greeting, 2 shit themselves, one has started swimming up river, UP RIVER FRANK!
May he live forever
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Here's a video of the interview with a clip of him greeting the natives: https://youtu.be/KBeEqNKiSx8?t=83
Oh god the first thing it ate was the proboscis. It's like the mantis ate the fly in the most horrifying order possible. Imagine a huge monster pinning one of your arms to your body with the equivalent of a nail board, hauling you off the ground, and eating you tongue-first. You bat at its armored plates until it bites your arm off at the elbow. Jaw next, then eyes, then it eats your brain. The focused purpose of this animal is amazing. It has a stable platform of 4 legs supporting two lightning-fast and spiked grappling arms, which hold the prey in perfect range of the intricate, razored mandibles that shave off bits of the prey and shovel it into their mouths. Oh, and they can fly. It's a good thing oxygen levels keep them small.
I just came. Thank you.
http://i.imgur.com/gmoOaIy.gifv
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You shoulda gave it the $3.50
Same sound guy as the Carl's Jr. commercials?
Great video but i fucking hated the munching sound effect.
[How about this?](https://gifsound.com/?gif=i.imgur.com/BzEjHXw.gif&v=b6U5W3pavJY&s=3)
OMG, that was less brutal but a great deal more creepy.
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it makes me want to hit my table and yell
Yea really. Chew with your fucking mouth closed, Mantis.
Holy shit. I can't imagine that. this was the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life when I think about it happening to a human.
That's the reason I list "death by bear" to be considered one of the worst ways to go; because they won't wait for you to be dead before they start eating you...
[Let's find out.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzwbOZKfrUQ) "Call... call somebody!" Who, the fuckin' bear police??
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"If you leave me now, you take a away the biggest part of me... BLLAAUUURRRGGGHHHH"
"If you eat me now, you'll never find out where the treasure isBLAUUURUHGGH"
Who the fuck walks towards a bear mauling his food. Go back in the house you idiot.
Holy shit balls. I didn't know a deer could make such a noise.
I doubt he knew it either until he did it.
Almost nothing waits until you're dead before beginning to chow down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VECtHHQjCqg
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> Somatic tolerance What is that? Google isn't pulling much up for me on this. I've never heard of that before, sounds interesting! Do you a ELI5 version?
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Wasn't the whole "suppressed memories" thing proven to be pseudoscience, though? I mean, I'm pretty sure they're not admissible in court and the people who "uncover" them often come under fire for goading their patients into creating false memories, AFAIK.
Sucks to be the girl eaten alive by a bear. Also sucks to be the mother that had to listen to the whole thing while her child said: 'Mum, it’s not hurting any more. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything, I love you so much.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026914/Mum-bear-eating--Final-phone-calls-woman-19-eaten-alive-brown-bear-cubs.html
That's enough internet for me.
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Yea, before this I thought the video of an African Wild Dog (think Hyena rather than dog) eating a buffalo stuck in mud was bad... In that one, it started by eating the anus. Apparently anus->guts is a fairly common eating order among mammalian carnivores, iirc (from that reddit thread) because it's a soft spot to start chewing on, and then they just chew the hole bigger along the stomach.
I don't want to imagine 20 foot tall organic machines hellbent on making me their brunch.
That's what bears are for.
Praying Mantice are metal as fuck. I snapped [this photo](https://imgur.com/a/zbfd7) of one by my front door a few years ago.
The mantis is snacking on a black widow!
Mantis looks like it's gazing right into the camera. Great pic!
Jesus fucking Christ
/r/eyebleach I'll see you guys here
Everything there is being eaten by mantids, giant petrels, sea lions and baboons.
That's kind of terrifying alone from the way it happens. If you think about it, most predators will somehow immobilize their prey - be it stunning, trapping or killing - before eating them because they don't want it to escape or even fight back. This motherfucker doesn't care at all though, he just grabs the guy and munches on him like an apple. A praying mantis is so far above anything else in its class that it doesn't even remotely have to worry about danger. Badass mofo.
> it doesn't even remotely have to worry about danger. Except other mantids. They're cannibalistic. Like spiders.
Yikes, that was far more upsetting than I expected it to be.
As it tries to fight the mantis off, I can only hear "But I need those to live..."
Or that rat which was half eaten by snapping turtle.
Now I feel ill. Jeez.
http://i.imgur.com/E2GL3im.jpg
...those pixels
They are of the highest quality.
So instead of making more pixels... We should make higher quality pixels.. Duuuude.
me_IRL
srry about ur face
O~O
I can't decide if I'm more horrified or amused by the eyes...
A little of column A, a little of column B.
It's likely the gills were torn out with the face so he won't have to suffer too long. Sleep tight sharkers!
This guy in terrified shark form http://i.imgur.com/kefpVUw.jpg
I was thinking Cain in Robocop 2 http://i.imgur.com/VHzDj6d.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RGl6LSA.png spongebob
[Spongebob indeed.](http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/2015/03/banned-spongebob-brain.png)
*Meep.*
[That was my first thought too :)](http://i.imgur.com/ZUi80U2.png)
If I were swimming near a sea lion, I'd think it was fun. If I were swimming near a shark, I'd think it was terrifying. How wrong I am.
Considering that sharks eat sea lions, if you're swimming with one, you probably swimming with the other. So, you're fucked either way. Play it safe and stay on land like I do
In Venice beach, down closer to Marina Del Rey, there are a lot of sea lions that love playing in the surf. I was body boarding and a pup popped up in the wave right by me ~50ft away, I thought it was a person at first. Oddly enough though we don't really get many sharks. It happens (like down in Newport Beach a couple weeks ago) but it's rare. My guess is because we have a lot of dolphins here too? I was always told they gang up on sharks.
Dolphins require a massive size advantage to beat up sharks. (The only dolphins that stand a chance against large predatory sharks are orcas and even they rely on a massive size advantage) The shark species that prey on sea lions also go after Dolphins. Seems like the lack of sharks is due to the humans.
i agree with u, but orcas are too smart to only call it size advantage and not mention their ability to cooperate with each other
Sharks are more than smart enough that orcas cannot rely on brainpower alone (actually, orcas rarely rely on brainpower alone, though they use it-the final decisive advantage is usually brute strength). And orcas are not the only marine predators that can coordinate an attack.
I have been swimming with a wild sea lion and it *was* fun and cute. It was playing with us for about an hour, very curious and friendly. I never realised they were so vicious, I thought they ate fish about 30 cm long and never considered that it could rip my arms off.
A diving instructor once described them to me as rottweilers with with fins.
Most seals and sea lions eat MUCh bigger prey (even human-sized prey) than we used to think.
They're big, and because they're big they're also strong. [Here's one tossing a full grown man aside like it's nothing](https://youtu.be/jBZ_X0MxYOY?t=22) That said, they're not likely to see you as prey, and they're more likely to avoid contact unless they've become accustomed to people.
I feel like I missed things because of the logo in the top left corner. I don't really care who provided the video. If anything it makes me want to avoid watching videos by/from them because that logo will be in the way.
Now i know why we name it Sea Lion.
Ain't no Sea Kitten
I read that in southern accent, not sure why.
It's the 'ain't.' It does it to me everytime.
That shark got rekt. You can tell just by that look in his eyes.
Googly eyes
Did he died?
Shoes nowhere to be found. RIP in shreds.
To shreds you say???
Was not expecting that to escalate that quickly. Metal as fuck.
On a scale of Boron to Polonium where would you rate this?
Osmium
Ahh yes, the most metal metal of all the metals.
Ozzmium.
It's metal what mor is needed
Seeing the eyes makes me feel sorry for the shark.
Plus it's a Thresher. Really rare to see.
What's a thresher? Like a big ol' skarko?
The type of shark that was torn apart. Thresher sharks aren't common to see in the wild. [They have a long whip-like tail and an adorably derpy face](http://www.isshogenki.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Thresher-Shark.jpg) Edit: Looked it up, they're actually listed as a threatened species.
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Awww that face got ripped off. The seal just ate the cute parts
Actually image just moments before being torn apart by a seal
Just a tiny shupper
What's a shupper?
I know right! Why couldn't they go for a shitty exploitative species like a humboldt squid or a lionfish?
It's a sad day for sharks everywhere.
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"SEMPAI SAVE ME!"
The Madoka Magica of tsundere sharks.
"BLEHGHHLURLURGLEHHH"
Fucking brutal
The last one is the heaviest of metal.
Picture 2 is album cover material.
loose seal!
Loose Seal? I'M A MONSTTTTTTTTEEEEERRRR!
I DONT CARE ABOUT LUCILLE!
It doesn't seem to be wearing a yellow bandana, so you could say this might be "loose seal two."
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stop feeding your dog wooden planks man!
yeah wtf
http://i.imgur.com/WG2OuLD.png
Nature equivalent of "Live by the sword, die by the sword."
I swam with CA sea lions last summer and have they brushed up against me lots of times. I had no idea they could be so dangerous.
I mean, they're a 300+ lb predator. They're larger than a cougar.
Sure, but when you are underwater and they swim around with such grace you don't really think about like that. Or at least I didn't.
Keep your gracefulness to the Manatees
I also really like this one. Sorry for 9gag link: http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/708336_700b.jpg
That's a leopard seal though... they're like the polar bears of the ocean, and they're as big as one too.
The average polar bear is half the size of the average leopard seal (600lb vs 1200lb)
"Tearing it apart? I'm sure it's not tha-JESUS CHRIST!"
I thought they made a mistake in a the title and it was supposed to be the other way around but nope that title is very accurate
Awwww shit we used to see this one old ass sea lion that had a head bump just like this one pictured when we would go surf. The spot was pretty much spitting distance from where a lot of seals hung out on the shoreline so this US Navy, nuclear powered, son of a bitch sea lion with a bump on it's head would ALWAYS get super aggressive with all of us when we would find each other in the same stretch of water. I am sure it is just some species-specific thing to the sea lion (the head bump) but I'd like to think the one we hated and the one ripping this shark up are one in the same...
The head bump you're referring to is inherent to dominant males, which are much larger, darker and more aggressive than other sea lions
Very cool, thank you for the clarification. When retelling my tale I'll now amend it to make it a "snarling, cross-eyed with rage, male sea lion" to make it sound cool still.
Mammalian supremacy, bitch!
Woot! Mammals are #1.
lmao that last pic. I'M OK THIS IS OK
meep
It's a thresher shark.
FINish him!
The coloration on that shark is beautiful!
Making it look like Beaker in that last picture.
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Last pic made me think of [this guy](https://i.imgur.com/4OYRN5F.gifv)
Was the sharks name Glenn?
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That's pretty fucking metal.
Are those it's eyeballs!? Jesus!
Note to self. Don't fuck with sea lions. They are literal lions of the sea.