What Happens When the Ocean's TOP PREDATORS Work Together?
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Join shark scientist Kristian Parton as he talks you through the unique relationship between Oceanic Whitetip sharks and Pilot Whales.
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Literally just unlocked my phone to see that it was time for Shark Bytes. My Sunday is complete.
Sunday is for sharks 🦈
Same! Watching for almost 2 years every Sunday 😂 the sea is where I dream and fear
Not sure when it happened but Shark Bytes has become one of my favorite UA-cam channels. Been binging…
Used to work with a guy who was crew on all sorts of boats, commercial fishing, navy etc. One day he jumped in the blue to snorkel with pilot whales, didn’t take long before a Oceanic WT showed up. This was off Australia in the Coral Sea.
If there's a better shark science channel good luck finding it.great video again ❤❤
So basically to pilot whales, oceanic whitetips are basically the marine equivalence of raccoons.
😅😅
Oh! Yours is better!
I compared them to the Cookie monster with a pet dog!
I never heard of racoons eating other animals' poo tho LOL
As someone from the Bavarian Alps, from a Family of Mountain Climbers and "Gebirgsjäger" (Basically Mountain/Harsh Weather focused Military) in the German Bundeswehr, including myself, i've always been terrified of the Ocean, hell, sometimes i'm even scared of swimming in the local Lakes because here in Central Europe we have the biggest Catfish Species in the World (Wels Catfish)
Anyway, therefor i have always assumed that all Aquatic Species already teamed up to catch me
Fear of Heights? I dont have that at all, but the Ocean? Far more terrifying than the Chance of falling off of a Cliff or any of the other countless of Dangers in Mountaineering and the Alps in general
Exaggerations aside and all of that said, i enjoy your Videos a lot and while i learn a lot and so far have almost considered not being terrified of the Ocean and it's Inhabitants, i'm still not there yet
Prost & Cheers from the Snow-Covered Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Oceanic white tip is one of the hardest sharks to spot normally so the fact that it's running around with a whale is really going to give scientists a whole lot more to work with
When we were in Egypt years ago the diving instructors told us that we cannot snorkle with dolphins in deep water because when there are dolphins in deep blue there are always sharks below them.
I'd heard that too! Then I heard dolphins kill sharks but then recently heard sharks also kill dolphins, I guess it's to do with opportunity and numbers...
@@fitnessfeverpt Dolphins killing sharks is largely Hollywood.
@@drk321 not exactly, what's Hollywood is dolphins killing large sharks.
The issue is people don't understand there's like 250 species of sharks. When they hear marine biologists talk about dolphins killing sharks they are usually smaller less shark species or small juvenile specimens of larger sharks.
Typically the rule of thumb is if the shark is bigger than the dolphin it's the dolphin getting eaten.
@@louiscypher4186 First of all there are more like 400 species of sharks. I have been studying them since the 70's, photographing them for 30 years and I have never heard of a single case of a dolphin killing a shark. Not saying it has never happened but it is so infinitesimally rare as to be a non issue..
@@drk321
Technically they have since orcas are related to the dolphin part of cetaceans - and some pods develop cultures where they hunt great white sharks for their liver (there's many famous incidents, like the footage that people along the Farallon Islands, and there's been a grandmother of a pod that knocked out a juvenile great white in National Geographic's Queens segment).
Another great shark video!!! The ocean is a marvelous place!!!💙🦈🐳🐋🐬🦭🐠
Awesome video! I'd heard about oceanic white tips eating pilot whale faeces but I had no idea that they would dive so deep potentially alongside the whales
Following a mass of pilot whales while surrounding themselves with a mass of pilot fish. Oceanic whitetips sure do seem to have a type.
😮😅😅
This is a very interesting adaptation/behavioral Change
Great video chris! Been watching your videos for a while now and was thinking maybe you could do a video on sharks in the home aquarium trade and if you think it’s ethical from a shark scientist pov. Either way if you do it or not you’re killing it on UA-cam and I’m so happy to see others enjoying sharks as much as I do. cheers 🦈🦈🦈
Good evening Kris 😊 that was a very good video 👍 🐳🦈
Hell yeah. Shark sunday!
Another awesome video Kris. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
I first heard about oceanic white tip sharks exhibiting this behavior in a shark video by BlueworldTV I watched years ago. I read in one of my MANY shark books (this shark book was authored by Paul De Gelder.) during the filming of a shark documentary for Shark Week (Shark-wreaked) Paul was in the water and someone on the support boat took a dump over the side and the crap in the water grossed Paul out. Then, suddenly one of the oceanic white tip sharks that Paul said were swimming around swam over and ate the turd. 8:27 is that an image of a sharks spiral valve?
@@sharks3653 hahaha that sounds gross - I’ve never seen that doc 😂 and yes that’s a shark’s spiral shaped intestinal tract
Love your insights. And the form of your videos are getting better and better. Do you work with a new cutter?
Thank you
Love the channel, great episode today. While diving in California I have seen Blue Sharks and Mako's together, is that a common pairing? Also I would love it if you dove deeper into Pilot Whales and Orca interactions? It's my belief that one of the ways to minimize the Orca Attacks on sailboats off of the coast of Gibraltar would be to play Pilot Whale sounds from an underwater speaker on your boat?
So, basically, Pilot whales are like Cookie monsters, and sharks are like a dog, hoovering up scraps!
Absolutely fascinating stuff, love Shark Bytes! 👍💦
I love your channel, man. Keep the vids coming!
Fascinating. Love it.
Thank you for another great video, Kris!
This is really interesting!
great video, new and interesting topic and as always: well researched and explained for us . Really great job keep it Kristian
This is the makings of the next sharknado film right here.
I like you. You're British, you're a shark expert... Subscribed!
That Venom part lol😂
Yet another epic topic. And those lil'freak are trully weird.
Hello. Good Afternoon Kris 🦈🦈 Happy Shark Sunday 🦈🦈
Come sempre video molto interessante.
Nice use of Street Fighter music!
Great white sharks in Western Australia feed on the afterbirth of southern right whales from July to October. Drawn in by the blood released from birth.
Interesting! Thnx!
Similar behaviour to what we see in some land predators. It says a lot about the mental capacity of these sharks to recognise the whale species and know of the benefits, as well as the awareness of the whales to know that the sharks aren't a threat. Considering how many hundreds of millions of years of separation there are between these two animals, how diverged their brains are, they are still able to understand each other.
Kris's face when he said the sharks are eating the whales' poop 😆
It's very exciting news, I also hope in the near future more will be known about those 2 great white brothers who as juveniles were still sticking together (discovered and filmed by Andy Casagrande in NZ).
I did 9 dives in total at Elphinstone in the Red Sea in Egypt. A well know reef. Saw Longimanus there in about 3 of the 9 dives. Once I saw a group of dolphins swimming by about 30m away from the reef. I watched them swimming from my left to my right and filmed them and turned right to see them swimming by and they where close to be disappeared. When I turned left to see if there are more of them following I saw a Longimanus.
Maybe they also swim with dolphins?
Si è documentato che alcune volte i pinna bianca oceanici (longimanus) cacciano e mangiano insieme ai delfini.
Possibly yes. Sharks has been seen swimming side by side with dolphins without any problem. Even the recent "Deep Blue" footage in Hawaii shows a huge female white shark (not actually Deep Blue btw) with two dolphins literally few centimeters away from her jaws, as if they're her escort. It's clear that dolphins can tell if a shark is a threat to them or not.
@sofwanlutfy4050 Yes I also know that if you see dolphins it is more likely to see a shark, too. Because they hunt the same and of course when dolphins eat something why should the shark not go there and have some food, too? But it was never really told by scientist sources that Longis really follow dolphins for longer, but I really believe this is a thing. Maybe I will one day have a significant number of dives and see more dolphins in Elphinstone and then I know if I often saw sharks together with them. Or maybe someone who has 100 dives at Elphinstone has more experience with sharks and dolphins together or not.
I was hoping you would do an episode on this. I just saw something else about this activity. My thought were immediately thought “I wonder what Kris thinks?” You are my go to for facts.
Saw this in the Maldives 1998
Interesting-never knew Oceanic whitetips could dive that deep
They don't have the limitations of needing to surface to breathe.
Great episode! I was watching an old video that I had never seen before about sharks and the COVID-19 vaccine. Do you have any updates on them still using the squalene and/or if pharmaceutical companies have been researching the plant squalene alternative?
What are those black and white striped fish that are following the Oceanic Whitetips around in the footage?
They're pilot fish - who have a symbiotic relationship with Oceanic white-tip sharks (mutualism)
Also, if you think you can freely swim with orcas in Bremer Bay right now because you thought orcas = no sharks....well, you're absolutely wrong. Bronze whaler sharks are regularly spotted in *huge* numbers whenever orcas made a kill, whether its a blue whale or a giant squid. You may even spot a white shark hanging around too.
Scaring a real apex predator sounds nothing like cheetahs, rather the opposite!
This is like when two gangs make a truce.
I don't think eating poo is uncommon amongst animals, is it? Birds pick through horse poo, because horses' digestive systems aren't that great so there's quite a lot of nutrition in horse poo, at least if you're a bird, and it's got the advantage that someone else has semi-digested it for you. So if I'm tidying up horses' fields by poo picking and the grass is long and I can't see the stuff, I watch where the birds go and follow them. Then the robins follow me around, and get the insects I expose by picking up the poo.
My apologies for anyone who's just finished their dinner.
it's definitely not uncommon! just gross from our perspective
Koala cubs have a serving from their mothers after eating eucalyptus leaves. I just happen to learn that from that Animal Planet show: Most Extreme.
@ Rabbits actually have to eat their own faeces - it's how their digestive system has evolved. A lot of grazing animals do something similar because plants are hard to digest. But we've evolved to think it's yuck for various reasons - probably because it increases the chance of a parasitic burden.
Lobsters eat poo and rotting animal corpses. Pigs eat poo. Even dogs eat poo. I am picking up some lobster tomorrow and have a couple of beautiful pork chops in the lineup. I mean crap...humans eat MACDONALD'S! Bleagh!
hell, dung is its own little ecosystem or patch of habitat for invertebrate communities. you have e.g dung beetles making a living in it feeding off of it, and even predatory insect larvae hunting the dung consumers in the poo.
They’re friends 🥺
Pilot whales: "We look adorable!"
People: "Oooo, PILOT WHALES honey! Amazing, oh they are adorable. Hop into the water!!"
White tip: "Yes."
Do you know any trigger shark that are 18 feet long.
8:42 That was actually my first guess, lol.
Did your last video get taken down?
@@travisrygg3317 it did yes - reuploading Wednesday
I know exactly what is happening in this relationship between pilot whales and sharks: the whales are keeping the sharks as pets. They share their food to keep them around because they're cute. Well, to me they are anyway.
This seems somewhat similar to a situation such as a pack of hyenas getting a kill, whereas a lone lion comes in and takes the kill for themselves, or at least part of the kill. Would that also be considered part of commensalism?
Esattamente
So long as the hyaenas got to eat enough of it to satisfy themselves, otherwise they are losing out on a meal they worked for. Sea birds will hover around where baleen whales are feeding because as the whales corral krill they can swoop in and grab a few before the whale takes them all.
I find it interesting that the pilot whales don't seem too fussed about the sharks even though they probably pose a danger to the babies at least.
Great Show! Love me some sharkyness!
That Lyme Disease comment hit home though. S@#$ sucks.
4 months ago being diagnosed w/ late stage Lyme Disease symptoms. Honestly I thought it was old age. Got to a point where I knew something was off, I shouldn't feel this bad. Tests, test, more test & Bobs your uncle.....Lyme Disease. SUCKS!
I wonder IF sharks can get Lyme Disease????
Thanks for the content!
So are oceanic white tips bites (on humans) more likely to get infected
YEARS ago, Frank Mundus wrote a book about his shark fishing adventures (back before Jaws came out and before the Marine Mammal Protection Act); he said he watched white sharks following pilot whales--he presumed it was to ambush any straggling or weak individual. In addition to that, every season he'd harpoon a pilot whale to use their meat for chum and bait for the 'extra large' sharks that prowled the waters off Montauk.
So the answer to my question in your last video is yes. We just don't know exactly how much they interact with each other.
Why do oceanic white tips have white fins though?
what do you think about the facts mentioned in this video, Kris? ua-cam.com/video/3os3VgwR3ZE/v-deo.html is it all true or a bunch of misinformation?
Anything that can send a killer whale packing is a threat to my sanity
Looks like you got a clip of a much rarer beaked whale in your video: 2:40 to 2:42. Again at 3:28. Blainvilles? 4:03 to 4:06 were false killer whales. Anyway, I am an underwater photographer that lives off the Kona coast of Hawaii and many ocean people have seen the poop eating you mention. I hoped you'd mention it (or I was going to😛). We also see that commonly with reef fish. Some speculate it is a way to get more calcium (from undigested bones) for corallivores who likely have a calcium poor main diet. I knew Lee Tepley (no longer with us). Interesting old school cinematographer. Has a very interesting pilot whale video. I won't spoil it, just google it. Many of us prefer to photograph the OWT shark more than the pilot whales (long black logs that just absorb light vs one of the most majestic sharks on the planet) and we do this by first locating a pod of pilot whales who must surface to breathe. Maybe 20% success rate doing this.
Ancient astronaut theorists believe that’s it’s because of aliens
Like koala babies
Just goes tò Show how much tech helps when researching ethology of pelagic animals
So the white tips are the hyenas of the ocean. Got it 🥴😂
More on canids
We do know what happens when humans and orcas team up.
I dont take Peter Benchly for fact since jaws is fictional.
I'm only halfway through the video, but a random thought struck me: what if...(i know this is going to sound crazy) this is a similar relationship to homo sapiens and wolves/later dogs? :D
Would be so cool if they bred and created a species of shark whale that hunt in packs and took on the killer whale 😍
M8, what do think about “standing your ground” against tiger sharks? ua-cam.com/users/shortsGFHw74cOtPM
I think this link isn't working!
@ it works when I click it😟. Oh! Shit sorry I see the problem I clicked when having a video queue..😆. Let me fix that.
There
@@-MaXuS- I think these clips from ocean Ramsey’s acolytes are ridiculous. In that situation there you need to get out of the water. Although these days, it’s almost a certainty that the Tigers in these clips are provisioned with food and habituated to the snorkelers.
@@SHARKBYTESIs she really related to OR’s operation in any way? At least she is a shark scientist like yourself and she’s describing what she does as an experienced shark diver rather than recommending what to do in an unexpected encounter.
First one?
2:39 'some of you out there might be thinking: well, they're sharks. surely, they're after the short-finned pilot whales...' no! the thought never crossed my mind for a second. sharks are no match for pilot whales. next to these whales sharks are like a gnat, easily crushed or squatted away. 😵💫 they stand no chance and they know it. 😒
Two main reasons: Cetaceans can hunt socially and communicate with each other and they have brains. Sharks are robots. I dive with both of these animals and I am much more comfortable around the sharks because they are predictable.
@@drk321 have there been reports anywhere of humans getting intentionally hurt by pilot whales?
@embreis2257 The famous case that was recorded by Lee Tepley where a pilot whale grabbed a woman by her ankles and drug her underwater twice, once to 35 ft and the other time 70 ft. No way of know what its intentions were as we cannot assume these things. The video is easily found. My friends were in with pilots when a big bull who "seemed" angry was vocalizing loudly and swiped his tail within inches of some of the group.
@ what more can we expect as proof these animals are not hostile? the whale has no way of knowing how good we are at diving and may have considered this as just playing around.
the 'angry' pilot whale probably had its tail swing at your friends in a very controlled manner as a warning. not wanting to intentionally hurt them but giving a clear signal to stay away.
maybe you have personal experiences with sharks giving off similar signals and not wanting to hurt you. as long as there is no blood in the water we might be fine. until...^^
@embreis2257 "what more can we expect as proof these animals are not hostile?" : Statistics. To my knowledge there have been no recorded human deaths from pilot whales. Mosquitos kill 1,000,000 humans per year. Lions 200, dogs, pigs, crocs, hippos. As far as the tail swing with my friends, I think you are absolute correct. If he wanted to hit them, he would have but every one of my friends said this was a unique experience and definitely looked like aggression. As far as sharks I have had mostly good experiences except when an oceanic whitetip tried to bite me, but I have been out of the cage with at least 8 great whites swimming around us and did not feel any threat. 7 tiger sharks, no cage, still got all the fingers and toes. 15 bull sharks, no cage, still able to walk home. As I said previously, sharks are robots and pretty predictable. PS: the OWT that tried to bite me did involve bait in the water so if it had been successful it would be logged as a provoked attack. Did you find the pilot whale video? I did a search on UA-cam under "Pilot whale attacks woman" and it came up first on the list. Doesn't tel the whole story but you may be able to find more with additional search criteria.
Do you think humans over fishing our oceans have played a part in sharks starting to eat poop? Or do you believe sharks have always eaten poop as a naturally evolved behavior?
Literal class traitors!
Set this video to watch later, but as soon as whales and sharks figure out that they can own the water with minimal effort and modest cooperation, we will immediately become a strictly terrestrial species.
I do love this channel but this guy is all teeth. Who agrees 🤣😂👌
You are personally attacking somebody? He looks perfectly normal. Have a professional examine your insecurities.
if u would die otherwise? would u eat poop?
I dont care how hungry i was i couldn't ever eat poo 💩🤢🤮