I really appreciate that you covered this particular subject. I thought Shark vs Whale was a great documentary. But I do understand why some people are bothered by it. But the truth is, like you mentioned in this video, there was nothing anybody could do for a whale, and the shark really just sped up what would have been a long, agonizing, slow death. She did the whale a favor, and in turn the whale fed her and a lot of other animals. It's heartbreaking, I love humpback whales, but it's nature and it's understandable. I'm more angry at the long lines and the traps in the water that hurt these animals in the first place.

@apacheizm23

12 күн бұрын

Very well said and really nothing more needs to be said here except the those fishing boats that are out there doing whatever they want. Now that is sad!

@56chrsbri

7 күн бұрын

Did she now?

Humans are the reason why that whale is on the last of its life.... its tail is entangled by the nets that is why it cannot let out and go and it was stuck until it became weaker and weaker.

@CyTolliver

11 күн бұрын

As he explains around the 3:00 mark

@56chrsbri

11 күн бұрын

I guess he thought he could get paid instead of interacting or interfering or intervening in the whale's benefit or behalf,

@jritechnology

8 күн бұрын

@@56chrsbri Ok, you get in the water with the shark hell bent on eating the whale.

@Ryodraco

8 күн бұрын

@@56chrsbri Regardless of the ethics of interfering, it wouldn't have mattered. By the time they found the whale it was already near death. Cutting off the nets would not have suddenly brought it back from being exhausted and bleeding out. And I highly doubt any of them thought leaving the whale alone would somehow let them "get paid" any more than they would be otherwise. People don't do this work to get rich.

@56chrsbri

7 күн бұрын

@@Ryodraco only God knows that

This is the second video I have seen of the same situation in that !. Both Whales were Humpbacks the 1st one full grown and the predators were large Great whites 2. They were both near death They had been suffering and in shallow waters over a long time. 3. They were both dragging luggage. The first one the exhausted whale was dragging massive nets AND a weight .4. The same hunting tactic - described in the video was used The Great White opened an artery where the tail meets the body . There is a thin skin area that sharks can get their teeth into to cause bleeding out. 5 Both were fatal. Data is always useful and may help fight pointless lines/nets. in future Liked and subscribed .

@judd0112

12 күн бұрын

Exactly. I could see that from just the thumbnail. Whoever invents the commercial fishing gear that won’t fowl whales or whatever can fall victim to it will reap a massive fortune. Who wants to figure something out. Can’t be impossible. Maybe a magician has a plan with the rope tricks. Or just a random idea. Lmk

@sharky-ryan

11 күн бұрын

Link the other video

@SageRosemaryTime

11 күн бұрын

@@sharky-ryan I'll try to find it and send it to you if I can . i don't think it was South African waters , possibly Australian news story . I'll search my best , sorry I don't have it yet. but I will do my best to find it.

@pavlovsdogman

18 сағат бұрын

I heard a giant mako expert say he thought big makos around 13 or 14 feet could do this to a giant great white over 20 feet! He noted the biggest makos used this tail biting strategy that opened up arteries and it combined this with it's amazing speed and reflexes. They kill Marlins, giant tuna, other sharks and swordfish using this tail biting technique and it's incredibly effective against larger prey. I saw a mako of around 9 feet kill a Marlin that was much larger and heavier with one big tail bite that disabled it and killed it via blood loss.

@SageRosemaryTime

18 сағат бұрын

@@pavlovsdogman Thanks for the excellent data ,

I watch all of your documentaries on my apps. Your work is needed to educate the public. . Thank you ! For taking time to teach us about shark behavior.

Great footage and points to the intelligence of great whites. The shark moves in - bites to cause blood loss and weakening the prey. Then knows to drown the whale - I'm not sure the shark actually knows the whale needs to breathe but it is definitely learned behaviour. Which points to this being a reasonably common predatory event. Either that or sharks are even more intelligent than we give them credit for.

The whale is hunting the great white shark,you mean the great white shark is hunting the whale!!

Yay!! So glad to find your channel. You’re one of my favorite marine biologists! Sending love from Texas! 🇨🇱❤️

HATE Long-Line commercial fishing. Great video, thanks for posting it.

What kind of person asks for human intervention of animals in their natural habitat?

@dickdastardly5534

12 күн бұрын

A humane person, not all people enjoy seeing nature at it’s raw, true its the life cycle but if more people were to see how meat arrives on their plate I suspect many would reduce what they eat and demand that animals bred for food are treated more humanely as an example.

@dynodin81

12 күн бұрын

Unfortunately the whale is sick because of human pollution (stuck in a rope/net) in their waters - Human involvement is the primary cause.

@Ryodraco

8 күн бұрын

@@dynodin81 and intervening at this point would not have mattered. This isn't like removing a net from a healthy animal, it was already practically dead.

@dynodin81

8 күн бұрын

@@Ryodraco I wasn't implying that; just responding to the original response post that stated it was "in their natural habitat" - when in actuality it wasn't by natural cause or by natural things in their habitat.

I do not find this controversial at all, this is nature at work, had you intervened that would have been awful and invasive. Excellent summary

@dannyzwain85

9 күн бұрын

i agree with you on this, this is nature and sharks eat the weak and sick animals in the oceans.

Great footage and pleasing to see nature taking its course thanks for sharing

Merci pour tout ce que tu fais pour protéger le plus magnifique des animaux je suis fan de toi, force et courage❤

Love how ppl were pissed at officials & not at the long line industry & how destructive it is. And even if they had gotten the ropes off, it was too sick to live.

Amazing to see, once in a lifetime experience. Very sad situation for the whale, but as you stated it was past intervention. If they managed to somehow scare the shark away, the whale is just going to meet the same fate later on. Sad that human activity likely caused the decline of the whale’s health, but at this point it is just food for a beautiful, powerful, predator.

Whali was victim of whalie hunters or fisherman ... with the white shark doing his scavenger work.

One thing that can give some perspective is that death by drowning is how most whales die. Death by "old age" for an air breather in a marine environment really just means the animal eventually becomes too weak to break the surface. So that aspect of this event is no more "cruel" than a normal end of life for a whale.

@sharky-ryan

8 күн бұрын

Really valid point

I don't relish predation videos either, and this was agonizing to watch. Yet I'm stricken by the irony of how many people just love orcas and have no problem, even applauding orcas killing white sharks just for their livers. Moreover, orcas will hunt down these same humpback whales (and other whales), often targeting mothers and their calves, isolating the calves just so they can eat the tongues out of the calves, leaving them to bleed out and drown as the mothers cry for days. Far more gruesome than this scene. But sure, the orcas get a pass. In cases like this scene, because humans are the cause of luggage (nets and fishing line) entangling marine life, when possible, I feel that attempts to help these whales are warranted.

It's not controversial its Nature! Looks to me the humback was already dying or sick .Great footage!

@kbnnkb

15 күн бұрын

Exactly. The only people that have a problem with this are those who have never left the city 😂

@dynodin81

12 күн бұрын

Unfortunately the whale is sick because of human pollution (stuck in a rope/net) in their waters - Human involvement is the primary cause.

@ghostshirt1984

12 күн бұрын

​@@kbnnkband they don't understand nature those cry babies 😂

The whale looks injured…did the shark actually make the first blow, or did it come across an injured whale?

@sharky-ryan

8 күн бұрын

Injured earlier by being wrapped up in the longlines. The first bloodletting injury was from the shark bite.

People really thought "go help the whale!" like what is someone supposed to do here? Give the whale some paracetamol? Also swimming in South African waters, that alone is already a bad idea.

Incredible footage!

Great video. No different to predators in other documentaries like lions, hyenas etc. Human intervention in natural predation, especially by wildlife filmmakers, is unethical. No matter where it's happening.

In nature the slow and the weak are taken out weather it's in the sea or on land the shark ofyesly picked up on the Wale not being a hundred percent then moved in on it it probably followed the Wale for miles sussing it out thanks for sharing brilliant video

First of all the whale just sat there. So it was 9 out of 10 sick and dying which a healthy whale wouldn't have done. Much less any other animal for that matter. It explains why the shark was just able to swim up to it and chomp down on it without any reaction from the whale. If the whale had the strength it could have whacked that shark with it's tail and that would have most likely killed it. Or at the very least injured it badly.

Ive heard theories from people about giant great whites killing smaller lone whales by attacking the tail and opening arteries causing it to bleed out, ive heard a giant Mako expert say he thinks a big 14 foot mako using its speed and reflexes could possibly do the same thing to a 20 foot great white if it landed that big bite on the tail from behind. This whale is injured already clearly and theres ropes or fishing line tangled up here too so its not a true healthy whale vs healthy great white scenario but it shows what a huge female around 22 feet and 5 tons could do to a whale this size? It cant handle an 11 foot shark so a shark double that size would be a nightmare for lone whales like this! 😧🦈🐳🐋

The caption is written as if the whale is hunting the shark.

@yourdaddy6030

10 күн бұрын

Try reading it again.

@yourdaddy6030

10 күн бұрын

Read it again. I suppose it can be misleading but it makes sense if you try again.

Did ye expect the Great White to Call Dileveroo...!

So are you saying the whale was still alive when the shark attacked but just was in such a poor state it couldn’t fight back or swim away fest

Did you not see the whale was injured there was blood in the water you didn't mention it when you was explaining what's going on with the whale

@sharky-ryan

11 күн бұрын

Yes could see it. I Def did mention the ropes and condition of whale? The bleeding was caused by the shark biting it and opening up vein

@TheOzarkAOD

11 күн бұрын

Did you actually watch the video? He literally explained everything in great detail

I was just wondering how that that happens

We humans always want to intervene. This has been going on for thousands of years. if it hurts your eyes and I see how it can ,,don’t watch.

Fishing gear 🤬🤬🤬

It was the tail region because that what propels it through the water, that’s typical of most predators

12 foot cookie cutter

it makes me curious if sharks will hunt whales without this kind of human intervention. the idea it knows to attack the tail makes me think they can hunt whales they just don't have the opportunity to do so since the animal is generally too big and dangerous to hunt. as for freeing the whale? that should be a risk to the fishers who set up these traps. they are the ones who 'should' be risking their lives for what they have caused. but since that will never be the case, and it's volunteers who often have nothing to do with this cruelty, the risk need to be judged properly.

Great video and analysis- the fact of life is nature is cruel, but for a reason. The sick and the weak shouldn’t survive, look what happened to the ecosystem when the wolves in Yellowstone got removed and then reintroduced. Eco systems need balance. The fact humans massacre millions of sharks each year is damaging to the ecosystem and the void will be filled, jellyfish and squid for example. We are the problem not a GWS doing its job.

@dynodin81

12 күн бұрын

Unfortunately the whale is sick because of human pollution (stuck in a rope/net) in their waters - Human involvement is the primary cause.

Very well done RJ, AJ here from farm country Alberta Canada. God Bless.

So if a boat sinks with all aboard do you leave them for nature to deal with them ? Not such a good analogy !!!!

@xavierdaume2757

8 күн бұрын

I understand your point of view , but humans are not part of the shark food chain, that`s the difference . Every day millions of animals are hunted by others and humans are not even there.

@glennquagmire1747

7 күн бұрын

​@@xavierdaume2757 - No you don't understand, that whale is caught in a net, its NOT NATURAL and the fact a crew of these so called humans were present and DID NOTHING TO ASSIT THE WHALE ( cutting off the net ) now do you COMPREHEND !!!! LOL

@Ryodraco

7 күн бұрын

Are the humans all already going to die very soon regardless? Only then would your example be comparable. It's not simply a matter of "it's nature," this whale was beyond help.

That whale was on its last legs….uhm fins at the time by the look of the opening shots.

@sharky-ryan

11 күн бұрын

Yes it was.

That’s nature , it happens .

The whale obviously has commercial ropes wrapped up on it. And it’s wounded and I’m sure totally out of energy I only watched the he 1st few minutes so far

@sharky-ryan

11 күн бұрын

100 percent right. The bleeding wound was caused by shark bite

Please read your titles - how can you not see the mistake 'How this this happen" - don't be lazy like the others

@sharky-ryan

11 күн бұрын

Sorry. Maths my thing, English not. But no excuse

Where's the beginning? That things already dead

@sharky-ryan

11 күн бұрын

It’s breathing and swimming. Not dead.

@futo

11 күн бұрын

that's what I thought, that Humpback is look dead, but unfortunately it's not dead yet...and are those ropes that the Humpback was trapped. Also that's a small Humpback, like a juvenile

You get better looking with age......and the sharks are nice too

So the questions of why we didn’t do this and why we didn’t do that the answers are very simple because it’s nature and humans should not involve themselves unless it is utterly utterly utterly needed for some bizarre reason as sad as it may be it’s the circle of lifeand we should never interfere or try to change it. These are animals who go off of instinct and natural abilities. They’re not attacking each other or hunting for no other reason then survival the same as we do.

We live in houses with everything we need at our fingertips so far removed from nature that when we see a predation it shocks us. In nature everything has something that will eat it alive be from a predator, parasites or disease, it is so easy to live in a protected community and see the beauty of the natural world but it's not beautiful, it's a vicious fight for survival and what's happening in this video has been happening for millions of years, not long line fishing of course but sharks cleaning the sea of sick fish and mammals.

Poor baby!!!

You could’ve got one of the fishing boats to transport that while back to its pod. It would’ve taken days, you could’ve easily implemented something to drag the whale behind the boat, you could’ve also done something for its skin. It was not the whales fault it was the humans fault. Refusing human intervention is just refusing to take the blame and refusing to do anything to put right the wrongs that we (humanity) have done. You have the ability to pull giant great white sharks on ships and tag them while pumping water through their gills to keep them alive. But we don’t have the ability to do the same thing for a small whale 🐋 and transport it back to his/her pod in a matter of days where it could’ve receive treatment while in transportation while at the same time being safe from any predators. Excuses are just excuses…

@sharky-ryan

9 күн бұрын

This has to be the greatest comment ever. Absolute pearler!!

survival of the fittest at work its natures way

A big part of the reason the whale was in the predicament was because of humans. So I can kind of see why people would want you to intervene. If I'm ever sick and not going to make it, please don't feed me to sharks.

@chrisclarke3670

13 күн бұрын

Agree, humans were responsible for the whales predicament and I think it would be reasonable to try and help the whale.

@houseadams4841

12 күн бұрын

There was absolutely nothing that could be done for that whale by that time… It was far too late for anything to be done.. Even if disentangled … like he says… The whale was dead.

@houseadams4841

12 күн бұрын

Do you watch the video..?? The whale was dying… nothing to be done.. Unfortunate… But that’s what the situation was. Only thing to do was let nature run its course.. brutal… yes. But anyone that spends even a modest amount of time in the wilderness.. would know this..

Blaa blaa blaa , sharks eat people not whales , kids got better photo shopped pictures than you , even with Android

@Ryodraco

7 күн бұрын

What are you even talking about?

@boboharradine2673

7 күн бұрын

@@Ryodraco wot ya meen talking about you the 1 doing all the talking

Sharks especially GW are like the doctors off the sea they weed out the sick & dying, only the strong survive, now watch the killer whales being eaten just their liverthat wild sea creatures