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Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed
This never-before observed behaviour can tell us a lot about whale intelligence.
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What happenedOrcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a form of play as well as food processing.
The headline splitThe left frames it as "‘Like someone whacking a piñata’: orcas explode sunfish by ramming them at high speed". The center frames it as "Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed".
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Left / center-left‘Like someone whacking a piñata’: orcas explode sunfish by ramming them at high speed
The Conversation (AU) · Center-left · News report
CenterOrcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed
New Scientist · Center · News report
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Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed
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Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a form of play as well as food processing
