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03-13-2019, 11:46 PM | #1 | |||||
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March 14th, 2019: Quobba Station Picnic
Red Bluff on Quobba Station in Western Australia where everything larger than your pinky toe wants to kill you...
... and everything bigger than your fist can. If you go down to the waves today You're sure of a big surprise If you go down in the waves today Better watch out for these guys! All bronze whaler sharks that is Will gather there for certain Because today's the day the Whaler sharks have their picnic! Quote:
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In case you're wondering the Bronze Whaler Shark is bitey, but goes for the easiest meal. No, they are not Dolphins. link
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03-14-2019, 06:29 AM | #2 |
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That's very cool.
I never heard of a bait ball before. Is that just a school of fish? Last edited by glatt; 03-14-2019 at 06:55 AM. |
03-14-2019, 06:59 AM | #3 |
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Well, glatt, glad you asked.
"A bait ball, or baitball, occurs when small fish swarm in a tightly packed spherical formation about a common centre. It is a last-ditch defensive measure adopted by small schooling fish when they are threatened by predators." It's spelled "centre" and is probably spoken with an intellectual sounding British or Australian accent, so you know it's legitimate. |
03-14-2019, 09:45 AM | #4 |
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Note the last picture on the right, there's a hole in the bait ball where a shark has situated him/herself. The bait ball moves like a murmuration of birds.
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03-14-2019, 01:07 PM | #5 |
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Seems cromulent.
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03-15-2019, 10:38 AM | #6 |
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Do other birds besides starlings form murmurations?
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03-15-2019, 11:08 AM | #7 |
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I watched some sea-life doc on NetFlix where they were showing the bait balls of sardines, I think it was. They were showing the various fish taking advantage of the ball of fish. Urrbody was all "Ima eat me some sardines! Yeah!!!" Then the barracuda showed up, racing into and out of the picture (and the sardines). It was amazing how much faster than the other fish those cuda were.
And then, out of nowhere, the whale came in and with one yuge gulp, just busted up the whole game. I mean it was very impressive. There wasn't enough sardines left to make a bait ball, and urrbody went home after that. It might have been Nature's Great Events, or something like that. I remember it was off the coast of south-eastern Africa.
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03-15-2019, 11:57 AM | #8 |
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Yes, some of the shore birds do.
I remember seeing one like that, sardines or anchovy, traveling up the African coast like a sandwich being passed along a subway car, everybody take a bite.
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