Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think sperm whales are the largest animals that eat other large
animals. Technically, even the larger baleen whales are carnivores as
the tiny krill they eat by the ton are animals.
Still, when you see an orca go after a sea lion, you don't want to
get between them.
At 6:49 PM +0930 6/14/11, Marty Deveney wrote:
>> They are pretty dangerous animals. Aren't they the largest
>>carnivores on Earth?
>
>They would have to be up there: up to 9-10m and 10t. Colossal squid
>are longer, but I doubt anything would be more massive.
>
>> I don't remember the precise situation but one of the early
>>photographers following an >Arctic expedition wrote a description
>>of how an Orca lunged over the ice near where he was >standing at
>>his tripod, trying to get at him, presumably for lunch...
>
>That was Herbert Ponting, the photographer* on the Terra Nova
>expedition, but he had a dogsled team with him at the time, and it is
>likely that the orca thought that the dog braks were seals.
>
>*This was before leicas existed. If they had, I am sure Ponting would
>have had one. Does that make this on-topic?
>
>Howard, they're still great photos.
>
>Marty
>
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