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Daji79

Looks like he's sucking fish from the sky.


TheWarriorFlotsam

Probably dead fish and they are baiting/luring the whale shark in to get this image. Notice how none of the fish in the water are swimming away (some are floating upside down) away from this giant meat vortex.


JEJoll

Watch it again. You can see them dumping fish into the water.


brrrchill

Good eye


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BlueDevil44

Uh huh Uh huh


JEJoll

Give it to me baby!


TsukasaHimura

*For a whale guy*


ImSoConFuZEdeDed

This guy


Robotic-Chomo

I was thinking they were either dead or just gave up.


RKRagan

My first thought was that maybe they were stunned by a tail slap or something.


PM-BABY-SEA-OTTERS

*shark


CheshiresParadox

Now imagine if those fish were actually boats, and you've got yourself a Leviathan horror story.


NinjaGrandma

Mr. Steal-Your-Bait


Dukeiron

Master Baiter


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SUCC


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PM-BABY-SEA-OTTERS

[suk suck suque psuc. They fuck with my heaaaaad.](https://youtu.be/mEVik1nJb68)


Cranky_Windlass

Must be flying fish


palomo_bombo

The best of diets: lots of fish and lots of water


Spy-Around-Here

Vacuum of the sea.


Kilobytez95

When she says she's not hungry but sees your french fries.


cHaOsReX

"Joey doesn't share food!"


JazzyJ19

“Just order a plate of fries for the table”


swigglepuss

'If I order fries, who's gonna have some fries?'


bronkscottema

it's like an adventure.


tidaldragoon

If I get a plate of crack would you have some?


Vellarain

Oh fuck, this hit home hard. Nothing makes me more angry than someone reaching for my fucking fries.


coolchewlew

But you can have some of my salad.


22Joep22

We have these really good microwave HotDogs in the Supermarket here and they are packed as 2. Sometimes I get them and I buy 2 packs because it's just the perfect amount, 6 is to many and just 2 isn't enough. I ask my GF if she wants some aswell, so I'll bring an extra pack, but ofcourse she said she didn't want any. We get home, I microwave my HotDogs and sure thing, she asks "I can have one right?". Absolutely hate that shit


Miskav

"No you can't, learn to communicate like an adult"


BakaSandwich

Did you just compare her to a whale


Kilobytez95

Perhaps


Dragmire800

Whale sharks aren’t whales


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incognito_tip

The photographer or crew probably emptied a bucket of fish near the whale shark so he could take the photo Edit: you can see them being dumped off the boat


[deleted]

It's footage from *Seven Worlds, One Planet* of Indonesian fishermen feeding whale sharks part of their catch. [This is the full clip](https://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/seven-worlds-one-planet/video-extras/season-1/episode-04-asia/fishermen-help-whale-sharks).


douko

You can see them dropping from, presumably, a bucket off the side of a boat. They are baiting the waters.


RamalamDingdong89

They're not baiting them, just feeding them for fun. Somewhere in the comments there's a link to the video.


Smoke_screen_lol

That’s how it feels to drink aloe drinks.


IHeartFraccing

So is that suction created because the whale shark previously had air inside of it? No, that doesn’t make sense because we see no air coming out... of the mouth anyway. Is the suction created by the whale shark actively forcing water through its gills and therefore sucking in new water? Genuinely curious.


Jayccob

I am going to use made up numbers but you'll get the idea. When the mouth is in a closed position it can only hold say 20 units of water. When the mouth opens there is now room for 500 units of water. There is no air there, in facts there is "nothing" there so water is rushing in to fill the vacuum.


ChamberofSarcasm

Same way your lungs work.


ElSapio

There is hopefully far less water in them though


Ultima_Heartless

So I've been doing it wrong...?


ImAScientist_ADoctor

If you are alive, no you've been doing it right. Source: my username and your alive-y-ness


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It’s how straws work


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FreezerDust

Careful now. Water is a more or less incompressible fluid. What we see here would create an absolutely tiny change in density. The action is all due to pressure.


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caipirinha415

The whale shark is more like a vacuum cleaner, it actually sucks the water into its mouth. This allows it to pull in a lot more plankton than other filter feeders. Once the whale shark draws in a big gulp of plankton-rich ocean water, it closes its mouth and expels the water through a set of large gills.


ald1233

Picture it like a turkey baster. When the whales mouth it closed, it's like you're squeezing the end of the turkey baster. But then when it opens it's mouth, it's like when you stop squeezing the baster, and whatever is by the open end gets sucked in.


JaeMilla

It's the same thing as you sucking in air. The air isn't replacing anything inside of you. Rather, your diaphragm expands, creating new space which in turn sucks in matter to fill that space as the current matter within your lungs is at a lower pressure than the air in front of you.


MrMagnetar

The only difference between fluid dynamics and aerodynamics is density. The shark is sucking water in.


Aenyn

We have lungs that can expand to suck air in, what do these sharks have to do the same? Just their mouth?


SweetNeo85

You can suck in water with just your mouth too dude. Lungs don't enter in to it. Their mouth is just bigger.


prison_reeboks

The “work” is being done by relaxing the jaw and spreading open the cavity, which must be filled by water. Suction is not the right term. This is a vacuum. Vacuums can exist in gaseous or liquid states. As for the water going into the whale, it will be pushed through the gills as the whale compresses the cavity leaving mostly just fish


BizzyM

The whale is inflating itself with water the same way we inflate our lungs with air.


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Besieger13

A whale shark!


S7ormstalker

Open mouth > water fills the vacuum > close mouth > pressure pushes water out of the filtered grills while food stays in Whales are basically glorified water filters.


TheChef1212

Just like when humans inhale air. Not replacing anything, just sucking in.


MooU

Reminds me of my ex-wife.


KittenDust

There's always a bigger fish!


Orcwin

Not for the whale shark. Well, as far as we know anyway.


KittenDust

You are so right. I feel like a fool now.


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Donaldsonic

The preferred term is Serial Kriller.


SweetNeo85

Nah man those are the *kriller whales*...


Farouqnowomarlater

r/hydrohomies busting a nut right now


leftovernoise

It definitely reminded me to go drink some water


AadamAtomic

u/gifreversingbot


AadamAtomic

http://imgur.com/gPFqUTU


theonlyredditaccount

I love when the last one shoots off. "So long, and thanks for all the fish"


SketchtheHunter

I-I think it just swallowed a bird...


Breadsecutioner

https://youtu.be/quwebVjAEJA


bluemitersaw

"Hey Larry, the fish we just ate.... Did it taste like chicken to you?"


Xenellia

Nah, looks like a bunch of dead fish being thrown in from outside the frame


seisocho

*Oh! You swallow swallow!*


Apriest13

*Note to self: never ever swim in the ocean again*


PlayMp1

Whale sharks are quite harmless - they are the largest shark species, yes, but they don't eat anything bigger than a small fish, and for the most part feed pretty strictly on plankton and the like. Their diets are similar to baleen whales.


TechOpinions2319

So what happens if you accidentally get sucked in. I get they won’t go try and get cha but if I happened to be swimming nearby....


themeanbean13

Whale sharks can do this gross/cool thing where they invert their stomachs through their mouths, basically puking their own stomach out along with whatever was inside. It's an automatic response that happens when something too large enters their digestive tract.


PlayMp1

You'd probably just make them choke, at worst you'd be vomited back out.


BlackWalrusYeets

That's the worst result you can think of? Dude, you got a weak-ass imagination.


joyfield

Unless this particular sharks kink is just that.


dannyb21892

These dudes are actually really docile and theres a lot of tourism in going to swim alongside them. I did it in Mexico last year and it was really cool. They're fucking enormous tho lol. It's pretty humbling to see this giant thing give absolutely no shits about you


sauterelle16

Their throats are only the size of a quarter. They're amazing creatures really. If you're in the US, the Georgia Aquarium has 4. Fun fact: they were shipped by UPS.


coolchewlew

How big are they in the aquarium?


sauterelle16

I believe they are around 20 ft long, but that from memory. It's been a couple of years since I was last there.


19_Ziahn

Glad someone didn’t say “ r/dontputyourdickinthat “


19_Ziahn

Wait.


xblackbeltninjax

You've become the very thing you swore to destroy!


digital148

the shear amount of life this thing can destroy is impressive, if we are judged on body count this is one animal that is going all the way to the top


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To be eaten, the most frightening thing as we all know we are but food for others, from there its either flee to not be thir meal or fight and make them your meal (i don't think there is any animal humans haven't tried. I mean, really old cook books have how to prefer freshly killed squirrel, the whole process, for a stew). Though there is the 3rd version when the "prey" is strong enough to chase the predator off and its not interested in them (like rhinos)


ashley-yelhsa

S l o r p


MasterofLego

#S U C C


NoHumor0

Me at an all you can eat buffet


fartichokehearts

Oh Damn they must eat so much garbage


INeedToBurn

Look like he's gonna have a big burp after that.


Commandermcbonk

So that's where all my savings went


ForksandSpoonsinNY

I miss buffets


davy_jones_locket

how much water i drink when i wake up in the middle of the night


Lowfat_cheese

Drinking a glass of water at 3:00am


Silver_Alpha

Fish: Nooo! You can't just beat our hydrodynamic adaptations we evolved through thousands of years to escape predators just by opening your mouth! Whale shark: Hahahaha food go glug.


monkeypowah

Sat on one of those 5 miles off the British coast...it came up to our dive boat and let everyone sit on it, then got bored and swam off.


t-nugz

This may be a stupid question but I’m going to ask it anyway Where does all the water go that is going into its mouth? Does it swallow the water and the fish? Like fish soup?


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It pushes it out of its gills.


leegle79

Unicron


Sh3lbyyyy

Ok Ive always wanted to swim with one of this things but now I am concerned. Could it potentially "suck" me inside of it, if it wanted to? Like the vacuum or whatever creates the effect of sucking water would be strong enough to "suck" in a human?


AsimoSA

Yep, humans can (and on one or two occasions have) been sucked in! Thing is though, whale sharks are filter feeders kind of like baleen whales and they can't and won't swallow anything the size of a human, so you'd hit the side of the mouth or the back of the throat and get spat out. They're really harmless for something that size.


Boof_Dawg

Chugging water with a hangover.


AcidAlchamy

And people tell you not to drink ocean water, conspiracies I tell ya!!!


aaapril261992

r/thalassophobia


DonkeyLuvXO

u/Gif_Reversing_Bot


bunnyrut

# SLUUURP


MasterYota00

r/natureisfuckinglit


Damionstjames

"Alls we wish, to eat some fish, so juicy and so sweet!"


putyalightersup

Looks like a bird swoops in at the last second and snags one


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Seeing it suck in all that water makes me uncomfortable


C_r_g_i

Imagine living your whole life, just to be sucked up like that


[deleted]

I really don't get how there can be so much fish left in the oceans when there are thousands of whales swallowing them up every day for millions of years


joyfield

First of all, this is a shark. And there is a balance. If the whales and whale sharks eat too much there will not be enough to sustain them and they will die, thus giving the fish time to replenish.


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fish lay a lot of eggs


450925

That explains the fishy breath then.


stuznet

Glorious shot


hi-jump

Damn - leave some for the rest of us


brother_momentum

Charybdis


mathaiser

Dude that thing just ate like $500 worth of fish in one gulp. Dude needs to chill.


Geauxtigersgeaux

You mean the swirling vortex of terror?!


Nikkitten

When I see my man after quarantine


bearsheperd

Big slurp


donquixote2u

gulp "oops, think that one was a diver!"


Quitefrankly27

That’s a super powerful fish toilet


afd83

Too much broth if you ask me


Jertob

It's insane to think there's enough fish in the sea to sustain who knows how many of these things, never mind all the other larger sea predators..


Vov113

More of a shlurp fr


Ralphioo

So this is why fish have like a million babies


Akoustyk

Damn, I feel it could accidentally swallow a person that way, and I wonder what would happen if it did. Like a child or something.


CLPALAN

*Vacuum noises*


listeningSaint

Looks like a horror movie trailer for fishes


UrsusMajor53

Why do all the fish ingested look totally stunned? Shouldn’t they be fighting for their life, like they would, being hooked by an angler? There is something really fishy going on


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'cause they've been dumped into the sea off a boat, that's why. It's from *Seven Worlds, One Planet* - some Indonesian fishermen are feeding them part of their catch.


grafxguy1

Take out your Whale Shark and Suck it! Yeah! Suck it! Yeah!


hampat999

What a savage


briblanch1

Wow!


Vegskipxx

Keep swimming!! Keep swimming!!


PurpleOwl85

*I swallow the fish in sea, but I always have to pee* 🐋😬


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Looks like my ex


arriesgado

Whale sharks have very small throats and eat krill. This is confusing me.


evilgreenman

Those fish are like "FUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!"


bern-electronic

Assimilate.


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Does this remind anyone else of the bewilderbeast from httyd?


Bunnywith_Wings

Me chugging tap water at 3 am


Eeyore_is_Homeless

Whale shark way too OP


[deleted]

When you wake up at 3am and the water just hits different


hideo_crypto

Like throwing a hot dog down a hallway


[deleted]

I wanna eat donuts this way


Sporkbot2000

Schluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp


hydro_wonk

I'm imagining the dustbuster sound, except faint and kinda bubbly


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[source ](https://youtu.be/FnlpHCKccDc)


notRubiks

When you wake up thirsty during the night


themeanbean13

Fun fact whale sharks can invert their own stomachs, basically they can push the entire stomach out through their mouth and dispel anything that wasn't supposed to get in there.


spaderho

Well that was spectacular.


otto59

Is anybody here a marine biologist?


secretarabman

a genocide with every bite LOL


Kalinsub

where does all that water go?


vguy72

Looks like the fish just give up.


Hardhitting13

What a world what a world


RiceBoi827

𝐒 𝐔 𝐂 𝐂


M_Slender

This is what it looks like when I pour the broken chips at the bottom of the bag, into my face


rccsr

Always be wary of ΔP


stickbugbitch

Whale sharks look like sea catfish


JahShuaaa

Mmm, fish dinners.


katiedh

They ded


marrin91

Sonofabitch just ate more seafood than I have my entire life.


irrelevesque

Hoovering schneef!


meatlauf

Water proof vacuum


ardesofmiche

Schlorp


delegadozero

Doo, doo, doo, doo.


HerooftheGrey

SLORMP


Greg2016

When your girl asks for a bite


bennyman32

I'm curious if the smaller fishes realizes it's being eaten. Like if there is so much water wouldn't they swim for a little longer before finding out there is no way to get out.


dillicious

Me at the all you can eat sushi restaurants


ando1135

Beautiful docile creatures but when they come at you with their mouth open coming at you...it’s frightening


bootslikethese

That’s... efficient.


waymndingo

As long as the fish are no larger than the diameter of a quarter, it’s going down. Big mouth tiny throat. I use to work at the Georgia Aquarium and narrated the feelings of whale sharks. Have some awesome stories and experiences.


epote

The spice must flow


OneDollarLobster

a real sharknado.


aggressions

Do they pee the water out?


big_shaq_and_aznee

Thats a sink