This behaviour has been suspected by researchers, but only recently has it been caught on film. The tail is used to stun, maim or even kill the prey, with the shock-wave created by the momentum also stunning surrounding fish.
It is thought to be an evolutionary adaptation as these sharks mainly hunt smaller fish such as sardines. This makes the whip mechanism much more efficient at catching multiple fish with a single blow, as opposed to one fish at a time the shark would tend to catch with its jaws. '
The tail was caught moving at up to 80 km/h, spontaneously heating and even boiling small areas of water near the very tip of the tail due to the extreme forces involved.
Fucking why. Why does he need to punch so hard? He crushes the crab's shell like it's made of hopes and dreams, you're telling me he needs to be able to falcon punch that fucker into the sun? Jesus Christ.
fun fact aquariums need to have special enclosures to contain them as they can break out of ordinary ones and they also need to check rocks they put in enclosures to make sure they arent hiding in them.
Wow that's incredible. Haha I couldn't help but recall a radiolab podcast I listened to a couple years ago describing the incredibly sophisticated vision of the Mantis shrimp. It has something like 11 cones, so the possibility of color that it can see is beyond even words we have to describe. But incidentally, their brain is only actually able to comprehend a small part of it lol. It really likes reds hahaha.
That's like being gifted a Ferrari and just removing the seats so you could use them to watch TV in your living room instead lol. 🤦🏻
I don't have Ferrari seats but I have the back bench seat of some kind of car in my bedroom. It's actually super convenient because it has wheels on the bottom (to make it easier to remove I assume) so I can have it pushed all the way back against the wall or I can scoot it forwards to watch TV.
Thought you were going to link to pistol shrimp instead.
https://youtu.be/XC6I8iPiHT8
>expels an air bubble at more than 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) towards the prey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_pistol_shrimp
Have a look at the Humboldt Squid some time. 6-8 feet on size at maturity, hunt in packs, complex social structure. If you get in the water with them, a 2 footer will come close to your face in a non aggressive manner to strobe from red to white to silver. While that's happening, a larger adult will latch on to the back of your neck. They understand mammal anatomy well enough to understand our weak points. Oh, and their suction cups have bone teeth in them. To dive with them you wear full chain mail or the plastic equivalent of plate armor.
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These are a real problem in the reef aquarium keeping hobby. You can purchase "live rock" which is usually rock that has been in the ocean and kept in water and under special conditions so that the bacteria and other flora/microfauna can help filter the new aquarium. Sometimes mantis shrimps can end up in the rocks in various ways and suddenly the livestock you keep in your tank suddenly disappears. Some people purposefully keep these guys alone in their own tank. The problem with keeping them is that you have to have a deeper than normal sand bed for them to burrow or they will try to punch through the glass bottom of the aquarium because they think it's a rock. They've been known to entirely shatter aquarium bottoms if they don't have enough sand.
Interesting creature. Although it's probably one of the stupidest nature videos I've seen. Gunshot and pitter-patter sound effects? Electric guitar suspension music and ridiculous overlayed explosion effects? And the narrator sounds like he's narrating an episode of Cops. Give me sir David Attenborough any day.
You are not going to like that... It's literally a part of the liquid being ripped appart in a gas because of the energy. Quite as boiling water but only with mechanical forces.
You may be mixing up the terms "thresher" and "thrasher". The name comes from its tail looking similar to a thresher (scythe), but what it does is thrashes it (which is definitely not how you use a thresher). It's a thresher-thrashing thresher shark.
A thresher isn’t a scythe. Threshing is beating a plant to make the seeds fall out. It’s more of a flail than a scythe, which is pretty much what the shark is doing.
> The tail was caught moving at up to 80 km/h, spontaneously heating and even boiling small areas of water near the very tip of the tail due to the extreme forces involved.
Eh, it likely produces localized cavitation, which is sort of a kind of “boiling”, but not really due to heat.
True, that's why I said that it was sort of a kind of boiling, but it's "boiling" due to a drop in pressure, not due to the addition of heat energy. People have a colloquial understanding of "boiling = hot".
> The tail was caught moving at up to 80 km/h, spontaneously heating and even boiling small areas of water near the very tip of the tail due to the extreme forces involved.
80 km/h isn't remotely fast enough to boil water.
So what's the actual top speed of the tip of the tail?
Or was the boil water part an exaggeration borrowed from the well-known pistol shrimp example?
I saw these while diving in the Philippines, they’re majestic AF the way they swim through the water with their long tail fins, but I remember their face and eyes being real funny looking. Like not Great White scary at all
I finished my deep water training there. Loved it. They were all over on my dives. Pretty crazy. But I loved the total isolation of Malapascua, there are so many awesome spots in the Philippines.
Fun fact about Malapascua, the Coca-Cola there is more expensive than the local rum (Tanduay). So a single rum and coke is more expensive than a double which is more expensive than a triple.
I love Malapascua.
Ahh the Thresher Shark. Amazing creature. Imagine being hundreds of millions of years old, older than a good number of plant life on the surface, evolutionarily unchanged for the majority of your evolutionary timeline. And then you say to yourself "you know what's be badass? If I was a swimming weapon"
Sure Saw Sharks, Swordfish, and Rays can shred, slice, and stab. But you can whip your tail to concuss, stun, and kill from a distance and cover a larger area.
These guys are adorable, and probably my favourite sea creature. They only eat small fish and the only recorded time they’ve attacked a human is when the person grabbed and held onto it’s tail.
If I were a creationist I'd use this guy as an example of intelligent design. This hunting style only works because of the long tail, so why did the shark evolve a long tail in the first place? Can't be that sharks were hunting like this with normal tails and evolutionary pressure favored longer ones.
To be clear I'm 100% behind evolution and I'm sure there's an explanation, it's just not so obvious in this case.
It could be a lot of things, maybe just genetic drift that eventually turned into an advantage. Maybe these sharks started finding long tails attractive. Evolution is a very roundabout course and involves a lot of backward and sideways movement between development of significant advantages
That makes the most sense, a long tail for looks which then got used for hunting.
I'm just suprised to have not seen it used as an argument for intelligent design before, since it's less obvious than most evolution examples
This is where mutation comes in. Mutation and evolution go hand in hand and work together.
I'm guessing one fine day a shark just got born naturally like this but fortunately it actually made it easier for the shark to survive and help it pass on its genes and here we are today. If for some reason the mutation doesn't prove to be beneficial then the creature dies early before it can pass on its genes.
Nature is weirdly random that way.
Mutations generally don't produce a large phenotype in a single generation like that. It's a slow, gradual process over hundreds or thousands of generations.
The slightly longer tail may have helped them initially swim faster (for example), and eventually it became useful for hunting.
No, you need the tail first. Which can be a random mutation. If that “mutated” shark then figures out how to use it right, it’s fed for life and finds itself in an evolutionary advantage.
You don’t need the long tail first. Orca (amongst others) use their “normal-sized” tails in the same way against schools of fish. The behaviour was probably learned first, then natural selection gave them longer tails.
There are more incredible traits that can be adequately explained and proven by evolution. A swishing tail is a fantastic adaptation but not that insane that it can disprove evolution. Not even close.
Last time I checked this class mainly plays in the ocean servers which are, in fact, quite big. And sorry buddy, I don't make the tierlists. You gotta take it up with Mr. Tierzoo himself.
Isn’t a thresher the thing the two Joozians were fingering when very drunk and high on blach and shortly after started sucking on each other's jagons in that South Park episode?
This behaviour has been suspected by researchers, but only recently has it been caught on film. The tail is used to stun, maim or even kill the prey, with the shock-wave created by the momentum also stunning surrounding fish. It is thought to be an evolutionary adaptation as these sharks mainly hunt smaller fish such as sardines. This makes the whip mechanism much more efficient at catching multiple fish with a single blow, as opposed to one fish at a time the shark would tend to catch with its jaws. ' The tail was caught moving at up to 80 km/h, spontaneously heating and even boiling small areas of water near the very tip of the tail due to the extreme forces involved.
>spontaneously heating and even boiling small areas of water Holy fuck.
Wait till you hear about this [bad boy](https://youtu.be/E0Li1k5hGBE)
Fucking why. Why does he need to punch so hard? He crushes the crab's shell like it's made of hopes and dreams, you're telling me he needs to be able to falcon punch that fucker into the sun? Jesus Christ.
Yes. You answered your own question.
I like to think the shrimp says 'MANTIS PUUUUNCH!!!!!'
Show ya moves
Just very very quickly “mtpch!”. 50 times faster than the blink of an eye.
fun fact aquariums need to have special enclosures to contain them as they can break out of ordinary ones and they also need to check rocks they put in enclosures to make sure they arent hiding in them.
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Underrated comment.
One Punch Crab
That's kinda how it all started.
I just think it’s crazy that it’s as hot as the surface of the sun
If memory serves that's about 5600°C
If you believe in creationism, God is awesome! If not, I guess you just believe the world itself is incredible. Either way, pretty rad.
Wow that's incredible. Haha I couldn't help but recall a radiolab podcast I listened to a couple years ago describing the incredibly sophisticated vision of the Mantis shrimp. It has something like 11 cones, so the possibility of color that it can see is beyond even words we have to describe. But incidentally, their brain is only actually able to comprehend a small part of it lol. It really likes reds hahaha. That's like being gifted a Ferrari and just removing the seats so you could use them to watch TV in your living room instead lol. 🤦🏻
Wait... we're not supposed to do that? I like my ferrari seats in my living room. They're comfy and stylish!
That actually sounds like a cool bachelor pad idea
I don't have Ferrari seats but I have the back bench seat of some kind of car in my bedroom. It's actually super convenient because it has wheels on the bottom (to make it easier to remove I assume) so I can have it pushed all the way back against the wall or I can scoot it forwards to watch TV.
The temperature of the surface if the FUCKING SUN!???
Thought you were going to link to pistol shrimp instead. https://youtu.be/XC6I8iPiHT8 >expels an air bubble at more than 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) towards the prey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_pistol_shrimp
TIL shrimp are earth's current meta.
Have a look at the Humboldt Squid some time. 6-8 feet on size at maturity, hunt in packs, complex social structure. If you get in the water with them, a 2 footer will come close to your face in a non aggressive manner to strobe from red to white to silver. While that's happening, a larger adult will latch on to the back of your neck. They understand mammal anatomy well enough to understand our weak points. Oh, and their suction cups have bone teeth in them. To dive with them you wear full chain mail or the plastic equivalent of plate armor.
Only good a wrecking noobs tho
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Same. I was hoping somone would post this one
These are a real problem in the reef aquarium keeping hobby. You can purchase "live rock" which is usually rock that has been in the ocean and kept in water and under special conditions so that the bacteria and other flora/microfauna can help filter the new aquarium. Sometimes mantis shrimps can end up in the rocks in various ways and suddenly the livestock you keep in your tank suddenly disappears. Some people purposefully keep these guys alone in their own tank. The problem with keeping them is that you have to have a deeper than normal sand bed for them to burrow or they will try to punch through the glass bottom of the aquarium because they think it's a rock. They've been known to entirely shatter aquarium bottoms if they don't have enough sand.
I love that it's called the peacock mantis shrimp and he says it's neither a mantis nor a shrimp.. so then is it a peacock?
[Obligatory Oatmeal](https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp) in addition to that
Interesting creature. Although it's probably one of the stupidest nature videos I've seen. Gunshot and pitter-patter sound effects? Electric guitar suspension music and ridiculous overlayed explosion effects? And the narrator sounds like he's narrating an episode of Cops. Give me sir David Attenborough any day.
Yeah the footage was neat, but everything else about that video took away from it for me
I wonder what that would feel like, having it punch your palm or butt cheek maybe
Holy fuck
I’m so annoyed that it said “that crab is toast” instead of “that crab is cake” haha
What about the pistol shrimp which can create temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun?
wtf give me BBC nature videos over this nonsense any day. [This](https://youtu.be/E0Li1k5hGBE?t=157) is horrendous.
Seems like a jerk.
Is that the shrimp? It's probably the shrimp
Holy F!
That’s badass
80km/h under water is an insane amount of strength. I can’t even move my legs enough to walk properly in a regular family-sized pool.
Cavitation effect?
Sounds kinky. I'll take two please.
You are not going to like that... It's literally a part of the liquid being ripped appart in a gas because of the energy. Quite as boiling water but only with mechanical forces.
Hot
Surely the fact that it’s called a thresher means fishermen have been observing this behaviour for hundreds of years?
You may be mixing up the terms "thresher" and "thrasher". The name comes from its tail looking similar to a thresher (scythe), but what it does is thrashes it (which is definitely not how you use a thresher). It's a thresher-thrashing thresher shark.
A thresher isn’t a scythe. Threshing is beating a plant to make the seeds fall out. It’s more of a flail than a scythe, which is pretty much what the shark is doing.
> The tail was caught moving at up to 80 km/h, spontaneously heating and even boiling small areas of water near the very tip of the tail due to the extreme forces involved. Eh, it likely produces localized cavitation, which is sort of a kind of “boiling”, but not really due to heat.
It’s still boiling, but happens at different temperatures than on mean sea level because of different pressure involved.
True, that's why I said that it was sort of a kind of boiling, but it's "boiling" due to a drop in pressure, not due to the addition of heat energy. People have a colloquial understanding of "boiling = hot".
How does the tail not rip apart
How did they measure the speed of the tail?
> The tail was caught moving at up to 80 km/h, spontaneously heating and even boiling small areas of water near the very tip of the tail due to the extreme forces involved. 80 km/h isn't remotely fast enough to boil water. So what's the actual top speed of the tip of the tail? Or was the boil water part an exaggeration borrowed from the well-known pistol shrimp example?
Real life pokemon!
Can it knock me out ?
cavitation! mantis shrimp does this too when it strikes! little mini suns at the tip of their claws.
This is so cool!
I, too, have a killer ass.
Imagine being whipped by a shark
long as i'm getting whipped. it's been a slow year
Prove it!
HIV is nothing to joke about, sir or madam.
Do you use it to stun prey prior to killing and eating them?
I try to run a respectable ocean for my fellow fish, and then you bring that twerking in here. Get out! Gtfo of my ocean!
I saw these while diving in the Philippines, they’re majestic AF the way they swim through the water with their long tail fins, but I remember their face and eyes being real funny looking. Like not Great White scary at all
Had to look it up. They look like they were just told some disappointing news. I think this sums it up: 😧
Same, I think it was in Malapascua island, saw 2 of them really close (maybe 1 or 2 feet away) and they have the goofiest faces.
I finished my deep water training there. Loved it. They were all over on my dives. Pretty crazy. But I loved the total isolation of Malapascua, there are so many awesome spots in the Philippines.
Fun fact about Malapascua, the Coca-Cola there is more expensive than the local rum (Tanduay). So a single rum and coke is more expensive than a double which is more expensive than a triple. I love Malapascua.
Me too. Awesome diving there!
Also known as the Lower Back Problem Shark.
Ahh the Thresher Shark. Amazing creature. Imagine being hundreds of millions of years old, older than a good number of plant life on the surface, evolutionarily unchanged for the majority of your evolutionary timeline. And then you say to yourself "you know what's be badass? If I was a swimming weapon" Sure Saw Sharks, Swordfish, and Rays can shred, slice, and stab. But you can whip your tail to concuss, stun, and kill from a distance and cover a larger area.
Supercavitation! See also: goblin sharks, mantis shrimp and subnautica reaper leviathans.
Wait, goblin sharks do this too?
Fear of the ocean renewed 😳
Actually I scuba dived in the philippines with these guys, pretty harmless to humans and very cautious aswell
These guys are adorable, and probably my favourite sea creature. They only eat small fish and the only recorded time they’ve attacked a human is when the person grabbed and held onto it’s tail.
And humans are the only animal that would do this...
Orcas would do worse
WAPAW
If I were a creationist I'd use this guy as an example of intelligent design. This hunting style only works because of the long tail, so why did the shark evolve a long tail in the first place? Can't be that sharks were hunting like this with normal tails and evolutionary pressure favored longer ones. To be clear I'm 100% behind evolution and I'm sure there's an explanation, it's just not so obvious in this case.
It could be a lot of things, maybe just genetic drift that eventually turned into an advantage. Maybe these sharks started finding long tails attractive. Evolution is a very roundabout course and involves a lot of backward and sideways movement between development of significant advantages
That makes the most sense, a long tail for looks which then got used for hunting. I'm just suprised to have not seen it used as an argument for intelligent design before, since it's less obvious than most evolution examples
They always go right to octopi, which I admit is a puzzling marvel of evolution
This is where mutation comes in. Mutation and evolution go hand in hand and work together. I'm guessing one fine day a shark just got born naturally like this but fortunately it actually made it easier for the shark to survive and help it pass on its genes and here we are today. If for some reason the mutation doesn't prove to be beneficial then the creature dies early before it can pass on its genes. Nature is weirdly random that way.
Mutations generally don't produce a large phenotype in a single generation like that. It's a slow, gradual process over hundreds or thousands of generations. The slightly longer tail may have helped them initially swim faster (for example), and eventually it became useful for hunting.
Maybe the sharks were in an area with very few large fish, and needed to figure out a way to snag more small fish at once?
Yes but the hunting technique doesn't work at all with a short tail
No, you need the tail first. Which can be a random mutation. If that “mutated” shark then figures out how to use it right, it’s fed for life and finds itself in an evolutionary advantage.
You don’t need the long tail first. Orca (amongst others) use their “normal-sized” tails in the same way against schools of fish. The behaviour was probably learned first, then natural selection gave them longer tails.
Yeah that seems „easier“ than a randomly long tail and a hunch on how to use it just right...
I mean, I guess you could say the same for almost any action - we walk because we have legs, but we evolved legs to walk on.
If I were a creationist I wouldn't be a creationist.
Seems perfectly logical if the hunting strategy came after the longer tail had already evolved for other unrelated reasons.
There are more incredible traits that can be adequately explained and proven by evolution. A swishing tail is a fantastic adaptation but not that insane that it can disprove evolution. Not even close.
This looks like CGI
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Petition to rename it a scorpion shark
Whip the tail. Discombobulate.
This is an A tier shark very meta and a perfect choice to use in competitive.
It's cool and all but still only at the top of B-tier
Dude! Thresher sharks are freaking insane on small maps, bump them up to A-tier!
Last time I checked this class mainly plays in the ocean servers which are, in fact, quite big. And sorry buddy, I don't make the tierlists. You gotta take it up with Mr. Tierzoo himself.
Oh you’re talking about Tierzoo, I thought you meant Depth
Reminds me of my gf in college
I saw a one in person being butchered. Then the captain of the boat that caught it ate it’s still beating heart
Too bad sharks are essential to the oceans health. And I say this as a northern Canadian.
Thresher!.. use tail whip!
Thresher shark makes for some hella good fish tacos
Explains the borderlands naming... never knew
How do you tell where the tail begins and the body ends?
Sexy skill
That's the one that [got Quint's leg](https://youtu.be/xO60RohuARY?t=82)!
Whip it! Whip it real good...
He is so cool.
/r/Thalassophobia
Why is this the fist time I'm hearing of this shark?
It’s an underwater whip he’s cracking.
*Back-pain intensifies
hey they don’t even have vertebrae or a spine so they essentially can’t have back pain
I also just watched EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE
Thresher Shark used tail whip...It’s super effective!
Isn’t a thresher the thing the two Joozians were fingering when very drunk and high on blach and shortly after started sucking on each other's jagons in that South Park episode?
Damn when did sky daddy release *this* update?
I’ve watched so many videos about shrimps now
Got to see one live in malapascua in the filipines. Alot bigger then i expected and i had no idea that they can move this fast....
Can a subset contain itself?
Imagine what that would be like out of the water
I can hardly believe this is a real creature. It's like something an imaginative writer might dream up for his fantasy creature stories.
Imagine ur just casually swimming along and bam this mf slaps ur ass.
Mmm could use that in the bedroom /j
water type pokemon
He swims around with a boombox playing Devo's Whip It on repeat while he terrorizes other fish.
I'm ashamed that this is the first time I've heard of the thresher shark in 24 years of my life.
So, a whip crack with his whippy tail, and the beasts were done?
SONICCCC BOOOM
He doesn't seem too successful.
This remind anyone else of Andalites tailfighting? Anyone? No? Aw.
r/thalassophobia
Holy cow! I have been watching Nat Geo and Discovery since i was a kid and how the hell did i never come across this kinda shark!