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OCEAN — Orcas, aka killer whales, are terrifying creatures. I believed this even before I saw a video of a water panda bear slapping a 600-pound seal into the sun.

I'd like to believe they were just playing, like when you toss a dog onto a pile of pillows, but from the comments I'm not so sure. The ocean is no place to play.

Orcas, which are actually the largest version of a dolphin, according to National Geographic, can weigh 6 tons — they are the size of a bus and can hit like one. We don't know what the seal said to deserve this punishment, and we'll never know. We only see seagulls having to tuck and roll out of the way of an asteroid in reverse.

Orca slaps a seal 80 feet in to the air pic.twitter.com/3ujbT4fhje
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 17, 2024

And as a little extra orca treat, here is a video that plays on repeat in my dreams and wakes me from a dead sleep every time I feel my bed move.

This is why Orcas are the apex predators of the oceanpic.twitter.com/yo3zvPIHjx
— The Random Guy (@RandomTheGuy_) July 17, 2024

And here are three orca facts from the National Geographic:

Two South African orcas "have been observed removing sharks' livers with near surgical precision."
"Orcas are just one of a handful of mammals that go through menopause."
Family groups have their own unique language dialect and probably call boats bad words (I made this one up).