Incredible! Sea Lion Chases Great White Shark

In this episode, we take a look at the social dynamics and individual hunting
tactics of great white sharks including some observations you may have never seen before.
Link to Study Cited: royalsocietypu...
"Social dynamics and individual hunting tactics of white sharks revealed by biologging"
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[@arizona_anime_fan]

i've said it before, but your videos are far more interesting then 90% of what discovery puts on tv during shark week. you're doing real science here. this is amazing.

[@Itsbrettjones]

***This is better than 100% of what Discovery puts on for Shark Week

[@friendlyreptile9931]

Simple reason: Shark week is 100% trash for idiots that know nothing but belieave everything.

[@Lucaz99]

Shark week hasn’t featured any real science in over a decade

[@shaf60]

The sea lion is chasing the white to try and to stay one step ahead of him so he doesn't become a meal . The white that gets you is the one you don't see . 🦈

[@madisonbrown5766]

Yes and they always make sure to stay at the tail of the shark. Tails don’t have teeth.😊

[@elcajondavid1]

I think you are right. Great white goes to the depths when they actually hunt to stay hidden from seals, and then ambush their prey and that is why the drone doesn't catch any serious predator actions. The sharks near the surface are basically out for a Sunday drive and if there is an easy snack, they will take advantage of it. Other than that, they are just cruising around enjoying the time off.

[@Cristian-wo7yi]

​@@elcajondavid1 wrong.

[@secondhandrose6214]

I find your videos so relaxing, thank you so much and keep up the great work!

[@DJohnsonappraiser4laproperty]

You do an excellent job of narrating the videos. Very well put together in sync with what the image is showing.

[@loz6795]

Thank you for entertaining and educating us throughout the year Carlos. I have enjoyed your videos and look forward to many many more in the future. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and a even better New Year. Thank you again. You are appreciated 😊

[@kheventplanner]

It sure as heck looks like the shark was using the bait ball as cover to hide while stalking the sea lion! This was really cool to watch! Thanks for sharing your gorgeous work!

[@melissamcclain34]

What absolutely fascinating footage! I always watch your videos in awe because you always seem to capture these magnificent creatures like they never have before. Thank you for all you do to educate the world about GWS 💙

[@BrandonCiCi]

Thank you for another great video. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

[@BigfootSasquatch]

These videos never get old

[@Lucy-fq8rj]

I could watch your videos all day!!❤️❤️ Thanks so much for sharing them with us, I’ve watched a few other KZbin creators that use drones to watch Great Whites and some of them are so difficult to watch due to their erratic technique they use to fly their drones. They are either too fast or jerky to really capture good footage of the sea. Your drone flying and footage and video editing are in a completely different league!! Plus your wonderful narration. Seriously, your videos are National Geographic quality and I thank you for all your hard work🙏❤️😊👏

[@nikkilovesrocks]

Your work is impeccable! I just love your path here on KZbin!

[@jtompkins1277]

Incredible footage!!! I am grateful for your endeavors.

[@rhondawolfgangbelluscio2548]

This channel is one of my favorite on YT. Thank you so very much for sharing these videos with us. I love watching the juveniles and the larger GW sharks! 🖤🦈🖤. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.❤️🎅🦌❤️🤶🏻🎄❤️

[@bill2292]

What a great video! A mixture of the art of nature and marine science!

[@jenn1234]

Another wonderful video filled with awesome content of beautiful great white sharks! It’s so interesting and thought provoking. Keep up the great work and happy holidays!!! 😄💙🐬🎄🎅🏻🤶🏻⛄️

[@Rundu1987]

Brilliant video. Cannot wait for your content to be released!

[@krizz_844]

I love this channel, greetings from Germany ❤🦈

[@dayman-ed1pp]

I live in North Florida, and over the years, there have been multiple white sharks caught and sighted along the big bend coast. Enough to say it could be a consistent range for them in the winter and spring. A drone survey along the beaches between Port St Joe and Pensacola would be fascinating to see if there's a significant concentration of them along the Florida Panhandle.

[@28th_St_Air]

It’s a safe assumption that being near a bait ball sets the shark up for feeding success when other fish and predators start a feeding frenzy.

[@StoffelDilligas]

Another great video with superb footage. Thank you

[@Itsbrettjones]

That shot of all those sea lions swimming together in the same direction was spectacular

[@tomtalker2000]

Footage never ceases too amaze me. However, those sea lions are surely tempting their fates chasing those white sharks. Interesting behavior none the less.

[@jvinson4181]

Thank you for explaining in detail what we are seeing. It helps to really adjust to what we are observing

[@Markbell73]

Thank you Malibu Artist! I appreciate these videos so much!

[@TheMalibuArtist]

Thanks for your support!

[@jf1890]

Thanks! Your videos are always amazing!

[@ramauldramharack2138]

I need to get one of these drones.

[@loramontroy7850]

I’ve been going out to west coast a lot lately and we always look for you!!! I’d rather meet you than any celeb. And I’m going to be there at end of January for awhile so….lol Merry Christmas and thanks for all you do!

[@teasp00ns]

I love your videos so much dude. Really interesting to see a top-down view of rays, they really do flock like birds!

[@steviet9452]

Just beautiful graceful creatures and your editing and voice over are truly a match made in heaven 😍

[@captraykelly]

Fish including sharks feed on what's available when hungry. Great video.

[@maxthecat14]

Another great video on Shark behaviour . Thank you. merry Christmas.

[@RocketDog73]

I love your work and interpretations on what you see. 👍

[@faiz_latif]

your footage is always mesmerizing

[@missfriscowin3606]

You have done more for shark 🦈 knowledge than anyone EVER. Happy new year and thank you 🙏

[@LeroyKinkade]

I'm just happy that you and your work is being appreciated by the top oceanographic scientists, and I guess by the Sharks : )

[@cyndy812]

I love your channel, I enjoy your narrative on these videos also love the quality of your video's, my favorite camera man is Andy Casagranda on sharks, your my favorite drone operator!! Thank you

[@TheMalibuArtist]

Wow, thank you!

[@theseb1979]

The sea lion is basically the Mick Fanning of their species.

[@ericcope8216]

Another awesome video with an explanation. So much to learn. Thx.

[@PieterKleij]

Another classic video. So good.

[@babalonkie]

Observations help bind theories to evidence. Another observation i made in your video is the close resemblance of colours and shapes between the young Great Whites and the Sea Lions. I have always compared each animal in isolation to itself and only just now got to compare the two side by side. Definitely triggers some theories on predatory behaviour between the two for me.

[@rabadabadoo491]

Awesome stuff as always. Thank you

[@pencilpauli9442]

Fascinating footage. Will be interesting to see how this line of research develops

[@Reclusive247]

These videos inspired me to try to get some shark videos when on holiday, buy my selfi-stick wasn't really long enough to capture anything.

[@jdevine42]

These vids have as much significance to the study of sharks as any PHD thesis

[@bobsmith8124]

Amazing work as usual

[@LayllasLocker]

This is so beautiful and so terrifying! I'm glad I don't have to run from something wanting to eat me on a daily basis.

[@Anna-ky7ix]

As always, so educational! Thank you!

[@allenpetschow7656]

10:28 Love the footage! Thank you for the awesome videos

[@annakeye]

Your willingness to keep an open mind and not jump to conclusions is admirable. As is the extraordinary footage you capture of White shark and their day-to-day activities in all their fascinating variations. I live in Aotearoa-New Zealand and whilst we have White shark here, and in reasonably large numbers, I am unaware of anyone doing what you're doing. White's here tend to be well off shore, AFAIK and extend out to the east of Te Waipounamu-South Island to Rēkohu-Chatham Islands and down to the Campbell Islands which are about 700km from the bottom of Te Waipounamu-South Island. Which in the old tongue 😜 would be about 420 miles south. So, sub antarctic which means very powerful seas and very, very cold water. Quite a difference to the balmy waters of Malibu. This adaptability to a wide range of conditions, including temperature and sea state, as well as dietary is why they're the successful fish that white shark and most others are.

[@mixalisstathis274]

Really good work!

[@santadam]

Fascinating and beautiful footage.

[@justkerry173]

The sharks are beautiful to watch but that sealion was mesmerising

[@WildBillCox13]

Personal view here. Not an expert: Naturally, sharks gather where the food is. Think of Alaskan brown bears collecting at the rapids for a chance at the legion of migrating salmon. Sure, it sometimes seems like they're working together, but it's nothing other than social inhibition. Same with crocodiles at the lower end of rapids, waiting for the rush of flesh that must come. They seem deferent, polite, but they are merely assuming the behaviors of predators wherever food is plentiful. The footage here is the prize. Smooth, hypnotic, mesmerizing. Nice work.

[@keithmartland6463]

Each new film you do, brings more questions that need to be answered, What size of drone do you use?

[@johncoughlan1435]

got to catch on a pbs show ( sorry can't remember it) where the narrator spoke with you then went out to a shark nursery. You should do more tv !

[@mikehatch1967]

Interesting how you use the drones for so much of your work and how well this works I wonder if they ever use drones to keep watch for big great whites or Big tiger sharks in certian beach areas. It seems to work well for you

[@Usachatnow]

Love this channel

[@paulheywood2116]

That was a really good video and very interesting

[@TheMalibuArtist]

Thank you Paul!

[@jamesbohlman4297]

What you and your drones are doing is important. I hope you are privy to a grant to further scientist's understanding of the subject with a collection ability they do not have.

[@BigOsTaco]

Man I truly look forward to your videos. The mood is amazing. You have great shots and great music that accompanies it. It’s very soothing and therapeutic Love your channel. I actually enjoy the last 20-30 sec and you guys are analyzing the footage. That would be cool also. Maybe have some of your footage analyzed by a professor

[@titantanic7255]

Love seeing sharks near my hometown, I can’t believe how clear the water is In Los Angeles now! So much better after Covid. I want to share a story with me and sharks (I love sharks). One time I was boogie boarding in Los Angeles nearer to the Santa Monica region and when I was on a wave, a 3 foot mass swam right by my board. When I passed it I saw large stripes on it very similar to a leopard shark and it was. I was so close to the beach and a leopard shark swam right under my board! It was pretty crazy cause I didn’t really expect it. I swam with sharks in the Caribbean but it was so unusual to see them so close to the shore.

[@stephenleblanc4677]

As always, some of the best, most intelligent, most interesting nature video content ever. Thank you. I hope you receive some grant money.

[@skids4791]

How do you not have millions of subs! Outstanding videos my friend. 👏🏻

[@tompabay8721]

Thanks 👍👍👍

[@tatepearce7898]

I love your beautiful vids

[@someguydino6770]

I snorkel many times each year off of Puerco Beach 25000 Malibu Rd. I've never seen a "real" shark; like the ones show in this gentleman's presentations; but I hope to one day. The sea lions that I've encountered have totally different behaviors than the harbor seals. The harbor seals are extremely inquisitive; so much so that every second that you are in the water you must anticipate them poking their noses just past your shoulder. Yes; this can be a bit "un-nerving" if you're not prepared for it. Only the young ones will place themselves where you can look at then directly. In fact the only way that you can "trick" one and touch them is by "pretending" to ignore them to lure them closer. Then when you see them approach out of the corner of your eye. look away AND move away in a predictable manner; then abruptly turn and reach out and stroke their body. Sometimes after sneaking a touch; they will "freak out" and disappear; but once in a while; they will move in closer and allow you to face them. I keep thinking that one day when I'm playing "trick the seal" I'm gonna turn around and find a great white hovering there!

[@clayton_1000rr]

Very cool

[@xisotopex]

there is some cool footage from SA that shows seals "chasing" a great white

[@oesdscied]

I always appreciate your stunning videos, thank you. The observations you are making are interesting. From the perspective of science, I think these observations over time can help identify patterns of behavior, like you suggest, and with investigation we can quantify the patterns into a body of evidence that might provide an explanation or even a model to test. It seems logical that bait balls can provide cover and distraction for sharks allowing them to move closer to sea lions. It also might be behavior more common to juveniles learning to hunt pinnipeds or even hunting rays with the cover of sand clouding the water. The coloration of white sharks suggest a hunting strategy of stalking from below, waiting and then feeding when opportunity presents like the sensationalized videos of shark week show. That said, finding cover and then using surprise as a tactic for feeding is likely learned and transfers across your observations and connects in my mind to adult stalking from below. This pattern of feeding, stalking, waiting, and then explosive action to capture prey items seems a pattern across these scenarios you are filming. Thanks again!

[@TheMalibuArtist]

Thanks Jeff! Lots more to learn about this species!

[@koslisted9458]

Reminds Me of the two Great whites made a run at a surfer one hit the guys head and the other hit the legs and inadvertently knocked him out of the death blow on the head area. I think they both decided to strike same time, instead of coordinated team work. Smartest hunting tactic I've seen Great whites do is hide among large schools of fish to get closer to larger prey such as Seals, Sea Lions.

[@birdturgler88]

At 2:10 that looked like possibly a pacific electric ray. I’m curious if the shark ate it. What happened?

[@psw4763]

Great time for notification.

[@jdevine42]

Looks like the sharks using the bait ball as camouflage in the hopes of catching an incoming seal

[@jeffk6505]

I had a thought, apologies if someone has asked before or if the logic just doesn't make sense. From the couple videos I've seen on your channel and how hard it was to capture predation events, from memory the one with the rays also. How intelligent are sharks and what if they see humans as having the same capabilities in water as other marine life? Does this prevent some of their curiosity in taking a chomp out of us, or does being more of a foreign object outweigh that possible thought? I don't know if great whites are the best example to use over other species but.

[@ThatoneHotdog]

What kind of drone are you using?

[@StudSupreme]

Somewhat surprised they hunt rays. I had understood that fish and birds considered rays to be inedible.

[@DidBer]

Forever mesmerizing! 😮❤+100

[@John-pp4oj]

On another one of your videos the one where the shark circles the Pepsi carton I think I know what the shark is doing I've studied sharks on my life and I think that your footage is actually groundbreaking and props to you for being the lucky one who figures out that you can do this with drones on a mass scale and also make money on it but I think the white shark was trying to get spatial awareness because when objects float on the surface they tend to drift and move obviously and things on the bottom only waving the current and other living objects like animals and shrimp and I guess I should refer to them as objects but they move and I think that this shark was for one of its first times or like you said possibly it's first time looking at the way that an object that is stationary in the water moves with the surface and it probably is looking at the bottom periodically or noticing where it is and then looking at the object and then following the object and kind of seeing where it goes I mean it makes sense to me at least I think that he is basically kind of like you said learning his environment but I think that it was possibly trying to understand again like you said surface hunting in the sense that are not food

[@righteousbyfaithinChrist]

Very interesting. I think learned behavior...passed down generations.

[@nickmitsialis]

Anyway, the baitball behavior reminds me of the 'sardine run' in South Africa. I once asked some other aficionados at the now defunct 'Underwater Times' discussion forums, about why white sharks 'involved themselves' with fish that were only 3 or 5 inches long. Somebody suggested that maybe the larger sharks were scoping out the 'smaller' predators: trevally, bronze whalers, seals and dolphins. In all the confusion, it might have been easier to ambush such prey. As for predation of sea lions, I think that ought to be reserved for nearly adult white sharks. Sean Van Sommeran said most of the attacks he observed at the Ano Nuevo elephant seal breeding rookery took place down in the water column==invariably, whenever he saw an elephant seal predation, the victim would usually come to the surface already dead or fatally wounded. I don't know if that applies to the other Elephant seal hunting sites like The Farallons, Piedras Blancas or Castle Rock, but other posters, have told me elephant seals find their deep feeding dives very stressful and they take a long time at the surface to 'reoxygenate' and recover. It sounds like attacking one while it was ascending is a good strategy.

[@nickmitsialis]

I know the smaller white sharks seem to like eating smaller rays (I saw a clip from you showing one catching and eating a round stingray); maybe handling a larger bat-ray would require an effort to cut one up into edible bits, so other sharks are around to either snag a bite or bully a smaller shark away from the meal. Apparently even the 'Giant' great whites happily availed themselves of adult bat rays (large ones can grow 50-200 lbs, so it's not an unsubstantial meal)

[@rossphillips3891]

get this man a netflix series!!

[@TheMalibuArtist]

We are working on it! :-)

[@DeRock401]

Have you seen my bait ball

[@MulletHead87]

We would stand in the path of huge schools of Cownose rays in Clearwater, FL....... they would go around us like we were rocks in a river. Stopped doing it when a 8ft hammerhead swam into me that was cruising in the middle of them. Scared the shit outta both of us....

[@logandelacruz2152]

Most likely scared the shit out of the shark as well. Hammerheads are incredibly shy, even diver’s bubbles scare them away.

[@dlp2006]

Better than 99% of shark week

[@HR-rt9nh]

where does the sheep dog lay?????? in the midst of sheep....

[@Crenshawswettest]

Looks like Blacks Beach in SD

[@TheMalibuArtist]

I've only been to that beach once all of 2022. This is not Black's Beach. I know there's quite a few juveniles there, but the clips in the entirety of this video were taken nowhere near San Diego.

[@joeybassin2491]

Ive seen 2 juvenile whites get eaten by seals off a pier , seals eat smaller sharks very often just unknown to the public

[@richardbedard1245]

Is what appears to be a hunting strategy, on the part of the shark, instinctive, or does it indicate another level of intelligence? Several sharks in the same area doesn't mean they hunt in packs. It could mean they have learned where the best food is served!

[@jimaffinito1809]

A shark attempted to predate me at the surface.

[@jakebuck6095]

Shark behavior is different depending on location, predation definitely happens at the surface. Look at south Africa where the sharks leap out of the water to catch prey, South Florida whites do not do this, but I'm sure if the seal stays near the surface the shark would also... great footage though

[@earlbucklin8323]

by going threw a bait ball the shark may find a week or injured fish.

[@jkr6989]

Was that last shark, the one before the video call a pregnant female? It looked a little fatter after the dorsal fin

[@TheMalibuArtist]

As a matter of fact...I believe so. That was a large adult female.

[@Adam-kf6lr]

"Foraging" for rays, how sweet and harmless, like they're out there with baskets collecting rays for a salad... I wonder if you edit out the killey/huntey/eatey parts of your film so as to not "Besmirch" the good name of El Grande Blanco Tiburon".

[@amandastakeonit7402]

[@LeoTheYuty]

how the turn tables

[@Kinofspawn]

That Sea lion is hurting that great whites natural path of life, I think we should fix this by removing all sea lions from the ocean...

[@wendyspring6480]

I hate seeing sharks killing seals etc.

[@pfrstreetgang7511]

Don't be so apologetic about what you're seeing. These so called "experts" will use your footage and closely follow your observations because they're not the ones collecting the information. Stop worrying about not giving them credit. You're the one doing the investigation.

[@duanenash9474]

5:25 "we will let the scientists offer those" stop being so deferential. Scientists are just people; not some elite clergy of knowledge.