Not into seal veal, apparently.
That’s not a baby. Which makes it even stranger.
Humpback whales are commonly seen protecting all kinds of creatures from orcas Why Humpback Whales Protect Other Animals From Killer Whales
True. I do recall seeing a similar video years ago where it was a baby seal that was saved by an orca. Orcas are complicated creatures.
Well, I guess most humans don’t see much cognitive dissonance between cuddling a newborn lamb and chowing down on a nice lamb stew. At least - young children are often horrified when they first learn the truth, but most of them get over it.
Rhinos and other African livestock benefit from alerts from the Oxpeckers that hang around them. The birds eat parasites, dead skin, and some blood from the backs of the animals and alert when a human or other predator is around. Being higher up they can see the threat coming sooner. The article shows a couple more examples.
These Birds Protect Black Rhinos From Poachers (but Also Drink Their Blood) | Audubon
Being somewhat of an outdoors man myself, just spending time in the forest you become aware of the way the birds and animals alert to intruders, and they are all listening to each other. Ravens are always watching and will alert, chipmonks can be noisly little bastards when surprised.
Humans show compassion for cute animals, unless they taste good.
I’ve kept shrimp gobies/watchman gobies and the associated shrimp. The shrimp kill by clicking a claw, creating a pressure bubble. In my experience, they kill anything else that lives on the bottom. Mine killed it’s gobie pal when I introduced a goby it preferred. I’ve seen a shrimp cave built against aquarium glass, where the shrimp stored corpses to eat at their leisure.
Perhaps the orca is really clumsy, or saving the seal for later.
I remember a co-worker talking about her young son… He really loved eating chicken legs, until one day it dawned on him what “chicken leg” meant. He asks “Mom? What’s the rest of the chicken doing?”
I don’t know if the coral creature that protects clownfish is an animal or plant (animal, I think). SImilarly, I read that somespecis of small fish are immune to jellyfish stings and will hide inside the tnetacles of a big jellyfish.
You often see herds of zebras and wildebeast together on the African planes, because the zebras have good eyes and can see the lions and such approaching. Not sure how cooperative their defenses would be.
Clownfish sometimes associate with anemones, a marine animal. My clown gobies (not the Nemo guys) sit on coral and anything else in the tank. They can eat the mucous produced by coral. I’m not sure that the coral benefit from the goby presence.
Songbirds may share or mimic one anothers’ predator alarm calls for a variety of hypothesised reasons, including a sort of generalised mutual benefit of awareness of a common enemy: https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/25/3/538/512800
I was in my back yard feeding Arthur (Martha’s hubby earlier this week when a call went up from the neighbourhood Noisy Miners and every single bird in sight flew into the dense trees, Arthur included. I have never seen them all move so fast so decisively.
Overhead a hawk came into view being mercilessly harassed by a couple of crows.
An interesting thing is it was a small hawk, too small to be any danger to the crows. I guess that regardless of lack of personal danger they just don’t like predators being around so they harass them on principle.
In my observation, they do that when they have babies nearby and the hawk is eyeing the babies.
Not breeding season yet here. Although it may well be reflexive based on breeding season instincts.