Gang of Seals Attack Great White Sharks in Presumed Act of Payback (Video)

Recently, we saw a sea lion viciously rip out the throat of a shark.

It was, as the account that posted it suggests, totally metal. Nature at its finest. Brutality. Violence. Perhaps even revenge for all the fallen brethren eaten by sharks.

Seals and sea lions are a primary source of food for sharks, particularly great whites. But as they say, there’s strength in numbers – just look at this clip below, which shows a gang of seals fending off multiple great whites in South Africa. Prey becomes predator.

The clip comes from Planet Earth III, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

As Georgina Ward, associate producer on the show, told Live Science:

"To see such a large and competent predator completely overwhelmed by its prey and swimming off into deeper waters [is] both incredible and surprising. It's not how you'd expect a shark-seal encounter to go.

“Very occasionally you'd get one shark that just wouldn’t give up and we'd watch and film it for 10 to 15 minutes just going up and down the cliff with a swarm of seals in tow. But most of the time once mobbing started, they didn't hang around."

South Africa, of course, is notoriously sharky.

The incident from 2015, in which Mick Fanning was surfing a heat at Jeffreys Bay, then a shark approached and tussled with him live on camera still lingers.

Then, more recently, at this year’s Corona Open J-Bay, a great white shark cruised the lineup full of pro surfers who were out practicing in between heats.

Maybe next time a pack of seals could come and save the day?

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