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Great white sharks are often considered apex predators of the ocean.

That means they get to eat anything, anytime they want, right? Well, it seems when the seals turn up together, the sharks have to turn away hungry.

A clip has just emerged, showing a gang of seals fending off multiple great whites in South Africa. The video is a snippet from Planet Earth III, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

As Surfer says, there’s strength in numbers. Watch the prey become predators:

Georgina Ward, associate producer on the show, told Live Science that this is not at all how one would expect a shark-seal encounter to go:

“To see such a large and competent predator completely overwhelmed by its prey and swimming off into deeper waters [is] both incredible and surprising.”

“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.”

Our coasts are notoriously sharky, but it’s good to see the seals hold their own.

To really up the ante, though, a blue shark was seen getting its throat viciously ripped out by a sea lion in California’s Monterey Bay.

 

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The clip, which comes from the account NatureIsMetal via marine photographer Loriannah, is totally metal.

Revenge for all the seals’ fallen brethren eaten by sharks, nature at its finest.

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