...the orca-killed sharks that wash ashore (one is pictured at the top of the page) are missing their livers - their delicious, oil-rich, full-of-vitamins livers.
Posted on 09/13/2020 1:40:18 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
Just when you think orcas couldn't possible be any more awesome, they get even better. A study in 2019 showed these whales are really good at scaring off the most feared beast in the sea. Yep. Orcas have toppled the great white shark off their 'apex predator' throne.
A team of marine scientists found that great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) will make themselves extremely scarce whenever they detect the presence of orcas (Orcinus orca).
"When confronted by orcas, white sharks will immediately vacate their preferred hunting ground and will not return for up to a year, even though the orcas are only passing through," said marine ecologist Salvador Jorgensen of Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The data revealed that whenever orcas showed up in the region - as in, every single time - the sharks made a swift exit, stage left, and stayed away until the next season. They would choof off within minutes, even when the orcas only hung around for less than an hour.
In addition, orcas have been observed preying on great white sharks around the world, including near the Farallon Islands. It's still a little unclear why, but the orca-killed sharks that wash ashore (one is pictured at the top of the page) are missing their livers - their delicious, oil-rich, full-of-vitamins livers.
Whether the sharks are instinctively avoiding the predators that can so handily eviscerate them, however, or whether transients in the past have bullied the sharks away from the elephant seal food source is still an unknown. snip..
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Orcas are intelligent and will operate in packs to get a meal. - Tom
Orcas are extremely vicious and intelligent predators. Their traditional food source before industrial whaling was other whales which they’d tear to pieces like a wolf pack. There is a reason why they used to be called killer whales.
White sharks are racist. I demand the name be changed. Call them pajama boy sharks.
Watch how an Orca kills a sea lion, it’s frightening.
And then realize, an Orca has never killed a human...
Viscous? Capable and freakin awesome Apex of the Apex predator with a very sick sense of humor.
...the orca-killed sharks that wash ashore (one is pictured at the top of the page) are missing their livers - their delicious, oil-rich, full-of-vitamins livers.
What about the trainer girl at Seaworld? The one who got grabbed by her ponytail and dragged to the bottom in front of an audience?
What if we ran a few orcas through the Cape to cause an exodus of the great whites being drawn there by the seals?
Well, maybe that’s about to change:
Experts stumped after killer whales attack sailing boats near Spain:
https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/killer-whales-attack-sailing-boats-near-spain-and-portugal/
Now if they can somehow get that aggressive pod of Orcas that are ramming boats in the Strait of Gibraltar to swim over to Cape Cod...
Orca privilege
True enough.
There is a move in recent years to just call them Orcas , but when you use the old "Killer Whale description some of the biologists get upset.
Just like when Man-eaters became white sharks after JAWS.-Tom
Remember the old SEA HUNT episode (1958) in which a diver is eaten by a “Killer Whale? Lloyd Bridges declares in the show that we needed to “wipe them out!”
Dang have I still got a memory or what! “What?”
Hillary in a swimsuit?
As a boy watching Sea Hunt I thought it was a semi-documentary (somewhat like Cousteau) and that Lloyd Bridges was an employed SCUBA diver. He didn’t seem to be acting.
I remember when an Orca bit Bo Dereck’s leg off.
Orcas are well known for enjoying Great White shark Liver. They do not consume the shark. They go right for the liver and discard the rest.
thats okra
not orca
Gonna need a bigger Orca.
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