Posted on 07/06/2022 6:10:30 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
There is the case of the Australian Orcas that used to alert whalers to where the whales were located so they could eat the whale tongues after they had been harpooned.
Evidently these are trophy hunters.
Orcas, the greatest apex predator on earth.
They’ll vote for the Kennedys.
If somebody or something was trying to tear me open to eat my liver, I think I’d relocate, too.
“Seven of them had their livers removed,”
It’s an old Atlantic message. It means they sleep with the fishes.
LOL! I remember decades ago when SEA HUNT was a popular show. One episode had a killer whale eating swimmers. One of the divers in that show said “we should wipe them all out!”
My how attitudes have changed.
I saw a documentary filmed off the California coast by the Catalina Islands that talked about how the orcas turned the whites upside down and held them there till they went catatonic,,, then tore them up to eat only the liver.
That the smell of shark liver drove all the local sharks away for quite a while.
I wondered then why some entreuponer hasn’t hunted shark for liver oil to make shark repellant.
The flower child descendants sure love themselves wolves, cougars and sharks. Saw tim faulkner talking about how sharks are so misunderstood , not savage hunters, as the liar got into a steel shark cage to veiw some.
I have only seen a few Orcas while offshore fishing in Mass Bay. And I have plenty of time out there.
Apparently it doesn't take to many Orcas to wreak havoc on the white sharks, if they are so inclined. - Tom
Looks like they picked the wrong week to SCUBA dive.
I like him and his show, but that just torqued my jaws.
And they eat. A great deal. Sharks are mostly solitary hunters while orcas do the pod thing.
And they will kill humans.
Not sure orcas will bring the improvement people seem to be hoping for.
“And they will kill humans.”
Noooo! Not Shamu!
Orcas feed on seals too.
The Orcas are racist. They only hunt Great White Sharks and would not take a bit out of the Great Black Sharks of Nantucket.
Years ago near Pt. Defiance (Tacoma) we were salmon fishing out of a 14 foot rental skiff and a pod of killer whales moved in. One bull got so close I could have touched his 6 foot dorsal fin. The fishing action dropped off to zero.
PS stay out of the ocean. :)
I live in a place that has a lot of orca. I can’t think of a single event where a wild orca was responsible for a human death. Cougars, yeah...even beavers and a mountain goat...never an orca.
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