Killer whales eating white sharks in Mossel Bay, South Africa
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2022
- Video footage provides first detailed observation of orcas hunting white sharks in South Africa
[adapted from official press release] The first direct evidence of orcas killing white sharks in South Africa has been captured by both a helicopter and drone pilot, and a new paper published today in The Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecology presents both sets of video footage, which provide new evidence that orcas are capable of pursuing, capturing and incapacitating white sharks. One predation event was filmed on drone, but the researchers believe that three other sharks may also have been killed.
While a clip of the drone footage was aired in June on #DiscoveryChannel this was only part of an hour-long hunt of multiple sharks, as revealed by the exclusive helicopter footage. The new paper offers more extensive footage, along with data from tags, drone surveys and shark-tour boats showing that white sharks fled from the Mossel Bay region of South Africa for several weeks.
Orcas have been observed preying on other shark species, but direct observation of predation on white sharks locally has been lacking - until now.
“This behavior has never been witnessed in detail before, and certainly never from the air,” said lead author Alison Towner, a senior shark scientist at Marine Dynamics Academy in Gansbaai, South Africa.
Only two killer whales in South Africa have been previously linked to hunting white sharks, but never actually seen ‘in action’. Only one of those animals was observed in the new footage, along with four other killer whales. The authors believe that the involvement of these four new whales suggests the behavior may be spreading.
The study also gives new insights into sharks’ attempts to evade capture by orcas. On two occasions, orcas approached sharks closely and slowly, while the shark, instead of fleeing, stayed close to the orca, keeping it in view - a common strategy that seals and turtles use to evade sharks. However, orcas are social and hunt in groups, and the researchers believe these behaviors may render the circling strategy ineffective for white sharks.
“Killer whales are highly intelligent and social animals. Their group hunting methods make them incredibly effective predators,” said marine mammal specialist and study co-author Dr Simon Elwen, Director of Sea Search and a research associate at Stellenbosch University.
The study confirmed that one infamous killer whale, locally known as “Starboard,” was part of the pod and ate what was suspected to be a large piece of shark liver at the ocean surface. The novel footage also revealed how another killer whale bit into a white shark at the region of the liver.
“I first saw Starboard in 2015 when he and his close-associated ‘Port’ were linked to killing seven gill sharks in False Bay. We saw them kill a bronze whaler [copper shark] in 2019 - but this new observation is really something else,” said David Hurwitz, a boat-based whale-watching operator from Simon’s Town Boat Company.
The new study also analyzed drone and cage dive boat survey data before and after these predation events. White sharks were seen on every survey day for the weeks prior to the predation event and multiple sharks were seen on the day of the predations. However, only a single white shark was seen in the 45 days after the predations, confirming a flight response by sharks.
“We first observed the flight responses of seven gills and white sharks to the presence of killer whales Port and Starboard in False Bay in 2015 and 2017. The sharks ultimately abandoned former key habitats, which has had significant knock-on effects for both the ecosystem and shark-related tourism,” said South African National Parks’ shark expert and marine biologist, Dr Alison Kock.
Previous studies have documented how new behaviors spread among killer whales over time through cultural transmission. The authors suggest that if more killer whales adopt the practice of hunting white sharks, then the behavior will have far wider impacts on shark populations.
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I'd rather watch the entire drone footage without all the editing and commentary.
yes, because you would have the slightest clue what was going on without it. *rolleyes*
Facts
@@thomasneal9291 well, if they got everything, yeah. But it seems they only got the end so we didn’t really see them make the kill. Or they are not showing us.
It's possible to request footage, however they are using it for their research, so it wouldn't all be likely shared until they finished learning from it.
I agree seeing all the footage would be interesting, but don't forget how much empty footage people have to sort through when filming wildlife :)
No commentary though? I appreciate it, since it's hard to tell the orca apart, or know their research history.
Just mute your tablet …
"We're gonna need a bigger bay." - Shark Brody.
“Stop hunting sharks. You’re destroying the ecosystem.”
Orcas: Watch me.
😂
@J C The Chinese finning of sharks for shark fin soup, just as every kinds of overfishing, is a threat to the Orcas population, along with it being a threat to the Orcas way of life.
or ... Bite me!
Yep, it's exactly the same thing as industrial shark killing...
@@jor-el1298 Not at all, since Orcas most of the time hunt only one shark, while Chinese fishermen's kill millions. That is having a big problem on the Transient Orcas way of life, since sharks are the prey of the Transient orca.
Orcas are the real top of the food chain in the ocean.
Humans are…
Humans are without a doubt and Giant Squids probably have something say about that as well along with full grown great whites and any other toothed whale. Orca's only real advantage is they hunt in packs but so do Dolphins.
@@LavitosExodius killer whales are a type of dolphin 😜
@@LavitosExodius sperm whales eat giant squid so squid are definitely not top of the food chain. Orcas also have very high intelligence which makes them a formidable predator
@@LavitosExodius I think you’ll find that Orcas are now considered to be moving higher than the white shark, squid including the massive Humboldt don’t prey on Orca. Orca have also learned that if they get a white shark on its back it goes into tonic immobility, once other Orca learn how to do this the white shark will be in serious trouble
Wow, orcas are brutal, powerful hunters.
There was this theory since 1997 (Farallon Islands incident) that orcas relied on tonic immobility to handle great white sharks.
Not the case here. One orca just came up from underneath to a fully alert and moving great white and bit right into him, resulting in blood pouring out into the waters.
This footage suggests that great whites may actually be an easy target for Killer Whales, posing little to no threat to their safety.
Possibly a reason they hunt them.
Other prey may be harder to catch or even fight back. Great whites are neither and it looks like orcas have discovered (and are transmitting culturally) that they are among the easiest low risk sources of energy rich nutrition.
Armchair expert ftw. Yeah, a 20-foot shark with serrated teeth poses no threat to killer whales? Fucking bullshitting for the win.
@@asshat1607 agreed... the shark that was killed was only 9ft according to the video and doesn't appear to be the one that circled the Orca.
@@asshat1607 Not that a GW shark isn't armed to defend itself. It just doesn't have the mind set and situational awareness to understand the threats posed by orcas.
If Avatar like technology was available and a person commandeered GWS body, it could certainly make a better go at fending off the orcas --> I would just break off circling and tear right into one, opening my mouth as wide as possible and sinking into a fin or flank. Might be enough to deter their attack.
He is correct, it poses zero threat to an orca…
Intelligence and nearly twice the weight.
Come on man, that’s basic physics…think of the kinetic energy alone getting slam fucked by shamu
And its proof (as was also noted in two other witnesses encounters) that great white sharks have no inbuilt inherent fear of orcas and do not flee on sight, sound and scent of them.
the fact that the apex killer in the seas don't attack humans is surreal
No witnesses no crime ;)
Intelligence is the answer they are self aware after all meaning they recognise themselves in a mirror just like dolphins because they are the ultimate dolphin.
They probably know we are meant to be intelligent and we are not worth it for them
None of the above.
While we might like to believe some myth about respect for our position in the food chain, the reality is simply that orcas don’t come into water shallow enough to encounter humans. While they’re famous for beaching themselves while hunting seals, that’s an unique behavior in isolated areas by specific pods. Otherwise in large part due to their size, they simply don’t come in close enough to run into swimmers, and likewise swimmers rarely swim in water deep enough to see orcas. Sharks are quite a different story - the vast majority of shark bites are by other than Great Whites and in shallow water.
@@Pupda I've seen plenty of videos of people getting into the ocean and swimming alongside orcas so your statement makes no sense at all.
And orcas are one of the large predators that do come into the shallows 4-7ft deep to hunt seals near the Falkland Islands and they even beach themselves off the coast of South America to catch seals. Thought you would know all this and these are just the orcas we have documented doing this likely more with different hunting techniques we don't even know about.
Human liver is too small.
We need Killer Whale Week in addition to Shark Week!
Absolutely!
Orcas are so much more interesting than those oversized pea brained fish
@@Zion66666 🙄😑😆😂🤣
@@Zion66666 Oh they're definitely not pea brain. and Definitely, and I mean DEFINITELY nothing like how the media portrays them. They are very curious animals which why they tend to do taste bites on unfamiliar objects (humans included) to see if they are edible. They also have a complex social structure, with a matriarchal hierarchy determined by size. and while they're usually solitary creatures, they also would turn to socializing if needed.
I love the idea that Orcas discovered tonic immobility. How cool that if you turn a shark on it's back, it goes to sleep, you can make a slit in it's belly, suck out the liver, & be on your way, no sweat.
Then I saw a video of an autopsy done on one of the Great Whites that washed up on our Cape beaches.
When the 3 ton orca turned the 1 ton Orca upside down, it was not a gentle process. When it flipped the shark, it's entire pectoral girdle was torn dislocated, terribly damaged. That shark would have been in no condition to do anything purposeful to defend itself further.
Perhaps you guys know this video & could review it
Makes sense. No need to risk getting bit by even the smaller white shark.
i watched a different report a couple of years ago about orcas being filmed for the first time preying on a great white shark off the coast of california. those orcas used very similar techniques as these orcas. and they also went for the shark's liver. after the attack, great white sharks weren't seen in the area for quite some time.
i'm wondering if the widely separated groups of orcas learned this technique by being passed down across orca populations, or if each group learned it completely independently.
I believe it is the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco that has a USA Marine research place _(I can't honestly remember!)_ where the white sharks flee for a month or so when Orca appear.
Most Orcas that prey on sharks and rays, have worked out that they go into a catatonic state when turned upside down and are therefore defenceless, plus great white can also be downed, if held still for a certain period of time. If the sharks were smarter, their best strategy would be to dive as deep as possible and hug the sea floor and swim out to the open ocean.
@@jamief1263 killer whales are one of the deepest divers of the sea, the shark is blown out of the water with this one, there is no escaping
@@lexuslfa4739 I agree, but the tactic is to ram the shark from underneath, grab it and turn it over. If your on the sea floor, this isn’t possible, plus Orcas can only hold their breath for about 10-15 minutes, although they would get around this by swapping out with each other. The sharks best hope is to just make it as much of a pain in the arse to kill it as possible in the hope that the Orcas will lose interest. It’s not going to happen however, sharks just don’t have the intelligence to outwit Orcas.
@@lexuslfa4739 , Orcas don't dive very deep. Sperm whales do though. I wonder if they also prey on sharks. They're certainly big enough and have serious teeth.
Orcas: "Look at me me, I am the captain now!"
I think they are going to need a bigger boat.
It also shows the communal intelligence of the sharks leaving the area in mass
yeah that's what i don't get it ... such a solitude creature, but how do they broadcast this info among themself so quickly ... i couldnot call my family around with phone that quick
@@AttaKru There is so much we don't understand if the natural world . We as humans feel we are the only being sentient creature on the planet and that appears completely false . Even insects may grasp the concept.
there is another video here on youtube that shows sharks scamming when they smell shark liver after the kill. its the smell. a few drops in the water and they high tail it out of there.
@@stevencole7331 could not agree more
@@lemonmoose5090 i read, that the smell of blood (therefor i assume the smell of liver) is overrated, and they don't sense it from many kilometers away (in fact half or a mile a mile max) ... still, all the neighbor capitulates. there must be something else beyond smell ... but anyway, i just speculate, i check out the video, thanks
Seals are like, “Yeah, that’s what you get! Team mammal! Woo!”
Orcas eat seals too lol
i think its more like:
surfer, "yeah, that's what you get! Team orca! Woo!"
because orca is human friendly (except for rare incident when orca killed human accidentally in seaworld)
So interesting to see an animal use evasion tactics that is almost never preyed upon.
So the tactics aren't preyed upon.
When they were juveniles, they had to use those tactics. As full grown adults, they have little to fear.
(White sharks are still pretty big juveniles though haha)
@@TragoudistrosMPH all the grown up sharks flee the area, they run like pooseys from orcas
@@fmoa2541 Just like humans the youth do the opposite of the wiser elders.
Also interesting that they use the same tactics their prey uses to try to escape them
ホオジロザメ怖い…シャチもっと怖い…
でも、それらを空から撮影し、スマホで鑑賞する人間様程は怖くないか。
I agree. 100%.
しゃちこえぇ…こんな怖いの水族館にいんのかよ…
yes, so true.
Thanks -- good video. A similar phenomenon was reported off the Farallon Islands, 6 years ago. The orcas would attack sharks from behind, inverted, then seizing the sharks' pectoral fins. The orca would then right itself, causing the upside down shark to slip into a state of tonic immobility after about a minute. A few vigorous shakes would dislodge the liver. The liver is high in fat and quite nutritious, so why eat the rest? Some grizzly bears just eat the salmon roe, if they're already full.
ホオジロザメをも食うとは言われてたのに映像は世界初なんですね
That is an astonishing sight to behold! Let it sink in just how rare it is for us to see something like this in action. Orcas truly are the wolves of the sea.
..but "people" don't like wolves...(more like dolphins, right?)
How about Bears?
Never in my life I thought a predator like the Great White shark would become prey. The Orca changed the all that by out smarting them being bigger faster and agile.
sharks are wolves, orcas are lions, bull sperm whales are kodiak bears
@@leonardclay4804 Nothing changed. They were killing them before you were born.
Oddly enough they seem to have a fear of the smaller Pilot Whale themselves.
Seems as though everything has at least something to worry about our there....unless you're a Blue Whale or Sperm Whale I suppose.
I wonder why the one dorsal fin on one of the orcas wasn't straight. It was lopsided, like the orcas you see in captivity.
Probably got hit by boat or else, It's free willy :v
To my understanding, a droopy dorsal fin means that they are depressed, and usually only occurs when held captive. I’ve never seen it in the wild before, and I think it’s strange, and interesting, in this specific context.
This is a pair of male Orcas preying on Great White sharks in this area. Both of them have collapsed dorsal fins, probably due to age. They are named Starboard and Port. The names refer to direction in which the dorsal fin is collapsed. Starboard is the one making a kill in this video. It's conjectured that they are older males which have trouble catching fast, intelligent sea mammals and have taken to hunting Great Whites instead
This was fascinating footage.
I liked how the article that this video was linked to, made it seem like this was something new. This has been happening for a while, but it seems to be the first time recorded, which I didn't know. Still, this was amazing to see.
First time recorded in SOUTH AFRICA. Learn to read.
@@asshat1607 ha, I should have specified from the quoted text, "first time from the air", re drone footage.
@@Hafke88 I agree, its been happening for millennia and it will keep happening. nothing to see here, although good footage. Lol
@@salmanbinahmed8253 You don't know that. This may be novel behavior due to the complete collapse of the marine ecosystems now very deeply in progress. We now know *for a fact* that oceanic animal biomass is a fraction of what it used to be just a hundred years, even decades ago. In fact, apex predators preying on apex predators is NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOR.
Waiting for the "First time recorded trans Killer Whales kill White Sharks" Followed by the converse "First time recorded Killer Whales kill trans White Sharks"
There's always a bigger fish - or mammal. 😬
Haha! 😬😰
Unless you're the blue whale 🐋
@@clangboomsteam interestingly enough, orcas have hunted blue whales recently too.
@@ogarcia91 indeed, and not just calves either, they are taking down full grown blues, pretty incredible stuff
..you mean ♂s?
I'm curious about what film was used in the Drone to record this footage? All drones I've seen are digital only.
Amazing how they get together for their own benefit. Orcas are one of the greatest depredators that exist. They killed whales and white shark despite their size and ways of defense. Incredible!
Very interesting to see this behavior in both the white sharks and the orcas. The predatory nature of the orcas is amazing. The way the hunt in pods and take turns is very impressive and quite efficient. The hunter is being hunted. But both species are very intelligent and also misunderstood. I really enjoy learning about the both of them. Thanks for sharing this video!
Oooh just like mammals :-O
What's misunderstood about them lol. And where'd you get your superior understanding? Encyclopaedia Britannica tapes?
@@dallesamllhals9161 #metoo
@@nickhekker8562 #Meh...white toxic Jute♂xennial - Here. I'm/am I - sry'?
Two of the most popular marine animals that are widely studied, observed, recorded and documented are somehow, misunderstood?
Best footage of this type of predation yet! Fascinating
Impressive how they just remove the shark liver in such a surgical manner.
I guess it's no longer correct to refer to Great White Sharks as apex predators! It's stunning!
People: Sharks are endangered! We must save them for nature!
Nature:
Nature: hold my halo
Yea endangered by humans not by the creatures of the sea.
@@jayslater3166 the outcome is the same lol
There's a company in Mosselbay that take tourists out to dive with sharks. The people dive in a cages and the sharks are fed to attract them so that the tourists can have the experience under water. This attracts sharks that would not necessarily be in the area.
I just noticed that the orca has a drooping dorsal fin. I thought that only happened when they were in captivity!
@@JoeyContillo it’s caused by stress and Illness
I've always heard that too…
Thats probably why that whale had a name... It's probably been released from captivity.
It happens in the wild too, just significantly more likely in captivity.
Drooping dorsal fins can happen in the wild due to intestinal parasites , ingestion of plastic blocking food , old age, oil spills , injury, net entanglement & subsequent escape and genetic deformity etc
I believe it is the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco that has a USA Marine research place _(I can't honestly remember!)._
Regardless of the place, all year, researchers study the white shark and seal interactions. And every year, when the white sharks suddenly disappear _(And they do so for some months.),_ the researchers know that Orca is about.
The white sharks leave certain places regularly regardless of orcas. They are seasonal visitors
They never stay anywhere year round.
No, they leave due to ORCAS being there. This is DOCUMENTED. The months they stay in the Farallons are September to November; but let just one orca happen to be in the vicinity and they all ghost the area….they vanish. Well ahead of their normal schedule. Educate yourself.
体格差が圧倒的やなwww
Thanks so much for posting,
Fantastic! I hope this video gets the many views it deserves.
I'm actually looking forward to the next Jaws movie now! LOL
Really enjoyed the article, this is fascinating footage
Really cool video and nature is truly amazing.
Great article! Would love to see the raw footage.
they are the Apex hunter
how could you not be ,
being in such a huge family group
Great white sharks are apex hunters too. Nothing eats a fully grown adult female great white.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Err killer whales do and very easily. Orcas are THE apex predator, nothing comes close!!
@@lyndoncmp5751 some great white sharks are apex predators sometimes, all Orcas are apex predators all the time
@@waynetables6414
Actually there was a report from a fisherman of San Francisco in the 1990s who witnessed a large great white shark attacking an estranged orca calf.
@@ninjay2k317
Not a single report of an orca attacking a fully grown female great white. None.
編集がみづらいです。
捕食のシーンに関係ない資料と思われる映像と、当日のサメを捕食する映像を行ったり来たり。
例えば、一旦時系列でまとめた映像を流したあと、クローズアップの映像に移るなど、整理して欲しい感じです。
Fascinanting!
Wait, wasn't limp dorsal fins on Orcas said to only happen to depressed whales in captivity, but the Orca in the footage clearly has a limp fin
those orcas hunt great white sharks for a living it's a tough life. the limp fin happens in nature too just not nearly as frequently as in captivity and not for the same reasons
The first video I saw about this a year or so ago? it was 2 brother orcas teaming up together to kill the shark. Only one had a curved fin. One flipped the shark in the air while the other caught it.
Can anybody direct me to longer, raw footage of the hunt? Would love to see more!
m.ruclips.net/video/vOZ_iMbBh0k/видео.html&t
This is a 3 minute video with about 5 seconds of footage. They don't want you to see anymore than that 5 seconds for a reason.
Thank you for this video
Really crazy they know to go for the liver. I read about this many years ago as well.
They KNOW. Think about that. Imagine that there are things on earth that are way smarter than humans, we are just too stupid to understand just how smart they are. Image if whales ruled the earth as humans do, but the world was covered with water. Image the whales keeping us on tiny islands and making us do things like swim in water and play water volleyball. Image how whale families would come and watch us play while being amazed at how we were able to swim with no flippers. Imagine. We don't have the brain power to understand just how stupid we are in the scheme of earth. Imagine.
Well to be honest it’s kinda hard not to in these instances since the liver of a great white just about takes up half of its insides soo it’s not like fining the pineal gland in a brain or something
@@giuliana6290 yeah that's true, livers in general are huge. But from other footage I've seen there are usually open wounds right where a liver would be and just big enough to remove it. They seem to know to go for just the liver.
@TheMalibuArtist, hope you will share some footage and study on this.
Thanks
@TheMalibuArtist
1:39 Is that Port? Port and his brother Starboard have been hunting white sharks since 2017 in South Africa.
“Now darkness, the tables have turned”
Will do and thanks for the great evidence
I learned about this type of behavior on Shark Week. I thought the orcas had left the area but maybe they’re back? This breaks my heart!
It really is. I grew up in that area and met many of the Great whites there over the years. Beautiful creatures and they are being destroyed by these two intruders.
Intruders? It’s their ocean ☠️ they are THE apex predator of the ocean
why not just ordering from Carl's Jr by Uber?
Thank you for the video, very interesting to see this behavior, especially since you would think a white shark would at least try to defend itself and not just try to avoid the Orca.
The video mentions adult-to-adult learning between the Orcas. I just saw a story yesterday (I don't remember the exact area) about Orcas sinking boats and teaching other Orcas how they did it. That would really be amazing if true.
I do have a question about the two main Orcas in this video, Port and Starboard. I was reading an article about this specific encounter that had this video in it. In the article, it was explained the names were given to these two Orcas because their dorsal fins droop to their sides, one to the Port, and one to the Starboard. If I remember correctly, when the Sea World debacle with their Orcas was making headlines, one of the things brought up about Orcas was their dorsal fins only drooped for Orcas in captivity. It was stated this did not happen in the wild.
So, the obvious question here is why do these two wild Orcas have drooping dorsal fins?
Chill
@@ihatesnowflakes2537 ??
Orcas are bigger, heavier and more intelligent than sharks. All they need to do is ram into the shark, overturn it and it is game over for the shark. Sharks aren't as intelligent as Orcas but they aren't that stupid to take an Orca on.
This is like Jaws, but for sharks.
Fascinating footage indeed. The crappiness of editing it’s also fascinating!
Show the freaking footage and then do a detailed explanation or something but show the freaking thing!
Is there footage of the kill?
No contest a killer whale is like a heavyweight boxer great white a featherweight.
Question about the data... with the exception of 2022-05-22 the drone flew much further distances before the predation, which should increase the odds of identifying more sharks per flight. Was the distance/area flown controlled in some manner? If not, the observed drop in sharks per flight after predation is misleading.
Hi John - the drone flights were a little random by a hobbyist plot - not systematic scientific surveys. So indeed the effort is a little variable - in the paper we address this effort difference in effort. But even with that variation there is a striking lack of sharks, which his further supported by shark- boats chumming and the movements of a satellite tagged shark away from the area which had been resident for weeks prior.
I've done the white shark cage dive in that bay, brings back memories as it's a nice area & great fish'n chips there too.
Is this port and starboard?
Why was the orca' s dorsal fin flopped over? I thought that only happened in captivity?
There’s always a bigger fish. ― Qui Gon Jinn
agreed. but such an irony when the biggest fishes on the ocean (whale shark for example) eat the smallest creature (planktons or krillls)
What's the underwater structure?
Nice video. New subscriber. Thanks.
No doubt is an amazing song.. Sandra has a great voice!!👏❤
Can someone tell me the name of the classical piece at the beginning! 0:00 ~ 0:50
So staggering and also a bit sad.
Yep
Rare to see, but is it really all that surprising that three Orcas are able to easily kill what looks to be an 8 foot juvenile Great White shark with minimal effort?
"Starboard"! Fascinating.
Wasn't that Willy!!?? They freed him and he's gone beast mode 🤣
シャチって本当にすごい
Now I know why I love orcas so much! Delphinidae, largest member of the dolphin family💕🐬 would love to read any findings on dolphin behaviour regarding defending the school from sharks.
Good to see Starboard still out there hunting and doing his thing, hopefully Port is doing just as well and is socializing with pods too
What is this music at the begining ?? Its beautiful.
So Starboard is teaching other orcas how to hunt sharks. It Port doing the same?
Fascinating. Thanks.
I wonder why Starboard's dorsal fin has collapsed. I thought that only happens with captive orcas like at sea world
Thanks for the comment - it’s a common misconception that bent dorsal fins only happen in captivity. It is seen in the wild also - but not often. Port and starboard , the two killer whales which are known to feed in shark in South Africa have not previously been in captivity but are unusual in that both have bent dorsals. It’s possible this is related to injury or diet , but we can only speculate at this stage. To keep up with our findings on these and many more marine animals , please do subscribe to the sea search channel!
I found this fascinating! Thank you! Please save both Orca's and the Sharks
One or the other. Not both.
@@jquest99 we can save both wtf😂
It’s called nature. They both kill
The orcas are killing the sharks
@@remotefaith the orcas are eating, dolt.
Can we see the full clip not this?
m.ruclips.net/video/vOZ_iMbBh0k/видео.html&t
It's there a not interrupted version of the video? That editing is terrible.
Gives new meaning to the term "Killer Whale".
not a new meaning. Its names supposed to be opposite as in Whale Killer coz its the only animal that kills a whale
My understanding is that they are eating livers for the minerals and not the calories. This is also why they kill something like one-third of grey whale calves and only eat their tongues.
They haven't been recorded killing one-third of gray whale calves. Where did you get that from?
@@asshat1607 I will have to find a reference for it. Give me a few days to track it down.
サメって防御力は紙なんだってね。
肋骨ないから、横合いからの攻撃が内蔵に直でダメージになっちゃうんだとかで。
案外狙われると弱いのかもしれない。
Were they abke to check to see if the shark was tagged?
While "predating" IS a word, that's not what it means.
新しい順にしたら日本人ばっかで草
なんか携帯のニュース？的なやつで出てきた
@@aiuenyooooooooo 俺もそれで来たけどまさかの二回目なの笑う
I'm curious...the orcas don't seem to eat anything but the liver. Has anyone heard if they eat other parts, too?
So? Speilberg needs to film a new film? Willy the Killer!....OK then....looking forward to the flick about the REAL Alpha Preditor of the seas🤣
What would the title be (instead of Jaws)? Blowholes? There’s gotta be a great title I’m not thinking of.
シャチ映画はガチだからエンタメにならない
すげえやっぱシャチは強いな
Killer whale is like, "Apex predator myass. Great Whites are delicious!"
We’re lucky that orcas don’t eat us
@@froggymusicman they're human friendly.. just like dolphin. but there was one incident when orca accidentally killed human-the trainer, in seaworld.
Why does one orca have a "recumbent" dorsal fin? Thought that this only occurs with animals in captivity.
Thanks for the comment - it’s a common misconception that bent dorsal fins only happen in captivity. It is seen in the wild also - but not often. Port and starboard , the two killer whales which are known to feed in shark in South Africa have not previously been in captivity but are unusual in that both have bent dorsals. It’s possible this is related to injury or diet , but we can only speculate at this stage. To keep up with our findings on these and many more marine animals , please do subscribe to the sea search channel!
Love those Orcas!! The False Bay welcomes these majestic creatures💜
Orcas are just straight brutal. Imo more frightening than a shark when you look at how they hunt.
There’s nothing brutal about them, I’m fairly sure they aren’t thinking about punishing a shark or conscious about how it might feel getting chased and eaten.
@Savvyforcrypto Sharks are other times known to kill humans when they smell them urinating, or bleeding underwater, while not once has an Orca kill a Human in the wild.
@@FLYMUSIC71 dude I’m talking about how they play with their food mainly seals.
@@ShiningGalaxy01 yea I know that lol. I know orcas haven’t killed humans in the wild from what I know. Only in captivity but I’d probably kill if I was held in a tank. I understand sharks have killed people. Just saying most people only see the orcas from places like sea world or from movies like free Willy lol. I understand they gotta eat and what not but damn the way they play with seals and pups is just insane. I’m sure their are other species out there that do that but I always though ah they just go and kill and eat. I thought I read or seen a vid somewhere that they play up to 30 min with the pups/seals. I guess brutal wasn’t the word to use. Ferocious maybe 🤔
No more save the whales commercials. Now we need to save the sharks.
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Why is the orca dorsal fin sagging?
Those Orcas are bad boys. Getting into a close-range staring match with a Great White before one of your buddies comes and jukes it from underneath, pops out the liver onto the surface for the alpha bad boy to scoop up. Awesome.