Two Killer Whales tag teaming the crap out of Great White Sharks

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https://gizmodo.com/two-orcas-near-south-africa-are-at-war-with-great-white-1849129619

"Two orcas named Port and Starboard seem to have developed a taste for great white sharks. Since 2017, eight great white sharks have washed ashore in South Africa, with signs of having been attacked by orcas. Seven of the sharks—typically apex predators—were missing their livers, and some didn’t have their hearts anymore......

The sharks’ wounds, as well as recorded sightings of the two orcas, indicated to a team of researchers that Port and Starboard were responsible for the killings, and they believe that more sharks were likely killed by the same pair but didn’t wash ashore. The findings are published in the African Journal of Marine Science.


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I guess Great whites are no more 'Apex predators' then.
Beta predators (when Orcas are around)?
 
I guess Great whites are no more 'Apex predators' then.
Beta predators (when Orcas are around)?

It's been known for a while that Orcas kill them. They get the hell out when Orcas come around.
 
Ya, they try to get comfortable in our pacific north west waters but smell the orca piss and bolt.
 
Well they have HUGE size advantage, guess many people don't realize the biggest white shark would be still small next to orcas
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Plus they work in team AND they're smart af, would not surprised if they hate sharks because fuck competition (like lions with hyenas)
 
Well they have HUGE size advantage, guess many people don't realize the biggest white shark would be still small next to orcas
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Plus they work in team AND they're smart af, would not surprised if they hate sharks because fuck competition (like lions with hyenas)

Confirmed, Orcas are juicing........ PED cheats of the seven seas......
 
It's been known for a while that Orcas kill them. They get the hell out when Orcas come around.

Yeah there was one radio tagged shark (let's call em shark A) that was swimming near California, Orcas killed and ate shark B a few miles away.

Shark A smells shark B getting wrecked, dives one mile straight down then swims to Hawaii before daring to come near the surface again.

Just noped right out of there and went halfway across the Pacific.



I can only imagine the thought process of that predator fleeing thousands of miles

"nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope"
 
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