This is the APEX PREDATOR of the ocean. Do not fuck with it.
True, and I was going to say lets not forget the great white shark, but apparently that wouldve been an uninformed comment. I had no clue how badass they are. I found an interesting article about how even great whites will leave their hunting grounds for up to a year if the orca is close or even just passes by lol.
Great White Sharks Are Completely Terrified of Orcas
So why are the sharks, which can grow up to 18 feet long, so afraid of orcas? Yong reports that most of what we know about white shark/orca encounters doesn’t end well for the sharks. In 1997, during the first interaction ever recorded, fishermen near Southeast Farallon witnessed a pair of orcas kill a young great white that tried to nose in on the sea lion they were eating. The orcas bashed him to death then ate his liver.
In 2017, five corpses of great white sharks washed up on the beaches of South Africa, all with their livers almost surgically removed. It was the work of orcas, which kill the sharks then make a wound near the calorie-dense shark liver. They then squish the yummy treat out of the shark and leave the rest of the corpse. “It’s like squeezing toothpaste,” Jorgensen tells Yong.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...cas-180972009/