killer whales hunt the great whites - there has been a war on for the last couple of years I’ve heard mention of here and there. It seems as though the killer whales are chasing the sharks around the globe killing them off. Maybe the sharks have found a bit of a hide out from the whales.
The surge in great whites is caused by an increase in the seal population. Fishermen used to shoot seals because they were competing for the same catch. Now there are fewer food fish and more sharks.
First world problem.
I am amazed - stunned - that this hasn’t been blamed on global warming. (All bad things are caused by global warming. Teacher told me so.)
To do so, to blame global warming, would quickly lead to skeptics (deniers) pointing out the obvious. So STFU about the seals.
Sharktopus is coming to gitcha. Our only hope is Whalewolf.
The ‘battle’ between Orca pods and loosely organized GW Sharks is, IMHO, a battle for hunting rights. I may have been going on since pre-history. We only know about it now as a result of satellite tagging of individual Great Whites and the resulting GPS mapping of the shark population. It seems that the sharks tend to arrive first at any given seal rookery, hunt for a few weeks until a migrating band or Orcas push them off. As far as we know the Orcas target a single White, kill it, and the rest of the Whites just exit the area over a couple of days. The shark is not eaten except for the liver. The carcas is left to decay. It’s like a mob hit.