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.
Tallguy thanks for the awesome summary of whats going on. That is so cool. The whales only eat the liver - I myself only eat the fin but to each their own
No fava beans? No Chianti?
Someone told me yesterday orcas will kill GW’s just to eat out their livers.