Saw a documentary where this women swam with them while they feasted on rays.
I’ve recently become a big fan of whales because their existence nukes the theory of evolution. Actually most observations nuke the TOE.
Orcas really are the kings and queens of the ocean. There isn’t anything that can stand up to them for long when they attack together.
I thought this was well known. Orcas will kill a blue whale and eat only the tongue and leave the rest.
Killer Whales.....
KILLER Whales.......
Not Friendly Whales or neighborly Whales.....
Killer Whales....
They are huge.
That’s because Orcas are a pack/team species and teams can put the whoopass on individuals.
As a member of a team species, I’ve seen it firsthand.
Yep, five tons vs. one ton on average for males, wins every time. Throw in intelligence, no contest.
A friend of mine in Juneau was having trouble with sea lions while kayaking (imagine a 600 lb. bear in a wetsuit two feet from your face), so he painted the bottom of his boat to resemble the underside of an Orca. It scared off the sea lions but tended to attract curious Orcas. He later purchased a cabin cruiser.
What happens when top-level predators meet on land is well documented...
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It’s called the democrat party.
No contest. Orcas are bigger, smarter, and work in teams.
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There are some great YouTube videos of killer whales trying to flip a seal off of a small ice flow. You can tell they’re working things out.
killer whales eat everything for lunch
There’s always a bigger fish...
-Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn in episode 1 of Star Wars.
Planktonic algae are the real kings of the ocean.
The average orca weighs TWO TONS more than a Great White.
Time to skedaddle!
I’ve seen orcas in action while I was salmon fishing.
They were playing frisby with sea lions. Pink water.
I highly recommend David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet on Blu Ray.
Worked on an albacore boat one summer off of the California coast. The boss would not let us on deck when he saw killer whales. There were stories of them snatching guys off of the deck. Don’t know if the stories were true, but he certainly believed them. He claimed he knew a guy who climbed up his mast to avoid them. (And this was at least 20 years before the movie Tremors).
“When faced with a killer whale, it seems even Jaws might take pause for thought”
The author must have missed Jaws II when the killer whale Jaws ate washed up on the beach.
Not a big shock. Killers are bigger as it is.
The Coward of the County ran away from trouble too.
But then one day the Gatlin brothers came calling on Becky and there were three of them.
Just saying.