Posted on 02/02/2025 4:31:35 PM PST by george76
Over a year after a 15-foot great white shark was found dead with mysterious bite wounds and stripped of its internal organs, DNA analysis uncovered its killers.
Two animals, orcas, also known as killer whales, and broadnose sevengill sharks, were responsible for the gruesome attack...
The body of the massive shark, known as the Carcharodon carcharias, was discovered in October 2023 in southeastern Australia, baffling scientists.
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The carcass sparked significant attention from the public due to its size, bite marks, and the speculation of it being the result of a killer whale predation,
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Although its head, spine, and fins were intact, its midsection, including its liver, digestive, and reproductive organs were missing.
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Its body was riddled with bite wounds, including a 20-inch one consistent with those from killer whales.
Scientists collected 15 swabs of genetic material from four bite wounds and determined that the killer whale was responsible for the large wound.
Broadnose seven-gill shark DNA was found in the three smaller wounds.
Instances of killer whale attacks on sharks’ livers have been reported from South Africa over the last decade, however, these news findings are significant since they prove they are more pervasive than originally believed to be.
These results provide confirmed evidence of killer whale predation on white sharks in Australia and the likely selective consumption of the liver, suggesting predations of this nature are more globally prevalent than currently assumed
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Any of these killer whales white? If not, they’ll BURY the story.
Well, like Obama they are part white.
You’re the baddest dude in the ocean—until Shamu and his buds want your liver for pâté, then you’re not.
“killer whales”
Changed from their original name.
The original name for these orcas was was “whale killers”.
Now known to laser focus on eating the livers of sharks and whales, sometimes leaving the rest of the carcass behind.
NUTRITION!
HIGHLY learned to be quite efficient carnivores.
...and seals, because blubber and all elee which is yummy. Probably the bacon-o-the-sea for them =o)
Orca’s on the other hand are mammals, like us and they live in groups and they have a language that is unique to each ‘’pod’’ of Killer Whales(who are actually dolphins).
We humans have a language too.
It helps one species overcome another. "You go for his snout, I'll go for the tail fin. Ready? Attack! Sharks don't do that.
The body of the massive shark, known as the Carcharodon carcharias, was discovered in October 2023 in southeastern Australia, baffling scientists.So they were not baffled....
The carcass sparked significant attention from the public due to its size, bite marks, and the speculation of it being the result of a killer whale predation...
Oreo gangstas with fins. They make their own rules.
B vitamin deficiency?
I remember the old SEA HUNT TV show with Lloyd Bridges in which they said the Killer Whales needed to be WIPED OUT! as they were so dangerous.
After hearing about the DNA tests, I now have visions of a new show CSI: Crime Shark Investigation.
“Ask any mermaid, you happen to see – what's the best seal? Bacon of the Sea!”
And now I'm hungry for one of those little fuzzy white veal seals.
We’ve got their DNA, now we have to hunt these perps down and bring them to justice.
Love to prove that, wouldn't you? Get your name into the National Geographic.
What a tragic statement.
These are INCREDIBLY smart creatures!
I used to work at Sea World in Orlando at the only full service restaurant/full bar in the park (at the time). It was across the lagoon from shamu stadium. After every show, 300+ plus people would walk across the boardwalk to the restaurant for food and the adults simply wanted a drink after a hot day in the sun. We made great money and I was young at the time, however, with that said is the depressing part...
At night, about 11pm,, we’d wipe the tables, stack the chairs on the deck, close our registers, count the tips, wipe down and close the bar after all the guests had left. The music in the park was turned down to a subsided volume. It was eerily quiet and subdued as we closed. Because Shamu stadium was across the lagoon and sound travels best over water, we’d hear the whale killers sing/talk/communicate. To me, they always sounded like they were crying. It was an eerie and haunting sound which weighed heavy on my ears and heart, both at I the time and even now.
Often, on my way out of the park to go home, I’d stop at the colophyon “petting pool” and just talk to them. They’d swim by me, roll their bodies to get a good one-eyed look and swim past, rolling again to exhale a puff of air with mist. They never wanted to be touched, they just wanted the fish the guests bought to feed them, all the while, the gusts were merely hoping to reach out and get an unwelcomed “feel”. The dolphins were smart enough to know how to get close enough to grab the treats, but remain far enough to avoid the feel. Over time, after many months of quite hours with them, they would sometimes trust me enough to swim close for a passing rub.
Once every couple of years, I drive to I the Florida keys and stop at the Dolphin Research Center (Grassy Key). This is a rescue facility, coincidentally, where “flipper” was filmed. Usually I bring my Great Pyrenees than there and the is welcome at the facility. It is astounding that my dog and the dolphin seem to know each other are there. The dolphins roll on their sides for the one eyed gaze and my dog stares back, transfixed. Gentleness meeting gentleness communicating in ways we don’t fully comprehend. Dolphins can x-ray other beings and their intuition is simply incredible. My dog loves watching them in an odd and silent way and they are absolutely intrigued by her. It’s almost as though they are quietly communicating in some language we don’t know and it is beautiful to watch.
Except for those who need care, these beautiful creatures should all be freed.
The dorsal fin on all whale killers in the wild is erect, upright and firm. Only the ones in captivity slouch to one side. It is cruel and abusive, as these beautiful creatures are mere entertainment and “circus” for the pleebs, at the expense of these creature’s lives. Like the bulls in the arenas who every once in a while gore the matadore, I take a bit of joy when an inhumanely captured whale killer harms a “trainer”. As someone who worked there,I can, with certainty say that it happens much more often that what is reported.
While some may require rescue, that’s NOT what was happening. Rather like the dancing Russian bears, or elephants chained down for circus. While elephants, lions, giraffes and many others need sanctuary from encroachment, poaching and other circumstances, “circus” for entertainment is an evil that should stop. No human would want to be treated in such fashion and no good. An honorable, or kind human would ever subject another human to the “circus” to which we treat other creatures.
I’m certainly no erf-hugger by any means, but we must do much better.
Someone once said; “a society is judged by how it treats the weakest of its members” and while that statement was, in its context, intended to apply to how humans treat humans, it is equally applicable to how humans enslave other creatures for “circus”
Now your gonna have all those save the planets Vegans crying your eating the kids!!!
LOL I luv it.
Do they really not have enough to do then try to track down what killed a shark??
Ahem. They are, in fact, killer dolphins, and it’s about time we started to call them by their rightful name. They are NOT whales.
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