Learn more about these incredible animals! Using AI to Decode Whale Songs → th-cam.com/video/RRbuQh3ClYc/w-d-xo.html How We Know Megalodon is Extinct → th-cam.com/video/at8swuyO9Pw/w-d-xo.html Why Orcas Are Called Killer Whales → th-cam.com/video/FIwjehSYKJg/w-d-xo.html New Species of Orca → th-cam.com/video/TnJVE2oNJH0/w-d-xo.html Why Orcas Are Sinking Ships → th-cam.com/video/C0cGdd9lUgY/w-d-xo.html
Could this behavior lead to extinction of some sharks, its said there is like 2% or so of sharks remaining in our oceans? And Orca's are doing great, they got their own boats these days! xD Love the content, love Orca's but it has me worried for the Great white and other sharks, bad enough that us Humans hunt and kill them for stupid things like soup... xD
I'm watching animal shows virtually all my life. I go back to the Walt Disney True Life adventures from the '60s & '70s... I remember Marty Stouffer's Wild America series from the 70s and 80s-- not to mention the BBC's original Nature series with David Attenborough... This 9-minute snippet about the many different subsets of killer whales, along with how they predate great white by first inducing tonic immobility-- with footage included, no less, was the best spent 9 minutes in my career watching "nature" programming... Keep up the great work KP!!!!
I was scuba diving in the Pacific Northwest off the coast of Vancouver Island when a pod of orcas came through. A young orca started to swim near me but was cut off by a large male, who "pinged" me underwater. The clicks and whistles were quite loud, but what surprised me the most was that I could feel the sound of the orca... in my bones. I guess that the soft tissues of my body, being mostly water, just passed the sound through. But my bones? I could feel them vibrate. Strangest, most amazing sensation I have ever experienced. I was never frightened at all. The experience was beautiful. They just were checking me out. I got a huge tattoo of an orca following the experience. Amazing and beautiful animals.
Yeah, it's a freaky and also almost comforting experience. A buddy and I were scuba diving of Hermanus in the Cape and a pod of orcas suddenly appeared around us. They were swimming around us and were clearly observing us when we got pinged. I could feel it in the very core of my bones. They were chill and hung out around us for probably 5 min with one even nudging me lightly and the swimming past me so close that I ran my fingers across almost the entire length of it's body. Then the whole pod just turned and slowly disappeared again. I sooooo wish that I had a GoPro but this was in the late 90's 😂 😂
Shark livers contain squalene, really good for ya. They also are the biggest organ in the animal, much bigger relative to body size than ours. It's what to go for. Sharks are getting scarce due to overfishing, typically for the squalene. Nicely technical article at the top, with a relevant passage here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squalene#Shark_conservation
3000 miles....the fear stayed in shark brain for weeks....yep that's true fear and respect...sharks put In their place around orcas..or else it's pay with their livers..
Retired marine biologist here. That was as informative and interesting an introduction as I've ever heard. Well done. Editing is excellent. Subscribed!
@@KPassionate The costume and location changes must have been tough! When you can show people something and explain clearly what they're seeing and then provide more evidence- it's the way science videos should be made. Sadly, not every topic holds as much fascination. A friend spent a summer tabulating polychaete fecal pellets. His channel never took off.
Though didn't mention the first witnessed and film was by C2 off the coast of San Francisco in the 90s. She was a part of a pod called the LA Pod because they were often spotted in Southern California. But apparently C2 went on a road trip without the rest, made a friend with a smaller orca near San Francisco. Look at a documentary called the Whale that ate Jaws
I was picking mussel on the foreshore 80 yards off shore bull (sh ) I've snorkelerd much of Australia and was wrapt ( enchanted ) to see that 2 metro fin 😊 but when I looked down my feet all on their own had decided and where shuffling me backwards 😮 😅 Yeah ! Boss
How sharks will dominate an ecosystem until a handful of orcas show up literally reminds me of small gangs getting pushed out of their territory when a bigger, more violent gang shows up lol.
Doesn't take a pod. Starboard, Sebrina (the grandma in this video), and C2 (who did it in the 90s as first time witnessed and caught on film) soloed great whites on camera.
Yup! I can confirm. I went to Cape Town and went shark cage diving around 2019. It was incredible. Saw 14 sharks over about 2 hours. Went again 2 years later. We were told the bad news, Orcas were hunting the sharks and drove them away. Had never happened in Cape Town which is famous for its sharks. However we still went on the tour as there were copper sharks, who may not be quite as big as the great whites but were more aggressive and put on quite a show going for the bait.
It's been known. Look at the documentary the Whale that ate Jaws. It's been known orca go after all sharks for the liver since the 90s when C2 killed a great white off the coast of San Francisco.
I was extremely fortunate to be one of the handful of folks working on Southeast Farallon Island in 1997 when the first documented Orca on White Shark predation event occurred. This pod must not have been terribly experienced with what to do with it, as one the Orca swam around with the shark for quite a while before evisceration. I actually scooped up a piece of that liver with my hand for biopsy, and that hand stank for a week! This also was the first time that all the sharks vacating the area was recorded. At the time, nobody really had any notion that such an interaction was possible, so it's been really exciting to see all the theories play out (some supported very well - using tonic immobility; others not so much - at the time we thought maybe the desertion of the island by the sharks was due to competitive displacement) and all the knowledge and documentation that has followed since then.
This is interesting! I read a paper on the Farallon Islands event in 90's but I wasn't able to find the video so I decided not to include it. What I read made it sound like the mom was likely defending her calf rather than a predation event. I also read that orcas had just killed and partially consumed a sea lion when the shark approached, possibly attracted to the sea lion carcass, so another possibility is that the orcas were defending their kill. This seems to align with what you're saying about how they didn't know what to do with the shark after they killed it! What also fascinates me is that the orcas (CA6 and CA2) were part of a mysterious group of whales often seen around Los Angeles in the 80s and 90s. These orcas didn't fit into any known ecotype and the 97 incident was the last time they were seen. Most seem to think they might be down in Mexican waters if they're still alive. Maybe I need to do a follow up video...
@@KPassionate The killer in the first 90's event, C2 wasn't the mother of the calf. C2 had no kids (at least not at that time). ...according to the captain of the boat witnessing the incident, C2 might have been protecting their food, a sea lion they've killed some 30 minutes earlier.
I read about the sea lion and the notion that they were protecting a kill in the same paper I mentioned above. I'll link my sources below. The paper indicates that CA2 was the smaller of the two orcas and that the larger was presumed to be CA6, her primary companion within the pod. The LA times article on the event refers to the smaller orca (CA2) as being "her calf" so I assumed this meant that CA6 was her mother. [1] www.birdpop.org/docs/pubs/Pyle_et_al_1999_White_Shark_Killer_Whale_Predation.pdf [2] www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-10-sp-41347-story.html I would love to learn more about this event and the CA pod, so please feel free to share any sources that indicates their genealogy.
@@KPassionate It's always hard to leave replies with links. Sometimes youtube just wipes them out. I'm going to try a second time because I've found an old version of the original documentary from Nat Geo If the replies with the links get wiped out, then search for yourself for the title: The Battle of the Strongest Killer Whale Orca Vs Great White Shark Full Length Documentary ...and thank you for your dedication to these amazing animals.
I saw that video a few days ago, that was like a freight train that hit that great white. Insane. People need to understand also how SMART and how BIG Orcas are.
@@KPassionate That's a hilarious compliment. Glad you appreciated the tip of the hat towards your beauty and brains. There is another YT personality that was referred to as "Hot Uncle Ruckus" and she wears it like a badge of honor. FYI, great video and I also immediately subbed even before I read this comment.
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25No Orca can challenge a full grown great white shark. This is a baby shark or even a dolphin in the other side of the video. Has been debunked many times why are we still seeing this garbage
I've only ever seen two episodes of this creator's content. Based on the haters with no life of their own, I'm liking this video, probably subscribing, and wishing them their screens break twice a year.
@@KPassionate Wow the pure power, just the pure power and the intellect to use it. i'm not sure how it has happened but over the millennia these things have made the decision...repeatedly… not to kill us when it would be so so easy. I'm sure our bodies have plenty of nutrients they can use and yet they seem to be making a clear self-aware purposeful decision...species wide. When I say “species wide” that sounds like instinct or programming or evolution or whatever but when you add in the playfulness and the curiosity it comes right back down to self-aware creatures that are intelligent and are probably reaching out and I know that sounds like so much touchy-feely earth mother Moonbeam hokeyness 😉 but practically speaking I struggle to come up with another answer. We are searching for extraterrestrial life by looking up I think maybe we should be looking at these creatures right here. I truly believe this might be “first” contact as it were. All this time all this reaching out by these animals and not one human killing not one in the wild? Something good is up here and perhaps what it is is that humankind is finally reached a place where we can see something like these amazing creatures and instead of trying to figure out how they can benefit us we are reaching back and enjoying their beauty. can we all just agree not to screw this up?
@@Mae-hx2ml For sure. They turn their nose up at our livers. Like a French chef. Of course we have small livers compared to what’s out there in the ocean.
Holy smokes! You did a great job explaining science in layperson's format. I'm a 35 year diver and a Environmental Science Guy. Nice work. I learned alot. Looking forward to more. Did you publish anything thanks
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have not published any peer-reviewed papers myself, but I have been a part of several. My favorite was the first ever study on the metabolism of juvenile walruses. I'll link a video from the head researcher below. You can see me working with one of the walruses at the 5 : 37 mark. th-cam.com/video/wN1sUCxtsAw/w-d-xo.html
@@KPassionate copy that. Will do. I look forward to studying your work... gonna have to buy some wildlife biology texts to get up to speed. Obliged. Give me something to study.
@@KPassionate sorry to respond twice. I took a class at UW ; Modeling of Marine Fisheries. Mostly math that the Brits had gathered data from since WWI. Off Nova Scotia. I'm sure you know better than I. I was trying to get a job counting fish for the gov up in the Bering straits. Didn't work out. But I studied the... ... Sea lion consumption of Pollock. Orders of magnitude greater mass, yet animals were effectively malnutritious. ... anyway my brain has to remember old data. I look forward to the Walrus vid and more. Good night
Incredible video! Both scientific and entertaining! No hype, no filler, LOVE IT!! How in the world did Orcas discover Tonic Immobilisation? I know they are incredibly intelligent and teach each other, but that is mind boggling.... Subscribed and looking forward to more!!!
This is just a guess, but I'm betting one or two of them found out by accident, and passed it along to the rest of the pod. Like you said, they're extremely intelligent, so communicating the idea isn't the strange part to me. It's how they discovered it in the first place. Best guess, for me, is happy accident. (or Un-happy accident, if you're a Great White shark).
@@strongdelusion9442 I first thought you were making a joke :D then i went on your channel Sad how people are so ignorant towards all the intelectuals from hundreds of years ago that were smarter than ppl like you will ever be combined. For me it is hard to believe anyone could think like that, if you had at least 4 years of school education. I honestly wish you the best luck to find a way out of your prison. It is just sad. Critical thinking is good but ignorance towards science is not.
@@strongdelusion9442 To believe is not the same as to know. I know and you believe. Everyone is free to believe ... until you disrispect others and are ignorant towards others. I strongly believe Jesus crys up there about how ignorant his followers are towards others and how disrespectful towards men that used all their lives towards truth. You are the one not following the path towards truth.
Most fascinating animal in the ocean by far. My favorite pod is in Antarctica. They use “wave washing” techniques to get seals off the ice. Once the iceberg is broken they catch the seals in water. Orcas can get up to around 30 feet long. But what’s remarkable is they’re intelligent to realize humans are not food or a threat. Hundreds of years ago orcas used to hunt wales alongside fishermen
Keep in mind that the average weight of a male Orca is 3 tons - 6,000 lbs while a great white average weight is 1 ton, 1,000 lbs. Orca's are 3 times the size of a great white shark so the sharks want to avoid Orcas as they'll get crushed every time. Lol.
Yes that's about right...3xs the weight of gwsharks...and brains over 20xs heavier also....sharks stand no chance against orca...it's kind of like bears vs wolves...lions vs hyenas...hippos vs crocodiles.....there's a clear and consistent winner....orca all day everyday for thousands of years
KP your content is exemplary, I learned something new from this video. Didn't know that Orcas range to the Antarctic Ocean, that means that the Leopard Seal is not the apex predator of it's domain.
Wolves in Alaska are preying on otters, Galveston Texas (basically Houston) has an orca pod. And the orcas have sank 2 boats (almost 3) that belong to the same company (Gladys pod, 5 sail boats sank and 3 fishing boats so far) in Spain
Orcas may be higher than Leopard Seals on the food chain, but even so, they prefer to eat less aggressive seals like Weddell Seals when given the chance. David Attenborough documented this on an episode of the "frozen planet" series on BBC Earth; when pods of Orcas did their wave-inducing technique to break up ice floes, the Orcas would spyhop to see what kind of seal it was, and if they find certain species that are aggressive and likely to try to bite towards their eyes or mouth, they'd abandon the hunt and look for easier prey.
@ryans8081 any predator will weigh the risk on prey but leopard seals are on the menu too. I saw a documentary showing leopard shaking the spot when a pod of orcas rolled in.
We're typically seen as apex predators yet there have been plenty of cases of humans being eaten by animals so by that logic, we shouldn't be considered apex predators either
Planned on just watching a minute or two of this video,but next thing I knew I'd watched the whole thing. Informative, well thought out ,and presented. You have a very agreeable way about you. Feels like an acquaintance sharing a story,more than an authority figure teaching. Enjoyable
@0:29 If you factor in the kinetic energy of its weight and speed it would be like a large truck smashing into a car…3-5 tons or 6-10 thousand pounds for large females, males up to 16,000 pounds. They can swim up to 30mph so that was like a large truck running a stop light and T boning a 3,500 lb sedan
Well because you are a below average intelligent person it seems..... falling for a clickbait video...No Orca can challenge a full grown great white shark. This is a baby shark or even a dolphin in the other side of the video. Has been debunked many times why are we still seeing this garbage
Man.. people think sharks are terrifying. They ain't got nothing on Killer whales. Smart, powerful, and swift. I am not kidding. Terrifying. These are the true alphas of the ocean.
I agree, Orcas are much, much more powerful killers, but I think the sharks' reputation comes from those black, lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes, their visible teeth, and seemingly mindless drive to eat living things.
@@ryaniam22 I was in the Coast Guard when we saw a group of Orcas attacking a Sperm Whale. It is that pod (group) nature that makes them boss. One on one the Sperm Whale is so massive and the largest toothed whale. They do not hunt in a predatory way, usually, although they are predators. And Orcas are large members of the dolphin families. So no whale is safe from a pod of Orcas....fortunately, Sperms and Orcas avoid each other typically. There is a group of Orcas that prey on Sperm Whales. They surround them and attack...understand that it is mostly the females and juveniles, they will avoid the larger males (known as Bulls). This video explains it. I have seen other videos that hype Sperm Whales as Orca killers but that is not the truth. Orcas pursue them...they usually avoid the big ones that would present any issue: th-cam.com/video/W52IPJItX28/w-d-xo.html
First time here to your channel in which I stumbled on accidently. Great video, instruction and commentary by you KPassionate! I learned a lot and it made me quite interested now in these underwater scenarios. Thank you!
Thanks KP, another informative video. It's amazing they use tonic immobility on the sharks, which look tiny in comparison to orcas. What causes doral fins to collapse?
There is likely a genetic variable involved in dorsal fin collapse. It is a piece of dense, fibrous connective tissue, with no bone, cartilage, or muscle to hold them up so if it is slightly weaker it has a stronger chance of collapse. Doesn’t bother the animal typically.
Nope. That is a lie that is perpetrated by the animal rights extremists. It is more common in captivity. Possibly due to the genetic factor but also because the animals spend more time at the surface. It is not a sign of health.
When we lived by the Whangārei Harbour in NZ , we knew when the Orcas were in the harbour . All the stingrays were up in the shallows in the hundreds , all trying to avoid becoming Orca snacks ! Thinking about the shark viewing trips . If they were using burley and feeding the sharks to attract them to the one location , when normally they would be spread out , it would have made the Orcas job locating them much easier . Both are amazing animals that’s for sure .
The ones in Texas and the Northern Gulf of Mexico are generally considered "transboundary" because it is outside their usual range. Previous genetic analysis of orcas in the Gulf of Mexico (albeit from a single sample) found that they are most likely Antarctic ecotypes! You can read more about them in the paper from NOAA below. [1] media.fisheries.noaa.gov/2021-07/f2020_AtlGmexSARs_GmexKiller.pdf?null
I wouldn't put much weight on the one and only sample showing genetic affinity to an Antarctic ecotype. Isolated groups can drift in all kinds of directions genetically, and wider sampling of both the Antarctic and Gulf of Mexico animals, as well as other groups might show a quite different pattern. Consider how those "find your genetic ancestry" companies were telling people of east Asian ancestry that they had native American ancestry, because they had a larger database of native American genotypes than Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. Ditto for people of central and north Asian ancestry.
Yeah! The US Navy's Marine Mammal Program has done the most exhaustive studies on the subject, unfortunately a lot of it is classified. But if you're interested, here is a good article that kind of summarizes some of their research where they found that dolphins can find a tiny piece of metal through two feet of mud and can even tell if the metal is brass or stainless steel. www.nepa.navy.mil/About-NEPA-Website/Media-Resources/News/NewsArticleView/Article/1807414/navy-uh-studying-dolphins-to-improve-sonar/
One of my 7 year old kids loves orcas. He will love this video! (We also live up in the PNW, and his favorite vacation so far was when we went whale watching. He also plans to be a marine biologist when he grows up.)
FYI : it is indeed known that the great white shark has only 1 predator which is the orca, but only before reaching maturity. The problem here, is that the shark's body reaches maturity after a minimum of 2 decades, which is why most of the great white sharks that get hunted by orcas feel like easy prey. Once a great white shark reaches maturity, the body becomes huge (5 meters minimum) while the sharks that have been attacked by orcas are about 2.5 meters or 3.5 meters at best. An experiment was conducted recently when the scientists displayed the sound made by orcas that have been known to feed on great white sharks on an area full of great white sharks. Most of them ran away, but not all of them. The great white sharks that didn't react to the orcas sound were 4.5 meters minimum. ( 3 of them, one said to be 5.3 meters) It means that older great white sharks are not food for orcas, even if it means that they have a bigger liver due to having bigger bodies. Orcas are like tigers, they feed on what is easy for them to kill. They will never go 1 on 1 against a 5 meters great white shark, it would be too dangerous because the mass is definitely not the same as a 2.5 meters
Orcas are not the only known predator of great white sharks. Other great white sharks have been known to prey on great white sharks. In fact this is likely more common than orca predation on them. Its true however that there are no recorded orca predations on a fully grown adult female great white. These are well known at the Farallon Islands, yet the famous Farallon incident involved a small young great white of ten ft or so. Not one of the mature females that swim in the waters there.
Hi KP! This is totally unrelated to the video but I’ve been wondering about your thoughts on farming kelp to combat climate change and how sea otters could fit into this.
I love the idea of kelp farming and sea otter reintroductions to help stabilize kelp forests. A really great organization to support is the Elakha Alliance, an organization of indigenous leaders, marine biologists, and aquariums dedicated to reintroducing sea otters into Oregon. I've done two charity fundraisers for them as well as a few videos on their efforts. www.elakhaalliance.org/
Sharks disappearing out of fear for the orcas. I live in the “Shark Attack Capital of the World” so can you play audio of an orca here to keep the sharks away? Just saying.
Cool script, nicely done, thank you. Only a few minutes in, subscribed. : ) Edit, oh wait, already subscribed, that Plus sign just throws me, sorry. Duh
Actually, there are at least 10 different types of killer whales each with their own VERY specific prey type and hunting method. For example, the Bigg's killer whales eat marine mammals like sea lions, seals, and other whales. They do not eat fish, at all. The same is true for Type A killer whales and the North Atlantic type 2. The type B killer whales prefer Weddell seals although they occasionally hunt minke whales. Type B2 have been observed eating penguins. The resident orcas, who share the same waters as Bigg's, do not eat marine mammals at all. They almost exclusively eat salmon and chinook salmon in particular. Type C and D killer whales also exclusively eat fish, mostly Antarctic toothfish, and they also do NOT eat other marine mammals like seals and sea lions. Although we know very little about offshore and flat-toothed ecotypes, the killer whale types this video is about, we know they primarily feed on sharks and specifically the livers. All of which I discuss at the 00:49 mark. Turns out, killer whales are INCREDIBLY picky eaters and do NOT eat a variety of marine life. Which is funny because they don't have taste buds and cannot taste.
I knew of this behavior, but only from you actually. Meanwhile again I am left with the impression that your channel needs to grow, and grow quickly because your content is so unique, interesting, and relevant. My option, but hopefully others share it. Beyond this channel alone I think you could do any documentary series regarding our eco-systems. Water or non-water really. But preferably ocean related for me.
It isn't as common in the wild but it does happen. Their dorsal fins are made of dense, fibrous connective tissue, with no bone, cartilage, or muscle to hold them up. We don't 100% know why dorsal fins collapse but there is a lot of evidence that it is genetic. In marine parks, the orcas spend more time near the surface and in shallower water where gravity probably has an impact. But they are all also pretty closely related so genetics could be a factor there as well. Ultimately, collapsed dorsal fins aren't an indicator of health or wellbeing.
@@KPassionate Thank you for the detailed reply. I think I got the idea from the movie Blackfish and never thought to search any deeper. Apart from your videos, any good book(s) on orcas you would recommend to learn more about these beautiful animals ?
A really great, but sad, book is called Into Great Silence by Eva Saulitis. It is about the AT1 transient orcas who are a small, isolated population found only in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and the nearby Kenai Fjords region. They are genetically and acoustically unique-they have no connections to other transient killer whale populations and their calls are unlike any others’. Unfortunately, they were devastated by the Exxon Valdez oil spill and only 7 survived. Another good book is Spirits of the Coast by Martha Black B. which talks a lot about how important orcas are to indigenous cultures.
@@KPassionate More thanks. Into Great Silence is the one book I picked and bought by myself on orcas. Glad to see it's also an expert's choice. Now I need to actually read it. So many books, so little time. I'll order the other one shortly. I'm quite glad I found your channel. Looks like I'm going to learn a lot thanks to you.
It sounds so wierd, shark has way more meat on than just liver. It should be all good eating, right? Edit I did post before the final bit, yeah, makes sense to eat the best bit and chuck the package.
That impact sound of the orca hitting the shark was added in editing, wasn't it? It was brutal, but would it be possible to hear it above water? Great video.
i love ur orca videos sm. i love orcas in general. is it obvious? i dont think it is. new subscriber i hope there will be more orca videos in the future....😊
64yo here and I learnt something new today. Thank you 😁 Great white shark liver specialists. That's fascinating. Orcas are incredible creatures. Intelligent and fierce is a scary combination. A shark is pure instinct. Efficient killing machines. They don't stand a chance against orcas.
First time I've seen you. Absolutely bloody gripping video, and spectacular footage. Thanks KP Michael B, Science Teacher, Sydney (definitely subscribed)
I have subscribed to your channel, this is fascinating stuff! I love the way you explain things, but I have a question.... Is it possible for an orca to be solitary, go rogue or be exiled from it's pod? ( just out of curiosity). Thank you in advance
@mikev.7361 Yes! There have been many documented cases of seemingly solitary orcas. One of the more famous examples is a male North Atlantic orca named Old Thom. You can read about him in the link below. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Thom_(orca)
Learn more about these incredible animals!
Using AI to Decode Whale Songs → th-cam.com/video/RRbuQh3ClYc/w-d-xo.html
How We Know Megalodon is Extinct → th-cam.com/video/at8swuyO9Pw/w-d-xo.html
Why Orcas Are Called Killer Whales → th-cam.com/video/FIwjehSYKJg/w-d-xo.html
New Species of Orca → th-cam.com/video/TnJVE2oNJH0/w-d-xo.html
Why Orcas Are Sinking Ships → th-cam.com/video/C0cGdd9lUgY/w-d-xo.html
Could this behavior lead to extinction of some sharks, its said there is like 2% or so of sharks remaining in our oceans? And Orca's are doing great, they got their own boats these days! xD
Love the content, love Orca's but it has me worried for the Great white and other sharks, bad enough that us Humans hunt and kill them for stupid things like soup... xD
Absolutely amazing.
I’m newly subscribed to your channel. This is the first video I watched and it is so cool and educational! ❤
Welcome in! So glad you enjoyed the video
I'm watching animal shows virtually all my life. I go back to the Walt Disney True Life adventures from the '60s & '70s... I remember Marty Stouffer's Wild America series from the 70s and 80s-- not to mention the BBC's original Nature series with David Attenborough...
This 9-minute snippet about the many different subsets of killer whales, along with how they predate great white by first inducing tonic immobility-- with footage included, no less, was the best spent 9 minutes in my career watching "nature" programming...
Keep up the great work KP!!!!
I was scuba diving in the Pacific Northwest off the coast of Vancouver Island when a pod of orcas came through. A young orca started to swim near me but was cut off by a large male, who "pinged" me underwater. The clicks and whistles were quite loud, but what surprised me the most was that I could feel the sound of the orca... in my bones. I guess that the soft tissues of my body, being mostly water, just passed the sound through. But my bones? I could feel them vibrate. Strangest, most amazing sensation I have ever experienced. I was never frightened at all. The experience was beautiful. They just were checking me out. I got a huge tattoo of an orca following the experience. Amazing and beautiful animals.
I would have shit myself then stroked out.
What a beautiful and interesting story. Thanks
Based on what I learned from the video, the Orca probably scanned you and said to itself "only 2% liver content....not worth my time"!!! 😉
That's nothing the clicks from a sperm whales are strong enough to pulverize your organs if directed your way
Yeah, it's a freaky and also almost comforting experience.
A buddy and I were scuba diving of Hermanus in the Cape and a pod of orcas suddenly appeared around us. They were swimming around us and were clearly observing us when we got pinged. I could feel it in the very core of my bones.
They were chill and hung out around us for probably 5 min with one even nudging me lightly and the swimming past me so close that I ran my fingers across almost the entire length of it's body.
Then the whole pod just turned and slowly disappeared again.
I sooooo wish that I had a GoPro but this was in the late 90's 😂 😂
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." -Orcas
This comment should have a million likes 😂
ahahahaahahhhaaaaaa well done
LOL! I was thinking the same thing.
I was about to say something like this 😅
Shark livers contain squalene, really good for ya.
They also are the biggest organ in the animal, much bigger relative to body size than ours.
It's what to go for.
Sharks are getting scarce due to overfishing, typically for the squalene.
Nicely technical article at the top, with a relevant passage here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squalene#Shark_conservation
Dove 3,000 feet and went to Hawaii. That's fear right there. 😂
I hear he applied for witness protection 😅
@@dalelawrence85 😂
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3000 miles....the fear stayed in shark brain for weeks....yep that's true fear and respect...sharks put In their place around orcas..or else it's pay with their livers..
Nah for real 😂😂😂😂
Retired marine biologist here. That was as informative and interesting an introduction as I've ever heard. Well done. Editing is excellent. Subscribed!
@@Marss13z that’s great to hear! So glad you liked it.
@@KPassionate The costume and location changes must have been tough! When you can show people something and explain clearly what they're seeing and then provide more evidence- it's the way science videos should be made.
Sadly, not every topic holds as much fascination. A friend spent a summer tabulating polychaete fecal pellets. His channel never took off.
@@Marss13z LOL!
@@Marss13zyour friend's channel 😢😢😂😂😂
@@keretaman Nope. Don't know, have never met any of them.
Ironically, the theme from _Jaws_ is what sharks hear whenever Orcas come around.
They either hear that or they hear "Rules of Nature"
Lmaooo !!!🤣
😂😂😂
These sharks moving to other neighborhoods and suburbs is also known as Great White Flight.
@@robedmund9948great play on words.
As a lifelong marine science enthusiast I must say this was quite surprising and informative and very well presented too.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Though didn't mention the first witnessed and film was by C2 off the coast of San Francisco in the 90s. She was a part of a pod called the LA Pod because they were often spotted in Southern California. But apparently C2 went on a road trip without the rest, made a friend with a smaller orca near San Francisco. Look at a documentary called the Whale that ate Jaws
So could clearing a swimming beach of sharks be as simple as the playing orca sounds?
This is low-key a brilliant idea!
@@KPassionate
Silly question, but how would making orca sounds affect the orca populations in the area?
Would probably work on great whites but what about tiger, bull and hammerheads?
There has been testing done on this and miraculously the sharks appear to instinctively flee from the areas where killer whale sounds are played
Wow, great call
Everybody's a gangsta until a pod of orcas roll up.
Absolute boss.
I was picking mussel on the foreshore 80 yards off shore bull (sh ) I've snorkelerd much of Australia and was wrapt ( enchanted ) to see that 2 metro fin 😊 but when I looked down my feet all on their own had decided and where shuffling me backwards 😮 😅 Yeah ! Boss
Starboard wasn't messing around. 60 year old grandmoms was boss-level too.
@@JamesLindroos-nj6cn was this in English?
How sharks will dominate an ecosystem until a handful of orcas show up literally reminds me of small gangs getting pushed out of their territory when a bigger, more violent gang shows up lol.
Doesn't take a pod. Starboard, Sebrina (the grandma in this video), and C2 (who did it in the 90s as first time witnessed and caught on film) soloed great whites on camera.
Yup! I can confirm. I went to Cape Town and went shark cage diving around 2019. It was incredible. Saw 14 sharks over about 2 hours. Went again 2 years later. We were told the bad news, Orcas were hunting the sharks and drove them away. Had never happened in Cape Town which is famous for its sharks. However we still went on the tour as there were copper sharks, who may not be quite as big as the great whites but were more aggressive and put on quite a show going for the bait.
You need to go diving again without the cage. Someone's got to be the bait to get these great whites back
THANK YOU FOR BEING THE ONLY PERSON TO EVER TELL PEOPLE THAT THE SHARK LIVER IS HUGE NO OTHER VIDEO HAS EVER EXPLAINED THAT
WHY ARE YOU YELLING?
@@12sakar 😆
It's been known. Look at the documentary the Whale that ate Jaws. It's been known orca go after all sharks for the liver since the 90s when C2 killed a great white off the coast of San Francisco.
This is the only video that actually explains the behaviour. 👍
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful!
I agree, you explain things that often go unexplained and you do it on a way accessible to most lay persons.
The only one you have seen, I've seen this in other videos before.
I was extremely fortunate to be one of the handful of folks working on Southeast Farallon Island in 1997 when the first documented Orca on White Shark predation event occurred. This pod must not have been terribly experienced with what to do with it, as one the Orca swam around with the shark for quite a while before evisceration. I actually scooped up a piece of that liver with my hand for biopsy, and that hand stank for a week! This also was the first time that all the sharks vacating the area was recorded. At the time, nobody really had any notion that such an interaction was possible, so it's been really exciting to see all the theories play out (some supported very well - using tonic immobility; others not so much - at the time we thought maybe the desertion of the island by the sharks was due to competitive displacement) and all the knowledge and documentation that has followed since then.
This is interesting! I read a paper on the Farallon Islands event in 90's but I wasn't able to find the video so I decided not to include it. What I read made it sound like the mom was likely defending her calf rather than a predation event. I also read that orcas had just killed and partially consumed a sea lion when the shark approached, possibly attracted to the sea lion carcass, so another possibility is that the orcas were defending their kill. This seems to align with what you're saying about how they didn't know what to do with the shark after they killed it!
What also fascinates me is that the orcas (CA6 and CA2) were part of a mysterious group of whales often seen around Los Angeles in the 80s and 90s. These orcas didn't fit into any known ecotype and the 97 incident was the last time they were seen. Most seem to think they might be down in Mexican waters if they're still alive.
Maybe I need to do a follow up video...
@@KPassionate The killer in the first 90's event, C2 wasn't the mother of the calf. C2 had no kids (at least not at that time). ...according to the captain of the boat witnessing the incident, C2 might have been protecting their food, a sea lion they've killed some 30 minutes earlier.
I read about the sea lion and the notion that they were protecting a kill in the same paper I mentioned above. I'll link my sources below. The paper indicates that CA2 was the smaller of the two orcas and that the larger was presumed to be CA6, her primary companion within the pod. The LA times article on the event refers to the smaller orca (CA2) as being "her calf" so I assumed this meant that CA6 was her mother.
[1] www.birdpop.org/docs/pubs/Pyle_et_al_1999_White_Shark_Killer_Whale_Predation.pdf
[2] www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-10-sp-41347-story.html
I would love to learn more about this event and the CA pod, so please feel free to share any sources that indicates their genealogy.
@@KPassionate It's always hard to leave replies with links. Sometimes youtube just wipes them out.
I'm going to try a second time because I've found an old version of the original documentary from Nat Geo
If the replies with the links get wiped out, then search for yourself for the title:
The Battle of the Strongest Killer Whale Orca Vs Great White Shark Full Length Documentary
...and thank you for your dedication to these amazing animals.
@miks564 sometimes links just get held for approval. I'll check there and approve it if I see it. Thanks!
I saw that video a few days ago, that was like a freight train that hit that great white. Insane. People need to understand also how SMART and how BIG Orcas are.
"Smart" is relative.
@@Marss13z ""Smart" is relative."
It always is. So what is your point?
@@yourcrazybear I was talking to the whales.
@@Marss13z "@yourcrazybear I was talking to the whales."
The whales are not using TH-cam.
@@yourcrazybear I live next to the ocean and have a TV set they can watch TH-cam on. I can see why you're puzzled.
Finally a video from a professional and not a hype surfer
I never thought ANYTHING could make a great white hide in fear! Great video Nerdy Blake Lively. liked and subbed!
Nerdy Blake Lively is literally the best compliment I have had in the history of this channel 😂. Thank you
@@KPassionate That's a hilarious compliment. Glad you appreciated the tip of the hat towards your beauty and brains. There is another YT personality that was referred to as "Hot Uncle Ruckus" and she wears it like a badge of honor. FYI, great video and I also immediately subbed even before I read this comment.
Starboard swimming away with the shark liver like a little girl skipping down the sidewalk with an ice cream 🍦☺️
Pretty much!
My mother really pushed liverwurst on me as a child but I never took to it. AITA?
@@ReVoltaire Liverwurst is delicious!
Great White Shark: I am the deadliest predator in the sea.
Orca: Hold my shark liver!
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lol
Orcas are the only apex predators. After humans, of course.
@@UnwantedGhost1-anz25No Orca can challenge a full grown great white shark. This is a baby shark or even a dolphin in the other side of the video. Has been debunked many times why are we still seeing this garbage
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2:58 ok... I'm now a fan, just subbed!
Also your commentary to the camera with your inner thoughts...
Hilarious! Please keep it going!
Hahaha glad you enjoyed it! More to come.
I just started looking up info about orcas out of curiosity and now I'm glued to your videos about killer whales
I'm glad you're enjoying them!
They are amazing intelligent creatures!!
Same
Orcas!!! They are not killers like we humans!!
Amazing content!! LOVE ... LOVE your YT channel.
I've only ever seen two episodes of this creator's content. Based on the haters with no life of their own, I'm liking this video, probably subscribing, and wishing them their screens break twice a year.
Ha! I love this manifestation ❤️
@@KPassionate Wow the pure power, just the pure power and the intellect to use it. i'm not sure how it has happened but over the millennia these things have made the decision...repeatedly… not to kill us when it would be so so easy. I'm sure our bodies have plenty of nutrients they can use and yet they seem to be making a clear self-aware purposeful decision...species wide. When I say “species wide” that sounds like instinct or programming or evolution or whatever but when you add in the playfulness and the curiosity it comes right back down to self-aware creatures that are intelligent and are probably reaching out and I know that sounds like so much touchy-feely earth mother Moonbeam hokeyness 😉 but practically speaking I struggle to come up with another answer. We are searching for extraterrestrial life by looking up I think maybe we should be looking at these creatures right here. I truly believe this might be “first” contact as it were. All this time all this reaching out by these animals and not one human killing not one in the wild? Something good is up here and perhaps what it is is that humankind is finally reached a place where we can see something like these amazing creatures and instead of trying to figure out how they can benefit us we are reaching back and enjoying their beauty. can we all just agree not to screw this up?
As always, cheers for a great video 😊🦈👍🏻🦭👍🏻🐬👍🏻🐋👍🏻
Thank you! Cheers!
My guess why no Orca has predated upon a human is because they can tell we are boney and some of us have rotting livers.
lol, yeah, I don’t think they’d want my liver. So I’m safe from them at least.
@@bobboy5508 I bet they talk shit on human livers
@@Mae-hx2ml For sure. They turn their nose up at our livers. Like a French chef. Of course we have small livers compared to what’s out there in the ocean.
@@bobboy5508 I wonder if they can tell if someone has had a liver transplant. Folks with half livers probably confuse them too
Also, human livers are too small to be of any interest to an orca.
Holy smokes! You did a great job explaining science in layperson's format. I'm a 35 year diver and a Environmental Science Guy. Nice work. I learned alot. Looking forward to more. Did you publish anything thanks
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have not published any peer-reviewed papers myself, but I have been a part of several. My favorite was the first ever study on the metabolism of juvenile walruses. I'll link a video from the head researcher below. You can see me working with one of the walruses at the 5 : 37 mark.
th-cam.com/video/wN1sUCxtsAw/w-d-xo.html
@@KPassionate copy that. Will do. I look forward to studying your work... gonna have to buy some wildlife biology texts to get up to speed. Obliged. Give me something to study.
@@KPassionate sorry to respond twice. I took a class at UW ; Modeling of Marine Fisheries. Mostly math that the Brits had gathered data from since WWI. Off Nova Scotia. I'm sure you know better than I. I was trying to get a job counting fish for the gov up in the Bering straits. Didn't work out. But I studied the... ... Sea lion consumption of Pollock. Orders of magnitude greater mass, yet animals were effectively malnutritious. ... anyway my brain has to remember old data. I look forward to the Walrus vid and more. Good night
Incredible video! Both scientific and entertaining! No hype, no filler, LOVE IT!!
How in the world did Orcas discover Tonic Immobilisation? I know they are incredibly intelligent and teach each other, but that is mind boggling.... Subscribed and looking forward to more!!!
Thanks for the compliment! I appreciate the kind words.
This is just a guess, but I'm betting one or two of them found out by accident, and passed it along to the rest of the pod. Like you said, they're extremely intelligent, so communicating the idea isn't the strange part to me. It's how they discovered it in the first place. Best guess, for me, is happy accident. (or Un-happy accident, if you're a Great White shark).
Dude must have read the TH-cam comments arguing all the stupid hypotheticals and thought: I'll show you who would win.
No hype? Did you not see the heading? Animals destroying each other. Hell yeah! Pass me a beer!
I love Orcas, they're hands down the most fascinating creatures on the planet. ❤
If it was a planet? Enter "Critical Thinking"! Huh?
@@DagaVizcaina Encounters? Please explain (no sarcasm)
@@strongdelusion9442 I first thought you were making a joke :D then i went on your channel
Sad how people are so ignorant towards all the intelectuals from hundreds of years ago that were smarter than ppl like you will ever be combined. For me it is hard to believe anyone could think like that, if you had at least 4 years of school education.
I honestly wish you the best luck to find a way out of your prison. It is just sad.
Critical thinking is good but ignorance towards science is not.
@@Omycrome Lies crumble in the face of Godly men, questioning them!
@@strongdelusion9442 To believe is not the same as to know. I know and you believe. Everyone is free to believe ... until you disrispect others and are ignorant towards others. I strongly believe Jesus crys up there about how ignorant his followers are towards others and how disrespectful towards men that used all their lives towards truth.
You are the one not following the path towards truth.
You’ve got a new subscriber. I could listen to content like that all day, so interesting!
I’m glad you liked it! Welcome in
Super interesting. I was really curious about the details when I heard about the liver thing, and am not disappointed to find out.
Same here... This was so good, in fact, I'm gonna save this episode to the personal notes on my phone...
Most fascinating animal in the ocean by far. My favorite pod is in Antarctica. They use “wave washing” techniques to get seals off the ice. Once the iceberg is broken they catch the seals in water. Orcas can get up to around 30 feet long. But what’s remarkable is they’re intelligent to realize humans are not food or a threat. Hundreds of years ago orcas used to hunt wales alongside fishermen
Probably bc our liver is too small 🤣
This content is really great. It is very informative and interesting. Many thanks and keep up the good work!
Keep in mind that the average weight of a male Orca is 3 tons - 6,000 lbs while a great white average weight is 1 ton, 1,000 lbs. Orca's are 3 times the size of a great white shark so the sharks want to avoid Orcas as they'll get crushed every time. Lol.
One ton is 2000 lbs.
Yes that's about right...3xs the weight of gwsharks...and brains over 20xs heavier also....sharks stand no chance against orca...it's kind of like bears vs wolves...lions vs hyenas...hippos vs crocodiles.....there's a clear and consistent winner....orca all day everyday for thousands of years
Awesome video Kp! Love your Channel
Thanks so much!
How you explained all of this earned you an immediate follow from me. Well done!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
Kinda proud that the algorythm recommended this. ☺️
Ditto...
Same, TH-cam trusted that I might be ok enough to understand this, lol.
KP your content is exemplary, I learned something new from this video. Didn't know that Orcas range to the Antarctic Ocean, that means that the Leopard Seal is not the apex predator of it's domain.
Wolves in Alaska are preying on otters, Galveston Texas (basically Houston) has an orca pod. And the orcas have sank 2 boats (almost 3) that belong to the same company (Gladys pod, 5 sail boats sank and 3 fishing boats so far) in Spain
Otters are no longer the apex predator of their domain. Wolves are tied with orcas for top predator in the marine edition 😂
Orcas may be higher than Leopard Seals on the food chain, but even so, they prefer to eat less aggressive seals like Weddell Seals when given the chance. David Attenborough documented this on an episode of the "frozen planet" series on BBC Earth; when pods of Orcas did their wave-inducing technique to break up ice floes, the Orcas would spyhop to see what kind of seal it was, and if they find certain species that are aggressive and likely to try to bite towards their eyes or mouth, they'd abandon the hunt and look for easier prey.
@ryans8081 any predator will weigh the risk on prey but leopard seals are on the menu too. I saw a documentary showing leopard shaking the spot when a pod of orcas rolled in.
We're typically seen as apex predators yet there have been plenty of cases of humans being eaten by animals so by that logic, we shouldn't be considered apex predators either
For whatever reason I like watching this video because your voice is so soothing and sophisticated! You should really do a voice acting gig.
Really. Interesting!!! Thank you!!
Very informative ! thanks, keep us updated with more content like this !
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it
Planned on just watching a minute or two of this video,but next thing I knew I'd watched the whole thing. Informative, well thought out ,and presented. You have a very agreeable way about you. Feels like an acquaintance sharing a story,more than an authority figure teaching.
Enjoyable
That is a wonderful compliment. Thank you!
Fascinating information. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was so excited to watch this! When you first mentioned it in the previous video I couldn't wait to learn more!
I hope it lived up to your expectations!
New subscriber. Thank you so much for taking the time as a professional Marine Biologist to educate us on subject matter. God bless you
I will never NOT be blown away by the sound of the orca slamming into that shark. It literally sounds like a truck crashing into a wall.
That orca sure knows how to make an impression! Thanks for watching!
@0:29 If you factor in the kinetic energy of its weight and speed it would be like a large truck smashing into a car…3-5 tons or 6-10 thousand pounds for large females, males up to 16,000 pounds. They can swim up to 30mph so that was like a large truck running a stop light and T boning a 3,500 lb sedan
Well because you are a below average intelligent person it seems..... falling for a clickbait video...No Orca can challenge a full grown great white shark. This is a baby shark or even a dolphin in the other side of the video. Has been debunked many times why are we still seeing this garbage
Man.. people think sharks are terrifying. They ain't got nothing on Killer whales. Smart, powerful, and swift. I am not kidding. Terrifying. These are the true alphas of the ocean.
I agree, Orcas are much, much more powerful killers, but I think the sharks' reputation comes from those black, lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes, their visible teeth, and seemingly mindless drive to eat living things.
Naw Sperm whales ever hunt Orca's. They are number 1
They're so smart they know not to mess with humans. Which is why the great white is still way scarier if you ask me. It's just so primal
Imagine a creature which fav food is shark liver lol
@@ryaniam22 I was in the Coast Guard when we saw a group of Orcas attacking a Sperm Whale. It is that pod (group) nature that makes them boss. One on one the Sperm Whale is so massive and the largest toothed whale. They do not hunt in a predatory way, usually, although they are predators. And Orcas are large members of the dolphin families. So no whale is safe from a pod of Orcas....fortunately, Sperms and Orcas avoid each other typically. There is a group of Orcas that prey on Sperm Whales. They surround them and attack...understand that it is mostly the females and juveniles, they will avoid the larger males (known as Bulls). This video explains it. I have seen other videos that hype Sperm Whales as Orca killers but that is not the truth. Orcas pursue them...they usually avoid the big ones that would present any issue: th-cam.com/video/W52IPJItX28/w-d-xo.html
First time here to your channel in which I stumbled on accidently. Great video, instruction and commentary by you KPassionate! I learned a lot and it made me quite interested now in these underwater scenarios. Thank you!
That’s so great to hear! Thank you!!
Thanks KP, another informative video. It's amazing they use tonic immobility on the sharks, which look tiny in comparison to orcas. What causes doral fins to collapse?
There is likely a genetic variable involved in dorsal fin collapse. It is a piece of dense, fibrous connective tissue, with no bone, cartilage, or muscle to hold them up so if it is slightly weaker it has a stronger chance of collapse. Doesn’t bother the animal typically.
@@KPassionate Thanks for answering.
@@KPassionate I thought that only happened in captivity due to stress
Nope. That is a lie that is perpetrated by the animal rights extremists. It is more common in captivity. Possibly due to the genetic factor but also because the animals spend more time at the surface. It is not a sign of health.
All adult male captive orcas have fully collapsed dorsal fins, while female captive orcas are not affected by this 'phenomenon.'
Thanks for another great video.
Thanks for watching!
Loved the video it is very informative! Your narration was excellent!😉❤💯👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@KPassionate 😉💛👍
Glued to the screen. Wow! Another great video!
Awesome! Thank you!
When we lived by the Whangārei Harbour in NZ , we knew when the Orcas were in the harbour . All the stingrays were up in the shallows in the hundreds , all trying to avoid becoming Orca snacks !
Thinking about the shark viewing trips . If they were using burley and feeding the sharks to attract them to the one location , when normally they would be spread out , it would have made the Orcas job locating them much easier . Both are amazing animals that’s for sure .
Well, I’ve never seen you before, but those rude content, wording comments, made me a subscriber! Keep up the good work
Hahaha welcome in! Content warnings will continue to be a part of the channel despite the losers triggered by them 😊
So much knowledge and very interesting and informative 👍
Any thoughts/insight on the recent orcas spotted in the Gulf of Mexico?
The ones in Texas and the Northern Gulf of Mexico are generally considered "transboundary" because it is outside their usual range. Previous genetic analysis of orcas in the Gulf of Mexico (albeit from a single sample) found that they are most likely Antarctic ecotypes! You can read more about them in the paper from NOAA below.
[1] media.fisheries.noaa.gov/2021-07/f2020_AtlGmexSARs_GmexKiller.pdf?null
Thanks for the link.
@@KPassionate thanks!
I wouldn't put much weight on the one and only sample showing genetic affinity to an Antarctic ecotype. Isolated groups can drift in all kinds of directions genetically, and wider sampling of both the Antarctic and Gulf of Mexico animals, as well as other groups might show a quite different pattern. Consider how those "find your genetic ancestry" companies were telling people of east Asian ancestry that they had native American ancestry, because they had a larger database of native American genotypes than Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. Ditto for people of central and north Asian ancestry.
I remember them being spotted off the Chandeleur Islands multiple times many years ago.
I love the way you temper an incredible amount of extremely interesting information with some lighthearted humor. Great job!!! Very watchable video.
I appreciate that! Thank you
Talk about smart. How did Orcas figure all this out?
There is a group of orcas that will hunt seals or sealions that are sitting on the beach they are the only group known to do it.
i've seen that. Amazing deductive reasoning and problem solving creativity!
They do specialist underwater crossword puzzles to sharpen the mind.
@@MegaVector2011 i like it :-)
Hundreds of thousands of years evolution.
That last bit about the echolocation was news to me. I had no idea that process was so fine-tuned as to discern between tissue types.
Yeah! The US Navy's Marine Mammal Program has done the most exhaustive studies on the subject, unfortunately a lot of it is classified. But if you're interested, here is a good article that kind of summarizes some of their research where they found that dolphins can find a tiny piece of metal through two feet of mud and can even tell if the metal is brass or stainless steel.
www.nepa.navy.mil/About-NEPA-Website/Media-Resources/News/NewsArticleView/Article/1807414/navy-uh-studying-dolphins-to-improve-sonar/
One of my 7 year old kids loves orcas. He will love this video! (We also live up in the PNW, and his favorite vacation so far was when we went whale watching. He also plans to be a marine biologist when he grows up.)
He sounds like a future conservationist!!! Can’t wait!
FYI : it is indeed known that the great white shark has only 1 predator which is the orca, but only before reaching maturity. The problem here, is that the shark's body reaches maturity after a minimum of 2 decades, which is why most of the great white sharks that get hunted by orcas feel like easy prey. Once a great white shark reaches maturity, the body becomes huge (5 meters minimum) while the sharks that have been attacked by orcas are about 2.5 meters or 3.5 meters at best.
An experiment was conducted recently when the scientists displayed the sound made by orcas that have been known to feed on great white sharks on an area full of great white sharks. Most of them ran away, but not all of them. The great white sharks that didn't react to the orcas sound were 4.5 meters minimum. ( 3 of them, one said to be 5.3 meters)
It means that older great white sharks are not food for orcas, even if it means that they have a bigger liver due to having bigger bodies. Orcas are like tigers, they feed on what is easy for them to kill. They will never go 1 on 1 against a 5 meters great white shark, it would be too dangerous because the mass is definitely not the same as a 2.5 meters
Orcas are extremely intelligent and adapt!
@@kimlombard639 yes they are, although i have no idea whats the context of your reply since my comment was about the sharks and not the orca 🙄
Orcas are not the only known predator of great white sharks. Other great white sharks have been known to prey on great white sharks. In fact this is likely more common than orca predation on them.
Its true however that there are no recorded orca predations on a fully grown adult female great white. These are well known at the Farallon Islands, yet the famous Farallon incident involved a small young great white of ten ft or so. Not one of the mature females that swim in the waters there.
Thank you - this may explain why the test conducted by Mythbusters failed. Isn't nature wonderful!?
2 predators-humans
"... dove to 3,000 feet and swam all the way to Hawaii?" I think it may have been a scared. 😳
The information on your channel is super interesting and helpful for all ages
Glad you think so!
Interesting and amazing channel.. I love your content..
Thank you!
Hi KP! This is totally unrelated to the video but I’ve been wondering about your thoughts on farming kelp to combat climate change and how sea otters could fit into this.
I love the idea of kelp farming and sea otter reintroductions to help stabilize kelp forests. A really great organization to support is the Elakha Alliance, an organization of indigenous leaders, marine biologists, and aquariums dedicated to reintroducing sea otters into Oregon. I've done two charity fundraisers for them as well as a few videos on their efforts.
www.elakhaalliance.org/
Sharks disappearing out of fear for the orcas. I live in the “Shark Attack Capital of the World” so can you play audio of an orca here to keep the sharks away? Just saying.
Cool script, nicely done, thank you. Only a few minutes in, subscribed. : )
Edit, oh wait, already subscribed, that Plus sign just throws me, sorry. Duh
Key take-away: Don’t mess with orcas.
0:23 - Actually, Killer Whales eat a variety of marine life and fish, not just shark livers.
Actually, there are at least 10 different types of killer whales each with their own VERY specific prey type and hunting method. For example, the Bigg's killer whales eat marine mammals like sea lions, seals, and other whales. They do not eat fish, at all. The same is true for Type A killer whales and the North Atlantic type 2. The type B killer whales prefer Weddell seals although they occasionally hunt minke whales. Type B2 have been observed eating penguins. The resident orcas, who share the same waters as Bigg's, do not eat marine mammals at all. They almost exclusively eat salmon and chinook salmon in particular. Type C and D killer whales also exclusively eat fish, mostly Antarctic toothfish, and they also do NOT eat other marine mammals like seals and sea lions. Although we know very little about offshore and flat-toothed ecotypes, the killer whale types this video is about, we know they primarily feed on sharks and specifically the livers. All of which I discuss at the 00:49 mark. Turns out, killer whales are INCREDIBLY picky eaters and do NOT eat a variety of marine life. Which is funny because they don't have taste buds and cannot taste.
@@KPassionatethat’s great added info! What type of Orca eats the Whale Shark?
Wow! First time seeing this channel. Instant add. Great delivery. Interesting. Just .. wow! ✌️😁
Thank you for the wonderful feedback!
@@KPassionate ✌️😁
Incredibly, later on, Starboard was filmed enjoying a nice chianti whilst dining on yet another shark liver.
The footage is incredible 😂
Haha!
I knew of this behavior, but only from you actually. Meanwhile again I am left with the impression that your channel needs to grow, and grow quickly because your content is so unique, interesting, and relevant. My option, but hopefully others share it. Beyond this channel alone I think you could do any documentary series regarding our eco-systems. Water or non-water really. But preferably ocean related for me.
Nice work. Extremely entertaining and informative.
Thank you!!
I thought wild orcas never had collapsed dorsal fins.
It isn't as common in the wild but it does happen. Their dorsal fins are made of dense, fibrous connective tissue, with no bone, cartilage, or muscle to hold them up. We don't 100% know why dorsal fins collapse but there is a lot of evidence that it is genetic. In marine parks, the orcas spend more time near the surface and in shallower water where gravity probably has an impact. But they are all also pretty closely related so genetics could be a factor there as well. Ultimately, collapsed dorsal fins aren't an indicator of health or wellbeing.
@@KPassionate Thank you for the detailed reply. I think I got the idea from the movie Blackfish and never thought to search any deeper.
Apart from your videos, any good book(s) on orcas you would recommend to learn more about these beautiful animals ?
A really great, but sad, book is called Into Great Silence by Eva Saulitis. It is about the AT1 transient orcas who are a small, isolated population found only in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and the nearby Kenai Fjords region. They are genetically and acoustically unique-they have no connections to other transient killer whale populations and their calls are unlike any others’. Unfortunately, they were devastated by the Exxon Valdez oil spill and only 7 survived.
Another good book is Spirits of the Coast by Martha Black B. which talks a lot about how important orcas are to indigenous cultures.
@@KPassionate More thanks. Into Great Silence is the one book I picked and bought by myself on orcas. Glad to see it's also an expert's choice. Now I need to actually read it. So many books, so little time.
I'll order the other one shortly.
I'm quite glad I found your channel. Looks like I'm going to learn a lot thanks to you.
Fin collapse is a highly uncommon occurrence in natural environments, whereas every male orca held in captivity exhibits a collapsed dorsal fin.
It sounds so wierd, shark has way more meat on than just liver. It should be all good eating, right?
Edit
I did post before the final bit, yeah, makes sense to eat the best bit and chuck the package.
It does seem weird but makes sense to just eat the fattiest bits and then move on!
Crabs gotta eat, same as orcas…
There’s always something bigger and badder…
I know. I am working in a hospital.
Orcas are boss tier.
That impact sound of the orca hitting the shark was added in editing, wasn't it? It was brutal, but would it be possible to hear it above water? Great video.
0:03. Sharks ain’t fish.
Yes they are. Their name “chondricthyes” literally means cartilaginous fish. Let me know if you are confused on anything else
Lol what is a shark then? A Reptile? Bird? Insect? Buick? I always thought they were fish but “0:03. Sharks AIN’T fish” 😂
Yes they are, and so are you. Also birds are dinosaurs.
Sharks are fish not mammals like porpoises or dolphins or whales if that was what you were thinking
They have gills you fool 😂
Great vid, K . I've studies sharks especially great whites since I was tiny but almost exclusively Orcas since watching Blackfish ❤
Fascinating, subbed & I look forward to more of this type of content.
Excellent podcast!... straghforwardly informative. Applause and thanks.❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
just randomly stumbled across your video. Subscribed! For once TH-cam recommendations work 🥳🐋
Happy to hear it!
New subscriber . Love the content !! Terrific stuff , watching with my kiddos
Amazing coverage!! Great job!!
Glad I found this channel 😊
Thank you for a facinating and informative presentation! ❤️
You are most welcome!
i love ur orca videos sm. i love orcas in general. is it obvious? i dont think it is. new subscriber i hope there will be more orca videos in the future....😊
Thanks for subbing!
That was well done. Your research was thorough and your conclusions excellent.
Fascinating stuff KP... Thanks for sharing!
Fascinating stuff!! Subscribed!
Glad you liked it! I hope you enjoy the rest of the channel.
Fascinating! Great content. Two thumbs up. 👍👍
Many thanks!
Glad I found your channel. You're very interesting work is just what I love watching!
This a a great introduction and explanation, super interesting and fun to watch . Congratulations!!
Great upload. 👍👍
What a great video! My wife and I photographed our first Orca in the wild the other day. Amazing and intelligent creatures!
Where at?!?
@KPassionate in the Sraight of Juan De Fuca, last day of an Alaska Cruise
64yo here and I learnt something new today. Thank you 😁
Great white shark liver specialists. That's fascinating.
Orcas are incredible creatures. Intelligent and fierce is a scary combination.
A shark is pure instinct. Efficient killing machines. They don't stand a chance against orcas.
First time I've seen you. Absolutely bloody gripping video, and spectacular footage.
Thanks KP
Michael B, Science Teacher, Sydney
(definitely subscribed)
I love to see the science educators in my comments! Thank you so much! Keep up the good work 💪
I have subscribed to your channel, this is fascinating stuff! I love the way you explain things, but I have a question.... Is it possible for an orca to be solitary, go rogue or be exiled from it's pod? ( just out of curiosity). Thank you in advance
@mikev.7361 Yes! There have been many documented cases of seemingly solitary orcas. One of the more famous examples is a male North Atlantic orca named Old Thom. You can read about him in the link below.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Thom_(orca)
Loved every second of it! I had to watch your intro 3 time because it kept blowing my mind! The ecotyoes(?) may be different species.
Awesome! Thank you!
@KPassionate I appreciate the gentle maturity of your content too - including the content warnings! 🤣
@corvanphoenix hahaha thank you!!!
Thanks for the videos! Sooo interesting!
Thanks for watching!
That was FASCINATING! Thank you, I'm a subscriber!
Awesome, thank you!