Killer whales caught on camera hunting, catching great white shark
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- WARNING: Video contains content that may be disturbing to viewers. Discretion is advised.
As part of a new study published by the Ecological Society of America’s journal, scientists have released drone footage confirming that orca whales do hunt and kill great white sharks. The video, which was recorded on May 16, shows a pod of killer whales chasing a great white shark - a fellow apex predator - during an hour-log hunt near Mossel Bay, on the Southern Cape of South Africa.
There are five orcas in the pod. They collaborated in pursuit of the shark, who tried to swim in tight circles to dodge the whales. Eventually, the great white shark was mauled and presumably eaten by the orcas. In their report, the scientists claimed three other great white sharks may have also been killed during the hunt.
Scientists claimed the unprecedented drone footage has provided insight into how orcas pursue, capture and incapacitate large prey like sharks. The evasive tactics of the great white shark have also been studied. There is not a known reason as to why the orcas attacked the shark.
The research team is now attempting to determine if “cultural transmission,” or the ability to learn and share information with one another, is occurring between the whales.
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The fact that Orcas are so brilliant and so DEADLY, really speaks volumes as to when they interact with humans in the oceans and let us touch them and interact with them.
People don’t give these and many other super intelligent creatures enough credit.
I think James Cameron did a wonderful job of creating an analogy of that idea with Avatar 2 Way of the Water with the poachers hunting the intelligent whale creatures for their brain juice with one of the characters claiming they could be smarter than us. I love how the film makes people wonder/care about intelligent majestic creatures on this earth we share. Also feels like it's touching on other countries killing sharks for their fins, and wasting everything else. Amazing film...
Orcas truly are amazing creatures, the fact they're so smart is crazy. Imagine all humans put as much care into trying to understand animals as they did with their social media accounts, and tik toks?
Agreed. Orcas can speak multiple languages, they can strategies, and they feel emotions. Honestly they're the humans of the ocean.
Pretty sure we give them the most credits out of anything that live in the Ocean ! They are unbelievably smart n 100% apex predators !
They probably saw what we did to sharks. During the time when Jaws came out, we used to hunt them like if we're exterminating some pest off the face of the ocean. We even have "shark week" where it's encourage to go out and kill as many sharks as we can. The impact of the movie was so masive that even now if you ask 10 random people, at least 1 will say sharks are blood thirsty killers, a villain of the ocean of sorts. Some orcas probably saw this, pass on their stories to their young to "Stay the hell away form these skinny penguins"
2 Things that Do scare the Great White Shark
One is Barracuda and Other is killer Whale’s
They are THE apex predator of the ocean. Isn't it strange that we put them in swimming pools to act like circus performers for the public, then wonder why they kill trainers. They're too big and smart for this kind of treatment.
Apex predator of sea world as well.
@@stevenroberts614 evolution has left the chat* A whale cant be a fish😂😂😂
Perfect comment you’re exactly right!!
It’s as if we’re the monkey and the whale is watching the show.
no megalodon is
I always knew orcas will get more recognition as the rulers of the ocean...
They were ignored for centuries as leaders because of their skin color!
@@KeyserSozex bruh
@@DaWootzi 🤷🏽♂️
@@KeyserSozex Real talk. Orcas stepping up putting things right.
Megaladon would like to know your location
I assumed this is common knowledge, Orcas being the apex, hunt the biggest sharks, heaviest whales, and meanest seals. Hunting in a pod also seals the deal.
Is it me or does the above comment rhyme?
@@miketurbo7580 😂
Its trippy. I feel like I am on acid.
Lmao, honestly didn’t see the rhymes.
Then you assumed wrong, and by extension were wrong lol
Killer whales are smart , hunt in packs. A white shark don’t stand a chance with 3 or more of them . They have to eat too.
They don't stand a chance with 1
Shark don't stand a chance against 1 orca
They eat the soft internal organs
Not even with one full grown Orca. The Orca’s supreme intelligence gives it the upper hand as well.
@@Francis-qf2hr it depends on what shark, if just 1 orca encountered a great white shark that is larger enough in size, it would be suicide to take on the great white.
I've read articles where orcas are the best ambush hunters in the sea. A few of the pod will seperate and go sing to make alot of noise to get the shark to be like "ok they are over there" and then BAM a large male will ram the prey like a train hitting a car. Some of the impact his are so hard they "liquefy" the insides of these sharks. That's crazy force.
No rules to the ocean gang
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard or seen an orca dead from anything other than captivity. These animals are among the most elite predators on earth. Making actual Great Whites into casual lunch is something so mind boggling to me because just watching a shark hunt makes you think that they are the apex predator. Amazing creatures. Fungi, bugs and Mammals are rulers of the earth.
Microorganisms make up the vast majority of life on earth and they were here before us too. Don't forget them. Mammals can't do anything about them no matter how big or strong
Beaching, caught in man made objects, old age, stillbirth, wars with other pods or ecotypes sometimes, hunting, lack of food and human murder
I don't know how deep under water they go but in the depths of the ocean giant squids would eat them for breakfast. One thing they are very good at hunting are baby whales which would be the same size as an orca maybe even bigger
The lack of skills from the drone pilot is CRIMINAL!!
I put orcas and wolves in the same tier list. They are the perfect example of pack hunting and have a respected rank in their packs & pods: who eats first, they rotate breeding, and they communicate in ways I believe humans don't even closely understand.
Wolves are scared of bears n other stuff. Orcas have no fear because they are top. Wolves are not. But they def pack hunt. Pretty sure they both have sense of humor as well.
Orcas in my opinion is much more advanced in their respective environment. Their physical performance compared to their peer in the same environment is unmatched. They have the ability to swim 5 hours non-stop, they have a complicated mean of communication and complex social structure. And when they hunt, they also strategize and plan out their location/route - their ability to work as a group and take actions with long-term planning surpasses that of wolves.
Wolves get destroyed by bears and even Cougars 1v1. Defo not a good comparison.
And that is why you are just a random in the internet. You putting anything in a list is meaningless and nonfactor
Orcas much higher. Nothing can touch them whereas wolves sometimes (not often) are killed by bears.
Orcas are badasses of the ocean
Loch Ness Monster is the king.
@alirazzaq1541 "Loch" means "lake." Pretty sure that's not the ocean. Lol. I wish those creatures existed. Unfortunately, they don't.
The moment I was waiting for all my life.
When I was a kid, I got into several arguments with my classmates about this.
We watched the Farallon Islands footage, and they couldn't believe an orca could actually put down a white shark.
Many years later, the Cape Town incidents and this footage finally proved my point
Hell, this is so satisfying lmao
Not really anything sharks can do it seems, orcas are bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, hunt in pods, know the shark's weaknesses, and are pretty much immune to whatever the shark can do
Well in the end the shark is a fish and the orca is a mammal, so one is far more versatile.
Orcas are much intelligent than sharks, unless a horde of sharks can kill at least 1 Orca if they can work together
@@imaginecheating9307In the Great White's case, never gonna happen. They are solitary creatures.
All the shark can do is dive to depths orcas won’t go
Orcas are Homelander
The fact the 70s-90s they made sharks the apex of the ocean in society...boy has that changed.
If you remove the weight and length from the orca and its 1vs1 fight uh the orca will win by biting the great white sharks tail off.
Even then that probability is so unlikely due to orcas being social animals and having family groups
What
@@wonderone7285 What he means is a single Orca will still win against a Great White. They're bigger, faster, meaner, and most importantly very intelligent.
Orcas are the true Apex Predators in the ocean.
Reversed Jaws Unleashed
Irrelevant comment, that situation could go either way. Who ever did it first...
i still find it crazy that whales are mammals and breathe like any of us
Orcas are showing who's the real king of the ocean..
Great Whites in the Eastern Pacific have gotten so scared of Orcas that just smelling one eating another shark nearby has been documented to cause Great White Sharks to dive almost a mile deep and swim clear across the ocean to North America.😅
Looks like the same footage of the guy who captures UFOs on tape
The strangest part is that Orcas are only really after the shark’s liver. They literally won’t eat any part of the shark other than the liver.
That's not true. Yes they do go for the liver but even in this video it's clear they weren't going for just the liver and even ate more
It’s a delicacy for them
just like how they like whale's tongues
I think its cas it has the most nutrients
Fascinating they know to do that and teach others in the pod to do the same. Theyre surgical in getting that part of the shark 😅
So are Orcas the apex predator? Or the shark? I think I was taught shark but that doesn’t seem the case lol
Orcas are the apex predators of the oceans. Sharks are also apex but you know they are a class below even dolphins
Orca and whales are more apex than shark. Shark is the most aggressive presence in the sea, but not the strongest species.
Orcas are Larger, Faster, Stronger, Smarter and they hunt in packs. Just 1 orca is enough to take down a great white, but seeing how they hunt in groups that's a needless debate
orcas are the rulers of the ocean, but they dont generally atrack humans so they are not as scary.
That's because we never see the pack of spearmwhales hunting cuz theyre too deep
Newcomers: OMG, I'm shocked and disturbed.
Casual Geographic Fans: "First time?" XD
Yeah lol
This is literally the first time this has been captured on video.
@@BOOSETO 100%😆😆
@@BOOSETO He means the graphic content, not the actual event
@@colachofcb how do you know what he means? Are you his boyfriend?
Shark: Hi. My names Bruce.
Orcas: Do you like the opera? (Hannibal Lecter lip sound)
Orca: "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
So the orcas take turns attacking the shark so they don't tire themselves out. And they try flipping it over upside down to keep it a easy target that can't swim. Also forgot to mention it flips its prey to drown it. Super smart tactics
Sharks are way too slow and stupid compared to an orca, which may be one of the most intelligent species on the planet. Apparently shark liver is a delicacy.
This happened before. There was a team of 3 orcas who went around hunting GW. One would smash the shark into its side to cause concussion and flip over upside down. Then the other 2 would holds its fins so it couldn't flip back over. GW sharks drown if held upside down for so long. Then they would eat the juicy liver and move onto the next shark
It's not that they drown when upside down, they go into a state of paralysis. This is called tonic immobility. Humans often flip sharks when tagging them because it's not able to attack as it should.
This just goes to show how incredibly intelligent orcas are that they understand the biology of their prey and use their weaknesses against them. I didn't know this about orcas. :)
@@jessicawalters6014 thanks for clarifying. Orcas are seriously smart
Considering the fact Orcas move and attack as a pack, A horde of sharks could at least kill 1 Orca if they have the knowledge
@@jessicawalters6014 TOXIC (not tonic) immobility!
@@krishnastock Urm, no. It's Tonic Immobility. Quick google would tell you that lol
"Discretion is advised"? Why?
Orcas: Fight back!
Shark :💀
Orcas finally getting credit for the title of Killer Whales
Shark: I am the boss
Orca: shut up, Iam the King
Imagine if a pod learns to start eating humans and passes that knowledge on to others 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gura : Hi, please don't eat me
Chloe : Tabemasu
Gura : No
Chloe : Gura-senpai oishi
Gura : You beat me in Mario Kart, then you can eat me
Chloe :
Shark: "oh crap, what have I gotten myself into" Orcas: "snacc time babiiiiiiii"
It's like they had the top gear camera men filming .
Where's the graphic footage??
All I saw was Orcas eating an already dead shark
Orcas are without a doubt the apex predator of the seas. The mighty and fearsome Great White just doesn't compare to the size, speed and more importantly the intelligence of Orcas.
Orcas are by far the most fascinating animals on this blue planet
It’s was recorded in 2022 by scientist and that’s the best resolution they had?
you mean like we can see this everyday? and predict it? it's a rare opportunity of course it will be difficult to be fully prepared to make a proper footage
Yo it’d be so cool if they filmed what they’re looking at
Like dude was filming the water most of the time
I’m amazed that you never hear of orcas killing humans at sea. We would be an easy prey for them.
I think is because sharks can live at lesser depths. I read a bull shark can swim in 4 foot waters.
They know to fear the species that could extinct them
They're intelligent, and Dolphins rarely attack humans. They actually protect us from sharks. There has never been a documented case of an orca attacking a human in the wild, unlike sharks, who are stupid fish anyway.
Where was the graphic part' I must have missed it' didn't see the orcas killing a great white
Jaws is NO MATCH for Free Willy!
Fun fact: Orcas only eat the liver of sharks.
The sushi chefs of the ocean
The liver makes up around 15% of the total body weight so it could easily weigh as much as 3 or 4 people.
"They encountered an average of 3.3 individual sharks per trip (range 0.5-6 sharks per trip) before the predations and 0 sharks for 45 days after the predation, when the first white shark was seen again on 1 July" (Towner et al 2022) the sharks knew there was opps so they avoided the area for weeks!!
Orcas/dolphins are like humans but of the sea world orcas definitely rule the waves.
This just warms my heart.
Be great if the writing didn’t block the part of the video where you can actually see the attack
Never thought I'd feel sorry for jaws.
I don’t. They routinely do this to all their prey…tearing them apart while they’re alive. I’m not saying I wish all sharks to die (save it shark huggers), I’m just saying it’s nice to see them get theirs every now and then.
Apart from humans. Orcas are the most ferocious predator ever to live.
The bullying killer of the ocean absolutely mercilessly shown who is boss by the real king of the oceans.
What an animal the Orca is.
Good get ‘em, but not me please! Killer whales aren’t nicer in the wild but they don’t attack humans (only 1 known attack in history) and we can train them so we side with the whale over the shark it’s kinda funny.
Why was this video released 3months ago but took place in may of last year 🤔
Orcas killed 17 GW sharks in a 2 hour time period last summer
Where’s the rest of the video? Or the beginning?
That appeared to be a very whale orcastrated attack.
“There’s always a bigger fish” 🥶
Qui Gonn said it best lol
This is why they have no predators.
What do. You mean by 3 others may have been killed. Are they dead or not?
Is there a link to the full video? It say it was an hour-long hunt
Will come out on the discovery channel documentary
All the creatures of the ocean feared Jaws, but even Jaws feared Free Willy.
I didn’t see a hunt and chase, I see a dead shark’s limp body being toyed with. Probably was an orca kill but this footage is terrible and shows very little.
Orcas are just OP. They’re already bigger and stronger than great whites individually and they still hunt in groups.
I thought they are similar in size. The orcas are like 3 times the size of the "great white". Misleading clickbait.
They don’t even have sharp scary teethies
The fittest of the fittest survive in this world
Free Willy really brain washed a lot of us back in the day 🤣
The most amazing fact about this, as far as I'm concerned, is that they only eat the shark liver. It shows utter contempt for the Shark, an apex predator, that they are so picky with what parts they eat.
People only now realising that the "Killer whale" name is backwards
I had no idea I lived in the southern cape of south africa😂
Never thought I'd feel bad for a predator...but Great Whites are still the apex predators of the ocean to me. They are deadly based on their capabilities as independent hunters - not what other sharks help them do. Orcas are the hyenas of the ocean. They don't accomplish kills on their own; they use other orcas to help them. Any animal hunting in groups, not just orcas, can kill things without much skill/ability involved using only their numbers - especially when your prey is alone. Hyenas smaller than our Golden Retrievers and Rottweilers kill fully-grown male lions and young rhinos in packs. It doesn't take special skill; they simply have numbers on their side. Do we call hyenas apex predators over lions because 10 of them can kill a single lion?
When I think of *the* apex predator, I've always thought of what they do alone on their own merits. That tells you what that animal is truly capable of. All animals are stronger/better in groups. All animals are capable of doing things in groups that they can't do alone. 2-3 orcas killing a single Great White? That's predictable. But what would just one of those orcas have accomplished by itself? We know what a Great White can do alone, because they hunt alone. But because orcas are almost always in pods, there's not enough data about their capabilities as predators individually against other apex predators. They may behave completely differently when dealing with apex predators outside of pods. And while orcas do have advantages over Great Whites, they're not great enough to predict that they would always kill Great Whites in a fair, one-to-one matchup. Orcas are faster, but not by much, and Great Whites are more agile. Would that not mean that Great Whites are capable of outmaneuvering an orca and getting the first bite, which could immediately disable the orca?
Who knows, but until we've seen many instances of orcas accomplishing kills of other apex predators independently (without their hunting buddies), I continue to think of great whites as *the* apex predator of the ocean. Just my humble opinion, like everyone else's; not fact.
gotta remind you that Sharks aren't that smart as to get the first bite easily. Orca can detect sharks you know and lastly is that Great White are vulnerable to Tonic Immobility. for an Orca it's just a hunt, even if it's a one vs one the result won't change. A single Orca can still do the same result
Just because they have all them teeth? Orcas don´t need to be in pods to be able to take one of those monsters down. I can guarantee you that.
sharks are dumb
orcas are smart
orcas and great white sharks both equally deserve respect, i say. the orcas for their brains and the sharks for their brawns.
The Great White Shark: Terror of the seas. Immortalized by the movie JAWS. And yet these cute black and white whales that we typically think of when the word Sea World is mentioned are the actual rulers of the ocean.
The Orca flipped the shark!!
конечно 3 касатки против одной акулы да еще меньшую по размеру что не покусать . Так и 3 белых акулы растерзают одну касатку
Sharks are solitary and territorial animals. You will never see them hunt in packs. You will never see Orcas hunt alone.
Is that Starboard the Orca?
How about Free Willy Vs Megalodon next? Who wins
My my how the turntables…
That warning lol
Footage is very, very rare. Almost non existent.
Bro those things make a great white look tiny
To all you Shark Haters is this Fair Hunting in a Pack?
Where is a footage that 1 Orca kills a Fully Grow Great White Shark?
orcas are never alone lol
One orca still violates tf
If Orca ever figure out we are the ones messing up the ocean and decide to take it out on us, we're doomed (or at least, cannot safely be in the water again).
Highly doubt orcas can take out aircraft carriers or submarines that are fully armed, they're smart but still animals...
Rather the other way. Orcas will be doomed if they ever decide to attack humans on purpose. They won‘t stand a chance against human tech and hunting skills.
@@redeye--2753 Exactly we have too much time evolving in our environment, if it was maybe 10.000 years ago, maybe it could be a potential threat in the ocean only.
They observe us as much as we observe them. They see other sea creatures getting killed by humans and how vengeful we are as a species. They know but they choose not to act on it.
They have been attacking our boats! They are learning that we are not friendly !
The whale is putting on a Band-Aid, with his teeth.
orcas are mammals sharks are fish!!!! enough said!!!
A wolf in orcas clothing. Yup makes sense
Wheres the footage then? This shows basically nothing
Good job !
Well, they are bigger, and smarter 🤣
this could upset the natural balance and the local seal colonies could grow unchecked which would then impact on the local fish stocks, they all play an important roll so should these orcas be chased far away by using sonar to scare them?
@@Ber-wt3hp everything plays an important role, millions of years of evolution has worked it out just right.
The white sharks are filled with calcium
hell of an ocean. lived on the wild coast and it certainly was.
Bro the shark got Jumped 💀
No animal can defeat the Orcas, they are so deadly when they want to be and super intelligent
No animal can defeat them because they're always in packs. Great whites are big enough, strong enough, fast enough, and ferocious enough to kill an orca (emphasis on the word "*an*"!). Orcas have advantages over Great Whites, but they're not great enough to make killing an orca impossible for a Great White. The problem is that a Great White will almost never encounter an orca that is alone. Orcas travel in packs, and they use other orcas to get their kills; they do not accomplish their kills by themselves. Orcas are also not deadly because they're intelligent. They're deadly because they hunt in packs. You don't need intelligence to kill in packs. Many species do it. Wolves, hyenas, and army ants all hunt larger animals successfully in packs. These species can kill things bigger than they are purely because they hunt in packs - not because they're smarter.
They hunt sharks when regular food is low
Warning??? Really get a grip
I’m on the orcas side but I’d like to see a pack of great whites against a pack of orcas 🤔
Guy recording this was the guy that recorded school fights, can’t see anything
I'm sure it was more than four. More like fourteen.
Orcas just too fast and smart for the Great White.
The name should be Killer Shark not whale😂