re: 2 orcas slaughter 19 sharks in a single day in South Africa, eating their livers...

Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:35 pm to saint tiger225

Posted by tigerinthebueche

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Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:35 pm to saint tiger225

No matter how bad you are, there’s always someone badder.

What kills an Orca? Man?

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Posted by jeffsdad

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Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:41 pm to tigerinthebueche

Put them in an arena and 10,000 rats could.

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Posted by saint tiger225

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Posted on 3/7/23 at 7:43 pm to tigerinthebueche

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What kills an Orca? Man?

I thought that was an interesting question, so I looked it up. You're pretty much right...

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When it comes to predator/prey relationships, the killer whale is an apex predator and isn’t known to have natural predators.

That is except humans, parasites, and diseases, which can significantly affect a killer whale’s health.

Lacking any natural predators of their own, these marine mammals can freely hunt and kill other oceanic creatures without the fear of being hunted themselves.

Like other dolphin species (killer whales belong to the dolphin family), they consume fish, squid, octopus, crustaceans, and cephalopods.

However, unlike other dolphins, killer whales also hunt other marine animals such as seals, sea lions, penguins, sharks, and even other cetaceans, including whales and dolphins (killer whales do eat other dolphins) and porpoises.

Despite being natural predators that eat other living mammals, killer whales do not appear interested in eating people.

In fact, there are no known cases of a killer whale consuming a person.