@@thomasneal9291 well, if they got everything, yeah. But it seems they only got the end so we didn’t really see them make the kill. Or they are not showing us.
It's possible to request footage, however they are using it for their research, so it wouldn't all be likely shared until they finished learning from it. I agree seeing all the footage would be interesting, but don't forget how much empty footage people have to sort through when filming wildlife :) No commentary though? I appreciate it, since it's hard to tell the orca apart, or know their research history.
@J C The Chinese finning of sharks for shark fin soup, just as every kinds of overfishing, is a threat to the Orcas population, along with it being a threat to the Orcas way of life.
@@jor-el1298 Not at all, since Orcas most of the time hunt only one shark, while Chinese fishermen's kill millions. That is having a big problem on the Transient Orcas way of life, since sharks are the prey of the Transient orca.
Wow, orcas are brutal, powerful hunters. There was this theory since 1997 (Farallon Islands incident) that orcas relied on tonic immobility to handle great white sharks. Not the case here. One orca just came up from underneath to a fully alert and moving great white and bit right into him, resulting in blood pouring out into the waters. This footage suggests that great whites may actually be an easy target for Killer Whales, posing little to no threat to their safety. Possibly a reason they hunt them. Other prey may be harder to catch or even fight back. Great whites are neither and it looks like orcas have discovered (and are transmitting culturally) that they are among the easiest low risk sources of energy rich nutrition.
@@asshat1607 Not that a GW shark isn't armed to defend itself. It just doesn't have the mind set and situational awareness to understand the threats posed by orcas. If Avatar like technology was available and a person commandeered GWS body, it could certainly make a better go at fending off the orcas --> I would just break off circling and tear right into one, opening my mouth as wide as possible and sinking into a fin or flank. Might be enough to deter their attack.
He is correct, it poses zero threat to an orca… Intelligence and nearly twice the weight. Come on man, that’s basic physics…think of the kinetic energy alone getting slam fucked by shamu
And its proof (as was also noted in two other witnesses encounters) that great white sharks have no inbuilt inherent fear of orcas and do not flee on sight, sound and scent of them.
Humans are without a doubt and Giant Squids probably have something say about that as well along with full grown great whites and any other toothed whale. Orca's only real advantage is they hunt in packs but so do Dolphins.
@@LavitosExodius sperm whales eat giant squid so squid are definitely not top of the food chain. Orcas also have very high intelligence which makes them a formidable predator
@@LavitosExodius I think you’ll find that Orcas are now considered to be moving higher than the white shark, squid including the massive Humboldt don’t prey on Orca. Orca have also learned that if they get a white shark on its back it goes into tonic immobility, once other Orca learn how to do this the white shark will be in serious trouble
I love the idea that Orcas discovered tonic immobility. How cool that if you turn a shark on it's back, it goes to sleep, you can make a slit in it's belly, suck out the liver, & be on your way, no sweat. Then I saw a video of an autopsy done on one of the Great Whites that washed up on our Cape beaches. When the 3 ton orca turned the 1 ton Orca upside down, it was not a gentle process. When it flipped the shark, it's entire pectoral girdle was torn dislocated, terribly damaged. That shark would have been in no condition to do anything purposeful to defend itself further. Perhaps you guys know this video & could review it
i watched a different report a couple of years ago about orcas being filmed for the first time preying on a great white shark off the coast of california. those orcas used very similar techniques as these orcas. and they also went for the shark's liver. after the attack, great white sharks weren't seen in the area for quite some time. i'm wondering if the widely separated groups of orcas learned this technique by being passed down across orca populations, or if each group learned it completely independently.
I believe it is the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco that has a USA Marine research place _(I can't honestly remember!)_ where the white sharks flee for a month or so when Orca appear.
Most Orcas that prey on sharks and rays, have worked out that they go into a catatonic state when turned upside down and are therefore defenceless, plus great white can also be downed, if held still for a certain period of time. If the sharks were smarter, their best strategy would be to dive as deep as possible and hug the sea floor and swim out to the open ocean.
@@lexuslfa4739 I agree, but the tactic is to ram the shark from underneath, grab it and turn it over. If your on the sea floor, this isn’t possible, plus Orcas can only hold their breath for about 10-15 minutes, although they would get around this by swapping out with each other. The sharks best hope is to just make it as much of a pain in the arse to kill it as possible in the hope that the Orcas will lose interest. It’s not going to happen however, sharks just don’t have the intelligence to outwit Orcas.
@@lexuslfa4739 , Orcas don't dive very deep. Sperm whales do though. I wonder if they also prey on sharks. They're certainly big enough and have serious teeth.
@@Zion66666 Oh they're definitely not pea brain. and Definitely, and I mean DEFINITELY nothing like how the media portrays them. They are very curious animals which why they tend to do taste bites on unfamiliar objects (humans included) to see if they are edible. They also have a complex social structure, with a matriarchal hierarchy determined by size. and while they're usually solitary creatures, they also would turn to socializing if needed.
yeah that's what i don't get it ... such a solitude creature, but how do they broadcast this info among themself so quickly ... i couldnot call my family around with phone that quick
@@EMB3D There is so much we don't understand if the natural world . We as humans feel we are the only being sentient creature on the planet and that appears completely false . Even insects may grasp the concept.
there is another video here on youtube that shows sharks scamming when they smell shark liver after the kill. its the smell. a few drops in the water and they high tail it out of there.
@@lemonmoose5090 i read, that the smell of blood (therefor i assume the smell of liver) is overrated, and they don't sense it from many kilometers away (in fact half or a mile a mile max) ... still, all the neighbor capitulates. there must be something else beyond smell ... but anyway, i just speculate, i check out the video, thanks
That is an astonishing sight to behold! Let it sink in just how rare it is for us to see something like this in action. Orcas truly are the wolves of the sea.
Never in my life I thought a predator like the Great White shark would become prey. The Orca changed the all that by out smarting them being bigger faster and agile.
Oddly enough they seem to have a fear of the smaller Pilot Whale themselves. Seems as though everything has at least something to worry about our there....unless you're a Blue Whale or Sperm Whale I suppose.
When they were juveniles, they had to use those tactics. As full grown adults, they have little to fear. (White sharks are still pretty big juveniles though haha)
To my understanding, a droopy dorsal fin means that they are depressed, and usually only occurs when held captive. I’ve never seen it in the wild before, and I think it’s strange, and interesting, in this specific context.
This is a pair of male Orcas preying on Great White sharks in this area. Both of them have collapsed dorsal fins, probably due to age. They are named Starboard and Port. The names refer to direction in which the dorsal fin is collapsed. Starboard is the one making a kill in this video. It's conjectured that they are older males which have trouble catching fast, intelligent sea mammals and have taken to hunting Great Whites instead
Thanks -- good video. A similar phenomenon was reported off the Farallon Islands, 6 years ago. The orcas would attack sharks from behind, inverted, then seizing the sharks' pectoral fins. The orca would then right itself, causing the upside down shark to slip into a state of tonic immobility after about a minute. A few vigorous shakes would dislodge the liver. The liver is high in fat and quite nutritious, so why eat the rest? Some grizzly bears just eat the salmon roe, if they're already full.
Very interesting to see this behavior in both the white sharks and the orcas. The predatory nature of the orcas is amazing. The way the hunt in pods and take turns is very impressive and quite efficient. The hunter is being hunted. But both species are very intelligent and also misunderstood. I really enjoy learning about the both of them. Thanks for sharing this video!
This was fascinating footage. I liked how the article that this video was linked to, made it seem like this was something new. This has been happening for a while, but it seems to be the first time recorded, which I didn't know. Still, this was amazing to see.
@@Salman-Bin-Ahmed You don't know that. This may be novel behavior due to the complete collapse of the marine ecosystems now very deeply in progress. We now know *for a fact* that oceanic animal biomass is a fraction of what it used to be just a hundred years, even decades ago. In fact, apex predators preying on apex predators is NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOR.
Waiting for the "First time recorded trans Killer Whales kill White Sharks" Followed by the converse "First time recorded Killer Whales kill trans White Sharks"
Intelligence is the answer they are self aware after all meaning they recognise themselves in a mirror just like dolphins because they are the ultimate dolphin. They probably know we are meant to be intelligent and we are not worth it for them
None of the above. While we might like to believe some myth about respect for our position in the food chain, the reality is simply that orcas don’t come into water shallow enough to encounter humans. While they’re famous for beaching themselves while hunting seals, that’s an unique behavior in isolated areas by specific pods. Otherwise in large part due to their size, they simply don’t come in close enough to run into swimmers, and likewise swimmers rarely swim in water deep enough to see orcas. Sharks are quite a different story - the vast majority of shark bites are by other than Great Whites and in shallow water.
@@Pupda I've seen plenty of videos of people getting into the ocean and swimming alongside orcas so your statement makes no sense at all. And orcas are one of the large predators that do come into the shallows 4-7ft deep to hunt seals near the Falkland Islands and they even beach themselves off the coast of South America to catch seals. Thought you would know all this and these are just the orcas we have documented doing this likely more with different hunting techniques we don't even know about.
Amazing how they get together for their own benefit. Orcas are one of the greatest depredators that exist. They killed whales and white shark despite their size and ways of defense. Incredible!
i think its more like: surfer, "yeah, that's what you get! Team orca! Woo!" because orca is human friendly (except for rare incident when orca killed human accidentally in seaworld)
I believe it is the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco that has a USA Marine research place _(I can't honestly remember!)._ Regardless of the place, all year, researchers study the white shark and seal interactions. And every year, when the white sharks suddenly disappear _(And they do so for some months.),_ the researchers know that Orca is about.
No, they leave due to ORCAS being there. This is DOCUMENTED. The months they stay in the Farallons are September to November; but let just one orca happen to be in the vicinity and they all ghost the area….they vanish. Well ahead of their normal schedule. Educate yourself.
There's a company in Mosselbay that take tourists out to dive with sharks. The people dive in a cages and the sharks are fed to attract them so that the tourists can have the experience under water. This attracts sharks that would not necessarily be in the area.
those orcas hunt great white sharks for a living it's a tough life. the limp fin happens in nature too just not nearly as frequently as in captivity and not for the same reasons
Drooping dorsal fins can happen in the wild due to intestinal parasites , ingestion of plastic blocking food , old age, oil spills , injury, net entanglement & subsequent escape and genetic deformity etc
@@waynetables6414 Actually there was a report from a fisherman of San Francisco in the 1990s who witnessed a large great white shark attacking an estranged orca calf.
Rare to see, but is it really all that surprising that three Orcas are able to easily kill what looks to be an 8 foot juvenile Great White shark with minimal effort?
NOT "The world's first aerial footage of killer whales pursuing white sharks" as the video reads... The first time was in the mid 90's when the LA pod member CA-2 was filmed killing a great white off the coast of California (which was assumed as defensive/ protective of a possible calf nearby). It was later confirmed that there had been no calf present, and the orca was feeding... Specifically on the shark's liver. It was unique as the pod was a transient pod only known for hunting mammals, unlike offshores, which do eat sharks. This orca became well known for her feeding maneuvers and may have been responsible for a mass exodus of sharks from the seal-hunting grounds off the coast of California with some sharks venturing as far away as Hawaii and for as long as 4+ years.
They KNOW. Think about that. Imagine that there are things on earth that are way smarter than humans, we are just too stupid to understand just how smart they are. Image if whales ruled the earth as humans do, but the world was covered with water. Image the whales keeping us on tiny islands and making us do things like swim in water and play water volleyball. Image how whale families would come and watch us play while being amazed at how we were able to swim with no flippers. Imagine. We don't have the brain power to understand just how stupid we are in the scheme of earth. Imagine.
Well to be honest it’s kinda hard not to in these instances since the liver of a great white just about takes up half of its insides soo it’s not like fining the pineal gland in a brain or something
@@giuliana6290 yeah that's true, livers in general are huge. But from other footage I've seen there are usually open wounds right where a liver would be and just big enough to remove it. They seem to know to go for just the liver.
Thank you for the video, very interesting to see this behavior, especially since you would think a white shark would at least try to defend itself and not just try to avoid the Orca. The video mentions adult-to-adult learning between the Orcas. I just saw a story yesterday (I don't remember the exact area) about Orcas sinking boats and teaching other Orcas how they did it. That would really be amazing if true. I do have a question about the two main Orcas in this video, Port and Starboard. I was reading an article about this specific encounter that had this video in it. In the article, it was explained the names were given to these two Orcas because their dorsal fins droop to their sides, one to the Port, and one to the Starboard. If I remember correctly, when the Sea World debacle with their Orcas was making headlines, one of the things brought up about Orcas was their dorsal fins only drooped for Orcas in captivity. It was stated this did not happen in the wild. So, the obvious question here is why do these two wild Orcas have drooping dorsal fins?
Orcas are bigger, heavier and more intelligent than sharks. All they need to do is ram into the shark, overturn it and it is game over for the shark. Sharks aren't as intelligent as Orcas but they aren't that stupid to take an Orca on.
Now I know why I love orcas so much! Delphinidae, largest member of the dolphin family💕🐬 would love to read any findings on dolphin behaviour regarding defending the school from sharks.
Fascinating footage indeed. The crappiness of editing it’s also fascinating! Show the freaking footage and then do a detailed explanation or something but show the freaking thing!
Good. “Mistaking “ humans for food is a poor excuse for mindless killers (sharks). Orcas are capable of thought and assessment. Highly intelligent. Orcas also don’t attack humans. Orcas are the apex predators of the ocean . Glad to see they’re keeping the shark population in control.
Those Orcas are bad boys. Getting into a close-range staring match with a Great White before one of your buddies comes and jukes it from underneath, pops out the liver onto the surface for the alpha bad boy to scoop up. Awesome.
It really is. I grew up in that area and met many of the Great whites there over the years. Beautiful creatures and they are being destroyed by these two intruders.
My understanding is that they are eating livers for the minerals and not the calories. This is also why they kill something like one-third of grey whale calves and only eat their tongues.
There’s nothing brutal about them, I’m fairly sure they aren’t thinking about punishing a shark or conscious about how it might feel getting chased and eaten.
@Savvyforcrypto Sharks are other times known to kill humans when they smell them urinating, or bleeding underwater, while not once has an Orca kill a Human in the wild.
@@ShiningGalaxy01 yea I know that lol. I know orcas haven’t killed humans in the wild from what I know. Only in captivity but I’d probably kill if I was held in a tank. I understand sharks have killed people. Just saying most people only see the orcas from places like sea world or from movies like free Willy lol. I understand they gotta eat and what not but damn the way they play with seals and pups is just insane. I’m sure their are other species out there that do that but I always though ah they just go and kill and eat. I thought I read or seen a vid somewhere that they play up to 30 min with the pups/seals. I guess brutal wasn’t the word to use. Ferocious maybe 🤔
The first video I saw about this a year or so ago? it was 2 brother orcas teaming up together to kill the shark. Only one had a curved fin. One flipped the shark in the air while the other caught it.
Question about the data... with the exception of 2022-05-22 the drone flew much further distances before the predation, which should increase the odds of identifying more sharks per flight. Was the distance/area flown controlled in some manner? If not, the observed drop in sharks per flight after predation is misleading.
Hi John - the drone flights were a little random by a hobbyist plot - not systematic scientific surveys. So indeed the effort is a little variable - in the paper we address this effort difference in effort. But even with that variation there is a striking lack of sharks, which his further supported by shark- boats chumming and the movements of a satellite tagged shark away from the area which had been resident for weeks prior.
I do not think that he was trying to avoid them. On the contrary, this shark did not see killer whales before, and the evidence for that is that he did not feel afraid of them, and this explains his slow rotation around them, as if he was trying to prey on them. If he was really trying to avoid them, we would have seen him running away from them very quickly.
It's so interesting. Alpha Wolves also eat the Liver of their kills and it's the first piece of meat eaten and the rest of the pack waits for the Alpha to eat first and then chow down.
I'd rather watch the entire drone footage without all the editing and commentary.
yes, because you would have the slightest clue what was going on without it. *rolleyes*
Facts
@@thomasneal9291 well, if they got everything, yeah. But it seems they only got the end so we didn’t really see them make the kill. Or they are not showing us.
It's possible to request footage, however they are using it for their research, so it wouldn't all be likely shared until they finished learning from it.
I agree seeing all the footage would be interesting, but don't forget how much empty footage people have to sort through when filming wildlife :)
No commentary though? I appreciate it, since it's hard to tell the orca apart, or know their research history.
Just mute your tablet …
“Stop hunting sharks. You’re destroying the ecosystem.”
Orcas: Watch me.
😂
@J C The Chinese finning of sharks for shark fin soup, just as every kinds of overfishing, is a threat to the Orcas population, along with it being a threat to the Orcas way of life.
or ... Bite me!
Yep, it's exactly the same thing as industrial shark killing...
@@jor-el1298 Not at all, since Orcas most of the time hunt only one shark, while Chinese fishermen's kill millions. That is having a big problem on the Transient Orcas way of life, since sharks are the prey of the Transient orca.
Wow, orcas are brutal, powerful hunters.
There was this theory since 1997 (Farallon Islands incident) that orcas relied on tonic immobility to handle great white sharks.
Not the case here. One orca just came up from underneath to a fully alert and moving great white and bit right into him, resulting in blood pouring out into the waters.
This footage suggests that great whites may actually be an easy target for Killer Whales, posing little to no threat to their safety.
Possibly a reason they hunt them.
Other prey may be harder to catch or even fight back. Great whites are neither and it looks like orcas have discovered (and are transmitting culturally) that they are among the easiest low risk sources of energy rich nutrition.
Armchair expert ftw. Yeah, a 20-foot shark with serrated teeth poses no threat to killer whales? Fucking bullshitting for the win.
@@asshat1607 agreed... the shark that was killed was only 9ft according to the video and doesn't appear to be the one that circled the Orca.
@@asshat1607 Not that a GW shark isn't armed to defend itself. It just doesn't have the mind set and situational awareness to understand the threats posed by orcas.
If Avatar like technology was available and a person commandeered GWS body, it could certainly make a better go at fending off the orcas --> I would just break off circling and tear right into one, opening my mouth as wide as possible and sinking into a fin or flank. Might be enough to deter their attack.
He is correct, it poses zero threat to an orca…
Intelligence and nearly twice the weight.
Come on man, that’s basic physics…think of the kinetic energy alone getting slam fucked by shamu
And its proof (as was also noted in two other witnesses encounters) that great white sharks have no inbuilt inherent fear of orcas and do not flee on sight, sound and scent of them.
Orcas are the real top of the food chain in the ocean.
Humans are…
Humans are without a doubt and Giant Squids probably have something say about that as well along with full grown great whites and any other toothed whale. Orca's only real advantage is they hunt in packs but so do Dolphins.
@@LavitosExodius killer whales are a type of dolphin 😜
@@LavitosExodius sperm whales eat giant squid so squid are definitely not top of the food chain. Orcas also have very high intelligence which makes them a formidable predator
@@LavitosExodius I think you’ll find that Orcas are now considered to be moving higher than the white shark, squid including the massive Humboldt don’t prey on Orca. Orca have also learned that if they get a white shark on its back it goes into tonic immobility, once other Orca learn how to do this the white shark will be in serious trouble
"We're gonna need a bigger bay." - Shark Brody.
ホオジロザメ怖い…シャチもっと怖い…
でも、それらを空から撮影し、スマホで鑑賞する人間様程は怖くないか。
I agree. 100%.
I love the idea that Orcas discovered tonic immobility. How cool that if you turn a shark on it's back, it goes to sleep, you can make a slit in it's belly, suck out the liver, & be on your way, no sweat.
Then I saw a video of an autopsy done on one of the Great Whites that washed up on our Cape beaches.
When the 3 ton orca turned the 1 ton Orca upside down, it was not a gentle process. When it flipped the shark, it's entire pectoral girdle was torn dislocated, terribly damaged. That shark would have been in no condition to do anything purposeful to defend itself further.
Perhaps you guys know this video & could review it
Makes sense. No need to risk getting bit by even the smaller white shark.
i watched a different report a couple of years ago about orcas being filmed for the first time preying on a great white shark off the coast of california. those orcas used very similar techniques as these orcas. and they also went for the shark's liver. after the attack, great white sharks weren't seen in the area for quite some time.
i'm wondering if the widely separated groups of orcas learned this technique by being passed down across orca populations, or if each group learned it completely independently.
I believe it is the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco that has a USA Marine research place _(I can't honestly remember!)_ where the white sharks flee for a month or so when Orca appear.
Most Orcas that prey on sharks and rays, have worked out that they go into a catatonic state when turned upside down and are therefore defenceless, plus great white can also be downed, if held still for a certain period of time. If the sharks were smarter, their best strategy would be to dive as deep as possible and hug the sea floor and swim out to the open ocean.
@@jamief1263 killer whales are one of the deepest divers of the sea, the shark is blown out of the water with this one, there is no escaping
@@lexuslfa4739 I agree, but the tactic is to ram the shark from underneath, grab it and turn it over. If your on the sea floor, this isn’t possible, plus Orcas can only hold their breath for about 10-15 minutes, although they would get around this by swapping out with each other. The sharks best hope is to just make it as much of a pain in the arse to kill it as possible in the hope that the Orcas will lose interest. It’s not going to happen however, sharks just don’t have the intelligence to outwit Orcas.
@@lexuslfa4739 , Orcas don't dive very deep. Sperm whales do though. I wonder if they also prey on sharks. They're certainly big enough and have serious teeth.
We need Killer Whale Week in addition to Shark Week!
Absolutely!
Orcas are so much more interesting than those oversized pea brained fish
@@Zion66666 🙄😑😆😂🤣
@@Zion66666 Oh they're definitely not pea brain. and Definitely, and I mean DEFINITELY nothing like how the media portrays them. They are very curious animals which why they tend to do taste bites on unfamiliar objects (humans included) to see if they are edible. They also have a complex social structure, with a matriarchal hierarchy determined by size. and while they're usually solitary creatures, they also would turn to socializing if needed.
編集がみづらいです。
捕食のシーンに関係ない資料と思われる映像と、当日のサメを捕食する映像を行ったり来たり。
例えば、一旦時系列でまとめた映像を流したあと、クローズアップの映像に移るなど、整理して欲しい感じです。
I think they are going to need a bigger boat.
It also shows the communal intelligence of the sharks leaving the area in mass
yeah that's what i don't get it ... such a solitude creature, but how do they broadcast this info among themself so quickly ... i couldnot call my family around with phone that quick
@@EMB3D There is so much we don't understand if the natural world . We as humans feel we are the only being sentient creature on the planet and that appears completely false . Even insects may grasp the concept.
there is another video here on youtube that shows sharks scamming when they smell shark liver after the kill. its the smell. a few drops in the water and they high tail it out of there.
@@stevencole7331 could not agree more
@@lemonmoose5090 i read, that the smell of blood (therefor i assume the smell of liver) is overrated, and they don't sense it from many kilometers away (in fact half or a mile a mile max) ... still, all the neighbor capitulates. there must be something else beyond smell ... but anyway, i just speculate, i check out the video, thanks
That is an astonishing sight to behold! Let it sink in just how rare it is for us to see something like this in action. Orcas truly are the wolves of the sea.
..but "people" don't like wolves...(more like dolphins, right?)
How about Bears?
Never in my life I thought a predator like the Great White shark would become prey. The Orca changed the all that by out smarting them being bigger faster and agile.
sharks are wolves, orcas are lions, bull sperm whales are kodiak bears
@@leonardclay4804 Nothing changed. They were killing them before you were born.
Oddly enough they seem to have a fear of the smaller Pilot Whale themselves.
Seems as though everything has at least something to worry about our there....unless you're a Blue Whale or Sperm Whale I suppose.
So interesting to see an animal use evasion tactics that is almost never preyed upon.
So the tactics aren't preyed upon.
When they were juveniles, they had to use those tactics. As full grown adults, they have little to fear.
(White sharks are still pretty big juveniles though haha)
@@TragoudistrosMPH all the grown up sharks flee the area, they run like pooseys from orcas
@@fmoa2541 Just like humans the youth do the opposite of the wiser elders.
Also interesting that they use the same tactics their prey uses to try to escape them
I wonder why the one dorsal fin on one of the orcas wasn't straight. It was lopsided, like the orcas you see in captivity.
Probably got hit by boat or else, It's free willy :v
To my understanding, a droopy dorsal fin means that they are depressed, and usually only occurs when held captive. I’ve never seen it in the wild before, and I think it’s strange, and interesting, in this specific context.
This is a pair of male Orcas preying on Great White sharks in this area. Both of them have collapsed dorsal fins, probably due to age. They are named Starboard and Port. The names refer to direction in which the dorsal fin is collapsed. Starboard is the one making a kill in this video. It's conjectured that they are older males which have trouble catching fast, intelligent sea mammals and have taken to hunting Great Whites instead
Thanks -- good video. A similar phenomenon was reported off the Farallon Islands, 6 years ago. The orcas would attack sharks from behind, inverted, then seizing the sharks' pectoral fins. The orca would then right itself, causing the upside down shark to slip into a state of tonic immobility after about a minute. A few vigorous shakes would dislodge the liver. The liver is high in fat and quite nutritious, so why eat the rest? Some grizzly bears just eat the salmon roe, if they're already full.
Very interesting to see this behavior in both the white sharks and the orcas. The predatory nature of the orcas is amazing. The way the hunt in pods and take turns is very impressive and quite efficient. The hunter is being hunted. But both species are very intelligent and also misunderstood. I really enjoy learning about the both of them. Thanks for sharing this video!
Oooh just like mammals :-O
What's misunderstood about them lol. And where'd you get your superior understanding? Encyclopaedia Britannica tapes?
@@dallesamllhals9161 #metoo
@@nickhekker8562 #Meh...white toxic Jute♂xennial - Here. I'm/am I - sry'?
Two of the most popular marine animals that are widely studied, observed, recorded and documented are somehow, misunderstood?
Orcas: "Look at me me, I am the captain now!"
This was fascinating footage.
I liked how the article that this video was linked to, made it seem like this was something new. This has been happening for a while, but it seems to be the first time recorded, which I didn't know. Still, this was amazing to see.
First time recorded in SOUTH AFRICA. Learn to read.
@@asshat1607 ha, I should have specified from the quoted text, "first time from the air", re drone footage.
@@Hafke88 I agree, its been happening for millennia and it will keep happening. nothing to see here, although good footage. Lol
@@Salman-Bin-Ahmed You don't know that. This may be novel behavior due to the complete collapse of the marine ecosystems now very deeply in progress. We now know *for a fact* that oceanic animal biomass is a fraction of what it used to be just a hundred years, even decades ago. In fact, apex predators preying on apex predators is NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOR.
Waiting for the "First time recorded trans Killer Whales kill White Sharks" Followed by the converse "First time recorded Killer Whales kill trans White Sharks"
しゃちこえぇ…こんな怖いの水族館にいんのかよ…
yes, so true.
ホオジロザメをも食うとは言われてたのに映像は世界初なんですね
the fact that the apex killer in the seas don't attack humans is surreal
No witnesses no crime ;)
Intelligence is the answer they are self aware after all meaning they recognise themselves in a mirror just like dolphins because they are the ultimate dolphin.
They probably know we are meant to be intelligent and we are not worth it for them
None of the above.
While we might like to believe some myth about respect for our position in the food chain, the reality is simply that orcas don’t come into water shallow enough to encounter humans. While they’re famous for beaching themselves while hunting seals, that’s an unique behavior in isolated areas by specific pods. Otherwise in large part due to their size, they simply don’t come in close enough to run into swimmers, and likewise swimmers rarely swim in water deep enough to see orcas. Sharks are quite a different story - the vast majority of shark bites are by other than Great Whites and in shallow water.
@@Pupda I've seen plenty of videos of people getting into the ocean and swimming alongside orcas so your statement makes no sense at all.
And orcas are one of the large predators that do come into the shallows 4-7ft deep to hunt seals near the Falkland Islands and they even beach themselves off the coast of South America to catch seals. Thought you would know all this and these are just the orcas we have documented doing this likely more with different hunting techniques we don't even know about.
Human liver is too small.
Impressive how they just remove the shark liver in such a surgical manner.
Amazing how they get together for their own benefit. Orcas are one of the greatest depredators that exist. They killed whales and white shark despite their size and ways of defense. Incredible!
There's always a bigger fish - or mammal. 😬
Haha! 😬😰
Unless you're the blue whale 🐋
@@clangboomsteam interestingly enough, orcas have hunted blue whales recently too.
@@ogarcia91 indeed, and not just calves either, they are taking down full grown blues, pretty incredible stuff
..you mean ♂s?
Seals are like, “Yeah, that’s what you get! Team mammal! Woo!”
Orcas eat seals too lol
i think its more like:
surfer, "yeah, that's what you get! Team orca! Woo!"
because orca is human friendly (except for rare incident when orca killed human accidentally in seaworld)
I believe it is the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco that has a USA Marine research place _(I can't honestly remember!)._
Regardless of the place, all year, researchers study the white shark and seal interactions. And every year, when the white sharks suddenly disappear _(And they do so for some months.),_ the researchers know that Orca is about.
The white sharks leave certain places regularly regardless of orcas. They are seasonal visitors
They never stay anywhere year round.
No, they leave due to ORCAS being there. This is DOCUMENTED. The months they stay in the Farallons are September to November; but let just one orca happen to be in the vicinity and they all ghost the area….they vanish. Well ahead of their normal schedule. Educate yourself.
There's a company in Mosselbay that take tourists out to dive with sharks. The people dive in a cages and the sharks are fed to attract them so that the tourists can have the experience under water. This attracts sharks that would not necessarily be in the area.
Wait, wasn't limp dorsal fins on Orcas said to only happen to depressed whales in captivity, but the Orca in the footage clearly has a limp fin
those orcas hunt great white sharks for a living it's a tough life. the limp fin happens in nature too just not nearly as frequently as in captivity and not for the same reasons
I just noticed that the orca has a drooping dorsal fin. I thought that only happened when they were in captivity!
@@JoeyContillo it’s caused by stress and Illness
I've always heard that too…
Thats probably why that whale had a name... It's probably been released from captivity.
It happens in the wild too, just significantly more likely in captivity.
Drooping dorsal fins can happen in the wild due to intestinal parasites , ingestion of plastic blocking food , old age, oil spills , injury, net entanglement & subsequent escape and genetic deformity etc
Can anybody direct me to longer, raw footage of the hunt? Would love to see more!
m.ua-cam.com/video/vOZ_iMbBh0k/v-deo.html&t
This is a 3 minute video with about 5 seconds of footage. They don't want you to see anymore than that 5 seconds for a reason.
People: Sharks are endangered! We must save them for nature!
Nature:
Nature: hold my halo
Yea endangered by humans not by the creatures of the sea.
@@jayslater3166 the outcome is the same lol
I guess it's no longer correct to refer to Great White Sharks as apex predators! It's stunning!
they are the Apex hunter
how could you not be ,
being in such a huge family group
Great white sharks are apex hunters too. Nothing eats a fully grown adult female great white.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Err killer whales do and very easily. Orcas are THE apex predator, nothing comes close!!
@@lyndoncmp5751 some great white sharks are apex predators sometimes, all Orcas are apex predators all the time
@@waynetables6414
Actually there was a report from a fisherman of San Francisco in the 1990s who witnessed a large great white shark attacking an estranged orca calf.
@@ninjay2k317
Not a single report of an orca attacking a fully grown female great white. None.
Really cool video and nature is truly amazing.
体格差が圧倒的やなwww
新しい順にしたら日本人ばっかで草
なんか携帯のニュース？的なやつで出てきた
@@aiuenyooooooooo 俺もそれで来たけどまさかの二回目なの笑う
Good to see Starboard still out there hunting and doing his thing, hopefully Port is doing just as well and is socializing with pods too
Fantastic! I hope this video gets the many views it deserves.
Rare to see, but is it really all that surprising that three Orcas are able to easily kill what looks to be an 8 foot juvenile Great White shark with minimal effort?
No contest a killer whale is like a heavyweight boxer great white a featherweight.
Best footage of this type of predation yet! Fascinating
There’s always a bigger fish. ― Qui Gon Jinn
agreed. but such an irony when the biggest fishes on the ocean (whale shark for example) eat the smallest creature (planktons or krillls)
I found this fascinating! Thank you! Please save both Orca's and the Sharks
One or the other. Not both.
@@jquest99 we can save both wtf😂
It’s called nature. They both kill
The orcas are killing the sharks
@@remotefaith the orcas are eating, dolt.
NOT "The world's first aerial footage of killer whales pursuing white sharks" as the video reads... The first time was in the mid 90's when the LA pod member CA-2 was filmed killing a great white off the coast of California (which was assumed as defensive/ protective of a possible calf nearby). It was later confirmed that there had been no calf present, and the orca was feeding... Specifically on the shark's liver. It was unique as the pod was a transient pod only known for hunting mammals, unlike offshores, which do eat sharks. This orca became well known for her feeding maneuvers and may have been responsible for a mass exodus of sharks from the seal-hunting grounds off the coast of California with some sharks venturing as far away as Hawaii and for as long as 4+ years.
Really crazy they know to go for the liver. I read about this many years ago as well.
They KNOW. Think about that. Imagine that there are things on earth that are way smarter than humans, we are just too stupid to understand just how smart they are. Image if whales ruled the earth as humans do, but the world was covered with water. Image the whales keeping us on tiny islands and making us do things like swim in water and play water volleyball. Image how whale families would come and watch us play while being amazed at how we were able to swim with no flippers. Imagine. We don't have the brain power to understand just how stupid we are in the scheme of earth. Imagine.
Well to be honest it’s kinda hard not to in these instances since the liver of a great white just about takes up half of its insides soo it’s not like fining the pineal gland in a brain or something
@@giuliana6290 yeah that's true, livers in general are huge. But from other footage I've seen there are usually open wounds right where a liver would be and just big enough to remove it. They seem to know to go for just the liver.
Thank you for the video, very interesting to see this behavior, especially since you would think a white shark would at least try to defend itself and not just try to avoid the Orca.
The video mentions adult-to-adult learning between the Orcas. I just saw a story yesterday (I don't remember the exact area) about Orcas sinking boats and teaching other Orcas how they did it. That would really be amazing if true.
I do have a question about the two main Orcas in this video, Port and Starboard. I was reading an article about this specific encounter that had this video in it. In the article, it was explained the names were given to these two Orcas because their dorsal fins droop to their sides, one to the Port, and one to the Starboard. If I remember correctly, when the Sea World debacle with their Orcas was making headlines, one of the things brought up about Orcas was their dorsal fins only drooped for Orcas in captivity. It was stated this did not happen in the wild.
So, the obvious question here is why do these two wild Orcas have drooping dorsal fins?
Chill
@@ihatesnowflakes2537 ??
Orcas are bigger, heavier and more intelligent than sharks. All they need to do is ram into the shark, overturn it and it is game over for the shark. Sharks aren't as intelligent as Orcas but they aren't that stupid to take an Orca on.
Now I know why I love orcas so much! Delphinidae, largest member of the dolphin family💕🐬 would love to read any findings on dolphin behaviour regarding defending the school from sharks.
It's there a not interrupted version of the video? That editing is terrible.
“Now darkness, the tables have turned”
Fascinating footage indeed. The crappiness of editing it’s also fascinating!
Show the freaking footage and then do a detailed explanation or something but show the freaking thing!
why not just ordering from Carl's Jr by Uber?
Good. “Mistaking “ humans for food is a poor excuse for mindless killers (sharks). Orcas are capable of thought and assessment. Highly intelligent. Orcas also don’t attack humans. Orcas are the apex predators of the ocean . Glad to see they’re keeping the shark population in control.
I'm actually looking forward to the next Jaws movie now! LOL
Those Orcas are bad boys. Getting into a close-range staring match with a Great White before one of your buddies comes and jukes it from underneath, pops out the liver onto the surface for the alpha bad boy to scoop up. Awesome.
This is like Jaws, but for sharks.
I learned about this type of behavior on Shark Week. I thought the orcas had left the area but maybe they’re back? This breaks my heart!
It really is. I grew up in that area and met many of the Great whites there over the years. Beautiful creatures and they are being destroyed by these two intruders.
Intruders? It’s their ocean ☠️ they are THE apex predator of the ocean
Can we see the full clip not this?
m.ua-cam.com/video/vOZ_iMbBh0k/v-deo.html&t
My understanding is that they are eating livers for the minerals and not the calories. This is also why they kill something like one-third of grey whale calves and only eat their tongues.
They haven't been recorded killing one-third of gray whale calves. Where did you get that from?
@@asshat1607 I will have to find a reference for it. Give me a few days to track it down.
While "predating" IS a word, that's not what it means.
Orcas are just straight brutal. Imo more frightening than a shark when you look at how they hunt.
There’s nothing brutal about them, I’m fairly sure they aren’t thinking about punishing a shark or conscious about how it might feel getting chased and eaten.
@Savvyforcrypto Sharks are other times known to kill humans when they smell them urinating, or bleeding underwater, while not once has an Orca kill a Human in the wild.
@@FLYMUSIC71 dude I’m talking about how they play with their food mainly seals.
@@ShiningGalaxy01 yea I know that lol. I know orcas haven’t killed humans in the wild from what I know. Only in captivity but I’d probably kill if I was held in a tank. I understand sharks have killed people. Just saying most people only see the orcas from places like sea world or from movies like free Willy lol. I understand they gotta eat and what not but damn the way they play with seals and pups is just insane. I’m sure their are other species out there that do that but I always though ah they just go and kill and eat. I thought I read or seen a vid somewhere that they play up to 30 min with the pups/seals. I guess brutal wasn’t the word to use. Ferocious maybe 🤔
I'm curious about what film was used in the Drone to record this footage? All drones I've seen are digital only.
Wasn't that Willy!!?? They freed him and he's gone beast mode 🤣
1:39 Is that Port? Port and his brother Starboard have been hunting white sharks since 2017 in South Africa.
Great article! Would love to see the raw footage.
@TheMalibuArtist, hope you will share some footage and study on this.
Thanks
@TheMalibuArtist
Next orcas will be eating humans, specifically the humans at sea world.
サメって防御力は紙なんだってね。
肋骨ないから、横合いからの攻撃が内蔵に直でダメージになっちゃうんだとかで。
案外狙われると弱いのかもしれない。
Gives new meaning to the term "Killer Whale".
not a new meaning. Its names supposed to be opposite as in Whale Killer coz its the only animal that kills a whale
We’re lucky that orcas don’t eat us
@@froggymusicman they're human friendly.. just like dolphin. but there was one incident when orca accidentally killed human-the trainer, in seaworld.
Weird seeing them being called white sharks instead of great white sharks
That's what they're actually called.
@@guyskillen No. It's great white shark and it will forever be that way, no matter what a bunch of snowflakes cry about.
@@guyskillen I know that’s one of the names, but I’ve always seen it as great white. Is white sharks a European thing?
Orcas, thank you for keeping our waters safe!
...until they start hunting us
@@ispeedy2417 Let’s hope that’s never the case. Fortunately, for all the human and orca interactions, no documented attack.
🤣
Um the waters are never dangerous. If they were we’d get attacked by sharks all the time.
Until there food sources are gone
No more save the whales commercials. Now we need to save the sharks.
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So staggering and also a bit sad.
Killer whale is like, "Apex predator myass. Great Whites are delicious!"
Orca's vs White Shark's...the greatest mismatch ever. Time to dump Shark Week and introduce Orca Week.
Eventhough these Orcas are killing, it's a mistake to call them "killer whales"
The first video I saw about this a year or so ago? it was 2 brother orcas teaming up together to kill the shark. Only one had a curved fin. One flipped the shark in the air while the other caught it.
So where is the video of proof? :)
I can only see some short clip showing three animals, they could even play and enjoy the time together.
Really enjoyed the article, this is fascinating footage
Question about the data... with the exception of 2022-05-22 the drone flew much further distances before the predation, which should increase the odds of identifying more sharks per flight. Was the distance/area flown controlled in some manner? If not, the observed drop in sharks per flight after predation is misleading.
Hi John - the drone flights were a little random by a hobbyist plot - not systematic scientific surveys. So indeed the effort is a little variable - in the paper we address this effort difference in effort. But even with that variation there is a striking lack of sharks, which his further supported by shark- boats chumming and the movements of a satellite tagged shark away from the area which had been resident for weeks prior.
Why was the orca' s dorsal fin flopped over? I thought that only happened in captivity?
I do not think that he was trying to avoid them. On the contrary, this shark did not see killer whales before, and the evidence for that is that he did not feel afraid of them, and this explains his slow rotation around them, as if he was trying to prey on them. If he was really trying to avoid them, we would have seen him running away from them very quickly.
Love those Orcas!! The False Bay welcomes these majestic creatures💜
シャチ映画はガチだからエンタメにならない
What is this music at the begining ?? Its beautiful.
0:56
Remember when scientists told us that collapsed dorsal fins were a consequence of orca being in captivity, and doesn't happen to wild orca?
Oops?
"how to find the ultimate shittiest music for a clip"
一年前のニュースが何故今になって
出てきたんだ…
I feel like I didn't get to see the photage, just some smal clips repeated.
It would be amazing to see more of the footage in a documentary!
So? Speilberg needs to film a new film? Willy the Killer!....OK then....looking forward to the flick about the REAL Alpha Preditor of the seas🤣
What would the title be (instead of Jaws)? Blowholes? There’s gotta be a great title I’m not thinking of.
No doubt is an amazing song.. Sandra has a great voice!!👏❤
Fascinanting!
where is the complete footage?
m.ua-cam.com/video/vOZ_iMbBh0k/v-deo.html&t
Orcas not "Killer Whales".
So Starboard is teaching other orcas how to hunt sharks. It Port doing the same?
I'm curious...the orcas don't seem to eat anything but the liver. Has anyone heard if they eat other parts, too?
We are all afraid of shark but honestly i’ll be as much afraid to be in presence of a killer whales 😅😅
It's so interesting. Alpha Wolves also eat the Liver of their kills and it's the first piece of meat eaten and the rest of the pack waits for the Alpha to eat first and then chow down.