Originally published at: First drone video of orcas hunting and killing a great white shark | Boing Boing
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That didn’t take them long at all.
We’re gonna need a bigger, bigger boat.
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I learned something from a recent episode of Radiolab… I had thought using Orca instead of Killer Whale was a rebranding to be nicer. Turns out Orca essentially means “One from Hell.”
More specifically it means “One of (or belonging to) Orcus,” the Roman equivalent of Hades.
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Hell Whale.
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Mammals > fish
Though I could have done without the incompetently added sound effects.
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Cool footage, to be sure. But that shark is already an ex-shark by the time the video starts. They’re just playing with their food.
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That makes it even scarier
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I knew Orcas would hunt things like seals and dolphins, it never occurred to me they’d also go after sharks, but in retrospective it’s completely reasonable that they would.
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I fully recognize Orca’s are not sharks, but that didn’t stop Mack the Knife from playing in my head as soon as I started the video.
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Bottlenose dolphins will hunt down and kill a shark if they decide he’s a threat. Mostly by slamming into it’s gills and belly to cause bleeding and rupture the shark’s liver. There’s apex predators and then there’s SMART apex predators.
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Between February and June in 2017, five white shark carcasses washed up on beaches in Gansbaai, Western Cape Province, four of which had their livers removed.
Looks like someone’s sending a message. 
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They have a particular taste for great white shark liver.
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