Orcas killing fully grown adult Great White Sharks

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(08-15-2019, 05:11 AM)Megalodon Wrote: Many people tend to badly overrate the capabilities of Orca's, often ignoring the fact that when Orca's hunt Great White Sharks, they almost always hunt small ones and do so cooperatively, which gives them a huge advantage. It's doubtful if a lone Orca would ever dare to prey on an adult white shark, especially the huge mega-sharks that reach around 18-23 ft and weigh around 2.5 - 3 tonnes.

In a clash, a Great White is yay as capable of destroying an Orca, due to its possibly deadlier weaponry, durability and aggressiveness. An Orca is literally a giant DOLPHIN (Cetacean) which has extremely sensitive skin thats very susceptible to severe damage by the sharks jaws. One clean bite from the white shark, and may be all over for the Orca. The Orca will simply bleed out very quickly, and the shark can even dive down deep and wait for the Orca to bleed out and then finish off the kill.

Lone Orca's always hunt much smaller prey, whereas white sharks will readily kill giant 3-tonne Bull elephant seals and have been observed to hunt giant squids at 4,000 ft depth. An Orca doesn't even compare to these lone predation feats.

To show you what I mean, here's an adult male Orca's jaw gape:

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Now imagine that going head-on with this:

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The Orca would be in serious trouble if it went head-on as against a Great white. The sharks jaws are massive and devastating and would tear chunks out of the Orcas flesh with ease!

Orca's always hunt white sharks COOPERATIVELY - not single-handedly. Thats a huge difference. If Orca's were solitary predators like the Great white, then there's the Great white shark might just be the undisputed top apex predator of the ocean. Orca's only have the upper-hand over sharks because they run and operate exclusively in packs. Without the pod, I'm sure there would be numerous accounts of white sharks killing Orca's too.

What do you guys think?...

Orca is clearly bigger animal, size matters in wildlife. Also orcas are without a doubt very intelligent. It is quite difficult to see what a great white shark could do really. When we are talking about apex predators of seas, orcas are on the top for many good reasons. I also like sharks, but in time, when learning more about these animals, it became clear to me, that great white shark or any shark aren´t really apex predators, because they are also prey. Orca is only apex predator, when we talk about "big boys". Predator sharks are simply too small. And it seems to be so, that many sharks are quite uncomfortable with dolphins too, even when dolphins are clearly smaller.

Anyway even though, when younger, great white shark was kind of "my hero", I´ve learned to understand, that it can´t do what it wants and it also knows fear, when a bigger predator approaches. Wildlife is merciless and size does matter there.

This is how I see it. Reply