Orcas killing fully grown adult Great White Sharks

[Megalodon]

(08-15-2019, 11:19 PM)Shadow Wrote: Oh yes, I forgot that dolphin part, but now when I read last posting of @Rishi I remembered. I wrote about dolphins because of this in posting of @Megalodon :

"An Orca is literally a giant DOLPHIN (Cetacean) which has extremely sensitive skin thats very susceptible to severe damage by the sharks jaws."

I found that a bit odd, like dolphin would be in some way bad thing, while they are agile, fast and smart. And when I wrote, that there are observations how sharks are uncomfortable with them, I didn´t mean great white shark particularly. There are just some observations how they make sharks uneasy, even though they are smaller. That was tested for instance in one episode of tv-show Mythbusters. Not the most scientific source but that was also minor thing in that posting of mine :)


Anyway my point was it, that when small dolphins can intimidate bigger sharks, than dolphins are, it feels quite logical, that GIANT DOLPHIN intimidates easily all sharks

I simply didn´t like to see dolphin mentioned like it would be something bad. That is how it looked like for me. Dolphins are, imo, amazing animals and earned a lot of respect. Especially from people. Not many water mammals are known to save lives of people, who have been in big trouble.

I never meant any insult to Dolphins, they are amazing and super-intelligent creatures. But they even get killed by smaller species of sharks such as tiger sharks and Bull sharks.

Here's a case:

A 3.5 metre shark (Report states most probably a Tiger shark) killed an adult Dolphin without hesitation, despite the Dolphin being with its pod!

"At first the pod of dolphins looked like any other but closer inspection revealed a straggler with a terrible bite out of its back and a shark in close pursuit. The dolphins initially circled their injured mate but as the shark moved in and the injured animal grew weaker they scattered.

After a few slow, wide circles the shark lunged, tearing another chunk of flesh from just above the dolphin’s tail."

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The Pod was there, but the shark still attacked and slaughtered the Dolphin:

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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/monster-sharks-brutal-attack-on-dolphin-at-newcastles-burwood-beach/news-story/3b667241218d29cca60d22e449489a6d

It was the pod of Dolphins that got scared, intimidated and fled from a single 3.5 metre shark. Sharks will readily attack and kill full-grown Dolphins. Reply