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Orcas are very smart. They terrorize Great Whites for fun too. Soneone had a group of Great Whites tagged and were tracking their movements down in yhe warm waters of of the west coast of Mexico for the season. Then they said within a day or two period the sharks dove directly straight down hundreds of feet and then swam north until they were somewhere in Canada or Alaska or something ridiculous in distance. They determined that it was a pod of Orcas that started messing with the sharks in Mexico and literally drove them off hundreds of miles away. The sharks are terrified of Orcas.

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They’re called killer for a reason. They’re smarter than great white sharks and bigger. I think killer whales are the apex predator of the seas. Good thing they don’t kill or bite into humans as much as GW’s do.
 

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They’re called killer for a reason. They’re smarter than great white sharks and bigger. I think killer whales are the apex predator of the seas. Good thing they don’t kill or bite into humans as much as GW’s do.

Indeed. The intriguing part to that is what their reasoning is for not going after humans like sharks do. Is it that they know what we are capable of if attacked (i.e. targeted killing done by our other people in response to the attack). Is it our taste that is bad or not meaty enough (lol)? Is it just basic imprinting and prey hunting techniques past done from previous generations? Or perhaps, on some basic/primitive level, we don't register as food to them, because of what was past down from generation to generation?
 

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Watch a show about them hunting great white sharks. It was very interesting how they learned to kill them and track them. they said this was a specific group doing the hunting while others specialize in other sea life to hunt.
 

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either way you don't want to **** with them. Glad they don't hunt humans LOL.
 

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Watch a show about them hunting great white sharks. It was very interesting how they learned to kill them and track them. they said this was a specific group doing the hunting while others specialize in other sea life to hunt.

That may have been the show I watched. Did it mention the Mexico case where they chased the Great Whites?
 

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Whales are very intellegent but unfortunately humans still want to neglect and destroy them as our race loves to do with any majectic creature on this planet. If you love Whales, you should watch Blackfish on Netflix if you haven't already. It's a documentary on the history of Sea World and the behind the scene's of the way they treat their Orcas...it's very sad.

Also, I find it unammusing how the caption at the end says, "Surfer almost swollowed by Whale". That Humpback was nowhere close to that surfer but the because the angle looks like it, they depict it as a human threat all of sudden. smh.
 

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Whales are very intellegent but unfortunately humans still want to neglect and destroy them as our race loves to do with any majectic creature on this planet. If you love Whales, you should watch Blackfish on Netflix if you haven't already. It's a documentary on the history of Sea World and the behind the scene's of the way they treat their Orcas...it's very sad.

Also, I find it unammusing how the caption at the end says, "Surfer almost swollowed by Whale". That Humpback was nowhere close to that surfer but the because the angle looks like it, they depict it as a human threat all of sudden. smh.
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All i know is, im not top of the food chain anywhere around them. I don't care if they(humpback or any other kind) dont eat people.

I was fishing for salmon in a 17ft aluminum boat in the Queens Islands in Canada. My fishing partner and i spot a whale(humpback i think. Not a killer whale.) about 50yrds away. Cool.... It goes under and resurfaces about 30yrds away......cool but i also start to notice how truly big they are.....goes under again.....breeches about 20yrds from us aiming directly at us. I got the full on sense of how big they are then. I run to the console and ask if i should start the boat and run like a lil B.......guy with me says, chill out man they dont eat humans.......I was like YET....dont eat humans yet, until one decides to. That or how bout they get pissed and jump on top of us.....IDK maybe im a big wuss but something that big, i want no part of, especially in the wild and in thier home turf. LOL
 

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Interestingly, wild killer whales do not attack humans. ..

Unless they work at Sea World. I remember reading that KWs will kill great white sharks for the fun of it. Bad to the bizzone.
 

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Orca's are not whales, they are part of the Dolphin family, yes Dolphins. Their known to prey on whales, aka killer whales.
 

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Unless they work at Sea World. I remember reading that KWs will kill great white sharks for the fun of it. Bad to the bizzone.

Thus my qualifier "wild killer whales" :) There are several documented attacks by captive killer whales on humans.
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