Great white sharks terrified of Orcas (Killer Whales)...

[VenomJockey]

New studies show great white sharks are terrified of killer whales and leave their hunting grounds just moments after a killer whale shows up!!

https://www.foxnews.com/science/great-white-sharks-orcas-study

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Yes that is true @VenomJockey and they will also vacate if there is a pod of dolphins in the area too. The dolphins gang up on the great white sharks and kill them with their noses by pummeling them with their noses at high speed from multiple directions. It is pretty cool to watch as I have seen it being bought up in a coastal beach area. We grew up on school holidays on an unnetted beach and knew when there was pods of dolphins around you were pretty safe to swim and they would catch the waves in with us when we body surfed the waves into the shore too and they are very playful beautiful creatures.

Bit of interesting knowledge about sharks is that humans are last on their favourite to eat list and quite often attacks are on those wearing wetsuits which they think are seals or other baby sea creatures. They don't set out to eat humans. Another thing is never swim near schools of bait fish when you see them offshore either as the sharks get into a feeding frenzy and if you are in the middle of the fish you are gone.

 

[Caribou]

Anything with any sense is afraid of killer whales.

 

[SheepDog]

Killer whales will swim with a humans and any contact is typically very gentle.
They are still wild animals and anything can happen but they have been known to save people from drowning after a boat accident.

 

[Caribou]

My dad was chased out of the water by a killer whale and they kept swimming around the rock that he and his boat were on. I've heard of porpoise saving humans but not killer whales. I've been very close to several kinds of whales including killer whales and would trust the Orcas the least.

 

[SheepDog]

Killer whales have little interest in people as a food source and wild orca have rarely attacked humans. Different types of orca have different food sources. The orca of puget sound and in the area of Vancouver Island eat primarily fish while the itinerant orcas of the eastern Pacific eat sea mammals. The animals do become aggressive toward boats during the mating season pushing them or bumping them to keep them away from the area. They are intelligent and social animals with societies that are more complex than most great ape species. They use communication when hunting and have complex strategies that depend on cooperation and closely timed actions of a number of the pod members. They teach their young how to hunt and function within the pod.

 

[Supervisor42]

Well this thread has been dead for a long time so I guess this is ok.
We seem to think that we are the smartest species because all of the stuff we have done on land.
Brain size matters, and we are outclassed by many other mammals .
No human will admit that.
Evidently some of the 'smarter creatures' are fed-up with our nonsense:

Orcas have attacked and sunk a third boat off the Iberian coast of Europe, and experts now believe the behavior is being copied by the rest of the population.

Three orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, struck the yacht on the night of May 4 in the Strait of Gibraltar, off the coast of Spain, and pierced the rudder. "There were two smaller and one larger orca," skipper Werner Schaufelberger told the German publication Yacht. "The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly backed up and rammed the ship with full force from the side." ...Two days earlier, a pod of six orcas assailed another sailboat navigating the strait. Greg Blackburn, who was aboard the vessel, looked on as a mother orca appeared to teach her calf how to charge into the rudder. "It was definitely some form of education, teaching going on,"

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why
Yes, their brains are bigger than ours.

 

[Tommyice]

Are their brains bigger or do they just use all of it to full capacity?

Wish some of them would come here to the Jersey shore and attack those wind turbines. Some of those are being tested and installed whales and dolphins have been washing up on the beaches dead.

 

[Supervisor42]

Are their brains bigger or do they just use all of it to full capacity?

Much bigger than ours:

Killer whales, or orcas, have the second-biggest brains among ocean mammals, weighing as much as 15 pounds. It's not clear whether orcas are as well-endowed with memory cells as humans, but scientists have found they are amazingly well-wired for sensing and analyzing their watery environment.