Originally Posted by FIN-MAN:
“I think White Sharks are just very opportunistic predators, and scavengers. If they can determine that prey will not put up a fight they will go for it. And ones that do they'll hit and run attack and then comeback to eat when it's incapacitated.
Even though as much as I love Great Whites, my number 1 sea predator has got to be the Orca. They really are the bad asses of the sea. Highly intelligent, lighting fast, and with deadly tools that makes lunch of Jaws. Plus there has never been a recorded death to a human in the wild.”
Yes, Orcas (the bigger animal) are the number one in the ocean followed closely by the Great White.
Amazing animals and could very well be the most intelligent non-human animal on the planet (although I think the Corvids would probably give them a run for their money).
I will say this about the famous 1997 incident - the shark was a small and inexperienced one and as far as I know the two top predators in the ocean usually have very little to do with one another.
There are only two well documented example that I am aware of (another was by a killer whale pack off the Neptune Islands last year) despite the endless bullshit on the internet from the '97 event and no fully mature white shark (a six metre + female for example) has ever been recorded being attacked by anything.
Even by an Orca.
Tonic immobility would be hard to induce in a such a massive carnivore and not really worth the risk.
If the situation was reversed for example a bigger White would make very short work of a young Orca separated from it's pod* - bigger Whites have have attacked and killed smaller ones if they have really pissed off the larger Lamniform.
Big predators eat smaller predators.
http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/06/w...y-a-wereshark/
*There is apparently one record of an adult (but sick and separated from it's pod) Orca being attacked and killed off Australia by a big White but details are very hard to come by.
