A pair of orca hunt great white sharks, eat their liver, and escape from the South African coast.

• Two orca prey on great white sharks off the coast of South Africa, according to a new study.

• Studies have shown that orca tore the liver and heart of the great white shark.

• In response to the attack, the study stated that great white sharks were moving all at once.

Since 2017, a pair of orca have fled all at once, terrorizing great white sharks off the coast of South Africa, according to a new study.

the study, Published in the African Journal of Marine Science, this orca suggests that great white sharks may have been scared from their habitat on the Gansbai coast of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Team of researchers from Marine dynamics And that Dier Island Conservation Trust For over five and a half years, I’ve noticed that 14 sharks fleeing the area where the orca are located have been tracked.

Studies have also reduced visual sightings of great white sharks.

Using tagged data and long-term sightings, researchers also noticed that great white sharks began to drift ashore.

According to the data, eight great white sharks were washed ashore between 2017 and 2020. Studies show that seven of them had their livers torn and some had their hearts removed.

Studies show that the wounds are clearly made by the same pair of killer whales. Studies show that orca are more likely to have killed more sharks that have not yet been washed ashore.

Studies have shown that the attack caused the shark’s “escape” instinct and caused massive migration from marine predators.

Alison Towner, a senior great white shark biologist at Dyer Island Conservation Trust, said: The presence of the lion has increased. “

“This study is especially important because we can understand the dynamics of coexistence with other predator communities by determining how large marine predators respond to risk,” Towner continued.

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Towner has observed that the reduction in great white shark numbers has other implications for the fragile ecosystems of the ocean. It caused the emergence of great white sharks in areas of the bronze whaling sharks they normally eat, Townner said. However, these sharks are also the target of orca, according to research.

Insider reported earlier First evidence of a herd of orca hunting and killing adult blue whales.

Marine scientist from Cetrec WA (Cetacean Research) I was able to elaborate on how the orca swam and ate its tongue in the mouth of a blue whale. Researchers have seen large chunks of skin and fat scraped from the body of a blue whale and most of its dorsal fin bitten, insider Bethany Dawson reports.

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