‘Shark-Hunting’ Orca Pod Using Brutal Trick To Kill Young Great Whites

The orca is called the killer whale for a reason—and nothing demonstrates why quite like a recent scientific discovery about deadly encounters between orcas and young great white sharks.

A pod of orca whales in the Gulf of California has been observed using a calculated and brutal hunting strategy to target and kill their unforunate great white victims.

The killer whales have been documented repeatedly flipping the young sharks upside-down—which induces in them a state of paralysis—before ripping out their nutrient-rich livers.

According to the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science , these observations suggest that orcas may be hunting great white sharks more often than previously understood.

Orcas are the only known predator of the great white shark, and pr