*Orcas are the most widespread of the cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises). These beauties are the pinnacle of mammalian evolution, and so worthy of our admiration and protection.

With brains more than twice as heavy and as complex as that of humans, orcas are feared predators. It’s not just other cetaceans that must constantly watch their backs for sudden ambushes by pods of the intelligent ones. Orcas give great white sharks a lot of grief and occasionally much pain.

New research reveals that when pods of orcas enter an area around South Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, California, the great white sharks immediately vacate their preferred seal hunting grounds. They will not return for up to one year.

Orcas have been recorded attacking great white sharks and eating their large livers, rich in nutritious fats.

Orcas have been recorded attacking great white sharks.”



Unprecedented fossil fuel ocean heat and overfishing have cooked and plundered the seas of its once thriving fish stocks. The orcas, like all other marine predators, are hungry. It’s not just great white sharks that are fearful of the brainy ones. Alaskan fishermen have added their names to the growing list, too.