Killer whales, scientifically known as “Orcinus orca,” or orca, hunt everything from fish to seals, sea lions, penguins, squid, sea turtles, sharks and even sharks. species whale Others are on their menu.
Depending on the season and where they live, their diets also change – some eat a lot of fish and squid, others mainly eat seals and penguins. But in any ocean in the world, an average whale can consume regarding 227 kg of food per day!
The whales are called killers because of their ruthless and effective hunting strategies.
Killer whales live and hunt together in “groups,” or family groups, like a pack of wolves.
When hunting together, groups of killer whales will work together to herd the fish into a compact area and then easily devour their prey.
Killer whales play with sunfish.
They are equipped with 50 sharp teeth though they attack baby whales only to eat the protein-rich tongue (because their teeth are not enough to bite through the fat layer of the baby whale).
Dubbed as the most perfect killing machines that nature has ever created, there are times when killer whales are strangely “gentle”.
Accordingly, Cristobal Alvarez and his crew members were wandering in the ocean when they suddenly encountered a killer whale playing with a “sunfish”. As is common sense, perhaps the sunfish will quickly become a killer whale’s delicious meal.
However, it is not known whether it was because the sunfish was full or because the sluggish appearance of the sunfish made the bloodthirsty predators unwilling to take action, but the sunfish was not eaten.
Having witnessed many times of killer whales hunting, Alvarez was very surprised by this sight. Alvarez wrote the caption for the video: “Amazing sight, didn’t expect a predator like a killer whale to play with prey like this.”
