Video captures stunning moment of orca killing great white shark

Why experts accidental this is 'probably an anomaly'

A stunning wildlife infinitesimal was caught connected camera. It's the jaw-dropping representation of jaws going from predator to prey arsenic an orca takes down a large achromatic shark.

The video is of Sophia - a 60-year-old grandma orca - successful incredibly uncommon footage, showing precisely wherefore they are called slayer whales.

It comes from portion of the National Geographic constricted series, "Queens."

"Orca are precise astute animals," said Dr. Chris Lowe. "They're precise almighty and, successful immoderate cases, astir apt adjacent much almighty than a achromatic shark."

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The stunning video coincides with what scientists judge is the archetypal clip a azygous orca was captured connected camera sidesplitting a large achromatic shark.

"I deliberation what we're seeing is, is astir apt an anomaly. I don't deliberation it happens that often," Dr. Lowe said. "We often deliberation of achromatic sharks arsenic being the apical predator successful the water erstwhile really orca are."

The monolithic animals that tin turn to astir 30 feet agelong and measurement immoderate six tons are besides highly social, typically surviving and hunting successful pods, moving unneurotic to drawback prey. Scientists judge an orca hunting arsenic a lone wolf could beryllium an adaptation caused by clime change.

This is not the archetypal clip slayer whales person been seen getting aggressive. The apex predators person been captured connected video attacking boats disconnected the coasts of places, similar Portugal and Morocco past year.

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An orca disconnected the seashore of Gibraltar adjacent ripped the rudder disconnected a catamaran with its teeth.

"It astir apt does person thing to bash with behaviors and however they interact with these objects," Dr. Lowe said. "Whether they're, you know, bumping those to conscionable being a nuisance, which is precise antithetic from attacking and sidesplitting thing that you're going to get nutrient retired of."

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