{"id":112972,"date":"2020-09-13T23:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/turns-out-theres-another-ocean-creature-that-scares-the-hell-out-of-great-white-sharks"},"modified":"2020-09-13T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:24:50","slug":"turns-out-theres-another-ocean-creature-that-scares-the-hell-out-of-great-white-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/turns-out-theres-another-ocean-creature-that-scares-the-hell-out-of-great-white-sharks","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out There\u2019s Another Ocean Creature That Scares The Hell Out of Great White Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8KCQrLA3UKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Just when you think orcas couldn\u2019t possible be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/these-orcas-are-literally-playing-with-a-swimmer-and-it-s-just-too-amazing\">any more awesome<\/a>, they get even better. A study in 2019 showed these whales are really good at scaring off the most feared beast in the sea. Yep. Orcas have toppled the great white shark off their \u2018apex predator\u2019 throne.<\/p>\n<p>A team of marine scientists found that great white sharks (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_white_shark\">Carcharodon carcharias<\/a><\/em>) will make themselves extremely scarce whenever they detect the presence of orcas (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killer_whale\">Orcinus orca<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen confronted by orcas, white sharks will immediately vacate their preferred hunting ground and will not return for up to a year, even though the orcas are only passing through,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.montereybayaquarium.org\/press\/study-finds-white-sharks-flee-feeding-areas-when-orcas-present\">said marine ecologist Salvador Jorgensen<\/a> of Monterey Bay Aquarium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. Just when you think orcas couldn\u2019t possible be any more awesome, they get even better. A study in 2019 showed these whales are really good at scaring off the most feared beast in the sea. Yep. Orcas have toppled the great white shark off their \u2018apex predator\u2019 throne. A team of marine scientists found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}