{"id":224418,"date":"2025-11-03T05:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/orcas-seen-killing-young-great-white-sharks-by-flipping-them-upside-down"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:07:30","slug":"orcas-seen-killing-young-great-white-sharks-by-flipping-them-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/orcas-seen-killing-young-great-white-sharks-by-flipping-them-upside-down","title":{"rendered":"Orcas seen killing young great white sharks by flipping them upside-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/orcas-seen-killing-young-great-white-sharks-by-flipping-them-upside-down.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A specialized shark-hunting pod of orcas in the Gulf of California has been caught on camera expertly targeting young great white sharks\u2014flipping them upside-down to eat the energy-rich liver.<\/p>\n<p>The pod, known as Moctezuma\u2019s pod, could be taking advantage of warming waters altering shark nursery areas to hunt juveniles, which lack the experience to flee as older sharks do. These observations suggest that orcas may hunt <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/white+sharks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">white sharks<\/a> more often than we realized. However, a broader survey collecting more data is needed to draw strong conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that orcas that eat elasmobranchs\u2014sharks and rays\u2014could eat a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/great+white+shark\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">great white shark<\/a>, if they wanted to, anywhere they went looking for one,\u201d said marine biologist Erick Higuera Rivas, project director at Conexiones Terramar and Pelagic Life and lead author of the article in Frontiers in Marine Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A specialized shark-hunting pod of orcas in the Gulf of California has been caught on camera expertly targeting young great white sharks\u2014flipping them upside-down to eat the energy-rich liver. The pod, known as Moctezuma\u2019s pod, could be taking advantage of warming waters altering shark nursery areas to hunt juveniles, which lack the experience to flee [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224418","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}