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killer whale vs great white - orca kills shark and wins fight [full wildlife documentary]
in the killer whale
to top predators the sea going
animals so dangerous they wouldn't dare challenge 1
poor souls hard
off the coast of California it happens the
I'll to the Clash of the Titans
leading biologists mystified was unprecedented
kinda blew our minds
the team experts scrambling to make sense
stop the carnage little
good good good and revealing new insights
into the
to the world's most from grass
one
this is great white shark territory the fair lines
a string of barren islands just 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco
every fall the fair lawn's host one of the world's largest gatherings
great white sharks in them some seals and sea lions that assemble here
old the Great Whites hideout in deep waters
and catch their prey in surprise attacks
tonight with a force approaching two times
then withdrawn to a safe distance
mother victim leads to death the new
great whites are the ultimate killers that the sea they dominate
the ocean for watching
Peter pile another scientists have been watching great white sharks feed at the
fair lines
since 1987 wall a white shark is really an incredible creature
we call it the Keystone species on the fair lines because
it kinda controls the ecology their the ecosystem all the way down
ok
they know these animals better than anyone we were able to watch in
up close doing feeding advances started documenting individuals
which greatly improved our awareness so shark presence around the island
after a decade of research
the Farallon biologists have built in detail picture
the great white shark of but then one extraordinary
event changes everything
October 4th
1997 pile is stationed and Southeast
airline when he responds to a report of a shark attack
coming from day trippers and a whale watching boat called
the superfish
are you there
this isn't important shark attack
this time the shark is the perfect
hi love and as we approached
you can see their killer whale moving along
with in store for fair enough with this white shark in its mouth underwater
but they're too late of
the battle is over and the great white shark
is already in pieces crawled
but his colleague
naturalist Mary Jane Schramm on board the superfish
saw everything
up
she set out from San Francisco earlier that morning
we're doing I will watch major cruise out to the Farallon Islands
we had an early departure went out to the Golden Gate everybody wanted to see
whales that day
we thought we would see humpbacks we hoped we would see blues
about half an hour away from the islands
captain neck was known as a whale watching captain around here
was radioed by 10 the fishing party boats
up that day
seven miles ahead of them skipper J organism
the owner up the sport fishing boat is the first to see killer whales at the
guidelines that morning
I was just scanning the horizon
looking around a I all of a sudden to orcas just
cruised right across the bow the part missing out on the water
on a mission killer whales
are rare sight at the fair lines so you're going he's old
immediately calls the skipper the superfish make
many go yeah I got to orcas of
or about are very good very good where are you
as he was telling me that the workers were there to make the main island
all this said he got very excited he's hate can't wait what
what by eight they just there *** eulogy their
three is the light and he was goes all radio
by lovebirds just
exploded estar en hovering and I've been down
I knew there was a kill old the killer whales
began their day by taking down a California seen I was still
like half an hour 40 minutes away fun sopranos up
make the jump to Lightspeed
trying to get there as quickly as possible see we can get some this action
we believe about 20 minutes after that
it you're not the orcas are still there got there
we were extremely excited I've been out to the fair lawn's
at that point probably a hundred times and had seen killer whales may be on one
or two other occasions
so this was remarkable them
now finished with their meal Yorkers turned
entertaining the whale watchers we had been alerted that they'd already
killed a sea lion but Sweden see the scene I including at the surface
they were doing workers do like china doll
and they're just mess around the boats on the down back up and stuff area
very friendly the tourists on board
think it's a mother whale with her calf
and we noticed that one of them was significantly smaller than the other
that we were speculating whether the one might have been
a cast for you know we weren't really quite sure twenty minutes later
something catches SRAMs I gold
for all night happened looked down and noticed this large dark shape moving
right next to the boat fold
it obviously was not another killer whale it was a very big shark
am white shark this was October this is why charge season that is precisely what
came to mine
you
it slid along the side of the boat so is having a vote very close moving from Val
toward the stern but then again midway get abruptly made a 45-degree angled
turn
and started swimming away from the voting
old
it the Great White is now swimming toward the killer whales
up though at that point things started getting even more interesting
all the sudden wanna the orcas
made a beeline this direction swam out on
intercept path with the white shark overall
the killer whale and the Great White disappeared below the way
it was a splash in and nothing
but we're kind of collectively holding our breath
there was no blood there was no thrashing around
it was only when the killer whale emerged from
the distance coming back toward the boat carrying the shark in its mouth
that we actually knew it what had gone down this is really released
this worker came up next to the boat holding this
now what appeared to be dead white shark by the back to enact held it up for
psych
like a cat with a mouse you show up
that was holding the white shark inverted
in the white truck was motionless at that point and its way I am
for a while with this upside down like shark and smell
the whale watchers are astonished
even the experienced crew is mesmerized
they're actually on the boat is this was going on was
was sheer amazement
this was something that had myself and Mary Jane Schramm all just
dropping our job this was a
a once in a lifetime thing more thinking what is that we're seeing here
the crew love the superfish
knows there witnessing something never seen before but
be pick me up in or go over here with my chart I was trying to get ahold
Peter Pyle who is a biologist on the island and this is what's going on I'm
kinda busy
is that Peter get over here I said I can't tell you exactly what's going on
I said but it involves or guy in a white shark in the white charged at
and it was it seems like seconds later home
it goes beyond miserable a like a blur
there was a bit over intimidating site an arcade
there with the white shark in its mouth so I sorta circle then a couple times
hoping that I wouldn't be able to figure out exactly how to
I'm film has and I had my
call camera which is a video camera and an underwater housing a long pole
and I was able to put that under water next to the their
killer whale rock a white shark carcass and it started the same
in
the liver from the chart however and popped up out on the shark and came out
near the bow
and both are that whale's then came toward the liver
the and I was able to get footage only
to killer whales feeding on the liver itself by
the two killer whales spend 15 minutes feeding on the remains at the shark
before this one away
the birds are left with scraps
and the eye-witnesses are left dazed
mild I was a complete surprise to us to see
and/or can take a white shirt we just had no idea that
that bad can happen the contest between the two giants
answers 1 classic question on that matchup was kinda what a biologist would
sit around a campfire talk about you know who's the biggest baddest in the
ocean away charter or ca
who would win well certainly on this particular day
we had our answer on
but the circumstances surrounding this great matchup
are strange of killer whales don't normally come to the fair lawn's
and the seventeen years that I've spent on if airlines I never seen
killer whales come closer to the island than about
six or eight kilometers your
the whales had already beaten a large me a love scene line
there was really no reason for the orchid to go after the white choc the
shark didn't threaten them
and the killer whale for the shark
without a struggle called what happened in that fifteen minutes
did Graham Nash are didn't catch it and crush it
didn't hold motionless so that the shark basically
I'm suffocated then
comes the biggest mystery evolved
on the day at the attack the entire great white shark population at the fair
lines
up to a hundred individuals suddenly disappears
without explanation
old well
in October 1997 a whale watching tour
goals on the trip of a lifetime well
and end up witnessing a historic face-off between the oceans to
top predators 50 excited maritime adventurers may be numbered
people with that night television stations across California
feature the story of the mother killer whale that killed a great white shark
anyone's actually seen it happen the news
reaches LA-based killer whale scientist Melissa Schuman Jenna jerk
mmm I was returning from a walk and
opened up my front door and heard the phone ringing
and I'm drop my keys in race for the phone and picked it up
lol and a friend of mine said you need to turn on the TV
turn it on right now of
their wildlife guide the oceanic and I D
Mary Jane Schramm modern a 20-foot female killer whale
trailed by her young cat in the 13 years
showman janitor a study killer whales off the California coast
she's never seen one killer shark pretty much I don't think anyone but there's
another reason she's in treat
she knows the identity of the killer are
everything ideas based on how well you can identify animal in track them
I take photographs and look at unique characteristics on the fans and in the
body
to try to tell which individual well i'm looking at
three males off to the left and I'm will female juvenile homicide all researchers
to track the whales
and for california we've identified on wheels with numbers
okay that that the 39 right here without the one with the mental %ah
right here bad you know when they're so we have seen wanna see
teensy 25°c 39 who we saw today
and CA indicates California godly 3 don't males we only had one yesterday
so I've gotten to know the killer whales a California area pretty well
especially what I call the LA pod de l'Est pas
is a group of killer whales occasionally seen off the coast of Los Angeles
date has eight core members in
and one of them was caught on camera at the scene at the Cal
do and they show the image and the then really loved a lot like ca2+
buying throws it back to death
froze it and I saw her unique I catch with her birthmark
there's no other killer whale in the world that has a birthmark
my day excursion boat which will manage and real impact than I realized
the news reports are wrong
the company underwater gonna grab the juvenile whale
me you know such as protecting their calf and I know it can't be
cousin see it is never had a gap in fact Delhi pot has missed a ride cap
if ca2+ isn't defending a cat from an intruder
of possible that she sees the Great White
simply as full little love variation in the menu perhaps
the forecast could be a predator
hunting spray to me it didn't seem like it was really racing poorest
it was more of a deliberate approach and obviously a stealth approach
it appears CE to first stocks shot
the or cialis holding it like just behind the head
then she grabs the largest predatory shark in the ocean
in such a way that it renders it entirely harmless
way the white shark was completely
immobilized nothing from the shark New Yorker just to get out
in its in an instant the killer whale polls the shark
upside down for a long period of time shark
doesn't even fight back we didn't see any blood
or oil slick that wasn't any obvious signs of trauma
after 15 minutes
the killer whale rips the shock apart and start eating its liver
the
would be attack has all the markings of a perfectly executed kilns
it's the first recorded event were great white
becomes the prey up another species them
scientists rush to figure out whether this was just a fluke
whether killer whales rarely hunt great whites
in the wild
killer whales live in every ocean in the world
they hunt a wide variety of prey it
Ingrid Visser has been watching killer whales hunt up the coast at New Zealand
for over 15 years be okay
at berry berry smack and they'll look at a particular pray awesome in the mail
understand okay I need to take it in such a way
so it's just like us really I mean UK have different skill sets for dealing
with different situations
home so for instance if you go to action Tina
you see them coming up on the beach to take the C Line perhaps
home if you look at them
in an tactical with a try and wash the seals off the ice
you see them coming in and making waves
and if you look for instance in New Zealand with a hunt for the Stingrays
and they can polarized very very carefully
out from underneath the rocks or they can blow bubbles to scare them out from
underneath the sink
cool
go kill whales appear to be able to figure out
the best way to hunt any prynne
but developing a new hunting strategy
is not something that happens overnight it can take years to perfect
then the strategy is passed from one generation to the next
biologists call the resulting traditions culture
if you look at the definition of culture and you look at what's going on with
these different populations a porker in the why they specialize in hunting
you can definitely say that they have a culture and although that's something
that we usually disassociate with humans
for sure it's happening with the orc a probably have a carpet under the water
rightness area the killer whales
of North America's Pacific Coast belong to three different cultures
the first type that most people are familiar with the called resident killer
whales
and their resident either to alaska more in most cases to British Columbia and
Washington
those are fish eaters may travel in a large group in there
very vocal the transience tend to have a longer-range
those living in smaller groups and specialize in eating
mammals also there's the offshore type killer whales
they travel in very large group they're quite vocal and eat fish crib set up to
a hundred for example
on on october fourth nineteen ninety-seven
ca2+ killed both a mammal the sea lion
and a fish the shock
I'm a pattern which doesn't fit
any the three cultures the Ellicott I feel
just doesn't seem to fit the other group their vocalizations are different the
call does not match
any at the other types there's also been some genetic samples taken I've animals
of California
and they don't fit any other type and the shaper their fan and a grey saddled
area behind the fan
doesn't quite fit into the other types either day
act different they talk differently different kinds of things so the deli
pod is it
iPod
the LA pod is a group of killer whales
that breaks the rules weld it's possible
they belong to their own distinct culture that stems from a different part
of the Pacific
that the whales and California I noticed
don't have barnacles long stock barnacles hanging off the dorsal fin
but LA part is the only group away as we see in California
that has it consistently growing of their dorsal fin
my most for the killer whales in Mexico have those and that's something you
really see in the south and tropical waters
the evidence
suggests the LA powered spends a lot of time in warm waters
these waters contain less food than the calm waters of the North
in this environment one of the world's largest predators
can't afford to be to pick that are being
so specialized the more opportunistic if the chance comes up that
there might take a céline for example for fish
there's abundant fish they seem to have the ability to bury their diet depending
upon what the circumstances are
the organ known as ca2+ is flexible
I'm
she's used to feeding and both meat and fish
but it's unclear why this worker would go after shark meat
unless the LA pod is a shark eating culture
Ingrid Visser says it's not impossible
this different populations walk around the world that specialize in hunting
shacks
and they pant in a number of different ways
day will corral shacks I'm and then if the small enough just come in and grab
them
but it is dangerous for them shacks they do look very carefully
on the other side of the pacific ocean in New Zealand another shark
in culture has worked out an ingenious way to kill its prey
it's a technique that might have dramatically affected the outcome
the clash at their lives on if I was a shack living in New Zealand waters I'd
be
very ski KK here fighting maneuver
that renders even the great white shark defenseless
but I'm
ok killer whales are incredibly skilled at finding new ways to kill a wide range
of prey
I'll but can they kill the most aggressive shark in the ocean
without putting themselves in danger I'll
there's actually a technique that can render sharks harmless
fairly easily
that comes in handy we study dangerous sharks in the water
limini Bahamas
a team of shark scientists
is looking for an adult female lemon shark
they want to tag her
in order to keep track her movements in the months ahead guide
welfare
I get ready all guard
the team corrals art or delete bold manned by doctor samuel Gruber
the head scientist the the means shot glass fact yeah
water yeah
help
Gruber wrestles the shark alongside the bold
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for after that night night every available hand helped to turn the sharp
over onto her back
good and when they do by
okay somebody she instantly becomes common of
on Gruber
has been working with lemon sharks since 1978
he studies the juvenile's that live along the enemy's mangroves
here he discovered something surprising
12 happened to turn the shark over like this
notice that it stops struggle you media
some on something's going on here when turned upside down
the juvenile lemon sharks fall into a trance
in use sleep scientists
call a tonic immobility and I think it happens when a chemical is released into
the Sharks brain
to prevent panic its wants to get its visual world right
and it's being inhibited or stop from doing that so the brain gets flooded
with this new role transmitter called serotonin
and wonders this gets an overloaded serotonin the animal goes into this
sleep basically unconscious almost all sharks fall into tonic when turned
upside down
and can't right themselves over himself a stronghold
II on this adult lemon shark
is in a trance deep enough for the shark lab scientists
to insert the transmitter into her belly without
anesthetic yep
in this position she is completely wrong okay
okay on the killer whale at the Fairlane Islands
held the great white shark upside down for fifteen minutes
home
them
the shark remained motionless it never struggled
No
it seems the killer whale put the great white shark
into tonic immobility and held it there
and this maneuver alone could be enough to kill a shock
home
when you turn 11 shark upside down it can continue to breed in exchange for a
future no white shark upside down it probably can't
continue to breed like that
a great white is a very
energetic Sharktopus a warm body sure that really require
their bodies to move to help their heart pump so eventually not gonna exchange
carbon dioxide for oxygen cause
this there's no water flowing through the gills
and their oxygen tension in the blood reduces down to a point where
like keep you know like suffocating
the killer whale could have killed the great white shark by putting it into
tonic immobility
and and suffocating it
it's a technique she might have learned from her tell a pod
on is it possible that killer whales and world
about tonic immobility the answer is yes it is possible
they're learning abilities are so great that if wanna love on
happened to do it and see that they
kinda freezer going to the state I they could communicate it to the other point
and they might then get a hunting technique up that does
of killer whales
are inquisitive intelligent and they learn from each other
way if one of them stumbles upon this weakness of sharks
it pod could become accomplished shark killers
on
on
and that exactly what seems to be happening
in New Zealand on here killer whales hunt
stingrays relatives sharks and almost as dangerous
the whales have learned to first turn themselves
upside down before attacking the race on
then when the killer whales right themselves the Stingrays turn belly-up
and fall into a tonic state becoming harmless
Ingrid Visser this proves
that the whales know exactly what they're doing given
the first so I sway that these guys had
shacks rights buying pretty sure that the tonic immobility is pat if their
repertoire
York Shack researchers know about it why wouldn't an animal that price on shacks
know about it as well the LA part frequently encounter sharks
they might have learned the secret to it
and showman janitor suspects the LA pod is no stranger
to sharks with the LA pod virtually every single animal has a big chunks at
the doors of it
other researchers have looked and said you're Wales look like
they just got beaten up gotten a gang fight or something like that
they can ask cars on the dorsal fin scars everywhere in chance console
I think they might have a similar history with sharks and that this might
indicate that
down south and subtropical waters off Mexico
is where the LA pot may have learned how to handle shocks
and come up with their effortless maneuver
to place great whites in Teutonic immobility
piles underwater footage of the incident
reveals CA to lose technique you could see me that there's this white
scraping about the skin of her head and offer pectoral fins
and I believe what she did is round at the shark very very hard kinda knocked
the wind out of it
up with the shark now stunned
the next step is easy she kinda extrapolate
if the small shark but i wanna eat i turn it over and it doesn't do anything
then in this instance the best thing for me to do
it'd keep forgetting harm to my body is to turn over the speed chart
based on the evidence here's what probably happened at the fair lines
the Great White surfaces to investigate the smell of the dead sea life
ca2+ the killer whale to text the shark in the water
she responds instantly ready to go for the kill
the inexperience shark is unaware of the danger
the killer whale strikes the shower
stunning atom
then she holds it upside down in the state tonic
immobility until the Sharks of the kids
a purse I said carried out by an experienced member
a shark killing culture
the great white shark is no longer an untouchable predator
at the top of the food chain up
it appears that sometimes even day are on the menu
if this is the case great whites would likely try to escape
whenever threatened by killer whales
and on the day at the fair lawn's attack that's exactly what happens
beginning that day after October 4
we didn't see any white sharks and we knew
on the island that they were gone
the Great Whites fellini and mass from the islands
of
i'd the fair lines as a
major roosting area for seals and sea lions in particular Northern Elephant
Seals which is their preferred prey
for all it's been calculated that
a white shark eating 1co can last up to three or four months
and we've seen individual white shark steak up to five seals so if you do the
math
that's almost a full year's worth the energy that it can get in the two months
and it's around the fair a lot
Peter pile that his fellow researchers have recorded every shark sighting at
the fair lines
since 1987
each year the same thing happens
the number of shark sightings around the island grow steadily from early
September through October
that it peaks in early November on the seal population
is at its highest good
at that time up to a hundred adult great wines
circle the islands but after the October day
the killer whale attack everything changes
in after October 4 we just set up there
day after day engines see anything we
we're putting decoys out and we were plucking for shark bit and seals and sea
lines coming
can and I know these things were happening the Great Whites
are gone to pile it means just one thing
i'm absolutely convinced that the past in a white sharks was dear to that park
event they were
more afraid of being there than they were about missing an entire
season and feeding so so that's pretty remarkable
no one knows where the Great Whites want
then a few years later scientists discover the answer
after tagging great whites at the fair lines of
they uncover the remarkable annual long-distance migration
of great white sharks and
after feeding at the fair lands during the fall the Great Whites
swim across the ocean to winter in a mysterious
patted the Pacific known as the white
shark cafe of it's uncertain with the sharks do when they get there
of in spring some sharks
swollen beyond the cafe to as far as Hawaii
and but they all meet up again in late summer
before heading back to the fair lines to feed and
the tags on the Sharks allow scientists to track their entire journey
this becomes a useful tool
when history repeats itself
and the year two thousand on November 19th
another hi worker came close to the island
and this was only the second time we'd ever seen
yes
10 the males made a big splash and when I got up there there was a huge
grouper birds a slick on the water
there was peace is a white matter that look like liver
and there was no blood in the water it must have been a hit on a large
fish it looked very similar to
the white shark attack in 1997 it's a second
work attack at the fair lines the remaining sharks Manish
for the rest to the feeding season just as they did
in 1997 it's another flight to the whites
but this time one of them is wearing a satellite tag
on a 15-foot male great white shark
named to defend carry Sestak for six months
then one day
the tacky Jack's that floats to the surface
data it beams back is remarkable
this is the dive profiles for tip then
and you can tell that on that day very soon almost immediately after
the attack at the fair logs to ban went over the continental shelf
and immediately dove down do 500 meters them
and then from there he continued ball away to Hawaii
you after the second killer whale attack at the fair lands
tip then travels more than 2,000 miles
across the pacific on it seems like Great Whites
would rather cross oceans then deal with the hungry killer whales
the shark went down the five hundred meters
you know that's five hundred meters thats 1500 feet that's a long way down
so it was a traumatic event for the Sharks
who would normally be staying around there for the season
of
great whites are ready to flee the moment they're only predator
the killer whale becomes a threat of
at the fair lines the Great Whites seem to know that danger was near
as if there was a kind of secret signal that caused the whole population to
abandon their feeding grounds
at the same moment 0
great white sharks
aren't invincible
when threatened by their only predator the killer whale
they flee fear but how sharks know when to flee
has baffled scientists
now in the lab in New Jersey shark repellent researchers cradle Connell
and Barrick Stroud are trying to find the answer
so here we have a a black no shark
it's a distant relative to a white shark it but it's an ideal model
and the reason being is that they have the same sense is that a white shark
attacks
their research suggest that sharks plead
when they pick up the smell on their home dad
clearly a potent chemical signals as the shark in
from experience we know is that shark carcass breaks down to cases just
released this morning's chemical signals
keep some sharks way by extracting key chemicals from the tissues have dead
sharks
they recreate the saddam
-6 a Certain Ratio it's like we've recreated the smell of death or
something triggers a flight reaction is shock
0 O'Connell suspects
that it was the smell the death that scared the Great Whites
away from the fair lines white shark maven
making us some sort of alarm signal 28 sconce percent Pixar shorts and the same
species
and the Sharks could have picked up on it with their sense of smell
and decided date someone to save the southern white shark but same ourselves
let's
see the area and that i think is this possible that
behavior I'll
Stroud decides to test his artificial smell of death
in Bimini and juvenile lemon sharks
placed into tonic immobility going let me know when
he's under way looking good okay let's see if we can get a response
out on a very low concentrations say a 0.1 mil leaders
go to the nurse caper it
good will be ok
okay it was a good response the smell of death
is potent enough to bring a lemon shark out tube tonic immobility
ok the triggers instinctive perched in the shark
to flee so what's up small dose very mild response that's what we want to
shock you come in a little bit goes a long way in a very sensitive to these
compounds a census males highly developed so that justice is a very good
response
sharks react violently to a concentrated smell
a better home dad but does the chemical signal work
when diluted in the open ocean damn
of Bimini they spray the smell of death
come to Caribbean reef sharks during the feeding frenzy
ok
badly I want yes does one go
John gone the snow that they just don't like it and then hit that up
me all lot of fish don't mind it
ok at the fair lines
the same chemicals leaked from the dead great white
which triggered panic in other sharks in the water
on
but the island's extend over a hundred square miles
the signal would have had to work over a large area of ocean
here the Bahamas with very easy for us to recount s because you got or shorts
balled up essentially
the white sharks are probably all seeking after prayer over a wide area
and I'm in that case it's its kinda tough to make that couple leaders a
chemical signal work over maybe a couple square miles
from a single dead shark on two Navy scattering hundreds of sharks that's an
incredible week held
we have to know more about it home
the mass flight did great whites at the fair lines still
isn't entirely understood on the scent
the dead shark running at the bottom of the sea he would have driven some sharks
away
on but experts are still puzzled as to why the entire population of sharks fled
the white shark bork encounter on the Fairlane
was unprecedented and certainly got a lot of attention
but when all the Sharks disappeared completely from the their lives
that just really kinda blew our minds
and
we spent a lotta time after that trying to figure out
how this could be and have and
all the Sharks disappear based on this one and that them
the incident at the for loans remains a mystery
but it has provided a better understanding of the relationship
between the oceans
to top predators them
in my mind it's really clear that we've got a top predator here
and no one would have believed by there's always a question people ask me
what would happen if you think a great white shark getting
with the killer whale who's gonna win an I think there's no doubt now the killer
whale would
through cunning through intelligence too long live through
culture be able to overcome as possible
adversarial great whites
the largest shark predators also
play ok
some cultures worker figured out the secret weapon
have tonic immobility
in the ocean the porker reigns supreme
great whites with leave killer whales turned violent
the great white shark has met its match
I'm