According to a marine biologist who witnessed the battle, it was an extremely rare sight as these animals tend to leave each other alone.
Researchers were nearby to record the event, with one saying it was both “devastating and intensely powerful”.
Visitors to Kalk Bay got the surprise of a lifetime when a killer whale was spotted casually swimming around the harbour.
Orcas may look like giant sea pandas, but they’re really more like swimming sociopaths.
They are likely all psychopaths or Scorpios, but either way, they are cruel geniuses that are concerned with their own survival, no matter what.
Killer whales are clearly the psychopaths of the big blue.
The infamous orcas essentially upended the food chain in Cape Town’s waters and now they’re at it again, ripping into a new shark species.
Footage aired earlier this year of orcas killing a great white shark in Mossel Bay was actually a snippet of an hour-long hunt of multiple sharks.
Orcas involved in the hunt use a technique called wave-washing, calculating the size of the wave they need to produce in order to acquire their next meal.
Researchers found a great white carcass in Hartenbos, Mossel Bay, on Sunday and evidence points to the involvement of the orca duo.
Shark biologist Alison Towner called the footage “probably one of the most beautiful pieces of natural history ever filmed”.
Yesterday, Port and Starboard were spotted in False Bay. A new study has outlined just how great an effect they’re having on the region’s great white shark population.
A video that appears to be shot in Canada shows orcas hunting a sea lion, but the potential meal has a cunning plan.
Sailors off the coast of Morocco resorted to desperate measures to get rid of killer whales that were damaging their boat.
A government-appointed team of nine experts has released the results of their study into why great white sharks have all but disappeared from what were once hotspots.
This past weekend, three orcas put on a great show in False Bay, with full breaches and tail slaps caught on camera.
When marine biologists analysed the body of the 3,6-metre female shark, they found the telltale signs of killer whale, or orca, predation.
Marine tour guide Donavan Smith would have been pretty chuffed when he saw a great white shark while out with clients in Knysna, but then he captured something hardly seen before.
The Shark Spotters research team have no confirmed sightings of a great white this year, and shark cage diving eco-tourism operators who frequent False Bay’s Seal Island have been just as unsuccessful.
You may have heard of Port and Starboard, the two killer whales responsible for killing a number of great white sharks around the Western Cape. They’ve been busy again.
When great white sharks started washing up dead along the Gansbaai coast, many were left stumped. Turns out a pair of slick hunters were hard at work.
Orcas have certainly made a name for themselves as being pretty badass hunters, but seeing it in action from above is quite something. Respect.
In May scientists were shocked to find three great white sharks that had fallen prey to orcas, and now you can add a fourth to that list. They’ve even named the hunters.
This week alone there has been two great white shark carcases washing up close to Gansbaai – one as large as five metres – and they may have been prey themselves.
Beachgoers at the popular Western Cape holiday spot were shocked to see a juvenile whale wash ashore this past weekend.
Killer whales have been known to launch coordinated attacks on other whales, sharks and even wave-wash seals. On 18 April 2013, photographer Shawn Heinrichs captured one of the very few recorded incidents of killer whales attacking a pod of sperm whales.
God, some headlines just write themselves. Happy Friday, by the way. PETA member and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has angrily written SeaWorld protesting their apparent use of killer whale Tilikum as a “chief sperm bank,” collecting ‘deposits’ with “a cow’s vagina filled with hot water.” What happened, Tommy Lee? You used to not be crazy.