Since I need to know…
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Basically yes. The article source is able to confirm attacks by Orcas on moose have happened.
The only “maybe” part is whether any moose has been fully eaten by any Orca. Occam’s razor says yes, but the whole encounter is a rare enough occurrence not to be widely documented yet.
I don’t know if it’s rare or incredibly hard to document. How do you attempt to track that? You’d need cameras in the water all over the place, all with an internet connection, and the water would have to be clear enough to see through, and the attack would have to happen right next to the camera, and someone would have to notice it.
I guess the alternative is we put a tracker in a bunch of moose and then dissect a lot of orcas and try to find the trackers.
It just seems like something we’re unlikely to know how common it is for a very long time, if ever.
They eat much smaller animals in “small” bites. I’d expect they bite all the parts of the moose they like and leave whatever else there.
“Orca whale” is a misnomer. Same with Killer whale. They are not whales. The nickname is a mistranslation of whale killer because Orcas kill whales.
Orcas are in the dolphin family which is a branch of the whale family, specifically those with teeth rather than baleen. Compare how humans are in the ape family which is a branch of the primate family, specifically those that are less arboreal and lack tails. If we can say humans are primates, we can definitely say that orcas are whales.
Aren’t they porpoises? I mean, I think they’re related to dolphins.
Google says they’re neither, so I’ve edited the above fyi. Thanks!
Can confirm. Divers freak out, though I don’t understand why.
But the orca is fake. 100% never been eaten by one.
Orcas will also jump on the beach to catch a moose and then squirm back into the water
wut
Some populations of orcas know how to hunt in land. Yep. That exactly.
It’s something they learn and teach each other.
The most famous of those groups lives far away from any moose. But I don’t know if there’s any small group near them.
Yeah, being on the beach doesn’t automatically make you safe from orcas. I’m personally very grateful that we apparently aren’t as delicious as moose.
And they love shark liver. It’s a really good thing we don’t taste like shark liver.
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Dolphins are known to be assholes, and Orcas are really big dolphins. That beach dive move is like swerving to hit an animal in the grass/sidewalk on the side of the road.
I can’t believe they’ve added a third giant moose boss in Elden Ring, and this time he’s underwater
Yeah, I would probably piss my wetsuit lol
That’s ok, everyone else does that anyway :)
Keeps the sharks away. Not sure about the moose, though.
Wait, really? I’d never heard that one before.
It was a myth growing up. Blood attracts sharks, but piss will keep them away.
So don’t try this at home… primarily because you probably don’t have shark at home.
I watched Crocodile Dundee growing up so I keep sharks away with dynamite
The only surfing I do is on concrete though, so that really makes the whole affair hard to understand for local authorities.
Now though, they’re just like, “Oh yeah, dynamite guy. Yeah, don’t worry about it, it’s just for sharks, You’re fine…”
