‘Shark-Hunting’ Orca Pod Using Brutal Trick To Kill Young Great Whites

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The orca is called the killer whale for a reason—and nothing demonstrates why quite like a recent scientific discovery about deadly encounters between orcas and young great white sharks. A pod of orca whales in the Gulf of California has been observed using a calculated and brutal hunting strategy to target and kill their unforunate great white victims. The killer whales have been documented repeatedly flipping the young sharks upside-down—which induces in them a state of paralysis—before