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Originally Posted by LiveUninhibited
Very cool. With a predator as voracious as that, I wonder how large their territories were, how widespread their range was, etc.
Also, orcas are the undisputed top of the pelagic food chain and they seem to eat everything worth bothering with, but why don't they attack humans, or do they?
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I am not a marine biologist, but having watched several documentaries on the subject: Orcas seem to be very selective in their eating habits. Orcas in the Pacific North West eat salmon almost exclusively. Whereas the Orcas in the South Atlantic(near the Falkland Islands) eat seals exclusively. No one knows exactly why.
Orcas inhabit cold water and naturally would encounter few if any humans in the water that cold.