![]() ![]() Though no one saw the South African killer whales-also known as orcas-kill the sharks, the parallels to the other attacks made orcas the likely culprits. In 2017, five white sharks were found beached on South Africa’s Western Cape. ![]() “It completely changed everybody's ideas.” ( Read why great whites are still a mystery to us.)Īs it turns out, it wasn’t a fluke. ET as part of National Geographic Channel’s SharkFest. ![]() “From that moment on, everything seemed to be different as far as perspective about orcas and white sharks,” Scot Anderson, a seasonal researcher for Monterey Bay Aquarium, says in the Whale That Ate Jaws: Eyewitness Report, which airs July 16 at 10 p.m. The incident sparked new lines of research, as well as some intriguing questions for Schulman-Janiger and many others: How could any ocean predator, even one called a killer whale, dominate the almighty great white? It was, at that time, the first documented sighting of killer whales eating white sharks. In October 1997, tourists in a whale-watching boat off the Farallon Islands, near San Francisco, witnessed two killer whales attack a great white shark and consume its liver. “I was thinking, Déjà vu, here we go again,” says the biologist, a research associate at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. When Alisa Schulman-Janiger heard great white shark carcasses had washed up on South African beaches without their livers a few years ago, she was shocked. ![]()
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