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How do orcas eat whales?

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They can tire the whale out by chasing it down, just like wolves do when chasing down a bison, elk, moose or deer. Then they take opportunistic hits and bites to its sides. Eventually the whale tires too much to go on and they close in. If there are no infants they will attack the large whales as well by using a similar strategy and drowning the whale by jumping on it and biting at its throat.

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Its favorite food is "Krill". An Adult blue whale can kill upto 40 million krill per day. They can eat nearly 3500 kilograms of krill in a single day. They need nearly 1.5 million kilocalories of energy per day and so, they nearly eat nonstop. Small fish, crustaceans and squids too get caught when they trap krill in their mouth.

They scoop up large quantities of water into their mouth along with krill and other small aquatic creatures and then filters and push the water out. All remaining animals are swallowed.

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Killer whales hunt in pods and hunt together in a very sophisticated manners first attack the prey, and then sharing it with the members of the group.

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they eat their prey with their 56 lazor sharp teeth.

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they catch it by hiding at the bottom and waiting for food to come and the they sneak up on it and catchs it

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