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Orca whales, or killer whales, eat dolphins primarily due to their role as apex predators and their diverse diet. Different orca pods have unique hunting techniques and preferences, often targeting dolphins for their high-fat content and nutritional value. Additionally, dolphins can be more agile and challenging to catch, which may provide a stimulating hunting experience for orcas. This predatory behavior is a natural part of the orca's ecological role in maintaining marine balance.
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What does ocra eat?
An orca is a carnavourious whale (meaning it eats meat). The orca eats mainly school fish like slamon or tuna. (If it can) it will eat baby whales or seals.
What type of animal is a free willy?
Free Willy is an orca, which is more commonly known as a killer whale. Orcas are more closely related to dolphins than to whales.
How much food does shamu eat in a day?
Shamu, a killer whale, typically consumes around 100-300 pounds of food per day. Their diet consists of fish, such as herring, salmon, and mackerel.
What animal can hear the best?
Dolphins can hear 14 times better than humans. They belong to the order Cetacea, which includes whales and porpoises, and there are 36 species of dolphins. The color of dolphins can be white, pink, gray, brown, black, and blue. Whales are actually dolphins, with the largest dolphin being the Orca, or killer whale.
Do snakes eat dolphins?
No they do not, and large sea snakes are able to eat baby dolphins
What eat dolphins?
Two animals do. It is the orca ( also known as the killer whale) and the shark.
What is the largest species of dolphins?
The killer whale (orca)
Do orca whales eat penquins?
Orca Whales do eat penguins. The Orca diet also consists fish, squid, seals, sea lions, dolphins, porpoises, and large whales such as the Blue Whale.
Is there a such thing is a orca?
Yes. Orca is the proper name for a killer whale. But orcas are NOT whales, they are dolphins.
Is an orca whale a dolphin?
No, an orca whale is not a dolphin. Despite being commonly referred to as killer whales, orcas are actually the largest species of dolphins.
What are the largest dolphins and what is their range?
The largest of the dolphins is the Orca, or Killer Whale. (The mammal is not a true whale.) They are found in every ocean of the world. A map of their range can be found by using the link to the Wikipedia article on the Orca.
Do orcas eat oth orcas?
No, but they do eat other whales. Not dolphins though, that's cannibalism.
Does a whale eat a dolphin?
An Orca (killer whale) will hunt and eat Dolphin.
Which type of whale hunts in packs?
Killer Whales (Orca orca), dolphins and porpoises are known to actively hunt in packs.
Orca dolphin or porpoise?
An orca is a species of dolphin. It is in the group Delphinidae a group of oceanic dolphins. The orca is only called a killer whale because it has been seen killing other whales not because it is a whale :)
What does a orca killer whale eat?
seals, sea lions, and all types of fish
Where are bottle nose dolphins manly fond in the world?
bottlenose dolphins, spinner dolphins, melon-headed whale, killer whale(orca) and common dolphins are found worldwide mainly offshore in warm seas
