{"id":676386,"date":"2010-02-26T05:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/7314e266f27df840a06da761b1e600c4"},"modified":"2010-02-26T05:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T10:37:15","slug":"are-killer-whales-dangerous-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/676386","title":{"rendered":"Are Killer Whales Dangerous To People?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not usually.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>milan.boers<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The common name “killer whale” originated by watching the way these magnificient animals work when hunting for prey. They typically hunt in well-organised packs and they strategise.  They are also the largest of the meat-eating\/hunting whales.  Unusually for whales, they will eat other whales, including dolphins, or calves of the larger whales (like Sperm whales and California Gay whales).<\/p>\n

They are also quite capable of aggression towards each other.  Males fight for females and even females will fight for dominance in the group.<\/p>\n

They also have big teeth, which is kind of scarey in itself.<\/p>\n

However, documented acts of aggression towards humans by orca (the preferred name for fans of the species) is relatively rare. That said, it has happened.<\/p>\n

There was a recent (November 2006) incident in San Diego, California, at the Sea World Park.  A Killer whale in a regularly scheduled show grabbed his trainer by the leg and held her down at the bottom of the pool for a minute — twice in a row.<\/p>\n

Experts speculate that whale was merely having a grumpy day.  It was back at work in performances within a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not usually. milan.boers The common name “killer whale” originated by watching the way these magnificient animals work when hunting for prey. They typically hunt in well-organised packs and they strategise.  They are also the largest of the meat-eating\/hunting whales.  Unusually for whales, they will eat other whales, including dolphins, or calves of the larger whales (like Sperm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PXs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}