Off the Coast of South Africa, Orcas Have Learned to Kill Great White Sharks with Surgical Precision — Seizing a Pectoral Fin, Eviscerating the Shark in Under Two Minutes, and Taking One Organ Above All: the Enormous, Oil-Rich Liver, Leaving Most of the Carcass Behind

Off the coast of South Africa, orcas have learned to kill great white sharks with surgical precision — seizing a pectoral fin, eviscerating the shark in under two minutes, and taking one organ above all: the enormous, oil-rich liver, leaving most of the carcass behind

The smell arrives before the evidence does. Crews working out of Mossel Bay read a slick on the water and a faint cod liver odour as a kill already completed, usually before anything washes ashore. Two adult male orcas are responsible, first recorded off Cape Town in 2015 and identifiable by their collapsed dorsal fins, one folding left, one folding right. David Hurwitz, a whale watching operator from Simon’s Town, named them Port and Starboard.…