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There has never been a case of a known orca attack on a human in the wild. They are only known to attack when we confine them.
by Phrenzy 4y ago
There has never been a case of a known orca attack on a human in the wild. They are only known to attack when we confine them.
- simonh 4y agoThen again if an Orca swallowed a human in the water, there's would be much left in the way of evidence.
- hansendc 4y agoThey actually leave lots of evidence. A transient eating a seal is messy business and there are lots of seal bits and chunks left over. Eva Saulitis describes the aftermath in several cases in her book (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219235/into-great-silence-by-eva-saulitis/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219235/into-great-s...). IIRC, fishing the evidence out of the water is one of the primary ways they study killer whale diets.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoFrom the wikipedia article cited above... In 1989 American researcher Bernd Würsig published an article about him having been attacked by a killer whale on a beach of Valdes Peninsula. A single individual, possibly as big as 9 metres (30 ft), beached towards him while he was watching sea lions about 200 metres (650 ft) from him in hope to take a photograph of a killer whale hunt. Dr Würsig ran up the beach after the animal missed him by about 1 metre. He speculated that the whale might have mistaken him for a pinniped.[19]
- outworlder 4y ago> Dr Würsig ran up the beach after the animal missed him by about 1 metre. So he wasn't actually attacked?
- jjtheblunt 4y agoi guess we'd have to read the linked article from that bibliography to see what he said. I tried finding it, but could not, but it's in German and the title says he was attacked (for who knows what definition).
- standy17817 4y agoDoubt it's a matter of confinement, and more of continued exposure to Orcas. Put a person around an Orca for long enough, and eventually, the odds are reasonable that the Orca will kill them.