This One’s A Real Killer: Baby Orcas!
Amazing marine mammals ahoy! These enormous whales – sometimes called “killer whales” may not look so tough, their adorable white markings make them look like they have big beautiful eyes – but in reality, Orcas are known by scientists as “apex predators” because while they prey on a wide variety of smaller creatures, they themselves have no natural predators.
As kings of the oceans, these whales feed on sea fauna from seals, walruses and sea lions to other whales and even sharks! Killer whales are not only totally cute, but totally fearsome predators, and highly intelligent social animals. Amazingly, while most killer whales live to be about 50 years of age, some can get up to 80 or 90 years beneath the blue-green salt waters they inhabit.
