Why Won't the Ocean's Deadliest Predator Kill Us?

An orca can kill a great white shark, hunt down a full-grown blue whale, and see your skeleton through your wetsuit using sound. If you love the crisp minimalist animation and engaging storytelling style of channels like Stickly, Mack, or Explain In Paint, this prehistoric deep dive is exactly for you. This video is about why. It is not because we are dangerous, and it is not luck. It is because of what an orca decides, and who taught it. 00:00 The animal that could kill you in four seconds 00:39 Every other apex predator has a body count 01:29 They hunt blue whales — and they are not whales 02:14 Would you get in the water? 02:49 The great whites with their livers removed 03:46 How to switch off a shark 04:19 The brain that is four times bigger than yours 04:53 Hunting moves that are taught, not inherited 05:30 How helpless a human really is in the water 06:01 We swim with them constantly 06:36 The entire record of orca attacks on humans 07:14 The wrong question 07:40 THE ANSWER: orcas do not have a diet, they have a culture 08:20 The pods that starve beside food 09:16 Grandmothers, dialects and sons who never leave 09:59 They scan your skeleton 10:37 Why you are a terrible meal 11:39 What we did to them in Puget Sound 12:16 And they still did nothing 12:48 The four humans orcas have killed 13:21 Restraint is not incapacity 13:57 The orcas sinking boats right now 14:31 So who does hunt us? 15:05 The smarter the predator, the safer you are 15:36 The Law of the Tongue 16:14 What it is like to be looked at 16:44 Seventeen days 17:48 The twist 18:16 What we are doing to them Sources and further reading: the 2019 Bremer Bay blue whale predation records, the Port and Starboard great white events in South Africa, Southern Resident and Bigg's orca ecotype research from the Pacific Northwest, the 2018 Science study on PCB levels in orca populations, and the Iberian Orca Working Group's reports on the rudder interactions since 2020. Which side are you on — Menu or Choice? Tell me in the comments.