A brutal gang attack on a tiger shark by killer whales has revealed the violence of orcas in all its gruesome detail.
The
footage, which is believed to be a world-first, shows three killer
whales working as a team to force the panicked shark to the surface.
The
gang wear the shark down and take opportunistic bites at its fins,
until a large bull moves in to deliver the death blow, flipping the
shark on to its back in the process. #WATCH video below:
This creates
a state of paralysis known as 'tonic immobility'. The pod then takes
turns at eating and stripping the 7ft (2.1 metres) shark down to its
bare bones before disappearing back into the ocean.
The
brutal footage was captured off the coast of Costa Rica by underwater
photographer Caroline Power and British marine biologist Nicholas Bach.
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