Great White Sharks Are Being Scared From Their Habitat by Just 2 Predators

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16. Killer whale presence leads to white shark desertion of Farallon Island feeding grounds

https://www.pointblue.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019_pubbrief_SharksOrcasFarallones_JorgensenTietsEtAl.pdf

Along the California Coast,
white sharks and killer whales
are top marine predators.
These two species occasionally
come into contact with one
another, but these interactions
mostly go unnoticed by
humans.

On 4 October 1997, Point Blue
Farallon Island biologists
documented a pair of killer
whale females that attacked
and consumed a white shark,
the first time this had been
documented. Only two shark
predations on pinnipeds were
noted for the remainder of the
season, a decline of 95%
compared to previous years. It
was a mystery, though, where
the sharks went