{"id":83418,"date":"2022-04-22T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-are-the-predators-of-a-blue-whale\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:58:12","slug":"what-are-the-predators-of-a-blue-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-are-the-predators-of-a-blue-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the predators of a blue whale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-are-the-predators-of-a-blue-whale\/#What_are_the_predators_of_a_blue_whale\" title=\"What are the predators of a blue whale?\">What are the predators of a blue whale?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-are-the-predators-of-a-blue-whale\/#Did_shark_eat_blue_whale\" title=\"Did shark eat blue whale?\">Did shark eat blue whale?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-are-the-predators-of-a-blue-whale\/#Do_killer_whales_eat_blue_whales\" title=\"Do killer whales eat blue whales?\">Do killer whales eat blue whales?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-are-the-predators-of-a-blue-whale\/#What_predators_eat_whales\" title=\"What predators eat whales?\">What predators eat whales?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_predators_of_a_blue_whale\"><\/span>What are the predators of a blue whale?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The <b>killer whale is one of the only predators of the blue whale. However, only certain populations of this species include whales in their diets, which, just like their hunting techniques, vary from one population to another. Like a pack of wolves, killer whales work in coordinated teams when pursuing their prey.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Did_shark_eat_blue_whale\"><\/span>Did shark eat blue whale?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Do Sharks Eat Whales? The short answer to this is no. <b>A great white shark simply cannot overpower a whale. Researchers are only aware of a handful of instances where sharks have been found feasting on a killer whale carcass, but unconfirmed of how they died.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_killer_whales_eat_blue_whales\"><\/span>Do killer whales eat blue whales?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Orcas, also known as killer whales despite being members of the same family as dolphins, are apex predators known to feed on nearly every species of large whale. But they typically go after calves rather than adults. <b>This was the first time orcas had been observed successfully killing and eating an adult blue whale<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_predators_eat_whales\"><\/span>What predators eat whales?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The primary predators of whales are <b>human beings, sharks, and killer whales. The polar bear can attack whales, but humpback whales would be much too large for a single polar bear.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents What are the predators of a blue whale?Did shark eat blue whale?Do killer whales eat blue whales?What predators eat whales? What are the predators of a blue whale? The killer whale is one of the only predators of the blue whale. However, only certain populations of this species include whales in their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}