Basically yes. The article source is able to confirm attacks by Orcas on moose have happened.
The only “maybe” part is whether any moose has been fully eaten by any Orca. Occam’s razor says yes, but the whole encounter is a rare enough (or just rarely documented!) occurrence not to be widely documented yet.
I don’t know if it’s rare or incredibly hard to document. How do you attempt to track that? You’d need cameras in the water all over the place, all with an internet connection, and the water would have to be clear enough to see through, and the attack would have to happen right next to the camera, and someone would have to notice it.
I guess the alternative is we put a tracker in a bunch of moose and then dissect a lot of orcas and try to find the trackers.
It just seems like something we’re unlikely to know how common it is for a very long time, if ever.
I thought there was an annual migratory path where moose crossed the frozen areas from Alaska to Russia, and as the warming has occured they have to cross more water now, becoming more prone for longer to orcas. Could be wrong, but I seem to remember that from some where
Since I need to know…
Do Orcas eat Moose?
Spoiler answer
Basically yes. The article source is able to confirm attacks by Orcas on moose have happened.
The only “maybe” part is whether any moose has been fully eaten by any Orca. Occam’s razor says yes, but the whole encounter is a rare enough (or just rarely documented!) occurrence not to be widely documented yet.
I don’t know if it’s rare or incredibly hard to document. How do you attempt to track that? You’d need cameras in the water all over the place, all with an internet connection, and the water would have to be clear enough to see through, and the attack would have to happen right next to the camera, and someone would have to notice it.
I guess the alternative is we put a tracker in a bunch of moose and then dissect a lot of orcas and try to find the trackers.
It just seems like something we’re unlikely to know how common it is for a very long time, if ever.
I thought there was an annual migratory path where moose crossed the frozen areas from Alaska to Russia, and as the warming has occured they have to cross more water now, becoming more prone for longer to orcas. Could be wrong, but I seem to remember that from some where
Good point.
They eat much smaller animals in “small” bites. I’d expect they bite all the parts of the moose they like and leave whatever else there.