The Ocean's Most Feared Predator Isn't a Shark

In 2017, great white sharks began washing up dead on the beaches of Gansbaai, South Africa, the place where they once gathered in greater numbers than anywhere else on Earth. Four of the five carcasses were missing their livers. The evidence pointed to two killer whales, and to a question this film follows from the shark beaches of South Africa to the Antarctic ice and down below a thousand metres: what really sits at the top of the ocean? Chapters 0:00 Gansbaai, 2017 1:00 The Liver Hunters 5:18 Caught on Camera 10:43 The Top of the Food Web 14:59 Hunters With Culture 20:30 The Largest Hunter With Teeth 26:08 The Leopard of the Ice 30:24 Below a Thousand Metres 33:32 Who rules the ocean? Which of these hunters deserves the crown: the killer whale, the sperm whale in the deep, or the leopard seal on the ice? Tell us in the comments. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "The Escalation" · "Interloper" · "Dark Times" · "The Dread" · "Ossuary 6 - Air" · "Echoes of Time v2" · "Long Note One" · "Long Note Two" · "Long Note Three" · "Long Note Four"