Why Don't Orcas Hunt Humans?

Why Don't Orcas Hunt Humans? Monterey Bay, two thousand and five. A pod of orcas had been working a grey whale mother and her calf for nearly six hours. The water around the attack site had changed color. Researchers on a whale-watching vessel documented the hunt in detail — the coordination between animals, the role separation, the sustained pressure applied to an animal that weighed roughly forty times what any individual attacker weighed. At some point during the hunt, one of the researchers entered the water to film the encounter from below the surface. The orcas were mid-kill. The researcher was unprotected, in open ocean, within a few body lengths of animals that had just demonstrated, repeatedly and without ambiguity, that they were capable of drowning a creature the size of a city bus. Nothing happened. Not a redirected charge, not an investigatory approach, not a change in the angle of a single animal's movement.