ArticleScientific reports2019
Killer whales redistribute white shark foraging pressure on seals.
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- Spatiotemporal Variation in Marine Mammal Antipredator Behaviors Resulting From a Predation Pinch Point.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Genetic Evidence of Killer Whale Predation on White Sharks in Australia.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Individual variation in life-history timing: synchronous presence, asynchronous events and phenological compensation in a wild mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Foraging behaviour and ecology of transient killer whales within a deep submarine canyon system.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Direct observation of killer whales preying on white sharks and evidence of a flight response.Ecology · 2023Article
- The extinct sharkScience advances · 2022Article
- Trade-offs between foraging reward and mortality risk drive sex-specific foraging strategies in sexually dimorphic northern elephant seals.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Killer whale presence drives bowhead whale selection for sea ice in Arctic seascapes of fear.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Non-trophic impacts from white sharks complicate population recovery for sea otters.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
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Abstract
Predatory behavior and top-down effects in marine ecosystems are well-described, however, intraguild interactions among co-occurring marine top predators remain less understood, but can have far reaching ecological implications. Killer whales and white sharks are prominent upper trophic level predators with highly-overlapping niches, yet their ecological interactions and subsequent effects have remained obscure. Using long-term electronic tagging and survey data we reveal rare and cryptic interactions between these predators at a shared foraging site, Southeast Farallon Island (SEFI). In multiple instances, brief visits from killer whales displaced white sharks from SEFI, disrupting shark feeding behavior for extended periods at this aggregation site. As a result, annual predations of pinnipeds by white sharks at SEFI were negatively correlated with close encounters with killer whales. Tagged white sharks relocated to other aggregation sites, creating detectable increases in white shark density at Ano Nuevo Island. This work highlights the importance of risk effects and intraguild relationships among top ocean predators and the value of long-term data sets revealing these consequential, albeit infrequent, ecological interactions.
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