{"id":123928,"date":"2025-11-05T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123928\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:45:09","slug":"orcas-caught-on-camera-hunting-great-white-sharks-off-mexico-in-the-first-recorded-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123928\/","title":{"rendered":"Orcas caught on camera hunting great white sharks off Mexico in the first recorded attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While similar orca predation events have been observed off South Africa, Australia, and California, this is the first confirmed case in Mexican waters, underscoring the adaptability and wide-ranging nature of these apex predators.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers noted that juvenile white sharks appear particularly vulnerable, suggesting they may become seasonal prey for orca pods, which could impact local shark populations over time.<\/p>\n<p>Marine biologists say the discovery not only expands understanding of orca behaviour but also highlights the complex predator-prey dynamics unfolding beneath the ocean\u2019s surface \u2014 where even great white sharks are not safe from nature\u2019s most formidable hunters.<\/p>\n<p>With inputs from Agencies and Video by Erick Higuera and Marco Villegas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While similar orca predation events have been observed off South Africa, Australia, and California, this is the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,1433,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-123928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-viral","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}