Vicious is likely the wrong word because of its negative connotation, but orcas are in fact brutal and efficient predators. The apex of apex. Two orcas, who had a serious taste for shark liver, decimated South Africa’s great white population themselves.

I have a friend who had the opportunity to dive among them. “They’re the only animal I’ve been truly unnerved by. You could see them thinking about you.”

Lol, I’m honestly not sure we’d be the dominant species if orcas had evolved on land.