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Originally Posted by MJM
Sorry. that is completely untrue. Although there have been no attacks on humans results in death, there have been multiple instances where people have been snapped up by an Orca along the shorline. In all instances the Orca has let go immediately resulting in only minor injuries. I believe this happened in Alaska a recently as last year.
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I suppose you don't have a link for that? I would love to know if it is a significant sample size to make the statement that it is completely untrue. Humans probably also fight back more than seals, which could scare the whale... but I doubt there is any favouritism going on for why orcas don't attack humans all the time. It's probably just that most of the time, we are not easy prey.
I would be willing to bet that if you took 100 seals and 100 humans and put them on some random shoreline, and if you did it year after year, you would see similar number of attacks on humans and seals.... just a guess.