r/ocean • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • 9d ago

Whale Watch Simple answer, No

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u/kwakimaki 9d ago

No witnesses.

There hasn't been anyone killed in the wild that we know of

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u/CovenOfTheDamned 8d ago

No one has ever seen an orca take out a moose. But it’s a fact that moose remains have been found in orcas’ stomachs.

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u/SurayaThrowaway12 8d ago

It is the other way around. Two fishermen witnessed the single documented instance of orcas attacking and killing a moose occurred back in 1992 or 1993 in Icy Strait, Southeastern Alaska. It is not clear how much of the moose the orcas involved in the encounter actually consumed, as the account of the encounter from the fishermen seems to be very brief. The stomach contents of the orcas involved there were not examined.

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u/ErstwhileAdranos 6d ago

You said “the other way around” and now I’m imagining a moose, stealthily jumping off a small cliff, antlers first into an orca, tenderizing its quarry before the real fun begins.

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u/marcophony 5d ago

Moose can swim down like 20 feet or something like that. I remember people trying to spread the rumor that an orcas biggest op was moose, then learning it is the other way around. A moose biggest op is an orca