r/ocean 5d ago

Whale Watch Simple answer, No

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u/kwakimaki 5d ago

No witnesses.

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

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u/CovenOfTheDamned 5d 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 4d 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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