The article examines the mysterious disappearance of great white sharks in South Africa, particularly in Gansbaai, where carcasses began to wash ashore. Dr. Alison Towner discovered that the deaths were linked to orca predation, as detailed necropsies revealed surgical precision wounds and missing livers on the deceased sharks. This shocking finding has significant implications for the local shark population, which once numbered in the hundreds and has since been drastically affected by these new predatory dynamics.
The signs all pointed to the same culprits: orcas. The precise trauma inflicted upon the sharks and the absence of their livers indicated a very distinct predator.
Witnessing the very predator I'd dedicated my life to studying wash up dead on the beaches was surreal, and something I will never forget, she says.
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