Jonathan Kieran

From the look of the photo in the article, with a human being featured for scale, a pod of killer whales near Portland, Victoria, tore-up a rather hefty female Great White Shark just to feast upon the delicacy that is her liver.

Then, as is typical after these rare predations, they leave the rest of the carcass uneaten and free to drift onto some local shoreline to alternately stun or horrify little old ladies padding along the sand in search of seashells.

My beef with this sort of thing is preternatural, I suppose. The notion of a solitary animal being outnumbered, cornered, attacked, and consumed by an entire pack (or pod) of fanged carnivores trips all sorts of unsavory triggers in the reptilian recesses of the id. Almost as galling? It’s wasteful. Orcas are known to take this fussy approach with a number of other animals, including humpback whales, which are sometimes ganged-up against by these sleek beasties and robbed of their tongues before being left to die without a song.

Mark my words: when killer whales evolve feet and the ability to organize farmers markets, if we are still around, we’ll be around for one reason only—to live in cages and have food shoved down our throats via tin funnels so our fattened livers may be harvested for foie gras slathered on orca crackers.

It’ll probably serve us right, no pun intended.

[Jonathan is busy writing and illustrating and finishing a whole slew of projects in preparation for upcoming major releases. Don’t expect a helluva lot of bloggin’ to get done unless something really strikes his fancy. Be patient. Marvelous things are on the way.]

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