Orcas in different parts of the world eatdifferent varieties of meat and fish, but they all are carnivorous.Adult orcas can eat up to 4% of their body weight every day. Thatmeans if an adult male orca weighed 9,000 pounds it could eat 360pounds of fish and meat everyday. Some of the things orcas eat aresea birds, whales, seals, sea lions, walruses, sea otters, penguins,salmon, cod, flat fish, hake, herring, smelt, and squid. Orcas do notchew their food. Their teeth are made for tearing meat into piecesbut not for chewing, so they just swallow the chunks whole.

Orcas are the hunters of the oceans. Orcas hunttogether in their pod much like a pack of wolves. They surround theirprey on all sides before coming in for the kill. Orcas are very goodat getting their food, they can even come out of the water and slideup onto the ice or sand to kill their prey and then slide back intothe water with their food. A pack of ocras will attack, kill, and eatother whales much larger than themselves.