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“This Orca Likes Sharks” is the 20th episode of Season 4 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 112th episode of the series overall. It premiered on April 11, 2017.
Synopsis[]
After a run-in with a dangerous bull shark in a Costa Rican river, the Kratt brothers find a bottle with an old map inside. The map shows the travels of a legendary orca that supposedly specializes in eating large sharks. To find out if the story of the shark-eating orca is true or not, Chris and Martin join a pod of orcas and use the newly upgraded Dolphin Decoder to communicate with them. The Wild Kratts soon discover that orcas are powerful, intelligent predators that can prey on almost any other animal in the sea. But when a great white shark threatens an orca calf, the shark is eaten by none other than Old Sharktooth, the legendary shark-hunting orca!
Characters[]
Animals[]
Animated[]
Featured animals are in bold
- Orca: Old Shark Tooth, Swirly
- Jaguar: Shadow
- Plumed Basilisk (called Basilisk lizard)
- Brown-throated Sloth (called Sloth)
- Geoffroy's Spider Monkey (called Monkey)
- Scarlet Macaw (called Macaw)
- Bull Shark
- Mangrove Snapper
- Brown Pelican (called Pelican)
- Yellowfin Tuna (called Tuna)
- Giant Squid
- Great White Shark
Live Action Videos[]
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
- Tiger shark
- Oceanic whitetip shark
- Shortfin mako shark (called Mako shark)
- Common remora
Live Action[]
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
- Lion
- Siberian tiger
- Komodo dragon
- Brown bear
- American crocodile (called Crocodile)
- Gray wolf (called Wolf)
- Arctic wolf (called Wolf)
- White-tailed deer (called Deer)
- American bison
- Caribou
- Muskox
- American black bear (called Black bear)
- Cougar (called Mountain lion)
Trivia[]
- The Dolphin Decoder from "Speaking Dolphinese" reappears and has been updated to translate orca.
- The scenes of the grizzly bear come from the Kratt Brothers' previous (non-PBS) show Be the Creature.
- When Chris mentioned “oceanic whitetip”, he actually showed live-action footage of a whitetip reef shark.
Key Facts and Creature Moments[]
- Orcas are the largest type of dolphin, and are the apex predators of the ocean.
- Orcas are sometimes called killer whales, because they are such fierce hunters of other marine animals.
- Orcas are also known as wolves of the sea due to their group hunting behaviour.
- Just like most dolphins, orcas are highly intelligent and social predators that live and hunt in pods.
- Orcas are the only predators of adult great white sharks.
- Bull sharks are one of only two species of sharks that can live in freshwater rivers.
- A pod of orcas attacking and eating a giant squid.
- An adult male orca killing and eating two great white sharks.
Gallery[]
