I didn't know this but some orca pods hunt dolphins as their main prey.
Professional photographer Jodi Frediani was out on Monterey Bay when she caught a sequence of photos of a dolphin hunt. The pod corralled a dolphin, then a mother orca swam up from underneath and smashed the dolphin right out of the water high in the air with a head butt, then dived back in the water underneath her two juveniles. The dolphin was knocked unconscious and when it landed back in the water the juveniles killed and ate it. Talk about "nature red in tooth and claw!!!"
Here's a picture of the dolphin shooting up in the air
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More photos can be seen in this article http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...flips-dolphin/
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