Why aren’t hit-and-run attacks common in the animal kingdom? Surely a barracuda or shark could take a meal-sized chunk out of the back or belly of a whale before it could respond. The same goes for smaller pairings of animals.
• Hit-and-run attacks are seen in the animal world. Wounds from the teeth of cookie-cutter sharks have been seen on migrating whales that passed through the sharks’ habitat. One sei whale had more than 100 bite marks on it.
Other fish arguably qualify too. For example, white sea bream have been reported to take nibbles out of people paddling…
