Sentences with phrase «killer whale hunts»

Humpback whale rescue teams have been witnessed foiling killer whale hunts from Antarctica to the North Pacific.

Humpback whales have been witnessed foiling killer whale hunts from Antarctica to the North Pacific.

Although they may get lucky and see them a couple of times over the entire summer, they certainly won't be seeing them on a near - daily basis like we do along the western edge of the San Juan Islands in the prime killer whale hunting and feeding area.

Not exact matches

Pack - ice killer whales also live in the Antarctic but have the largest eye patch and hunt seals.

Stories on the social value of aging female killer whales, a frantic meteor hunt in the Australian Outback and the unusual brain of the world's greatest solo climber are among the winners of the 2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

Past studies of individuals near Hawaii and Costa Rica have found that false killer whales are social animals that can maintain friendships — swimming, hunting and cavorting — for years.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

Estes calls the hunt the «first concrete and well - chronicled example of killer whales coming in and doing a significant amount of damage to a population.»

Learning from Inuit hunters that killer whales use specific methods to hunt bowheads, beluga, narwhal and seals, Ferguson discovered at least two different killer whale groups based on prey preferences.

The most common type spotted in the Monterey Bay is the transient killer whales who will hunt seals, sea lions, dolphins, porpoises and whales (typically gray whale calves and minke whales).

The killer whales time the gray whales» migration and often hunt the calves in Monterey Bay.

They're frequently found scavenging near hunting killer whales.

The 4 killer whales we'd followed for 7.5 miles must have taken off running the second they heard this distant group of killer whales beginning their hunt (sound travels extremely well in water).

Black estimates there are between 60 and 70 in the area now, and they're known to get involved in the killer whales» hunts.

Killer whales are also found along the coast, especially when Gray whales migrate, as they hunt the whales during their migration north.

Of the many creatures that abound in the vicinity, the killer whales, Stellar sea lions, eagles and seals will frequently hunt along the kelp forest just in front of camp.

This is where the killer whales do nearly all of their hunting and playing.

Although Ingrid's studies take place in New Zealand, the hunting techniques she describes are very similar to those used by killer whales pursuing seals in the San Juan Islands of Washington: cooperative herding, surpise attacks, and powerful blows from the flukes to deal the death blow.

Meanwhile, the «transient» killer whales that also use the San Juan Islands for hunting, have dramatically increased in recent years to more than 260.

Despite the killer whales» pattern of more widely ranging hunts in late summer, our one day kayaking tours operate exclusively along the west side of San Juan Island as this remains the primary feeding area and offers us the best statistical chance of finding orca whales in any month.

The kayak camping trips are only slightly affected by the changing hunting tactics of the killer whales.

In 89 percent of the recorded incidents, the humpbacks seemed to intervene only as the killer whales began their hunt, or when they were already engaged in a hunt.

«They (killer whales) learn different methods of hunting from different areas so it's passed on through the generations,» she said.

«They learn early because it's pretty dangerous for the killer whales to hunt a gray whale because the mother gray whale can slam them with their fluke,» Black said.

«The gray whale population has gotten bigger over the last 20 years and the killer whales have gotten better at hunting the gray whale calves,» she said.

With huge metabolic demands — and large populations before humans started hunting them — great whales are the ocean's ecosystem engineers: they eat many fish and invertebrates, are themselves prey to other predators like killer whales, and distribute nutrients through the water.

Summer ice breakup on western Hudson's Bay now occurs two weeks earlier than it did 20 years ago, and killer whales have moved their hunting into the bay.

(4) The rapid decrease of summer sea - ice cover allows increasing numbers of killer whales to use the Canadian High Arctic as a hunting ground.

It is widely known that Killer whales have a wide food spectrum; they hunt seals, sea lions and other marine mammals.

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Moose have very few predators on land and only one marine predator, the killer whale; killer whales have been observed hunting moose migrating between islands in the Pacific Northwest.