Sentences with phrase «killer whales attacked»

A week of insane whale sightings in Monterey Bay got even crazier Wednesday when a pod of nine killer whales attacked a gray whale calf right in front of a whale watching tour boat.

Researchers have observed humpback whales defending smaller sea animals from killer whale attacks: pic.twitter.com / rCmJVNiiKm

Finally, the team calculated that the dozen observed killer whale attacks on otters, extrapolated to the general population, could account entirely for the observed declines.

Observers on a NOAA Fisheries marine mammal survey some 200 miles off the coast of Central California had spotted the telltale signs of a killer whale attack through high - powered binoculars a few miles away.

They often have scars from leopard or killer whales attacks.

Whale watchers say there has been uncommonly high whale and orca activity along the Monterey coast in recent weeks, with video crews documenting attempts to fend off killer whale attacks.

In May 2012, researchers observed a pod of killer whales attacking a gray whale and its calf in Monterey Bay, California.

So the calf had survived this killer whale attack and died much later of other causes.

In early April, a Pacific Whale Watching Association crew even reported a young transient killer whale attacking two 40 - ton gray whales in Puget Sound.

Not exact matches

«A lot of the attacks are unsuccessful, but our research indicates that killer whales almost always test humpbacks,» says John Calambokidis, a research biologist at the Cascadia Research Collective, which does marine mammal studies in Puget Sound, as well as in the eastern and North Pacific.

In this image, killer whales cruise past the scene of their attack on another whale, spotted by a NOAA Fisheries research survey late last year.

A legless life after a trained killer whale has attacked her.

Whishaw, who got his breakthrough in the adaptation of the serial killer novel Perfume, is playing Herman Melville in the Ron Howard - directed The Heart Of The Sea, the Warner Bros film that stars Chris Hemsworth about the actual whale attack that spawned Melville's Moby Dick.

While we haven't observed an attack, we've observed the killer whales feeding on 3 different gray whale calves on different days and in different locations.

We believe there are around 25 - 30 individual killer whales which are split into separate matriarchal pods that have been involved in these attacks.

Multiple killer whales were zooming in and out of the area when we turned our attention to the south to see even more killer whales porpoising our direction, eager to arrive at the attack site.

Killer whales are on an unprecedented killing spree in California's Monterey Bay, attacking and feeding on gray whale calves, a marine biologist said.

Killer whales have been known to attack California grays, including several assaults in the Monterey Bay area.

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.

Some excited boaters today confirmed an attack by killer whales on an adult gray by videotaping the encounter.

Black, who co-owns Monterey Bay Whale Watch, says a family of nine killer whales has taken part in all of the attacks, but the first killing involved 33 orcas.

The problem for the gray whales is they have to cross a 6,000 - foot - deep depression, called the Monterey Submarine Canyon, at Point Pinos, allowing the highly intelligent killer whales to attack them in groups from below

Attacks directed towards calves have been observed; adult gray whales often try to position themselves between the killer whales and the calf in order to protect it, and they may also head for shallow waters and kelp beds to take refuge from the attackers (2).

She could have a focused attack, drop seeker bombs or an ink wall, and have an ult attack with either the killer whale or a nice long - range AOE attack with inkstrike.