Sentences with phrase «of killer whales attacking»

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.