Sentences with phrase «orca hunting»

Orca hunting techniques are passed down from adult to baby and often these attacks are training for the little ones.

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.

About thirty seconds into the video, you can see the pod of nine orcas hunting the gray whale calf.

Orcas hunt gray whales off the Pacific Northwest coast near Oregon, USA.

Not exact matches

They point out that the orcas» hunting tactics for the two types of prey differ dramatically and are learned behaviors — cultural differences that may also help drive populations apart.

Lucky sightseers may catch a glimpse of larger cetaceons, including visiting whales and hunting orcas.

Haro Strait is where the orca whales most frequently hunt and travel in the San Juan Island as they spend the summer months foraging for salmon in Washington.

Freckles the Humbpack Whale encounters a group of mammal hunting Orca.

This group of mammal hunting Orcas moved slowly through the area, passing one of the Pacific Harbour Seal haul - outs and likely making at least one kill.

We had 2 clans of orcas instantly, Wayne shut down the vessel, the hydrophone was deployed, and we watched and listened to these 2 families hunt salmon as they passed by the vessel.

On the move, these mammal hunting Orca suddenly changed speed and direction as they moved towards a large group of Pacific White - sided Dolphins.

«I am sure sharks would get scared of the sound of something that regularly hunts them, but I don't think many sharks in the tropics have to worry much about Orcas.

In fact, both Southern and Northern Resident orcas have a selective palate and prefer Chinook salmon (the best and fattiest salmon) over other species, going so far as to hunt for Chinook salmon specifically.

Orca whales are returning to their spring salmon hunting habitat on the west side of San Juan Island right now.

Our San Juan Islands kayaking tour route is one of very few places in Washington where salmon congregate in sufficient numbers to make hunting easy for orcas.

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.

Though once hunted to extinction from the area, humpbacks have returned to the area as a tremendous success story, and are almost more common than orcas!

Another event, involving a pair of humpback whales attempting to save a gray whale calf from a hunting pod of orcas after it had become separated from its mother, was captured by BBC filmmakers.

Orcas have been witnessed hunting humpback whale calves in much the same way that they hunt gray whale calves.

Orcas share their prey with the rest of the group, including members that didn't take part in the hunt, Black said.

April is the best time to experience orcas on the hunt, as they attack gray whales, sea lions and other marine mammals in the bay.

It seems clear from the data that the humpback whales are choosing to interact with the orcas specifically to interrupt their hunts.

Orca whales can make sudden course changes or choose to hunt in a different location.

The resident orcas regularly hunt in a loop between the two sites, sometimes up to five times a day!

Local whale biologists have gotten a full set of identification photographs for the entire clan and have determined that two orcas did not survive the winter after they left the Salish Sea of Washington state to hunt in the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.

More recent trips caught footage of a pod of orcas teaching its young how to hunt, which digitally raced around the world of marine mammal scientists, participated in a penguin census, and logged polar bear and whale identification photos for researchers who track global populations of these animals.