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When Killer Whales and Humans Hunted Together - YouTube

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Killer Whale Species Profile, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

When preying on large animals such as gray or humpback whales, the killer whales may attack as a pack, tearing away at the prey animal from several angles. When ...

Orcas: Facts about killer whales - Live Science

Orcas are apex predators, at the top of the food chain. No animals hunt orcas (except for humans). Killer whales feed on many different types of prey.

Why Are Killer Whales Ripping Livers Out of Their Shark Prey?

“One of the best well-known examples is from Eden, New South Wales, Australia, where whalers and killer whales cooperatively hunted baleen ...

KILLER WHALE - National Marine Mammal Foundation

Type 2 killer whales specialize in cetacean prey including dolphins, porpoises and baleen whales such as minke whales (Foote et al., 2009). • The diet of ...

Orcas (Killer Whales) - MarineBio Conservation Society

Much like packs of wolves or prides of lions, orcas often hunt cooperatively in pods for food. They work together to herd prey into a small area before ...

A review of Killer Whale interactions with other marine mammals

The diverse feeding habits of Killer Whales Orcinus orca have fascinated biologists and ... Do Killer Whales always eat the prey they've killed? Surplus killing ...

Wild Killer Whales in Monterey Bay

Nancy Black, marine biologist for Monterey Bay Whale Watch, has been studying the killer whales for close to 25 years and her work with these whales and as they ...

Moose - Wikipedia

Predators of moose include wolves, bears, humans, wolverines (rarely, though may take calves), and (rarely, if swimming in the ocean) orcas. Unlike most other ...

Killer Whale | NOAA Fisheries

Killer whales often use a coordinated hunting strategy and work as a team to catch prey. They are considered an apex predator, eating at the top of the food web ...

How Orcas Act As A Natural Predator To Moose - Unofficial Networks

Despite moose being land mammals and orcas, or killer whales, being ocean mammals, orcas have been known to hunt and kill moose. ... Orcas are ...

Killer whale predation in a multi-prey system - ResearchGate

In conclusion, the best strategy supported by our. modelling is for killer whales to stay with the nursing. segment of the Eastern Canada-West Greenland bowhead.

The summer diet of fish-eating killer whales in the Avacha Gulf of ...

Since then, Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) have been the main killer whale prey for the fish-eating ecotype in Avacha Gulf (Nagaylik el al., 2012). Detailed ...

Under a new proposal, our local orcas — resident and Bigg's killer ...

Since the 1970s, scientists in the Puget Sound region have been studying the differences between two types of killer whales: the so-called ...

Killer Whales as Predators of Large Baleen Whales and Sperm ...

Killer whale attacks on gray whales were said to be “fairly common” during the summer months in the Bering Strait region. (George et al. 1994: 252; also see ...

Killer Whale | Tap Reef Wiki - Fandom

Since some killer whales prey on large whales and sharks, they are considered to be apex predators. They are sometimes called the wolves of the sea, because ...

How the Killer Whale Avoids Eating People, Helped 19th-Century ...

It didn't seem possible that there were only a few hundred orcas in the region. ... And their prey includes much larger whales—like minkes, grays, ...

A review of Killer Whale interactions with other marine mammals ...

Killer Whales are well-known as predators of other marine mammals, including the large Sperm and baleen whales. Members of all marine mammal families, ...

A review of Killer Whale interactions with other marine mammals

The diverse feeding habits of Killer Whales Orcinus orca have fascinated biologists and ... Do Killer Whales always eat the prey they've killed? Surplus killing ...

What Do Killer Whales Eat? | A Brief Overview

The killer whale is considered an apex predator (able to hunt without fear of being hunted themselves) and is the largest known marine mammal to attack and ...