Animals and Pets
Amazing Orca Vid | Killer Whales Work Together as a Team!
This video is outrageous. As the host mentions, this type of behavior has only been witnessed a few times in history, and now we are lucky enough to watch it on video.
In the video, a group of orcas is shown working together to teach their children a technique in trapping a seal. The seal has escaped from the killer whales onto a chunk of ice in the water.
The orcas work as a team and swim under the ice, creating a wave that will hopefully wash the seal off of the ice and back into the water. Their technique works! After the whales chase the seal in the water, they return it to the chunk of ice.
It seems as though they didn’t want to eat the seal—they just wanted to take the opportunity to teach their kids how to hunt. Nature is absolutely amazing!
If you feel the need for more sea soaked violence then check out these angry white sharks.
Alisa
March 22, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Typical CNN “reporting.” The “happy ending” wasn’t so happy. At least not for the seal.
What CNN neglected to show you is that after the orcas put the seal back on the ice the young whales then repeated the wave technique and ate it.
Yet another reason why CNN should never be trusted as a factual news organization. Sure, you didn’t NEED to know the seal gets eaten but for them to flat out say that it doesn’t when the rest of the video shows that it does is a blatant lie!
It doesn’t take away from the fact that it was a fascinating display of a rarely seen hunting technique.