Sperm whales reacted to being attacked by a pod of vicious orcas by doing what anyone else would in their shoes: shitting themselves violently. Observed by scientists on a tourist expedition off the southern coast of Western Australia, the distressed pod of sperm whales — which are themselves fearsome predators, mind you — unleashed a […]
A group of sperm whales being hunted by killer whales used a unique defense tactic: pooping in the faces of their predators. Don't knock it 'til you try it!
“There really is this extraterrestrial quality to sperm whales,” says Patrick Dykstra, a cinematographer with a fascination for underwater sea life. His interest in whales — and his interactions with them — are captured in the latest installment of the PBS series “Nature.” “Patrick and the Whale” has an appealing, low-key sensibility that’s missing from similar but more frantic programming .