(Photo : Elianne Dipp)
The orcas were biting the jaw of the blue whale, trying to get hold of its tongue. In a struggle for about an hour, as many as 70 killer whales tracked down and killed a blue whale off the southwestern coast of Australia, according to a marine biologist who witnessed the astonishing, a bit of disturbing and actually mind-blowing incident occur.
(Photo : Silvana Palacios)
Whale Watching
Initially, it appeared like a usual day of whale watching, Kristy Brown, a marine biologist with Naturaliste Charters, a company that owned whale-watching tours located in Western Australia revealed. Brown wrote in a blog post of March 16 that the vessel occurred upon two pods of orcas in Bremer Bay Canyon, around 45 kilometers (28 miles) away from the coast, that was playing and surfing the waves.
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A gang of orcas attacked a humpback whale for 4 hours and took his dorsal fin but not his life.
In Australia, whale watchers spotted a rare sight last week when two pods of orcas ganged up and attacked a healthy young humpback whale. As stated by the Sydney Morning Herald, the humpback whale, which is a 2- to 3-year-old male, survived the attack, even though they took his dorsal fin.
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The Whale Watchers
Gemma Sharp, the joint owner of Australia Whale Watcher, who was present at the scene during the attack on Feb.17, 2021, told the newspaper that they knew they were witnessing something significant. The gang of orcas was in all-out attack mode and the humpback whale was desperately trying to protect itself.