Orcas off the coast of Mexico have devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks, and marine scientists have ...
Researchers have documented killer whales working as a team to prey on whale sharks in the Gulf of California.
Interestingly, while the lipid-rich livers are thought to be the primary target of these attacks, there was no photographic ...
For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...
Orcas’ physiology should hamper their ability to catch whale sharks. “They have lungs,” says Pancaldi. The whale shark, with gills, can do infinite lurks and dive 2,000 meters deep, while its mammal ...
Off the coast of Mexico, scientists have observed a pod of killer whales adapting new skills to help them hunt these docile ...
In the attacks, caught on video between 2018 and 2024, the orcas killed young whale sharks that gathered in the Gulf of ...
An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico has devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks — the ...
The orca attacks appear to be led by a large adult male, suggesting that he may be leading the charge on this predatory ...
The method of hunting may imply that some orcas in the Gulf of California have acquired a special set of skills–like going ...
Orcas, or killer whales as they are commonly known, are marine mammals known to display a range of intelligent behaviours. As ...