Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...
Discover how human whalers and killer whales teamed up to hunt on the Australian coast in what is known as the Law of the Tongue.
In the North Pacific, orca fins with signs of cannibalism are washing up on a Russian beach. The findings suggest that killer whales occasionally participate in cannibalism, which might explain why ...
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Historically, killer whale diet research relied on surface sampling of prey fragments, usually scales, helping researchers to determine primarily salmon species. Newer techniques that analyze DNA in ...