Searching False Bay in South Africa, to observe the rare hunting habits of Killer Whales in the area Subscribe to Discovery UK for more great clips: ru-vid.com_c... Follow Discovery UK on Twitter: / discoveryuk
It is actually rather quite alarming the behavior of orcas, going after the other mammals, but most explicitly the speed whales, which are the only beings on our planet capable of keeping the giant cephalopods in check. Very alarming times...
Mate, there's a bay in Donegal in Ireland called 'The Bloody Foreland' famously a pack of orcas met a shoal of dolphins and wrecked them till the beach turned red. Name has been there for longer than my lifetime. Don't think this is as new a phenomena as implied.
Yes there's a poster whose family have been fisherman in False bay going back over 50 years and he says they've always hunted dolphin there. This guy is talking cobblers. Middle class person discovers something and it's "new" 🙄
CocoCarla 10 From a taxonomy standpoint they are, in fact, dolphins. Whales have dorsal fins as well, making it an invalid way of telling them apart. All whales, dolphins and porpoise are a part of the Cetacean Family. The main difference is the number of blow holes and the presence of baleen or teeth for feeding. Whales have two blowholes and baleen while dolphins have a single blow hole and teeth. Porpoise closely resemble dolphins but have smaller beaks, triangular dorsal fins (as opposed to hooded), flat teeth (as opposed to round), have a higher percentage of body fat and are significantly less chatty.
Orcas are part of the dolphins family, which are a branch of the tooted whales. But they’re still whales. It’s very easy to verify on any legit website or textbook. The number of blow holes, their size or the presence of baleens are by no means the criteria to be a whale.
I wonder if the Orcas use Dave's boat to help find the Dolphins every April - June. Highly intelligent Asymmetric thinking creatures. Skimming the boats maybe a way of saying "thanks" (see you tomorrow) or "good by" (see you next season). And orcas hunting dolphins or other creatures (otters, deer, seals, etc.) are not to unusual.
Idk why I'm so fascinated by these sadistic creatures, but I guess it's because I grew up going to Sea world and watching these majestic animals show how intelligent and beautiful they are, up close. Seals are by far my favorite animal so it's really hard to watch orcas hunt and kill them, but I'm still amazed at it and love to see how brilliant they are. Another part of me is blown away by how they are called whales, but are really a porpoise, yet they will hunt and eat other porpoise and even the ultimate predatory fish, sharks(or great whites and tigers)
Orca really are the Ted bundy of the ocean; they're a cold, calculated killer, but some people are like "they're so good looking and charismatic though"
Reminds me of a “documentary” I watched about a whale watching group that saw killer whales hunting a humpback, the entire documentary made the event sound like a tragedy.
Sorry daughter, I know your wedding day is special but, this is science... Lol.. I would have beat the life out my father if he didn't show up to my wedding with that excuse.. Lol
Killer whales scare the shit outta me but I admire how powerful and majestic they are. Such smart and powerful animals but I’d shit myself even being on a boat next to them
I hate seeing this!😫. I can remember the countless videos that I watched where Dolphins are the one s that guide his humans from sharks or other apex predators in the sea. Now this!!😫. I hope Dolphins don't go extinct😴😖
Why don't the orcas just eat each other? They are basically doing the same when eating dolphins since orcas are part of the dolphin family and not whales like their name says. It's weird to think that in the ocean there's a wide variety of things to eat that aren't of the same species yet these orcas seem to be a bit cannibalistic and have a small menu of things that they eat.
Orca's have a large menu of things they eat. Seals, Dugongs, Birds, Dolphins, Shark livers, Squid, Turtles, Rays, Fish and least to mention Whales, deriving from their notorious nickname. They'll actually eat just about anything, aside from Humans, at least when we humans don't put them inside of fishbowls. Their nickname, if not for the Spanish sailors who witnessed them killing whales, should really have been Sea Wolves, considering the similarities. Super intelligent cetaceans who do not view themselves on the same side of the food chain as the striped dolphin.
Killer whales are extremely efficient killers and hunters. They love to hunt and attack in pods. They are extremely intelligent hunters just like the dolphins are. It’s crazy how people think Orcas are these calm, loving, peaceful whales and they are the opposite. They are prolific hunters. For Great Whites to fear you it says a lot about your reputation. And dolphins are so cute. I hate watching them be attacked but hey it’s nature. Us humans kills a lot more animals for food purposes and sometimes for other purposes which are pretty stupid like cloths and oil. Anyways blessings to all. Enjoy these documentaries which are awesome.
No its not. Killer Whales and Common Dolphins are both in the same family, but they are NOT the same species. Cannibalism is when an animal eats its own kind. I.E. lions, chimps, preying mantis, ect. Killer Whales simply dont engage in such a taboo thing.
Okay what is going on with Orcas?! They’re exhibiting behaviors and traits that weren’t heard of (for the most part from what I can tell) prior to the mid-90’s! You have completely odd behaviors in pods that are no where near each other yet the oddities continue! First was the initial sighting in mid 90’s when the female orca killed the first white shark. That’s now been repeated multiple times. You have orcas from/around Russia where white orcas are surviving well into adult lives on top of the number of them increasing! Then there’s the duo ‘Port & Starboard’ who are in the wild yet both have malformed/floppy dorsal fins. Now there’s this where orca are putting dolphins on the menu using some seriously impressive moves! What the hell is causing all of this?!
Nothing is causing this. Orcas have always been intelligent apex predators and they adapt to survive. The media sells you the idea of animals being all kind and gentle when in reality is the opposite, and people felt for it. The same happens with dolphins, panda bears and koalas.
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The Kalk Bay fisherman and trek fisherman have witnessed this throughout the fishing periods in False Bay. Strand fisher and trek fisherman have seen these pods of killer whales coming in from Hangkilp and moving off the deep of Wolgat, chasing dolphins. The older fisherman talk about pods of killer whales up to 50 strong. My uncle Jeff, a fisherman who grew up in Kalk Bay, witnessed these orca pods, when he was only 19 years of age. He was a sardine pursain mate on the boats in False Bay, Hout Bay, Stompneus Baai, Walvis Bay and Las Palmas, Canary Island. He left the purseiners and started trekking in False Bay, from Macassar to Muizenberg. Oumatjies are his trek boats. I remember as a young boy of about 10 or 11 years, riding back from trekking at Macassar, with the crew and my brother, and my uncle stopping the Ford and trek boat in the high slopes of Wolf Gat, and everyone got out to watch a pod of killer whales chasing the shoal of dolphins, in the deep and heading westly. A lot of these trek fisherman, 20 December 2021, are still alive today. And the United Nations and Climate Change Activists, keep saying listing to the information of the Elders. If you truly want to gain insight into the history of movement of knowledge of False Bag, they heed the words of the United Nations and Climate Change Activists, and seek the wisdom from the Elders.
Amazing, Douglas, thanks for your insight. I definitely agree in the value of the of elders' knowledge. I would love to hear more about the change these fishers have have lived through and witnessed in False Bay.
Thank you for posting! So interesting. So are you saying that Orca hunting dolphin is NOT a new phenomenon,as this man is claiming? I'd love to know what your uncles think about his claim!
I watched this full doc on TV and couldn't understand why does the skipper insist on steering his boat through the pod, over dolphins. Why not give nature some space??
This is what happens when the seas are over fished... Remember when Orca's were best known for hunting Tuna? Or Salmon? We're losing our sea at an alarming rate.
Im pretty sure orcas hunt different prey depending on their location. Some hunt seals, some hunt salmons while others go for whales, sharks, even dolphins. They're the apex predators of the ocean so it's an open menu, really
Chaptor no, no they aren't. dolphins are a completely separate species as far as I know. I mean they have evolutionary similarities but also great differences. Anyways my point is a whale biologist wouldn't study orcas unless they were also a dolphin biologist
Elijah Hanson You’re using the word species here. A species would be something like a common dolphin or a bottlenose dolphin. They do however happen to be part of the same natural clade, cetacea. Upon further inspection of the matter it appears that people are in fact split on the question at hand, just like the two of us. I presume the sources of which we learned these facts from were varied in their belief of wether dolphins were whales or not. As a conclusion I believe that I can say with relative certainty that neither of us are completely correct or right. Thoughts?
Well it is easy to verify by looking it up at basically any serious scientific page (or even Wikipedia). Dolphins (including orcas) belong to a parvorder of cetaceans called toothed whales which also includes beaked whales and sperm whales for example. So, yes, orcas are undoubtly toothed whales, therefore they're whales.
The Orca probably originally came to hunt Great White sharks in false bay, but took advantage of the dolphins, too. Probably since we're depleting fish numbers they've been forced to find new prey.
I’m sure Orcas hunting dolphins is nothing new. It’s just the fact that we are what is new on this earth! Orcas have been here a lot longer than us and have probably done many things we still don’t know about.
As a daughter who doesn't have the choice of having her father at her wedding due to him dying last year, I find his statement completely repulsive. I would give anything for my dad to be there. Shame on him.
Thanks to overfishing they kill their own kind?? This is sick. But they are not called killer whales for nothing. I hope humans are not on their food plan soon
@@trumpflavourednugget9325 Orca's belong to the dolphin family.Do your reasearch!!! The biggest dolphin's. And all orca's don't eat marine mammal's, only transient orca's. And I am a female+ no need to be rude and arrogant when you are wrong, too.
@@horse-lover68 I never said Orcas aren't dolphins, maybe learn how to read. My point is they're a different type of dolphin. Just as sharks are a different type of fish. Also cannibalism is actually quite common in nature so even if this was cannibalism it wouldn't be unorthodox.
Even with the numbers, dolphin mouths wouldn't do any damage at all because they are designed to catch fish. Orca jaws are made to rip big chunks of flesh.
