Killer whales attack and kill blue whale 

I know, right!

I’m glad they didn’t. This would be sad to watch

@@jesskrieger5625 But then the orcas die of starvation, a slow, agonizing, painful death. This is life itself in the most natural form, far far far away of this "reality" of me typing this comment.

Or a gopro atleast

@@jesskrieger5625 Hey, circle of life. Orcas gotta eat too.

You know, I've never thought of it like that before.

You know there are creatures we have never seen before down there probably even some bigger than a blue whale that never go up to the surface

Adoraria ver esses animais serem caçados de forma brutal e sanguinária odeio orcas

@@israymervalentin-arias6313yeah there may also be human civilization with gills

Why can’t you just fucking watch the video and appreciate it?

I was just thinking about the drone too that would've been spectacular!

And you could sell it as an NFT🤑

there is a chance the drones would impede on the hunt which would hinder the data the scientists are after.

@@randomnamehererandoname1727 there is likely already an "observer effect" by the presence of their ship, which may be altering their data. But yes, additional observation methods may compound the effect.

I think in this case the weather conditions would have made it difficult to see anything as well

Sahi kaha bhai

I think it too 💔

Indeed. It's the way of the universe.

​@@coldblackice it's part of the universe, it's not "the" way, it is "a" way

@@likeyouiam5996 I like your clarity

Bears do the same

@@wilmavanbeek1513, I never saw a bear kill a blue whale, did you?

Humans are a part of nature too. No more Prays Susanne. I want you to say the same thing next time a human hunts another human. That's nature!

Seriously! Good grief

Just think for a moment how difficult that would be without some state of the sub camera, let alone the visibility likely being shit. Such a camera has to get close and not freak the whales out/disturb them. The researchers probably have other more pressing things to fund regardless

They do. But their probably not uploading it for obvious reasons

​@@omgwaffles09 Dude, you could toss a few GoPros in the water and the footage would be great. Nobody's expecting a NatGeo quality camera, held by Sir David Attenborough as he swims between the whales, narrating the play-by-play for us. Though that'd be pretty metal

theyre super intelligent creatures they have brain of humans 😱😱😱

Can you believe young ladies rode them, with attacks being incredibly rare and usually from bullied/abused orcas? Now if you sneak into SeaWorld and try to molest them that's a different story

There were around 50 orcas

@@rohandsouza3563 Wow!

Thats because Blue whales dont know how to fight.

Dude, it's just how nature works.

@@gmatwater pretty sure it was a joke mate

@@callmeclove true! Sometimes you just don't know though. :-)

here we go lil goofy, beast monster, lol

They always show up where there's a kill. They eat the scraps.

@Martin Warford I myself am a Vegetarian, and an advocate for animal rights, but I don't mind the Orcas making the whale exhausted before killing, and eating it. Orcas are Subsistence Hunters, doing, and hunting animals for them, and their pods, since they hunted, and eaten only one adult blue whale, it reminds me so much of how Algonquins hunt one adult bison to feed their whole entire tribes. Orcas only hunt one adult blue whale, unlike those Mongol Inuits up in the Arctic North, who are indiscriminately overhunting endangered infant bowhead-whales, and narwhals to near extinction. Orcas are not a threat to blue whales, it is pollution, military sonar, and illegal whaling by humans, causing blue whales to be endangered, and this is having a bad effects on their predator, the transient orca(killer whale).

@Greg Ostertag nature /ˈneɪtʃə/ noun 1. the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.

@@smugestpengu Words often have multiple senses. You chose the first sense out of multiple. You need to learn how to identify the most appropriate one.

@Lt Dan you are correct! But humans killing other animals from pollution is not

@@smugestpengu I wonder when that definition was written, I would think in the last half of the 20th Century at the earliest. Humans are most definitely part of nature. People cannot have it both ways, if all life is as it is today from evolution, humans are and have been a part of that for eons. The other way, where Man was created, is the opposite of mankind being part of the evolutionary process.

@@DP-ot6zf He gave the definition implied by the comment he was replying to.

They're ocean birds.

From what I read, they were biting its fins and when the blue whale was trying to come up for air, they were jumping on top of it in an effort to drown it

It was a rainy day, they likely could not see more than a few meters far on the underwater camera

Yes, I thought of that, too. But the fact he was being chased probably meant he was expending oxygen much faster, so he couldn't stay down as long. He probably never had the chance to really take a deep breath and go down. Much the same way that land predators chase prey to exhaustion.

@@gmatwater Maybe we should not be protecting Orcas, they may be overbreeding and capable of taking out many species like bigger whales. We are interfering with the natural course either way. Native tribes used to hunt Orcas, Seals, and Sea Lions. Now that they are protected, the salmon population is being devastated.

@@gmatwater Agreed, likely explanation... linked with a few hunters always under the blue preventing dives

@@markslinger9042 orca have always been capable of taking out whales. The fact we finally have the evidence on film does not mean they are over-breeding. In fact in southern areas orca populations are shrinking. Over fishing pollution and boat noise all have effects on orca populations. And Native hunters barely dented orca numbers. Plus, different pods or families of orcas tend to have specialized feeding preferences. Those that mainly eat salmon have little interest in seals or sea lions, those that hunt seals are less likely to eat salmon. Resident populations will have favorite traditional food supplies, while transient pods may eat more variety. Orca are complex, we can't blame whale-hunting orca for salmon shortages. Take a look around the grocery store in any northern country - humans eat far more salmon than orca ever will.

@@markslinger9042 much like wolves, it is important to have a force to prevent blue whales from becoming too lazy

I thought the same...

Extra points for the Lord of the Rings movie reference. :-)

Haaa!!!! Doesn't matter who else knows, I see what you did there!

I don't think you realize that orcas are around 30ft in size. They're giants too.

@@AngryKittens , errado vc não está! Mais uma baleia azul , além de dócil sempre será a gigante rainha dos mares ! Consegue imaginar a dificuldade que uma baleia azul terá daqui pra frente,pra chegar na fase adulta, que são seus 20 metros de comprimento! Isso levará séculos,e as orcas vão perseguilas cada vez mais , isso pq a cadeia alimentar das orcas está diminuindo por dois principais fatores! A poluição e os grandes navios de pescaria industrial!

@@nelsinhocarloscamposnelsin3824 Orcas have always been predators of other dolphins and whales. Stop trying to apply HUMAN motivations to wild animals. Human overfishing of cetaceans is a completely different matter, unrelated to the specific culture (yes they have cultures) of certain orca pods. This particular pod hunts whales.

Perhaps we can reason with them.

@@johnnyspider2752 where's Dory to translate human to whale? 🤣

Killer Whales actually actively avoid attacking humans in the wild, there are no known fatal attacks by killer whales outside of captivity. So not likely to happen.

@@pootytangluvr619 and that's why they said, "imagine" meaning, use your imagination because nobody cares if it is realistic because it would be cool as fuck

@pootytangluvr619 ya, well that's why I said imagine and then talk about a movie.... I actually live in Victoria bc where a girl was killed by tillikum the killer whale... But thx for the info!

As long as it's not as bad as Orca

The orcas would be killed. So yeah. Nothing special.

B33f Panda Orcas are endangered as well, since there is only 47,000 transient orcas left, 2,000 resident orcas left, and 1,000 offshore orcas left. They are not threatening the blue whales population, since they are only killing one adult blue whale to feed their pod, which is subsistence hunting.

@Sumir Sookdeo The Orcas make the whale tired, and exhausted, much more humane than harpooning the whale. It is more humane than the beef industry, where calves are separated from their mother's to be slaughtered for veal.

We would hunt them to extinction, they’re the lucky ones

Heard something about they doing this so they can drown the whale to get inside and eat the tongue, lots of protein... orcas are more than clever

The larger whales going to have more of the parts that they eat first. Like the tongue.

@Marlon Agostini There is literally no scientific basis, nor evidence that Transient Orcas kill whales to get a thrill of it. They only killed one adult blue whale to feed their whole entire pod, that is subsistence hunting. Orcas killing for fun has already been proven to be a big fat myth. They move their seal prey around as a way to practice their hunting, they are not moving it around for fun. There parents teach them how to hunt, and they practice how to hunt by themselves by moving their dead seal prey in their mouth, they are intelligent just as us humans.

Why? Would it be better if the Orca starved to death because they didn't eat? This is the natural world.

Alen Selinof Nevertheless,I am sad...

@@alenselinof641 it's good to have a kind heart.

@@gmatwater Nothing else...Show (nature) must go on.

@@gmatwater it's sad to watch an animal die a slow painful death regardless of nature and the necessity of the death. sad =/= wrong

They have strategy always. I think research said one of rhe orc went inside of whale and eat his tongue

probably bit if all. Not 100% but there was another video of orcas hunting another type of whale where they go on top of their blowhole and block it.😲

Looks like their strategy is to focus attacks near the head to prevent the whale from surfacing to breathe.

I read somewhere that a few of them ram the whale from top and the others go for the head

A few of them will try to push the whale underneath the water whilst others literally swim into its mouth and start to eat its tongue. After a while it’s just a feeding frenzy

Well it wasn’t a fully grown one, these blue whales could grow like 30 feet more

Up the comments, yes

Those are only Bigg's Orcas of the Eastern Pacific that prey on baby whales. Other subspecies of Transient Orcas hunt adult whales. Not all Transient Orcas hunt whales. New Zealand, and Icelandic Orcas are examples of Transient Orcas that don't prey on whales.

only 10.000?

if you take only the homo sarpiens, Yes.

its sad because there are only a few blue whales left.. and i dont think people hunt rare animals for food anymore

@@jub8891 There is also few Orcas left in the world as well. These Orcas only took down one single adult blue whale to feed their pod, just like how the red man hunts one adult bison to feed their tribe. That is called subsistence hunting. Orcas are subsistence hunters, they are not a threat to blue whales, it is us when we are polluting the ocean, that is a threat to blue whales.

Nothing that we're aware of, they are the apex predator of the oceans, even hunting Great White Sharks.

Humans

That's like asking if we feel differently about a bull elk being eaten by wolves vs a cow elk. It's just Nature doing her thing. Orca have to eat, just like wolves. We humans don't get a vote. ;)

Killer whales can dive deeper than blue whales. 1000 feet vs 3500 feet.

Not every event in nature happens with all the right camera equipment handy. I figured we are lucky we got even this, considering how rare a sighting it is. Maybe there will be another time where they happen to have an underwater camera on board.

I think in this case it’s ok to assume whale suffered….

@MarcieJade yes, unfortunately it did. Predators are not humane in the way they hunt, whether we are talking about cats, coyotes or killer whales.

@@gmatwater again agreed ... we have polecams and drones but you can't always have favourable conditions - was stormy weather with rain & lightning. We are also wary of getting too close and disturbing the event - so captured little pole cam footage.

@Susan Endlich You are only against the subsistence hunting of one adult blue whale done by Orcas to feed their whole entire pod, but not saying anything about billions of cattles, lambs, swines, turkeys, chickens, geeses, and goats being slaughtered for meat, and market. Don't you know how cruel separating a calf, or a lamb from the mother for veal, or lamb meat, really is? Why are you not saying a word about this?

Cara, vc falou tudo! Também acredito q é o q está acontecendo! A natureza está mudando muito, graças as intervenções dos humanos! Só q para as piores mudanças! Outro exemplo também são os tucanos, q pela falta de frutas nativas, aprenderam a comer carne! Agora viraram grandes predadores de ovos e filhotes de outras aves! E por aí vai....

The fishing industry undoubtedly put pressure in the oceans ecosystems but orcas don't eat smal fish, they always eated larger pray like seals, whales, sharks, stingrays and so one. I never saw them kill an adult blue whale but it's pretty common for them to kill and eat juvenile whales. They just eat small fish when they are in enclosures for shows, not in the wild.

@@psykonect They other times have to hunt a Juvenile whale, and other dolphins, because they have a starving calf to feed. I don't like the idea about that, but they are still struggling to survive, since there is only 50,000 of their kind left, and nothing that could save them besides hunting whales, and other dolphins.

@Rogério Almeida Killer Whales are dolphins, not whales.

Orcas are not whales

@@usamakhan7856 the orcas killed a blue whale... did you even watch the video

@@callmeclove can you read English? He said whales whaling an endangered species. Last time I checked orcas are not whales. You maybe a bit slow up there but my statement wasn't that hard to decipher.

No. If that cause and effect actually existed, then there'd be a lot more observations of orcas eating blue whales.

Bacteria, decomposing dead killer whales

Nothing. They're the apex predator of the ocean. It's quite likely that they contributed to freaking Megalodon going extinct. They're the ultimate oceanbound hunter.

Nothing eats killer whale but an adult male sperm whale could probably kill one if there is a situation where’s no other options exist

@T K The Bull Sperm Whale makes a loud vibrational clicking noise that would kill the Orcas brain, which is why Orcas flee away when seeing a bull sperm whale making their louder clicks, to prevent themselves from dying. A Bull Sperm Whale would kill a pod of Orcas with only their louder clicking noise, not touching them, so Orcas don't attack sperm whales, but they do attack the world's largest known animal, the blue whale, to feed their pod, making them to be subsistence hunters of the sea, them making the whale to be exhausted is more humane than the whale being harpooned.

They do but there’s no documented case of an orca successfully killing a male adult sperm whale as there the only other true predator so they can actually bite back with massive damage than no orca is going to even try and most just avoid them

but the captivity of dolphins is just fine, right?

@@quentinparr151 dolphins r into gang rape

@@projectboylp so are humans, let’s cull them

@@quentinparr151 jeez thats some extreme kinks u got goin there bud

@@projectboylp it’s actually true. Dolphins are notorious for rape