This is Starr, Bumper, Orion, Comet and the new baby Orca “Nebula”. What an amazing video of my favorite Orca Pod, teaching the new baby girl, how to hunt and how to attack a Gray Whale. You can see that she is already very eager to learn and she has an awesome matriarch Mother that’s teaching her. Thank you for sharing this video. It’s incredible.
@@dannywilliams6290 Um, actually, this pod (CA51) is quite well known amongst those who study orcas, as well as amongst the community of regular citizens who just really like these jumbo-sized dolphins.
Richard Chandler, I agree with you! I've seen this pod before and it's so amazing to see how quickly she has learned! They work so beautifully together and I love how she stays close to mom's side. Great hunting lesson and exciting to watch!!!
@@mrbrady1981 On the YT channel Dr Ingrid N. Vissler. No one do so much for Orcas then she, she rescue orcas and study them since 30 years. The best Orca video footage coming from Miss Vissler, the new Go Pro Series is superbee. She also has exposed the machinations of Sea World many times, as recently with the stranded orca in Holland. It later ended up in a Sea World prison in the USA. They claimed he would have died otherwise. Ms. Vissler says stranded orcas can be cared for at least 4 weeks and watered daily so the skin does not burn. Sea World is a big liar.
7:43 - now *_that_* was completely unexpected! The level of understanding and coordination required to pull that maneuver off was remarkable. Two orca speed in towards the sea lion, flanking its position, then barrel rolling in opposite directions, slapping their tails against the sea lion at precisely the same time. Amazing creatures...
You wanna see amazing, watch a clip of orcas teaching their young to hunt seals on ice packs, the level.of intelligence it takes to pull that off is astounding.
It looks like this might have been a training session to teach the calf the different techniques that they use to get this particular type of prey. Idk for sure, it just seemed that way to me. I am in awe of Orcas and their familial bonds and hunting strategies.
I know right, it looks like they are training the calfs and notice how one big one maintain a distance as if to keep it from escaping while they train.
Yes that’s exactly what this is. Teaching hunting tactics depending upon what the prey may do. Much as some people learn by watching or hearing, there are others that learn from a hands on approach Scientists feel that orcas are considered more intelligent than every animal(perhaps even humans) and when comparing the brain to size ratio of orcas to other animals including us, they have the largest brains of any and all animals(sperm whales have the largest brain though, weighing on average 22lbs) and the emotion center of their brain(limbic system) is HUGE. I absolutely love orcas but hate when they attack whales. To see whales die makes me feel sick to my core, especially when all they want from the whales is their tongue. When they kill sharks all they eat are their livers and waste the rest of the animal 😭
The nature of the world is neither gentle nor kind. I understand that the orcas need to hunt to survive and to teach their young. But I always hope for some miraculous escape for the prey. Yes I'm conflicted. I can't help but admire the strategy of the whales to exhaust and cause massive internal injury to the prey while avoiding injury to themselves. Yet the seal clings to life, struggling to avoid the blows and gasp every life-giving breath. Fascinating and horrific at the same time.
I would disagree with the idea that the nature of the world is not gentle. There are many ways by which nature is gentle. Even here, as a mother protects her calf while teaching it. It's all in perspective.
My Ma was the nicest, little, old Asian lady and whenever she saw a hunting scene, especially involving a mother and its progeny, no matter what the circumstances, she'd say, "omg! Just leave em alone!" Lol... She grew up in Southeast Asia so it's not like she wasn't hip to how life and nature work, but she would still trip whenever she saw something like this on tv lol but later on if she saw another video of something hunting the hunter, she'd still see it the same way lol... She always did it from the POV of being a mom and the offense the mother of that animal would feel lol
I believe the orcas were 100% teaching the young in this clip. The poor seal is a sitting duck from the start and you can clearly see the mother doing dummy runs with the younger one having a go and the baby just watching. Amazing footage
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the large adults could have worn the seal down much quicker with their power and speed. But they seem to have left it as a training exercise for the juveniles, who were the most aggressive and energetic in the attacks.
Wow, to see an actual open water training session for the juvenile and baby girl! What an exhausting session for the seal...poor thing. It's cool to see the juvenile actually making the direct attacks, then the Matriarch and male incapacitating the seal over and over by flanking and striking it simultaneously with their flukes! It's ah-mazing! And its definitely an only "watch and learn" session for the new baby orca who stays close to its mom's side as she's seen mimicking their moves underwater. 😊 So cool. They are so incredibly intelligent and masterful hunters! That last coordinated attack by the adult orcas was so fast and efficient!
Absolutely! This was a pod of adults training a child in the art of identifying and incapacitating dinner. We need to remember that those adults need food too - about 500 lbs of it daily. But the goal today was training a child.
Orcas are truly THE Apex predator of the Oceans of the world. The group think and coordination they employ in their hunting algorithms is most impressive. The Sea Lion has no chance.
Absolutely in awe with orcas . I simply can’t get enough of these beautiful videos. Highly intelligent beautiful mammals. No captivity, everyone need not go to those places . Nothing educational but entertainment. They suffer and never live long enough like when they are free.
Lots of mock charges with the calf following along. Seems like they were teaching how this hunt works, and perhaps practicing their technique. Very interesting. It's good to see a healthy looking calf in their pod too.
Awesome footage. They could have killed that seal long ago, but it appears they were teaching the youngsters. A few of the big ones could have ended it at any time, but simply passed up on it for the younger ones. Great video!
I know when they are attacking large sea lions that do it very slowly and methodical as sea lions can do a lot of damage with their teeth, so they can attack it for an hour, exhausting it before they go in for the kill.
Yeah it doesn’t look fun, but that’s life. Also seals are very viscous animals( the most viscous being spotted leopard seals) which mess with prey just as the orcas and other dolphins do. Thankfully orcas have a bite force of 19,000 PSI which I believe is the strongest bite for any animal on this planet currently.
They are known to kill for " sport ", often prolonging the death of their prey to teach the younger members. It seems cruel but we as humans are the masters of killing other species for sport.
They do so for training purposes. It may seem cruel to us outsiders to watch, but babies need to learn fast. Even though orcas are seen as an apex predator, their calves are vulnerable. If a shark came to attack the baby it would need to know what to do in order to survive. In addition each maneuver the seal or prey makes could mean using a different tactic by the orca. Orcas emotion region of their brain is far larger than ours. Also orcas brains are the largest by ratio in the animal kingdom when compared to the size of the animal( sperm whales have the largest brains in the world weighing 22 lbs). Also I don’t think they’re prolonging the seals death for purposes of fun, although animals with higher levels of intelligence tend to act out in unlogical ways and I’m sure teenage orcas are no different than human ones.
Watching the little orcas learn is amazing…humans are not the only sentient beings…clearly. Watching the sea lion at the beginning of the vid swim or lay upside down so he could see underneath him was both interesting and horrifying…he knew what was coming. #nature
Great video! I think by the time the video starts, the sea lion already has suffered a major blow. There was little movement of the tail of the sea lion which tells that its back was already broken.
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Guys. I realize this video looks super sad but you have to understand that’s what they eat. There’s so much affecting our ocean now with pollution and loss of salmon for food, for these Orcas, Let’s just be glad that orcas still have something to eat. These training sessions happen all the time and I promise you that this particular pod eats everything they kill. Look, We butcher cow’s all the time for steak and burgers and nobody thinks that’s sad? Why not? Because it’s a cow?
14:25 While understanding that this is how the ecosystem and laws of nature work, with one species typically feeding on another, or even when a species feeds on its own (as bears, crocodiles, and alligators) to enhance the likelihood its genes will propagate over others, one must still have compassion for the sea lion in this video that experienced a long and arduous death. That being said, it is amazing how much the Orca calf learned throughout this hunting episode. At 3:32 the Orcas even have the calf on the inside (versus the outside as previously observed) where it could attempt a more consequential blow. Thanks to whoever filmed and edited this video. Too many have lame and annoying music and/commentary. And finally, thanks to @TylerReynolds for posting the video for all to sea! I'm looking forward to taking in more of your content soon. ✅Subscribed! ✅Liked!
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This is when they teach the young how to handle a live seal in open water which is harder for them believe it or not that’s why the older ones never let the seal swim down but great footage
If you notice the baby Orca is using it's tail like the adults. This could also be a teaching lesson for it. They don't want to risk getting a bite from the seal. So they are trying to stun/immobilize it before killing it. Or they are simply using there tails to do the killing. There are so many ways these "wolves of the ocean" operate when faced with different prey.
We know Orcas are highly intelligent and capable of emotions/feelings because we've seen them time and time again CLEARLY show their feelings for family members. It doesnt seem they have any empathy for other animals. I know they were most likely teaching the younger ones how to hunt.......but 16 mins of torture? Cruel
For the orcas as well as the sea lion, this is life and death. To the orcas, the sea lion is just food that can bite back, and they show it no more empathy than you would a carrot stick.
Reading the comments, it's interesting that some people were actually sympathizing with the seal. Watching predators hunt especially intelligent ones is fascinating. Respect for whoever took the time and filmed this.
No seal my friend. That's a Sea Lion,the same kind that occasionally attack people, the same kind that killed the woman researcher, biting her over and over and at the same time drowning her,dragging her down to depths over 100 feet deep then when shed get to the top he'd do it again, and again and again... Screw those evil bastards,I'm glad the Orcas tortured this beast.
Truly though its hard to accept something hunting the hunted especially when we try to envision ourselves as the prey, BUT it is an eat or be eaten world with predation ruling king. I am always on the orcas side until they attack whales; mainly because they believe whales to be sentient and highly intelligent and all orcas want to eat of whales are their tongues. Despite myself being a hunter I find this to be very sad. :(
Wow I know they herd them but it almost looks like they are knocking it about before they catch it properly, people fear sharks but I'd rather be munched on straight away by a shark than played with by these whales. Scary yet beautifully done by them as a team x
That's what I was thinking. There was so much time when 1 bite could have finished this sealion off. I know they're teaching their young but why take so long ?
To be truthful, I’d take my chances with an Orca, as I have yet to see an Orca attack a person. One day, I honestly want to swim with a wild Orca. It has become a fantasy of mines to one day do this. I just think that those Orcas are so majestic in nature and in attitude. I do feel bad for the sea lion 🦭 but it is the circle of life. That silly silly Disney and all of their Movies helped everybody to think or believe that life is like a cartoon ( Smh ) 🤦🏾♂️
Unfortunately, there may come a day when that young orca won't be able to rely on its family to provide it with food so it needs to master these skills. Mastering skills takes time and there isn't always room for empathy. It seems cruel to us because we are so out of touch with what the world is like for wild animals but to them, it isn't cruelty or torture. It is survival.
@@dawntaylor7802 Two things to remember - 1) A sea lion is also a predator, with sharp teeth, and can injure a careless orca. 2) Because of the way their teeth are shaped, an orca can't just 'take a bite' out of the sea lion. Orca teeth are best suited to holding onto their prey, and orcas have to rip their prey into pieces small enough to swallow whole.
@@shawnkincheloesr5192 There is only one recorded instance of a wild orca biting a human. In 1972, a surfer near Point Sur, California reported being bitten by an orca. His wounds needed over 100 stitches. Some experts believe it was a young orca that mistook the wetsuit-clad surfer for a seal.
However cruel this may be, humans are still the cruelest beast on our earth, sadly. Orcas are beautiful creatures of the seas and should "always be free where they belong"!! I do feel terrible for the sealion in its long enduring suffering. 😥 Have you seen how sealions hunt?? Also, not so nice. Yes, as many said, it is a brutal part of how they teach their young to hunt. I vividly recall watching"Orca" in 1977 with Richard Harris. At 5yrs old, not age appropriate. I still remember feeling so sad for the orcas even crying at sad parts. I recall seeing The Amityville Horror in theater the following year and was upset and crying only when they left the dog behind, which they do return for.
I have read quite a few of the comments and I believe all of you are pretty well on it's live or die and it's some other teaching the young how to hunt to survive without her at the same time you're always rooting for the underdog the seal is so small compared to these giant whales but how many of these orcas have we killed off there are hundreds of thousands of sea lions and very few orcas left matter of fact any whale we have hunted them all to almost extinct but it sure would be nice if you guys actually zoomed in and had some sound to it
@@TylerReynolds I'm very much a novice drone pilot. I have a phantom 4 pro. I've captured nothing exciting. Your footage is awesome. I was watching the footage imagining my battery going dead and me being angry. Ha!
They're not trying to kill it at teaching the young and exercise in the sounds of an animal in distress and possibly echolocation very patient and amazing animals
I wish whale and shark hunters could face the same fate as this seal, awesome footage of one of the worlds smartest and fiercest, love me some killer whales, sharks, Lions and tigers!
Go search "orca Lamalera" on RU-vid and have a good cry, hater! ....LOL!!! .... Your fellow humans kick butt over killer whales, sharks, lions and tigers!!
I’m obsessed with orcas!! I love watching these intelligent animals teach their young ones!! These animals are the APEX predators of the oceans yet they don’t WAR! With bigger brains and extra frontal lobe they are far superior than us!
"They are far superior to us!" No. WE are the apex predators ...of this solar system. The concept of "war" is beyond their intellectual understanding. These animals are probably no more intelligent than wolves (a primitive form of which they actually evolved).
Tadinha do bicho. Fiquei com pena pq as orcas demoraram para come-la. Que agonia em ver essa cena. Sei que é a lei da natureza. E amo as orcas. No início pensei: nossa! Essa foca pra tudo isso de orcas, não dá nem coceira nos dentes 😅 só no final que percebi que só uma comeu. Assim... Numa bocanhada só 😂😂😂 parabéns pra quem filmou issou. Um grande espetáculo.
This was nature at some of its harshness. Yet at the same time you see the love and patience as the adults teach the young the skills they need to survive. I cringed at each blow to that poor seal, but this was very interesting.
Does anyone understand what is going on? The seal seems to be alive and making to effort to get to shore. Two or three times the orcas seem to attack the seal, but there is no blood, and the seal still appears uninjured and moving leisurely, and not trying to leave the area. Does ANYONE understand?
Orcas don't really 'bite' their prey. An orca has teeth best suited for holding on to it's prey, and orcas have to rip their prey into pieces small enough to swallow whole. They can't just bite a flipper off. Also, remember that a seal/sealion is also a predator, with sharp teeth. While it may not be able to kill an orca, it can wound one, and the wound could become infected. Finally, there was the presence of the calf. Orcas do not instinctively know how to attack their prey. It is learned behavior, passed down mainly from mother to child. This was as much a training session for the calf as it was a hunt.
The seal seemed to have accepted it's fate at that point. The orcas managed to get it out in the open. There are more of them, and they are much faster as well. It would be hard for the sea lion to escape. Plus it's an opportunity for the older orcas to teach the young calf that you can clearly see among them.
U see them hurt it and stun it ,then leave it alone then comeback and fourth ,they know sea lions are big and powerful especially when fighting for there lives ,there just very careful
Couldn't have been too far could it at least I don't think they travel that far from land for this very reason. So sad but fascinating at the same time
I agree, I’m often sad my drone doesn’t pick up audio as well as video recordings, the whirring sound of the drone would take away from the sounds you want to hear, and would ultimately be a let down, in the end we probably wouldn’t get this footage without drones but I completely agree with your statement, I know this is a little late lol
As orcas fazem um treinamento ensina os filhotes, a presa já está sobre domínio e só uma questão de tempo pra ser devorada pela alfa. Desse modo eles estão mostrando como a liderança e importante pro grupo!!
