This is a disturbing development in what is now quite a long-running story of orcas (killer whales) attacking small boats in the Mediterranean Sea. To an outsider like me it appears very deliberate and it also appears that they are defending their territory. That’s a …
Sperm whales have been observed using a unique defense mechanism against orca attacks, known as defensive defecation. This behavior was witnessed off the southern coast of Western Australia, where a pod of sperm whales was being hunted by orcas. When the sperm whales seemed to …
I think we need to get to the bottom of this ongoing behavior of killer whales (orcas) ramming boats firstly off Spain and Portugal and more recently off Shetland, in the North Sea. It is believed that the killer whales in the south have passed …
