A killer whale surfaces beside a small boat, a freshly caught fish clamped in its jaws. It releases the fish near the hull, ...
A TikTok video is giving viewers a front-row seat to an incredibly close encounter with the ocean: an orca circling a fishing ...
Orcas have been known to display an array of anthropomorphic-seeming behaviors, from playing to mourning and even scuttling boats. Now, killer whales have been observed making out in the wild for the ...
These recent orca interactions have shocked scientists and sailors across the Atlantic. Multiple pods of 8-ton killer whales ...
Wild orcas, also called killer whales, have been seen giving gifts to humans, approaching them either in boats or on the shore with an offering in their mouths — perhaps as an act of “kindness,” ...
Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...
J17 Princess Angeline, a member of J-Pod in the endangered population of Southern Resident Killer Whales, swims through Haro Strait with her calf J53 Kiki in tow.© Monika Wieland ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...