Orcas seen hunting rare beaked whales

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3107, 2017, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Killer whales off Australia have been seen killing and eating rare beaked whales--a behavior never observed before. Since 2014, a small team including Rebecca Wellard of Curtin University in Perth has been going out with commercial whale-watching boats to study killer whales off Australia s south coast. On four occasions, they have seen and photographed groups of up to 20 killer whales attacking lone beaked whales