Orca pods are led by the founding matriarch, and Similä thinks these “wise mothers” teach their calves to avoid fishing boats ...

The post Orcas Beach Themselves to Hunt and It Works About Half the Time appeared first on A-Z Animals. The idea of beached marine life is horrifying. The act is often associated with ill animals and ...

Orcas in Mexico’s Gulf of California have been filmed flipping juvenile great white sharks, extracting their livers, and sharing the organ with calves in the pod. The same selective technique has now ...

For one group of orcas in the North Atlantic, hunting is a group activity. The entire pod works together to herd schooling fish into a tiny ball, then methodically target the fish with their powerful ...

The orcas were engaging in "ram-to-fragment" behavior, marine researchers said. The orcas were engaging in "ram-to-fragment" behavior, marine researchers said. Orcas are called killer whales for a ...

The idea of beached marine life is horrifying. The act is often associated with ill animals and can quickly lead to death. However, orcas regularly and intentionally strand themselves and there is a ...