Why are Orcas Known as the “Wolves of the Sea”?

Orcas have a special way of hunting herring.
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Orcas have a special way of hunting herring, through a quick turn and their powerful tails sending shockwaves through the water to stun the fish. Large shoals of herring gather in the winter months, and it’s not just orcas that take advantage of the feast.
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[@JacksHQ]

It feels like those attacks were well Orca-strated. I'll see myself out..

[@spaceghost4628]

Lmfaoooooo 😂😂😂

[@_elenaio_]

Orcas are my favourite marine animal ❤️️

[@AmidaNyorai48]

😍

[@thewannabe3360]

Mine 2

[@DenisKorablevich]

Сos they not eating humans

[@teethompson1630]

Nobody cares

[@rabiayounus1482]

Orcas are cute...

[@ahmadkahfi105]

Wolves are my favorite land animal, and orcas are my favorite sea animal and they are smart animal

[@OtachiKaiju68]

I bet you're gonna love the inuit mythical hybrid beast, the Akhlut :p

[@buddhaboysmom3861]

Very intelligent, cunning creatures.

[@SepiaChild]

Because whales evolved from carnivorous artiodactyls (Mesonychids) wolves on hooves

[@ShiningGalaxy01]

Wolves, and Orcas are my 2 favorite animals.

[@snudoooftheweafwings2707]

Orcas are so cool!

[@ShiningGalaxy01]

Wolves are my favorite land animal, and Orcas are my favorite sea animal.

[@DjmadnassScrewed]

Thank God Pbs is back just on KZbin

[@thepreacher16]

AMAZING 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@hues_of_neon]

I had no idea humpbacks did anything other than feed on plankton!

[@jamiemonroe9236]

I know right! Very cool.

[@not-a-nautilus]

Humpbacks actually don’t eat plankton at all. They’re one of the baleen whale species that eat small fish.

[@bhoomiasangi6951]

@@jamiemonroe9236 same here

[@hues_of_neon]

@@not-a-nautilus Huh TIL!

[@leafybranch5584]

Plankton are micro scotopic organisms that feed on sunlight. It is usually the food of small fish and krill which the Humpback whale eats. As @not-a-nautilus said, they are Baleen whales, which are whales that have bristle in their mouths. Baleen whales include Blue whales, Humpback and others.

[@scoobysnax3813]

I’m not sure how they captured this. Amazing footage 👌🏾

[@lukehope5946]

Orcas are you buying the round and your mates never getting one back! (humbpack)

[@jamiemonroe9236]

Awesome footage!

[@andrewwoan]

I would be freaked out to be a camera man near such a large creature

[@tr_g]

The cameraman is orca too ;)

[@galankgcindonesia9695]

The smartest animal ever 😍

[@MOONRAK3R23]

Man I Love Nature!!!

[@touremuhammad5983]

This also happens in the Sea of Okhotsk on Russia’s east coast but with pacific herring

[@Jack-vj6ri]

love that pbs hired hans zimmer to score these videos

[@kimopuppy]

How did you manage to get video of the orcas underwater? Looks rather dangerous to be scubadiving around

[@kimopuppy]

@magna Pony Long ago I saw a video along the same lines but with swordfish. They actually had a man in the water with a camera the monologue did say how dangerous it was but you have to realize the swordfish are not interested in the human unless he/she gets in the way. Thinking about it as long as the fish know were the person is they will avoid him/her cause they are eating

[@stelliferousoofer9044]

Spy animals (yes, they are a thing) and technology.

[@kimopuppy]

@@stelliferousoofer9044 99.999999% of all conspiracy theories are fake so NOPE not a "thing"

[@srir.5282]

orcas dont attack humans, you can even go and touch them if they come close to you, there's many vids in yt with people swimming alongside them

[@allseeingeye93]

@@kimopuppy Spy animals are definitely real though. There's an entire nature series here on youtube where they use them to get up close footage of animals.

[@carloschambliss2238]

WOLVES OF SEA.........

[@K4n01]

I fear Orcas even more than White Sharks.

[@kilyannn]

In a way, rightly, because that's the apex and most intelligent predator on Earth. Simultaneously not - because wild orcas never attack humans.

[@hunterG60k]

Are these the North Pacific residents? I think I recognise the one with the curled tail flukes

[@anassbis9756]

Love you..

[@josiahpurtee1156]

They hunt in pods like a pack of wolves and they are the largest living hunters of warm-blooded animals.

[@princeedmunddukeofedinburg]

@@josiahpurtee1156 the more you know, thanks!

[@josiahpurtee1156]

@@princeedmunddukeofedinburg You're welcome! 😁👍

[@workaholicrhythm]

2:33 the air from the blow hole is red ..... Damn..

[@videowilliams]

I first thought that then I realised that's a sunset shining through it.

[@naturebeauty3914]

What a scene

[@naturebeauty3914]

Nice

[@naturebeauty3914]

Seen

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In

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Ocean

[@ORYXPhotoTours]

Have you heard what happened when the Orcas moved into the bays around Cape Town?

[@ohboilien]

No we did not hear

[@ORYXPhotoTours]

@@ohboilien www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/orcas-blamed-by-panel-for-absence-of-white-sharks-off-cape-town here is an article. Been happening a few years now.

[@relaxhworld]

💚💚🔝

[@readytogo6569]

Mistitled. Nothing about why their called “wolves of the sea”.

[@conormcnagger4703]

Think what those humpback whales could do with their tails if they got mad. Those killer whales are smart for going for the fish instead.

[@not-a-nautilus]

Orcas are actually extremely capable predators. They’re pretty much the top of the food chain in the ocean, even above large, predatory sharks (like the white sharks). Orcas live in very tight knit, matriarchal pods where mothers and grandmothers teach the babies to hunt. And, interestingly, different orca pods actually will sometimes specialize on a certain type of prey: for example, some pods will specialize in hunting small fish (like these herring), some will specialize in hunting seals, some specialize in tuna, etc. But some even regularly hunt sharks (with a high enough success rate to survive off of them), and many orcas will also hunt other dolphin species and even whale species, particularly babies. The first episode of The Blue Planet actually shows how a pod of orcas chase a mother and calf pair of grey whales until the baby is too tired to keep up and the orcas can attack it and eat it (graphic and sad, but that’s nature lol). This type of persistence hunting is actually not that common in predators; the two other most obvious examples are wolves and humans.

[@grom2839]

fun fact calling them killer whales makes you look like a moron

[@touremuhammad5983]

Yeah they’re not opportunists but specialists

[@conormcnagger4703]

@@grom2839 damn bro you’re hardcore

[@grom2839]

@@conormcnagger4703 calling an orca a killer whale is like calling a native american an indian

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