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Pilot whales vs Orcas
Topic Started: Mar 3 2015, 07:29 AM (1,172 Views)
Shin
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Are Pilot whales capable of injuring Orcas?
If not, then why do Orcas flee from them?
Edited by Shin, Mar 3 2015, 07:31 AM.
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Grimace
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Maybe they mob and harass them and it just isn worth thr trouble
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Creeper
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wow, I didn't know that orca's flee from anything?
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Taipan
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Its a good topic!

Grimace
Mar 3 2015, 10:12 AM
Maybe they mob and harass them and it just isn worth thr trouble


Outnumber them too!

Pilot whales chased away the Orcas

2007/10/09 12:19 by firmm Team

Tour 9.00 - 11.00 am
On the first trip of the day, immediately after crossing the canal, we found a family of pilot whales accompanied by 30 striped dolphins hunting towards the north. We followed the pilot whales west for a while until in the distance we saw a bigger group of pilot whales swimming South towards Morocco. This is very unusual behavior, as they normally swim East-West, not North-South from Europe to Africa--there was something special going on! Perhaps there were Orcas nearby? We followed the hunting Pilot whales and after a while I saw the blow of 5 Orcas swimming leisurely along the cost. What happened next was rare; two Pilot whale families consisting of around 20 and 30 animals respectively, led by Zack Zack, a Pilot whale well documented in the straight, swam at high speed towards the Orcas, which fled South towards Morocco.

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Photos above: The Pilot whales arrive. On the left picture Zack Zack in the front (Photos: KH)

The hunt started at N35°65.060 W05°32.335 and ended at N35°54.200 W05°32.764! That means that the Pilot whales chased the Orcas about 2 miles and out of their territory. This shows us that the channel between N35°56.000 and W35°54.000 obviously belongs to the pilot whales, although they share this channel with the bottlenose dolphins, which often remain there as well.

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Photo above: The frightened Orcas buzzed off (Photos: KH)

Once the Orcas were well out of the territory of the Pilot whales, they stopped their pursuit, so we were able to follow the Orcas for a while along the Moroccan coastal water, and I was relieved that the coastguards didn't show up...

http://www.firmm.org/en/news/article/items/pilot-whales-chased-away-the-orcas

Edited by Taipan, Mar 3 2015, 08:31 PM.
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Orcas.
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I'd imagine this would be pretty comparable to birds of prey getting mobbed by ravens or crows.
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