A population of Antarctic killer whales known as B1 uses an extraordinary strategy to hunt seals resting on ice. Working as a team, the whales create a powerful breaking wave to wash their target into the water. However, when the piece of ice is too big to wave wash, they create a subsurface shock wave instead, which shatters the ice into small pieces. After this pod had successfully pushed this Weddell seal into the water, a pair of humpback whales arrived to disrupt the hunt. No one knows exac
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A population of Antarctic killer whales known as B1 uses an extraordinary strategy to hunt seals resting on ice. Working as a team, the whales create a powerful breaking wave to wash their target into the water. However, when the piece of ice is too big to wave wash, they create a subsurface shock wave instead, which shatters the ice into small pieces. After this pod had successfully pushed this Weddell seal into the water, a pair of humpback whales arrived to disrupt the hunt. No one knows exac
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Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory documented a pod of B1 Antarctic killer whales locating a resting Weddell seal. “With snow falling, flying the drone felt like being in space with stars whizzing by. Having found the seal, the pod then began to spy-hop to size up the target and figure out how to get it into the water,” Gregory says. “The intelligence of these killer whales is spine-tingling.” Watch #AnimalsUpClose with Bertie Gregory, now streaming on Disney Video by Bertie Gregory and Tom Walke
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Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory documented a pod of B1 Antarctic killer whales locating a resting Weddell seal. “With snow falling, flying the drone felt like being in space with stars whizzing by. Having found the seal, the pod then began to spy-hop to size up the target and figure out how to get it into the water,” Gregory says. “The intelligence of these killer whales is spine-tingling.” Watch #AnimalsUpClose with Bertie Gregory, now streaming on Disney Video by Bertie Gregory and Tom Walke
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National Geographic on Instagram: "Video by @bertiegregory | A population of Antarctic killer whales known as B1 uses an extraordinary strategy to hunt seals resting on ice. Working as a team, the whales create a powerful breaking wave to wash their target into the water. However, when the piece of ice is too big to wave wash, they create a subsurface shock wave instead, which shatters the ice into small pieces. After this pod had successfully pushed this Weddell seal into the water, a pair of h
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