For the first time, a pack of orcas – also known as killer whales – have been observed hunting and killing blue whales, the largest animal on the planet.
But this question has now been answered after three instances of packs of orcas attacking blue whales off the coast of Western Australia were recorded by marine scientists from. It includes details of how the killer whales swam inside the mouth of the enormous whales to eat their nutritionally rich tongue just before they died.
Researchers arrived at the first killing of a 72 foot -long blue whale to see large chunks of skin and blubber having been gouged its body and with most of the dorsal fin having been bitten off. The final attack recorded by the study was on a 14-meter long blue whale, chased for 24 km in a 90 minutes hunt.
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