Rare behaviour caught on film
May 2013. Shawn Heinrichs, of Blue Square Media, went to Sri Lanka to film Blue whales, but caught some extraordinary footage of an Orca pod attacking a group of sperm whales instead.
Orca can grow up to 10 metres long, but usually measure 6-8 metres, and males weigh 6-8 tonnes. Sperm whale, by contrast, can grow up to 20 metres long and wiegh as much as 50 tonnes, and possess the largest teeth in the animal Kingdom.
It is not unusual for predators to take on prey much larger than themsleves, especially when hunting in a pack (think of lions and buffalo, or even giraffe/hippo), but this behaviour has never been filmed before.
My advice is to turn the sound down, and turn some dramatic music on instead (Ride of the Valkyrie, 633 Squadron), Heinrichs is a better camera man than narrator.
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