A killer whale surfaces beside a small boat, a freshly caught fish clamped in its jaws. It releases the fish near the hull, then lingers, watching. When no one picks it up, the whale retrieves it and ...

Descubra por que as orcas, apesar de serem predadores de topo, evitam atacar humanos. Uma análise comportamental sobre inteligência e cultura marinha.

"Don't play with your food" is a rule orcas don't seem to follow. Off the shores of Cabo San Lucas, Kathryn Ayres, a scientist at the ocean-health nonprofit Beneath The Waves, saw a surprising orca ...

A new study documents two incidents of orcas breaking sunfish into pieces. Screenshot via Héctor Franz. Ayres et al., Frontiers in Ethology, 2026, under CC BY 4.0 A female orca gripped the back end of ...

How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an orca. Barreling into large, heavy fish with enough force to blast them into instant chum is a previously unknown collaborative feeding ...