Spectacular and distressing footage. And although 12 minutes long, this is clearly an edit and that calf was still alive as the Orca forced its head into its mouth to get at the tongue. Extraordinary stuff. Even the mother Gray took a pretty serious wound to her flipper. Thanks for not putting it to music.
What a nightmare for the mother and calf. I dont know how that calf stayed alive so long. It was only because the mother kept holding it above the water. I've never seen footage like this, even on the best documentaries. Incredible.
Thank you for your kind words Mike. It is a tough part of nature to witness, but everything is connected and the death of one individual can mean life for another!
@@MontereyBayWhaleWatch If the whales are hunted so cruelly, probably few people manage to survive. I wonder how whales grow up at all if they are constantly being eaten by killer whales and sharks. Probably, a few kids just miraculously survive. How do they do it?
@@jhtsurvival the ocean is a big place - 70% of the world. Orcas much like most predator have there own territory. You wont find orcas in SA wanting go on a little international trip to join the orcas in the Canada. You not going to have orcas and whale in the same place all the time. It’s like saying why are there still great white sharks if Orca attack them for there liver.
it’s crazy how the killers are so coordinated and attempt to drown the baby whale by jumping on the blow hole and constantly keep ramming it off the mother who’s desperately trying to keep her baby afloat so it gets air. there’s nothing she can do against like 7 of them.
@MontereyBayWhaleWatch No. The fascinating is how other Whale survives while develope no strategy against killer Whale. I thought they be extinct already but they persist. That's fascinating.
The mother had bite marks also on her too which were bleeding bad on her fins I had to watch it again to notice poor thing, that’s nature Rip grey whale calf what a fighter 🙏
Yes they certainly are fighters! Mother gray whales try their best to protect their young but there is only so much they are able to do without teeth like Odontocetes (toothed whales) and short pectoral fins compared to another Mysticete (baleen whale) like Humpback whales who have longer pectoral fins with sharp barnacles that can help deter Killer whales.
@@MontereyBayWhaleWatchuna vez también vi un documental, no se si eran ballenas azule o ballena fin, una madre y una cría, y eran perseguida por un grupo de orcas, la madre tuvo que lanzar gritos de llamados para que otras pudieran ayudarle con su cría recién nacida, al ser más grande que las ballenas grises la madre tenía la fuerza de subír a su bebé y sacarlo fuera del agua varios minutos mientras las orcas atacaban y trataban de hundirla y en varios minutos aparecieron 3 machos nadaron rápidamente donde ella y se interpusieron entre las orcas y la madre con su cría, distrayendo a las orcas,
Here is another one where the Mother is quite injured as her fluke has had the end bitten off and she trails a stream of blood everywhere the struggle goes and when by the end you think about the amount of blood loss she must have sustained protecting her calf as long as she does.....incredible mothering protection instincts this one shows, enjoy: ua-cam.com/video/Hf5Dwr2WCok/v-deo.html
Resident ORCAS ONLY EAT FISH NOTHING ELSE. THESE ARE TRANSIENTS ALSO ADORABLE , INTELLIGENT , COMPASSIONATE AND FAMILY ORIENTED. V FRIENDLY WILD ANIMALS ( ANIMALS ?) I THINK ORCAS ARE PEOPLE NOT ANIMALS
At 10:55 looked very brutal Am I right the orca was feeding on the tongue while the calf was still alive. At that point I was hoping it would give up a let them drown him.
😭😪😟😥 I always end up sad💔 watching these videos.. I dont like to see these beautiful animals been attacked.. to me are the most beautiful delightful creatures on planet earth..
Oh my God that poor baby this is too hard to watch breaks my heart I know the apex predators but excuse me it hurts me so bad to see babies get killed whether it's humans or animals I feel such a distress watching stuff like this
Joe Newman I don’t think they bit it off but they definitely bit into it the way it pissed with blood they must have a vein or something at that part of the fin.
Like U I LOVE LOVE LOVE ORCAS, BELUGAS AND WHALES BUT DON T BOTTHER ME TO WATCH WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT IS EATING TO SURVIVE. IT IS THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.
@@maribs4636 HEART BREAKING IS WAR , HUMANS KILLING HUMANS FOR MONEY, POWER OR PURE SADISM. , MOTHERS KILLING THEIR OWN KIDS FOR MONEY, OR THE OTHER WAY OUT OR THE SEA WORLD SEPARATING A BABY ORCA FROM HER MUM FOREVER AND THE MOTHER ORCA CRYING AND CRYING AND SHE GOES TO THE CORNER OF THE TANK TO CRY. OR PEOPLE SHOOTING WHALES AND ORCAS FOR PLEASURE....... THAT IS HUMAN CRUELTY!
This video is absolutely incredible. It’s very sad but Orcas are doing exactly what they are born to do. Does anybody know what pod that is attacking the Gray Whales? Since its Monterey Bay. It looks like it could be the CA-51 Pod.
Exactly! It can be hard to watch for sure, but it is an incredible display of cetacean communication and culture to see Killer whale family pods working together. Yes you are correct, it occurred in Monterey Bay and it is the CA51 pod! If you're a fan of the CA51s, make sure to check out the Netflix documentary "Our Great National Parks" episode 4! The film crew worked with our company to film all the wonderful Monterey Bay wildlife and the CA51s are featured in a few scenes!
So relentless, it's really sad to watch but it's a spectacle to see as well. His heart had stopped by a minute or so in. The blood stopped pouring out in buckets but they kept ramming it and the mother kept lifting it to breathe. Nature at its finest and foulest.
@CanadaKicksAss one Humpback is enough to kill pods of Orca's same with Bull Sperm Whale they already imprint to their mind that Orca's are their enemy.
It does happen from time to time in Monterey Bay! We have witnessed and filmed Humpback whales coming into the area and intervening on Killer whales hunting grey whales or even trying to stop the Killer whales from feeding on the carcass a day after the predation event occurred.
I can’t help but feel so bad for these two momma & baby whale, man! Shit! I know that’s the circle of life & so on, but shit man! That’s fu##ing brutal! So sad, to me, personally.
It’s hard to capture sound with a drone, the vast oceans waves willl distort even the seagulls begging for food . But I think technology will develop a microphone for scientific purpose like have mic under water and maybe one on the boat in the range of the drones capacity ! I wouldn’t doubt it
A huge difference between orcas and other land predators like wolves or lions is that, the land predators eat pretty much everything. Orcas seem very selective. In this case ripping out and eating the tongue of the calf, even when it was evidently alive. In other cases, they eat just the liver of sharks they kill, leaving the rest of the body. They seem such ruthless super killing machines and so intelligent that they kill large creatures, feast on just choice parts and get onto another kill. What is even more extraordinary is that, such a massive and coordinated attack across such an extended duration, all for the tongue of the calf. At this rate, they probably spend most of their time living up to their name - Killer whales.
This footage only shows a portion of the cycle of hunting and feeding of the Killer whale pod on the gray whale calf. They feed on the carcass for several days and any pieces of blubber or other parts of the calf that are left behind from the pod is food for scavengers such as the Black-footed albatross.
Although the animal world follows the law of the jungle, I am sad to see this video, it is surprising that the killer whale only eats the tongue of the blue whale, may the blue whale baby be happy in heaven and have no pain😭😭😭
They definitely eat more than that. They just start with those because they're easy to eat. That is a huge kill for 4 or 5 orcas. Likely they will sink it and feed on it multiple times.
While this footage only shows them feeding on the tongue, it is incorrect to say that is all they eat. The family pod will feed on the carcass for several days and whatever is left over will be food for scavengers like the Black-footed albatross.
To use that famous empathy we humans hold so dear here is very hard to do, imagine this struggle in the context of our everyday human lives, you leave home and go for a walk/swim with you're newborn or baby to the local park when suddenly a roaming pack of 5 to 6 basically Carnivourous Rhinocerus start charging at you're child trying to bludgeon it to death, while basically paying almost no attention to you the Mother frantically beating them with anything as they come from every direction at once relentlessly to the point you're so beat up and exhausted yourself you have to leave you're baby and take off or you both die....and you go home and just move on with you're life. That analogy as silly and crazy as it sounds is no different then what this Mother ius going through right here......in short, we call it Nature, and it's facinating lol
I’m actually curious, how do full grown Baleen whales like Blues or Grays actually defend themselves from Orcas besides just being big? Can they like, ram the orcas or something? Because it’s not like any large land animal like an elephant that could squash you or throw you around.
Por ejemplo las jorobadas tienen de defensas en grupos y además de aletas pectorales de más de 500kg cada una y una colá musculosa capaz de fracturar el craneo y vértebra de orca. Las ballenas grises como defensa tienen su lomo porque su piel es más gruesa en comparación con el abdomen, su colá y algo de aletas pectorales y rodar. Creo que la ballena azul su única manera de defensa es la velocidad y es más rápidas qué las otras especie de ballenas. He visto poco frecuente los golpes por colá. Ya que la estructura d e la ballena azul es la velocidad para atrapar peces
@CanadaKicksAss U sure know alot about Killer Whales, they are very ruthless...but that's life I suppose. Thank u for all the info aswell, it's good to know👍
Mother greys are somewhat undersized in the protection column to really intimidate transient pods. Humpback and/or Sperm cows are much more threatening and anytime a bull from those species come along, fight over. Especially sperm bulls. There is video of how aggressive they are with orcas and how scared the orca pod becomes on sight of one. Of course blue whales are pretty much left alone. Too much size and a massive tail that could kill other large cetaceans.
I LOVE ORCAS ♥️♥️♥️♥️ AND THE BABY ORCA IS SOOOO CUTE, ADORABLE! TO WATCH ORCAS HUNTING AND EATING LIKE US HUMANS NEED TO EAT IT IS NATURAL TO ME THE OCEANS WITHOUT THESE HARMLESS AND MAJESTIC CREATURES WOULD BE BLICK
Was this a recent event? Transient Orcas are skilled hunters. Wish people understand the difference between Southern residents Orcas and Transient Orcas. Southern residents Orcas need our help.
The Orcas off Puget Sound and British Columbia eat salmon. We use the teeth marks and other injury scars to identify the gray whales who spend the summers off Depoe Bay OREGON.
@@gloriakoch4242 thank you, I am totally aware of the difference between the Southern residents and Transient population. I wish more people understand that Southern residents Orcas are endangered because their supply of salmon (their main diet) because humans build dams. Have a great day.
No they are flourishing, all supposed types considered, We can never know the exact amount of a species or population in the ocean, maybe one day but not now
It’s sad to watch a beautiful creature die in such a brutal way I understand it life but it’s still sad. I have become more sensitive to these things since I got a dog 2 years ago before I would think that’s nature at work. Now i realize this earth is a very scary & dangerous place. Maybe the Orcas could detect something was wrong with the baby whale so probably going to die anyway.
Kinda surprised they targeted the mother whenever they couldn't get to her calf, that was crazy, I've never seen them do that before & eating their prey as big as a whale alive?! That's something you don't see every day. Never in my life have I ever seen that! Orcas eating whales alive, that is insane! And I thought hyenas were ruthless.
@@xmo552 They eat more than one part of the animal. Predators always eat the most calorie and protein rich parts first. In the case of mammal eating orca, they have to consume as much as possible before the carcass sinks. The whole kill is shared among pod members.
While this footage only shows them feeding on the tongue, it is incorrect to say that they waste the carcass. The family pod will feed on the carcass for several days and whatever is left over will be food for scavengers like the Black-footed albatross.
GREAT VIDEO !!!!!!!! 💙💙💜💜💜❤️❤️❤️❤️ FABULOUS HUNTERS THE ORCAS ARE ! ORCAS AND SHARKS CONTROL THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE OCEANS AND WITHOUT THEM THE ECOSYSTEMS UNDERWATER WOULD COLLAPSE. GOD PROTECT THE CUTE ADORABLE INTELLIGENT AND COMPASSIONATE ORCAS THANK U FOR THE VIDEO LOVE IT.
The struggle for the survival of these whales is moving. There were two warriors! The mother tried until the end to free the baby from the clutches of death. Often these Orcars don't even eat the baby whale, they kill to kill
Actually that is untrue, the Killer whales are hunting the gray whale to feed their family pod. They feed on the carcass for several days and any small chunks of blubber and flesh left behind from the pod goes to feed scavenger species like Black-footed albatross and small organisms on the ocean floor.
This is a pod of Bigg's (or Transient) killer whales. They exclusively feed on other marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales. While witnessing an event like this is spectacular and uncommon, orcas preying on the calves of baleen whales is definitely normal and has been well-documented. Do keep in mind however that this isn't a daily occurrence for these orcas and that few gray whale mothers are met with this tragedy.
They eat the whole carcass, not just the tongue. Typically the family pod finishes the carcass over a span of a few days, but for this particular predation encounter, they finished it in one day. Any little bits that are left after they feed becomes food for scavengers such as Black-footed albatross!
If I check the comments, most of the time people like the apex predator of the oceans like orca the killerwhale..also called " the black death". But in order to known and to see that they are the most wild agressive apex predators of the sea..to kill so horribly the most giant species like the gray whale..the humpbackwhale and also the blue whale..is absolutely horrifying to watch and to known what they are capable of. Also killerwhales have also been murdered humans and drowned them under and hit and ruined different boats on stormy wild seas as well. In a very short while there will not be found such amazing creatures like the grey whale and spermwhale and humpbackwhale in any ocean nomore. Even not speaking about how many whales are killed each year by bloody humans itself!. I will never watch these kind of horrifying videos on youtube nomore. Cause the humanrace is a diiscrase itself. Cause humans are destroying this earth for many centuries already. Only killing..torturing and destroying what belongs to this earth is their goal in life. Soulles human beings who likes sensation the most!.
سبحان الله الذي له في خلقه شؤون استغفر الله رب العالمين مقطع مرعب في اخذ دقائق قام الحوت القاتل بقطع لسان الحوت الازرق وهذه دلالة من رب العالمين ان كل قوي له نهاية وكل شيئ يفنى ويرحل ويبقى الله وحده لا شريك له القوي المتعالي وصلى الله على محمد وعلى ال محمد الطيبين الطاهرين اللهم كن لوليك الحجة ابن الحسن صلواتك عليه وعلى آباآءه في هذه الساعه وفي كل ساعه وليا وحافظا وقائدا وناصرا ودليلا وعينا حتى تسكنه ارضك طوعا وتمتعه فيها طويلا برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين
Зачем показывать такие чудовищные ролики,итак в мире столько зла?!Для чего это снимали и для кого,ведь и дети смотрят?!Такое впечатление,что кто это снимал,ловил кайф,как были касатки убийцы,так и остались,нападают как волки стаей,а вот интересно,где киты ,о которых так красиво пишут,что слышат они крики собратьев на расстоянии 16000 км.?!Вранье все это!
They hear and run away as far as possible, happy that's not them xD Whales are bastards much worse than orcas, they eat their prey alive. Слышат и убегают как можно дальше, счастливые, что попало на другого xD Киты это сволочь намного хуже касаток, они едят свою добычу живьем.
Baleen whales swallow their prey alive. Thousands of fish and small creatures die burning alive in their stomach acid. Karma. I cheer on orcas. BTW, how hard transient orcas must work to even have a meal. Imagine that everyday you must do such hunt to eat the breakfast.
Talk about human, we even swipe the ocean floor for fish and many marine animals dont have much food left. Human also kill for fun. These orca is feeding
Orcas should be hunted also to balance the nature. pod should be reduce only 2-5 Mother should be killed instanlty a full grown orca can also be helpful in giving food to small organism.
Spectacular and distressing footage. And although 12 minutes long, this is clearly an edit and that calf was still alive as the Orca forced its head into its mouth to get at the tongue. Extraordinary stuff. Even the mother Gray took a pretty serious wound to her flipper. Thanks for not putting it to music.
the full video have 2 hours and 30 minutes
Orcas are amazingly precise hunters. They don't just attack blindly. They have strategies and plans in motion and work together.
What a nightmare for the mother and calf. I dont know how that calf stayed alive so long. It was only because the mother kept holding it above the water. I've never seen footage like this, even on the best documentaries. Incredible.
Thank you for your kind words Mike. It is a tough part of nature to witness, but everything is connected and the death of one individual can mean life for another!
@@MontereyBayWhaleWatch especially a whale... whale carcasses basically make their own ecosystems at the sea floor
@@MontereyBayWhaleWatch If the whales are hunted so cruelly, probably few people manage to survive. I wonder how whales grow up at all if they are constantly being eaten by killer whales and sharks. Probably, a few kids just miraculously survive. How do they do it?
@@jhtsurvival the ocean is a big place - 70% of the world. Orcas much like most predator have there own territory. You wont find orcas in SA wanting go on a little international trip to join the orcas in the Canada. You not going to have orcas and whale in the same place all the time. It’s like saying why are there still great white sharks if Orca attack them for there liver.
@@MontereyBayWhaleWatch This is one of the best Orca predation videos ever! Great footage! 👏🏻 I love orcas 💕
it’s crazy how the killers are so coordinated and attempt to drown the baby whale by jumping on the blow hole and constantly keep ramming it off the mother who’s desperately trying to keep her baby afloat so it gets air. there’s nothing she can do against like 7 of them.
It is quite fascinating, isn't it? Killer whales pass down their specific hunting techniques to future generations!
@MontereyBayWhaleWatch No.
The fascinating is how other Whale survives while develope no strategy against killer Whale.
I thought they be extinct already but they persist. That's fascinating.
The mother had bite marks also on her too which were bleeding bad on her fins I had to watch it again to notice poor thing, that’s nature Rip grey whale calf what a fighter 🙏
Yes they certainly are fighters! Mother gray whales try their best to protect their young but there is only so much they are able to do without teeth like Odontocetes (toothed whales) and short pectoral fins compared to another Mysticete (baleen whale) like Humpback whales who have longer pectoral fins with sharp barnacles that can help deter Killer whales.
@@MontereyBayWhaleWatchuna vez también vi un documental, no se si eran ballenas azule o ballena fin, una madre y una cría, y eran perseguida por un grupo de orcas, la madre tuvo que lanzar gritos de llamados para que otras pudieran ayudarle con su cría recién nacida, al ser más grande que las ballenas grises la madre tenía la fuerza de subír a su bebé y sacarlo fuera del agua varios minutos mientras las orcas atacaban y trataban de hundirla y en varios minutos aparecieron 3 machos nadaron rápidamente donde ella y se interpusieron entre las orcas y la madre con su cría, distrayendo a las orcas,
After watching this it struck me that humans are just adorable pets to orcas.
The pure power and magnitude of the thrashing. Sheesh. We humans are so small on the actual scale of life
I've never seen the mother with injuries....just the calf....
Here is another one where the Mother is quite injured as her fluke has had the end bitten off and she trails a stream of blood everywhere the struggle goes and when by the end you think about the amount of blood loss she must have sustained protecting her calf as long as she does.....incredible mothering protection instincts this one shows, enjoy: ua-cam.com/video/Hf5Dwr2WCok/v-deo.html
@@jnielsen90 its the same video
@reggie moore both are actually bleeding both whales got their fins bitten
I love orcas but I just can't see them predating on whales :(
Resident ORCAS ONLY EAT FISH NOTHING ELSE. THESE ARE TRANSIENTS ALSO ADORABLE , INTELLIGENT , COMPASSIONATE AND FAMILY ORIENTED.
V FRIENDLY WILD ANIMALS ( ANIMALS ?)
I THINK ORCAS ARE PEOPLE NOT ANIMALS
At 10:55 looked very brutal Am I right the orca was feeding on the tongue while the calf was still alive. At that point I was hoping it would give up a let them drown him.
😭😪😟😥 I always end up sad💔 watching these videos.. I dont like to see these beautiful animals been attacked.. to me are the most beautiful delightful creatures on planet earth..
Oh my God that poor baby this is too hard to watch breaks my heart I know the apex predators but excuse me it hurts me so bad to see babies get killed whether it's humans or animals I feel such a distress watching stuff like this
This is filmed well so details are obvious and gruesome . Exceptionally clear drone footage . Brrr ! Graphic.
You do feel sorry for the gray whales, but at least the orcas are getting a proper meal instead of SeaWorld where they only eat ice and tiny fish.
1:39 The orcas are doing wrestling moves! They're getting way too much enjoyment out of this. Lol Poor whales.
It looks like they bit one of her dorsal fins if you watch from 3 to 3:30.
Joe Newman I don’t think they bit it off but they definitely bit into it the way it pissed with blood they must have a vein or something at that part of the fin.
It's not enjoyment, it's the very hard work to even eat something.
And the whales are not "poor" at all. They eat their prey alive. I cheer on orcas.
Lol .... I wonder if this is what Goldberg trains to🤔
That is so hard but that is mother life. 😕🤙
Bro what? 😂
Do grey and blue whales stay in large pods? Strength in numbers but I've seen many videos where its just the mom and calf.
I just cant watch this😭😭
Just love both orcas and whales..
I know it how nature works..but still😢😢
I'm in the same boat! I love orcas and gray whales but it's just very intense to see it happen! All part of nature thou unfortunately
Same here..it's heart breaking
Like U I LOVE LOVE LOVE ORCAS, BELUGAS AND WHALES BUT DON T BOTTHER ME TO WATCH WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT IS EATING TO SURVIVE. IT IS THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.
@@maribs4636 HEART BREAKING IS WAR , HUMANS KILLING HUMANS FOR MONEY, POWER OR PURE SADISM.
, MOTHERS KILLING THEIR OWN KIDS FOR MONEY, OR THE OTHER WAY OUT OR THE SEA WORLD SEPARATING A BABY ORCA FROM HER MUM FOREVER AND THE MOTHER ORCA CRYING AND CRYING AND SHE GOES TO THE CORNER OF THE TANK TO CRY. OR PEOPLE SHOOTING WHALES AND ORCAS FOR PLEASURE....... THAT IS HUMAN CRUELTY!
@@maribs4636 AND THAT IS HEART BREAKING NOT THIS VIDEO SHOWING ORCAS EATING. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
This video is absolutely incredible. It’s very sad but Orcas are doing exactly what they are born to do. Does anybody know what pod that is attacking the Gray Whales? Since its Monterey Bay. It looks like it could be the CA-51 Pod.
Richard Chandler Defo that pod m8,
Exactly! It can be hard to watch for sure, but it is an incredible display of cetacean communication and culture to see Killer whale family pods working together. Yes you are correct, it occurred in Monterey Bay and it is the CA51 pod! If you're a fan of the CA51s, make sure to check out the Netflix documentary "Our Great National Parks" episode 4! The film crew worked with our company to film all the wonderful Monterey Bay wildlife and the CA51s are featured in a few scenes!
I know killer whales got to eat but that still was sad
The mother made some ferocious head and tail hits on the orcas... I wonder how much internal damage the took in this attack.
Seguramente varias de las orcas deben haber sufrido un desgarro, la colá de la ballena posee más musculatura qué la de las orcas
This is why divers don't draw Orcas near a cage or boat......straight killers they don't play.
So relentless, it's really sad to watch but it's a spectacle to see as well. His heart had stopped by a minute or so in. The blood stopped pouring out in buckets but they kept ramming it and the mother kept lifting it to breathe. Nature at its finest and foulest.
If Humpback whale were around...they won't let this happen.
@CanadaKicksAss one Humpback is enough to kill pods of Orca's same with Bull Sperm Whale they already imprint to their mind that Orca's are their enemy.
@@NIGHTMARE-hv2vu Humpbacks don't kill Orcas. Where you're mind at? Best they do is to defend and survive. lol
It does happen from time to time in Monterey Bay! We have witnessed and filmed Humpback whales coming into the area and intervening on Killer whales hunting grey whales or even trying to stop the Killer whales from feeding on the carcass a day after the predation event occurred.
@@NIGHTMARE-hv2vu in your dreams lol
I can’t help but feel so bad for these two momma & baby whale, man! Shit! I know that’s the circle of life & so on, but shit man! That’s fu##ing brutal! So sad, to me, personally.
I think having sound would be nice. I live nearby. I need to go hop on a whale watching boat.
It's a drone so doesn't capture audio
@@gumerzambrano
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All you would hear is the drone. They're really loud. I just imagine David Attenborough's voice narrating the event.
It’s hard to capture sound with a drone, the vast oceans waves willl distort even the seagulls begging for food . But I think technology will develop a microphone for scientific purpose like have mic under water and maybe one on the boat in the range of the drones capacity ! I wouldn’t doubt it
With a stun
Gun to shock the killer whales
Amazing footage
A huge difference between orcas and other land predators like wolves or lions is that, the land predators eat pretty much everything. Orcas seem very selective. In this case ripping out and eating the tongue of the calf, even when it was evidently alive. In other cases, they eat just the liver of sharks they kill, leaving the rest of the body. They seem such ruthless super killing machines and so intelligent that they kill large creatures, feast on just choice parts and get onto another kill. What is even more extraordinary is that, such a massive and coordinated attack across such an extended duration, all for the tongue of the calf. At this rate, they probably spend most of their time living up to their name - Killer whales.
They only spend 10% of their time hunting while we work averagely 20% of ours to earn a living...
This footage only shows a portion of the cycle of hunting and feeding of the Killer whale pod on the gray whale calf. They feed on the carcass for several days and any pieces of blubber or other parts of the calf that are left behind from the pod is food for scavengers such as the Black-footed albatross.
Although the animal world follows the law of the jungle, I am sad to see this video, it is surprising that the killer whale only eats the tongue of the blue whale, may the blue whale baby be happy in heaven and have no pain😭😭😭
They seem to only eat the tongues of whales you see it happen at 11:25.
The other day I read that the orca's favorite meat is the tongue and lips. I can try to find it if you want. Just get back to me.
They definitely eat more than that. They just start with those because they're easy to eat. That is a huge kill for 4 or 5 orcas. Likely they will sink it and feed on it multiple times.
While this footage only shows them feeding on the tongue, it is incorrect to say that is all they eat. The family pod will feed on the carcass for several days and whatever is left over will be food for scavengers like the Black-footed albatross.
To use that famous empathy we humans hold so dear here is very hard to do, imagine this struggle in the context of our everyday human lives, you leave home and go for a walk/swim with you're newborn or baby to the local park when suddenly a roaming pack of 5 to 6 basically Carnivourous Rhinocerus start charging at you're child trying to bludgeon it to death, while basically paying almost no attention to you the Mother frantically beating them with anything as they come from every direction at once relentlessly to the point you're so beat up and exhausted yourself you have to leave you're baby and take off or you both die....and you go home and just move on with you're life. That analogy as silly and crazy as it sounds is no different then what this Mother ius going through right here......in short, we call it Nature, and it's facinating lol
Such a sad encounter..😥😥..its part of food web in ecosystem
I’m actually curious, how do full grown Baleen whales like Blues or Grays actually defend themselves from Orcas besides just being big? Can they like, ram the orcas or something? Because it’s not like any large land animal like an elephant that could squash you or throw you around.
Por ejemplo las jorobadas tienen de defensas en grupos y además de aletas pectorales de más de 500kg cada una y una colá musculosa capaz de fracturar el craneo y vértebra de orca. Las ballenas grises como defensa tienen su lomo porque su piel es más gruesa en comparación con el abdomen, su colá y algo de aletas pectorales y rodar. Creo que la ballena azul su única manera de defensa es la velocidad y es más rápidas qué las otras especie de ballenas. He visto poco frecuente los golpes por colá. Ya que la estructura d e la ballena azul es la velocidad para atrapar peces
I'm surprised all the blood and noise doesn't attract sharks...
how do the gray whales defend themselves?
@CanadaKicksAss can the larger whales harm the orcas in any way?
@CanadaKicksAss U sure know alot about Killer Whales, they are very ruthless...but that's life I suppose.
Thank u for all the info aswell, it's good to know👍
Mother greys are somewhat undersized in the protection column to really intimidate transient pods. Humpback and/or Sperm cows are much more threatening and anytime a bull from those species come along, fight over. Especially sperm bulls. There is video of how aggressive they are with orcas and how scared the orca pod becomes on sight of one. Of course blue whales are pretty much left alone. Too much size and a massive tail that could kill other large cetaceans.
At the 4:12 mark you can see the mother block an Orca back with her head
@CanadaKicksAss Nice explaination. This shows Orca's are really top dog hunters. So happy humans are not in there menu list.
Who in the Orca pod gets to eat the tongue?
I LOVE ORCAS ♥️♥️♥️♥️ AND THE BABY ORCA IS SOOOO CUTE, ADORABLE!
TO WATCH ORCAS HUNTING AND EATING LIKE US HUMANS NEED TO EAT IT IS NATURAL TO ME
THE OCEANS WITHOUT THESE HARMLESS AND MAJESTIC CREATURES WOULD BE BLICK
Are you drunk??
Was this a recent event? Transient Orcas are skilled hunters. Wish people understand the difference between Southern residents Orcas and Transient Orcas. Southern residents Orcas need our help.
The Orcas off Puget Sound and British Columbia eat salmon. We use the teeth marks and other injury scars to identify the gray whales who spend the summers off Depoe Bay OREGON.
@@gloriakoch4242 thank you, I am totally aware of the difference between the Southern residents and Transient population. I wish more people understand that Southern residents Orcas are endangered because their supply of salmon (their main diet) because humans build dams. Have a great day.
No they are flourishing, all supposed types considered,
We can never know the exact amount of a species or population in the ocean, maybe one day but not now
This predation event occurred on May 1st 2019
Do these whales ever escape from the Orcas? Can they?
It does happen from time to time, but it is often the Orcas that give up the hunt for one reason or another rather than the Gray whale escaping.
This is what organized crime in the Ocean looks like.
Orca’s are apex predators second to none bar humans.
This one doesn't look like a baby..I would estimate it's a pre-teen whale and notice the orcas bite the mother's fin.
That MoMA was protecting that baby
It’s sad to watch a beautiful creature die in such a brutal way I understand it life but it’s still sad. I have become more sensitive to these things since I got a dog 2 years ago before I would think that’s nature at work. Now i realize this earth is a very scary & dangerous place. Maybe the Orcas could detect something was wrong with the baby whale so probably going to die anyway.
The only whale can figth against a group of orcas and put them to run is a spermwhale male
Omg!!! 😳😳😳😳
シャチも生きる為なんだろうけど、なんで子どもを！ママを❗
しかも子どもから執拗に…😭
悲しいです‼️😭😭😭😭😭😭
i'm sad…😭
Мама не даёт утопить, жутко смотреть на это.
Did anyone die between the mother and young whales?
Only the baby whale dies. The mother can't do anything once the baby was sepated to the mother by the orcas.
Kinda surprised they targeted the mother whenever they couldn't get to her calf, that was crazy, I've never seen them do that before & eating their prey as big as a whale alive?! That's something you don't see every day. Never in my life have I ever seen that! Orcas eating whales alive, that is insane! And I thought hyenas were ruthless.
I always feel terrible for whales in this situation, but Orca are amazing predators and they need to eat too. Can't watch the whole video 🥺
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They seem to passively wait for the blows...
Hynas of the seas
Now if SeaWorld had this......
The babies like "helllppppp gurglegurlhellp" twirl
Spectacular video and drone operator! Why was the sound omitted?
What a waste, they just go for the tongue and sometimes the liver,and yet can't hate them,they're beautiful creatures.
If they eat the tongue, do they all share or does only one orca generally get the prize?
@@xmo552 they share
@@xmo552 They eat more than one part of the animal. Predators always eat the most calorie and protein rich parts first. In the case of mammal eating orca, they have to consume as much as possible before the carcass sinks.
The whole kill is shared among pod members.
While this footage only shows them feeding on the tongue, it is incorrect to say that they waste the carcass. The family pod will feed on the carcass for several days and whatever is left over will be food for scavengers like the Black-footed albatross.
GREAT VIDEO !!!!!!!! 💙💙💜💜💜❤️❤️❤️❤️ FABULOUS HUNTERS THE ORCAS ARE !
ORCAS AND SHARKS CONTROL THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE OCEANS AND WITHOUT THEM THE ECOSYSTEMS UNDERWATER WOULD COLLAPSE.
GOD PROTECT THE CUTE ADORABLE INTELLIGENT AND COMPASSIONATE ORCAS
THANK U FOR THE VIDEO LOVE IT.
YaAllah... kasihan banget humpback whale dan anaknya. Perjuangan yang sangat berat. 😭
Gray whale itu coegg
The struggle for the survival of these whales is moving. There were two warriors! The mother tried until the end to free the baby from the clutches of death. Often these Orcars don't even eat the baby whale, they kill to kill
They eat the tongue
Actually that is untrue, the Killer whales are hunting the gray whale to feed their family pod. They feed on the carcass for several days and any small chunks of blubber and flesh left behind from the pod goes to feed scavenger species like Black-footed albatross and small organisms on the ocean floor.
Amazing stuff to watch
Sadnesss
Awwww
It's funny how scientists justify cruetly in nature and then abhor it in humans. Pick one: either abhor cruelty or abandon equal justice
🙏🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭
Where are the Humpbacks when you need them. Getting to not like Orcas with scenes like this...
엄마고래두 새끼를 지키려 치열하게
싸워는데
If these whales only have teeth possible they can fight them
Is this normal? Orcas attacking blue whales? I don’t think this happens every day
These are Gray Whales
This is a pod of Bigg's (or Transient) killer whales. They exclusively feed on other marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales. While witnessing an event like this is spectacular and uncommon, orcas preying on the calves of baleen whales is definitely normal and has been well-documented. Do keep in mind however that this isn't a daily occurrence for these orcas and that few gray whale mothers are met with this tragedy.
@@kanduchess1434 Well yes, it is rare and uncommon to see this.
They usually attack gray whales like this when they’re headed on their migration routes up the coast
I LOVE ORCAS 💓💓💓💓💓 AND THE BABY ORCA SO ADORABLE
Very sad i see this video
cruel naturaleza que triste
ORCAS ARE AWESOME! ♥️♥️♥️♥️👍🏼🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Well it's not very clear- better underwater.
That's part of nature we cannot change, unlike us humans. Killer whales are doing what all the other predators have to do, hunt to survive.
Poor whales,it hurts to watch this video.....I hope the whales didn't suffer to much
That's so messed up! They shouldn't kill another whale!
They should.
Orcas….jackwads of the oceans
Gray whale so weak, easy food for killer whale
No one can save them 🤔?
Intervening would be unethical and against the Marine Mammal Protection Act
Is still alive and the eat his tongue and only that
Where do you get that?
They eat the whole carcass, not just the tongue. Typically the family pod finishes the carcass over a span of a few days, but for this particular predation encounter, they finished it in one day. Any little bits that are left after they feed becomes food for scavengers such as Black-footed albatross!
Killer whales need to be control hunter like we do to wolves in Sweden.
😲😲😱😔😔😔🙏
😢The mom was trying so hard to save her baby. Where’s Sea World when u need em sheesh
You can see the mother's pectoral Fin got bitten by orca 😭
They only eat tongue.
🥺😰😔😰😰😡
Orcas learned how to take a child from its mom from us humans?
If I check the comments, most of the time people like the apex predator of the oceans like orca the killerwhale..also called " the black death". But in order to known and to see that they are the most wild agressive apex predators of the sea..to kill so horribly the most giant species like the gray whale..the humpbackwhale and also the blue whale..is absolutely horrifying to watch and to known what they are capable of. Also killerwhales have also been murdered humans and drowned them under and hit and ruined different boats on stormy wild seas as well. In a very short while there will not be found such amazing creatures like the grey whale and spermwhale and humpbackwhale in any ocean nomore. Even not speaking about how many whales are killed each year by bloody humans itself!. I will never watch these kind of horrifying videos on youtube nomore. Cause the humanrace is a diiscrase itself. Cause humans are destroying this earth for many centuries already. Only killing..torturing and destroying what belongs to this earth is their goal in life. Soulles human beings who likes sensation the most!.
Wtf are you even rambling about, orcas DON'T attack or murder humans. Geez....do some research ffs.
That is horrible. I am sick watching this. I wish I could have saved that mother and baby. What a horrific way to go. God bless their sweet souls.
범고래 너무 싫다ㅜㅜ
i hate orcas... they do this for fun . they are so smart
سبحان الله الذي له في خلقه شؤون
استغفر الله رب العالمين مقطع مرعب في اخذ دقائق قام الحوت القاتل بقطع لسان الحوت الازرق وهذه دلالة من رب العالمين ان كل قوي له نهاية وكل شيئ يفنى ويرحل ويبقى الله وحده لا شريك له القوي المتعالي وصلى الله على محمد وعلى ال محمد الطيبين الطاهرين اللهم كن لوليك الحجة ابن الحسن صلواتك عليه وعلى آباآءه في هذه الساعه وفي كل ساعه وليا وحافظا وقائدا وناصرا ودليلا وعينا حتى تسكنه ارضك طوعا وتمتعه فيها طويلا برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين
Ненавижу косаток
Зачем показывать такие чудовищные ролики,итак в мире столько зла?!Для чего это снимали и для кого,ведь и дети смотрят?!Такое впечатление,что кто это снимал,ловил кайф,как были касатки убийцы,так и остались,нападают как волки стаей,а вот интересно,где киты ,о которых так красиво пишут,что слышат они крики собратьев на расстоянии 16000 км.?!Вранье все это!
They hear and run away as far as possible, happy that's not them xD
Whales are bastards much worse than orcas, they eat their prey alive.
Слышат и убегают как можно дальше, счастливые, что попало на другого xD
Киты это сволочь намного хуже касаток, они едят свою добычу живьем.
Baleen whales swallow their prey alive. Thousands of fish and small creatures die burning alive in their stomach acid.
Karma. I cheer on orcas.
BTW, how hard transient orcas must work to even have a meal. Imagine that everyday you must do such hunt to eat the breakfast.
wiyhout sound it's just awful...so bad
Cruel animal in the sea after shark
Not like humans are any different
Talk about human, we even swipe the ocean floor for fish and many marine animals dont have much food left. Human also kill for fun. These orca is feeding
Every animal is the same "cruel".
The whales eat their prey alive, you can say that they are much much "worse" than orcas.
Orcas should be hunted also to balance the nature. pod should be reduce only 2-5 Mother should be killed instanlty a full grown orca can also be helpful in giving food to small organism.
You don't make the rules in nature. Maybe you should reduce your family size to 2 to reduce the impact on nature.
Very disturbing to see this video and heartbreaking ... I don't understand why all mammals can't get along ?? The ocean is big enough for everyone !!
i have zero hesitation killing an orca after seeing this.
😂😂😂😂