Pod of Killer Whales Attack Dall Porpoise in Haines, Alaska April 2021
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2021
- Haines, Alaska
April 17, 2021
Haines, Alaska, adventure capital of the world. People come from all over the world to ski on our mountains, fish in our seas and simply live in our simple life. It is also known for it's yearly 'ooligan and salmon runs.
With these runs come many marine animals including humpback and killer whales, also known as orcas. We're told the ocras come into Letnikof Cove every year, trapping their prey in the tight protected area.
The new calves of the orca family are taught to hunt by the adults. Here they chase an unfortunate Dall Porpoise around he cove until the porpoise is simply too tired to go on and it is rammed into the air by one of the male orcas, then while stunned, it is dragged into the water by the amazing jaws. At which point, the pod of killer whales head out of the cove.
Video shot by Harry Rietze and Meghan Condon from the dock of the Haines Packing Company.
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That is the best monster jump I have seen of a Killer Whale caught on camera. It was amazing that ALL the action was caught on camera and without shaking or any bad filming. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!
Thanks! Yes it is awesome footage! Crazy stuff!
Ikr I mean Katina would give em a run for there money but still!
You guys have not seen this orca jump 5 times higher whilst hunting dolphins then. ua-cam.com/video/5l_FW9sijjk/v-deo.html
@@mad-pit3832 Why thankyou BRICKTOP I stand corrected and utterly amazed once again BUT, you have to give Me Drones a gold star for his amazing camera skills and presentation! Thankyou 🇭🇲🤗
Not only is this video amazing because the Orcas, but you cannot help but to see how beautiful the surrounding area is!!
Thank you. Check out my other videos of drone flying in the area. We love living here just for the views out the window.
With that snowy mountain in the background it’s just soo beautiful
@@nunya334 We are surrounded by the Alaska Range and the Chilkats. Truly a beautiful place to live.
Orcas his name is orcas!!
Да, Вы правы. В этом видео прекрасно все.
As sad as it is to see that poor porpoise get nuked, you have to admire the intelligent coordinated hunt of the orcas. Amazing, amazing video.
They just do it for fun
@@bazingoosegaming9776 Can also be thought of as: they just do it for training.
@@LuxPerp also just for fun lmao
@@somegenericpersonontheinte9327
Almost every adult orca in the video has a younger/baby orca swimming beside it, and they mostly stay in those pairs, suggesting that this is a training exercise. We as humans have no way of knowing if orcas see this as “fun” or not.
@@lumini3172 yeah you are right just realised the babies there mb
I knew that they were pack animals, but I am still utterly floored at the extent that they're able to strategize and coordinate with each other. That is straight up wild.
The orcas seem so organized, they even breathed together, so well synced and they got the porpoise in such a business like manner
You know what's amazing? You could have thrown a human right in the middle of all of that in the water, and the human would come out unscathed. Orcas are amazing.
It's a good thing that we didn't test that theory. But it could be true.
@@DronesOverHaines it is fucking true. Watch materials from New Zeland and Norway. Orcas are smarter than we are and better then we are.
@@zepter00 Not denying their intelligence. Just glad no one fell in the water while this was happening in the cove, that dock was pretty high. Thanks for watching.
@@DronesOverHaines next time try to swim with them andshate video, there is material on YTabout How to aproach orcas and swim with them.. french guy explains all.
@@zepter00 That would be cool!
Astounding that this can be seen standing on a pier. Weirdly enough it made me committed to understanding Porpoises . We know more about Dolphins - including the big black n' white ones hunting . now I'm on a quest to learn and understand the porpoise, Thanks for posting.
When we lived on Vancouver Island in Campbell River, we lived in oceanfront property (Discovery Passage off of the Salish Sea) and we saw Orca, whales, porpoises and cruise ships almost every day and it's quite magical! Canada is beautiful everywhere but I admit the British Columbia is especially charming!🇨🇦❤🦈🐬🐋⛵⚓🛳
Yes...if we love marine animals...( I love for sure) but ot would be a difficult place to see white storks or Bison. American one or European Bison....or half Naked beautifull, tanned woman 😆
Oh my god this is incredible footage. It makes me so sad to see my favorite type of cetacean get eaten like that, but I recognize it’s just how things go in nature. Seeing that little guy swimming for his life breaks my heart though
I've grown up marveling at the porpoise darting through the water and have always respected the orcas. I agree this was hard to watch, but it was also interesting watching the orca calves tag along with the adults learning the process. Those who work out at the Letnikof Cove tell us this happens every few years, just never this close to video. Thanks for the comment.
We had those moments when we were hoping that porpoise would head for shallow water...I wonder why it didn't.
Me too.
@Stephen Z Pfeifer Feeling uneasy in that the dolphins and porpoises are after all near cousins....cannibalistic a bit...Wolves generally don't feed on other canids....but under dire hunger circumstances they might turn on other canids like coyotes and pet dogs...for food....which then leads me to suspect the main reason orcas are turning on their distant relatives is because the fish population has been on the decline for decades now due to overfishing... desperate times calling for desparate measures...sad to think that there were times in history when people had to resort to eating people....during wars and seizures of towns...people literally have been recorded eating other dead corpses...its just sad....if only there were not overfishing....the orcas would by and large eat mainly fish and wouldn't have to resort to such drastic measures.
@Stephen Z Pfeifer the world is going to go through final tribulation 2028...2 out of 3 people on earth won't make it out alive...where everyone goes afterwards...The eternal God knows...men can only guess...I bet Jesus is the only way to get to better destinations in the hereafter.
This is one of the prettiest videos I've ever seen on UA-cam. The water is crystal clear and the snow OMG just gorgeous!!!
Definitely was a great opportunity to see orcas in the natural habitat. Check my other videos for more amazing shots of the surrounding area. Haines, Alaska is a beautiful place to live.
They were just wearing the porpoise down!
Definitely right, time right place!
Incredible footage!
Dall’s porpoise: Whoa hey, Buddy! Can we just be civil about this? We both wear tuxedo, man! We don’t wear tuxedo to kill someone!
Orca: You sir haven’t seen James Bond?
That is funny stuff... A good laugh right there.
Sad but it’s great to see them in their natural habitat doing what they should be doing .
Incredible footage, thanks so much for uploading.
Thanks.
Amazing video, thank you for sharing!!
Absolutely amazing footage!!
looks like a dalls porpoise, very fast swimmers, but poor little guy had odds against him.
The whale called _killer._ Magnificent footage! Thank you so much for sharing this.
@Gayatri Sahu dolphins are whales
Yip - amazing footage - thanks for posting.
Interesting how easily and calmly orcas did it. Most of them simply create a battue, preventing a victim from escape, but not getting very tired, while porpoise loses energy lunging in all directions.
Yes! I agree completely. They were not winded at all from this.
Wow, just amazing. At first I thought the dolphin was a baby orca. The jumps though, spectacular we don't see all of this too often. When I was a child, we lived on the northern tip of Vancouver Island. We had to take a ferry to the mainland (Vancouver) go for medical issues. Well on one special occasion I saw an orca, its big fin curled over and we have seen humpback whales 🐳 with babies and always seals. TY for sharing.
The orcas were chasing a dalls porpoise (which is not a dolphin species).
Orcas are the best... We may need another thousand years to fully understand them. Such an incredible animal.
Both sad and amazing to see these amazing beautiful animals hunt wow what great footage
Amazing Killer Whales, and beautiful place!! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you! It was an amazing experience to witness.
Would you say he attacked him on porpoise?
Lol good one
Nice 🤣
Oh man!!! That is sensational!
Ba dum tish
Yep,they feed on dolphins
It's was sad to see the little guy get caught " but I suppose that's nature for you. Well done too the person holding the camera". That was excellent footage. Amazing...!!!!!
Thank you! Yes, amazing footage!
The power and intelligence of these animals is awesome!
Poorpoise. 😥
Beautiful video!! 🐬👏😁
Amazing footage
Damn the Flank strategy,they are smart af
Right? Just when you think that porpoise is free and clear... here comes another group of orcas. You can look to the edges of the video and see them in waiting for the next attack.
i tought that porpoise was a newborn Orca that had sugar rush like a kid and was running wild in the house and the parents were chasing it to get back in line xD
That place is so beautiful, poor little guy didn't stand a chance.
Given orca are the largest of the dolphin family, does this make the canabals ?
only if they eat another orca
Porpoises and dolphins are separate families of cetaceans. No species of cetacean engages in cannibalism.
I've been watching whales for many decades, and there's always 100% a thing in common with all sightings.
If any whale or dolphin breaches, or does anything big and visible there is a woman on board that screams. Not a child or little girl, but a full grown woman.
We study Orca communication, and Orcas study human communication and ponder the call of the human woman scream.
Sounds like you've done some serious research on this. Thanks for your contribution to the science.
@@DronesOverHaines LOL, yeah my Mother is one of the screamers...she doesn't know why, so I can't submit a paper quite yet. It wouldn't survive the peer review process.
Great video. Killer whale is absolutely brutal!
Thanks. It was a sight to behold.
They looked like cats toying with a mouse before going for the kill!
Amazing footage, thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
is the porpoise ok? hoping for a speedy recovery.
unfortunately one of female orca got it in it's mouth so definitely a bad day for that porpoise
Is the porpoise ok? That can't be a serious question.
What I like about this video is the strategy of the Orcas. Notice how they're just letting one orca attack the porpoise while the others just swim around it, creating a buffer zone for the hunter and prey. The orcas also don't swim fast, but instead allow the porpoise to waste all of it energy as it desperately tries to escape. By having the others create the buffer zone, the porpoise has no chance of escape. If it tries to dash away, the orcas creating the buffer zone will just extend the zone further, making it easier for the hunter to trap the porpoise. The hunter doesn't have to waste his energy in return as the ones creating the zone are doing their part of the hunt by preventing the porpoise escaping. Unfortunately for the porpoise, it was too scared to think rationally and just desperately wasted all of its energy trying to make a quick dash to freedom.
Them Orcars are just huge and casually gliding around the porpoise who appears to be using every sap of energy to keep away and survive…
I must admit this is awesome, I sat on shampoo when I was 8yrs old at sea world in Florida. But to witness this in real life, I'm not sure if it could come close to that feeling. Tamed vs wild
Witnessing these creatures in the wild is far better than watching them suffer in captivity. The shows are scripted and the orcas are forced to do it. In the wild, every single action is genuine, if they're swimming alongside you it's not a part of a scripted show, it's a genuine act of trust.
Shamoo?
Nature: if you can't take it, stay home.
That is so well ORCHASTRATED
oof..and a stolen comment
Yep they are psychopaths.
Cos they do it on purpose.
Thought that was a baby killer whale at first.
The Orca jumping is a killer shot!
Amazing opportunity. Amazing shot! Thanks!
watching this from shore n you can almost touch it… wonderful
That water is awesome, and great footage.
Thanks 👍
That was cool, v rare footage, well done
This is the same pod of killer whales that like to eat moose
The porpoise panicked and didn't realize he can just swim away.
I don't think it could. Orcas are faster. And they formed a perimeter.
If Orcas want you, youre toast! These vids are crazy, theyre unrelenting in their pursuit of you.
That's what someone would call Fast-food or a drive through.
This type of footage keeps amazing me.. It's sad that they hunt popular animals like seals and other dolphins.. but I admire the strategy it's like seeing a wolf pack but in the water
Agree 100%. I see something else every time I watch it. The orcas in the distance just waiting to "jump in" to the hunt. The porpoise darting one way, then being turned around by waiting orcas. Amazingly orchestrated.
Where exactly is this? I have to go
Letnikof Inlet in Haines, Alaska.
Here's another view of the cannery area. ua-cam.com/video/belDDxUZaU4/v-deo.html
I understand killer whales aren't whale's at all. Their part of the dolphin family. Their name came because they were called "whale killer" by sailors. Which became what it is now over time. They also block the blow hole while others pull the victim down, drowning them.
The attack was no accident. It was, without a doubt, on porpoise.
That's a punny one.
okm amazing video
And this is the Orcas just playing at hunting, when they really hunt its impressive and savage. Beautiful animals though. 🐬🐬
alaska has got to be a pretty cool place to visit. no pun.
It is pretty cool... at least in the Fall and Winter. Pretty hot in the Summer.
This video u get a sense of the speed of these animals
Why did the dolphin beach itself?
Because it's life had no porpoise 🌏
I see what you did there! Funny stuff.
Orcas so smart to set up the trap!
That porpoise is darting around, then the orcas just meander in. Hardly moving until the popped it out of the water. Crazy.
Orcas are amazing strategic predators.
How can a large whale catch a small porpoise being as agile as they are?
Strategy. Porpoise is playing checkers while the orcas are playing chess.
Great response. Yes! That is exactly what they are doing!
Just watched this again. I still don't get why he didn't just swim away fast or hide. Was it because the whales had him cornered?
@@solideomusical The crazy thing here was that it was a teaching moment for the young orcas. They lured two porpoises into the cove, then had "guards" at the entrance so every time the porpoise tried to make a break for it, there were a few orcas pushing it back into the protected cove. At 1:58, you can see the guards pushing the porpoise back in in the "game." Orcas... very smart animals.
@@DronesOverHaines Oh 😶
Poor little one all alone.
What would you feel if you were in a restaurant eating your steak and somebody shouted, "Oh my god!"?
Well, I came to the wrong video to get cheered up!!! I was hoping that he got away...😰☹️
Me too. And everyone just loves how the Orcas organized that... 😭
@@whale7536 Doesn't mean I have to love violence.
@@whale7536 I admire their intelligence (and beauty) too. They are amazing creatures, but I don't like how they kill other whales (including porpoises and other dolphins). I know they have to feed on something, but it just breaks my heart. As if humans would kill one another if the other one isn't part of their family.
@@serenageiler5484 That's how nature works, you may not like it but you have to let it follow its way. Small actions cause big consequences. Let's see:
If orcas stop hunting porpoises, porpoises will overpopulate, making them eat more fish, thus making the fish endangered, if the fish goes endangered, thousands of other species will go extinct, bear, for example, and if bear goes extinct, deer will overpopulate, eating too much grass and making winters more harsh, causing more species go extinct to the point the ecosystem can't continue working and we all die 😃
@@morganistrue Well, that's an interesting thought. It's crazy to think about how everything works together perfectly. One more proof to me that it can't be evolution. 🙂 The odds of everything coincidentally developing into a whole balanced universe with solar systems and planets that are inhabitated by intelligent creatures (at least Earth) are next to non-existent.
It was your shrieks that just weren't quite loud enough to scare the orcas away.......
Funny stuff, right there. There would be no scaring away on this day.
Excellent
Beautiful location and beautiful 🌊💦 colour 🥰 poor little porpoise rip nice work orca family
Orcas are smart but the porpoise panicked. Should have stayed in the shallows.
True the porpoise panicked, but orcas are known to go in the shallows, sometimes even beaching themselves to get their prey. There were a few moment when it looked like the porpoise was able to get out of the cove. Unfortunately, it didn't.
They killed the dolphin unporpoise.
Wowww
Is it possible for the little one to hide between the dock posts?
I was wondering that, too. Seemed like he could have been more elusive than just swimming out in the open water.
poor porpoise didn't stand a chance😭
Unfortunately... no. It was a training exercise for the young pups. Local legends say this happens about once every three years. They corral a porpoise into the cove, then proceed to show the young ones how to hunt.
killer whales are like homeless people on drugs they attack anyone they see.
No, they don't.
NO.........
Nothing is safe when on the orcas menu
This was so Whaley orchastrated.
Where's the Laugh button! LOL.
Seigneur Magic
Don't be so dramatic, they were just playing with their new friend.
To death
That's friendship for life and death.
❤
This was a game just so you know, a deadly game.
^Said with a sinister voice. It was also education for the younger calves. "Come on son, let me show you how this works. Now, we eat."
Mean whales they need to stick with fish
What? smh
That was super intense
It had my complete attention also. Real heart in mouth stuff. Pretty good filming from a pier when there would have been no way of knowing it was Gunna happen.
@@robbie8142 they got super lucky
I never knew they could jump so high out of the water
Cool, right?!
It looks like some kind of small dolphin spices, poor kid ((
I love this video because it has my favorite cetaceans.
surprised to see orcas coming into canals like places as show in the video
I'm told that this happens every couple of years. The new batch of calves come through and it's time for them to learn how it's done. Having a captive subject works well for the learning process.
@@DronesOverHaines nice to know, thanks for sharing
This seems sad but how many animals do we slaughter to get a bit of meat on our table ? We are predators too !!
I would love to see killer whales In person I. There natural habitat looks so beautiful
That's Mother Nature
Well !! That just how they eat 🤷🏻♂️
0:31 😳
Team work.
Right?! Did you see the orcas just sitting off to the side waiting to drop in for the chase when needed. Crazy stuff.
You have to admire the orcas coordinated attack and hunting skills…sorry the little guy had to die though.
Complete Admiration for the strategy displayed by the Orcas. Fascinating to watch.
Wow
На что клюёт?
Once it popped it up in the air, the jaws bit down on the neck of the porpoise, then drew it under water. Great question, the video doesn't show exactly.
Google Translate: как только он поднял его в воздух, челюсти укусили морскую свинью за шею, а затем потянули ее под водой. Отличный вопрос, видео точно не отображается
Porpoise is to fast
how sad to see what sin to this earth has brought....animals do as we do...or do we do what animals do..who is learning from who ???...who is the superior species?? ...the one that eat plants to LIVE... is the superior one......eat fruit people than maybe the animal will learn to do the same
Herbivores, vegan and vegetarians know exactly what to eat to survive and not harm live creatures! This is not a good example of those eaters.