The owner of a San Diego whale-watching company this week shared extraordinary footage showing Eastern Tropical Pacific killer whales preying on dolphins ... the stampede-and-chase phenomenon ...
After consulting with federal authorities, rescuers decided the most humane course of action was to euthanize the animal.
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The pod of orca whales that ... something called a “dolphin stampede,” where a group of dolphins all begin to bolt at high rates of speed to chase food or run ...
On a cold January day I was surrounded by hundreds of black-and-white killer whales—Orcinus orca, not a whale but rather the largest dolphin ... or fight them or chase them away.
Scientists in 2018 discovered that killer whales could mimic simple human speech patterns, and people were shocked to hear the eerie recording.