The waters near the Strait of Gibraltar, where the incident occurred, has seen an increase in orca attacks on boats since 2020 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

I'm sure they would have been chasing the food and would be hunting ... He said it was the first time he had ever seen orcas, adding that the boat's captain had not come across them in a quarter ...

Recent incidents show orcas ramming and sinking boats. Scientists believe these attacks ... This allows them to chase down agile prey with ease. Orcas can imitate human speech, dolphin calls ...

An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn ... January in search of salmon after spending a couple months chasing the fall chum salmon runs of Puget Sound. Observations of ...

However, even if there is abundant Chinook, boat noise is limiting the orcas’ ability to hunt and chase away prey by interfering with echolocation, which uses sound waves and echoes to locate ...

Killer whales hunt fish with clicks and buzzes—they choose and chase ... culprit? Boat traffic noise. This is the first time scientists have linked noise reaching a given killer whale to their ...

The winter whale-watching season typically runs from December to April, and for your best chance of spotting the majestic creatures, head to these locales — or travel even further, to Costa Rica, New ...

Meanwhile, researchers in a nearby boat were capturing the feast on ... The scientists had previously documented orcas (Orcinus orca) in the region chasing both dusky dolphins and long-beaked ...

They, too, saw the orcas chasing after dusky dolphins, except this time, the killer whales were successful. On one occasion, an observer on a whale-watching boat even saw a female orca toss a ...

One theory suggests that the movement of boats through water creates pressure waves that are enjoyable for orcas to ride. Additionally, orcas might chase boats as part of their investigative behavior.