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‘Chaos of clicks and sounds from below’ as 70 orcas kill blue whale – Livescience.com
The orcas were biting the blue whale’s jaw, trying to grab its tongue.
In an hours-long struggle, as many as 70 killer whales hunted down and killed a blue whale off the southwestern coast of Australia, according to a marine biologist who saw the “astonishing, a little bit disturbing and truly mind blowing” event take place.
At first, it seemed like a normal day of whale watching, said Kristy Brown, a marine biologist with Naturaliste Charters, a company that runs whale-watching tours in Western Australia. The vessel happened upon two pods of orcas
in Bremer Bay Canyon,…
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