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Russ Rector
Jul 18, 08 - 9:10 AM |
wild and free orcas in action
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/17/eawhale117.xml |
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Corkylover
Jul 19th, 2008 - 11:51 PM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
It's always so awesome to see that. Especially an adult male as big as him hunting seals. Normally the females hunt. Nice find. |
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Russ Rector
Sep 2nd, 2008 - 4:12 PM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/01/eawhale101.xml |
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HT
Sep 4th, 2008 - 6:23 AM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
"Especially an adult male as big as him hunting seals. Normally the females hunt." I've never heard that before. Where did you read that the females hunt more than males? |
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corkylover
Sep 4th, 2008 - 1:10 PM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
when it comes to sealions, females are smaller and easily can get to the prey better than the males. males are big and bulky, thus making it hard for them to beach themselves and get their food. It's been known that females will make trips to get sealions and help out the pod males. Though males will hunt for themselves, they are just a little slower. |
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HT
Sep 5th, 2008 - 6:17 AM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
Could you provide a link with this info? |
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Corkylover
Sep 8th, 2008 - 11:56 AM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
I'd have to find it again. I normally don't save the links and sites I've been to, but I'll see if I can find it again. |
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StephD
Sep 9th, 2008 - 1:23 PM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
Just a note of observation to add to this subject. Observe a lot of orcas seal hunting footage. You will notice the dorsal fins appear smaller and more rounded on a majority of the orcas. This signifying the hunter is female. Though I am certain many males do participate in the hunts as well. Though the comment of the size difference playing a factor does indeed make sense. I believe some comparison to hunting patterns could be compared to that of lions. The male participates, just not frequently. The male orca is very large and the work required for these types of hunts would indeed exhaust him. There is plenty of footage out there showing juvenile males participating in these types of hunts, so males do indeed articipate but the likely hood of seeing this may be rare. |
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Corkylover
Sep 12th, 2008 - 11:41 AM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
I know for the males, they are just to big to do that, though Mel and Bernard often were seen throwing themselves onto shore. And those two were big boys. It all comes down to that footage I've seen was mostly females though when the seal is in the water the males come around to play as well. It's interesting. |
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Grow Up Kids, Learn Something
Sep 12th, 2008 - 3:06 PM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
It depends on the population of orcas. In some populations, males hunt as much as females. It's not as black-and-white as it is with many lion prides. |
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Russ Rector
Sep 12th, 2008 - 5:56 PM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/Orcasharesthewaveswithlocalsurfer/tabid/423/articleID/71245/cat/64/Default.aspx |
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StephD
Sep 16th, 2008 - 7:04 AM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
Umm Grow Up, do have any idea why it is females primarily hunt in Lion prides? Because the mane on adult males weighs a lot and because of the extra weight, he would be tired out after hunting in the hot sun and probably would have trouble defending the pride if needed. It's just a common sense thing. Most adult male orcas carry a lot of weight (more so than females and juveniles)It just wouldn't be practical for them participate in these hunts. |
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Neveah
Sep 16th, 2008 - 9:34 AM |
Re: wild and free orcas in action
I think he's talking about the resident pods and other transient pods where they don't beach themselves to get food (thats only one pod that does that right?). And even then, it wouldn't surprise me if the males from this pod hunted other prey when they weren't hunting the seals (its a yearly thing... they don't stay there all year, I believe) |
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