The clip shows a group of seven orcas — four adults and three calves — as they circle a seal on a tiny chunk of ice in western Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay. The lesson, which ...

Follow a team of scientists and filmmakers in Antarctica studying the most sophisticated hunting strategy in the animal kingdom - killer whales making waves to wash seals off floating ice.

A Killer Whale circles an ice floe with a resting Weddell seal off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Researchers found the killer whales hunting in pack ice (pack ice killer whales) preferred ...

seals, seabirds, squid, sharks, and even whales Orcas were originally called "whale killers" because ancient sailors saw them hunting in groups to take down large whales. Over time, that name ...

Bertie Gregory (UK) tracks a pod of orcas as they prepare to wave wash a Weddell seal. This pod belongs to an ecotype known as B1 - the pack ice orcas -identified by their characteristically large, ...

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Feb. 12, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. In Antarctica, killer whales hunt using their intelligence and teamwork. Swimming ...