#preditation

[scottish-orca]

Orcas in the River Clyde - Uploader commented they thought the orca were hunting a seal or porpoise in this video. Sighted 21/04/2018

[scottish-orca]

Northern Isles eating a duck - Sighted 21/07/2016 Photo By:  Niamh Coffey

[thesaddlepatch]

Killer whale occurrence and predation in the Bahamas

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2013

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have a cosmopolitan distribution, yet little is known about populations that inhabit tropical waters. We compiled 34 sightings of killer whales in the Bahamas, recorded from 1913 to 2011. Group sizes were generally small (mean ¼ 4.2, range ¼ 1 –12, SD ¼ 2.6). Thirteen sightings were documented with photographs and/or video of sufficient quality to allow individual photo-identification analysis. Of the 45 whales photographed, 14 unique individual killer whales were identified, eight of which were re-sighted between two and nine times. An adult female (Oo6) and a now-adult male (Oo4), were first seen together in 1995, and have been re-sighted together eight times over a 16-yr period. To date, killer whales in the Bahamas have only been observed preying on marine mammals, including Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis), Fraser’s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei), pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima), all of which are previously unrecorded prey species for Orcinus orca.

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[scottish-orca]

Killer Whales off Noss - Tim Sykes There were 5 Killer Whales in Noss Sound at 12.30 The bull drifted off after a while, but the remaining 3 females and an immature gathered in one spot, some 15 m from the shore, and took it in turns to dive (although they were only in a maximum of 3 m of water!). After about a minute, an Otter suddenly popped up in their midst, gasping for breath, pegged it for the shore, and virtually ran through the observers' feet! 11th July 2006