Rare moment pod of killer whales appear to help stuck humpback

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Footage has been captured of a rare moment when a pod of killer whales appeared to help an injured humpback whale. 9News

"We could see he was badly entangled — he had a lot of line around his fluke, and he was heavily infested with whale lice," Gemma, the owner of Whale Watch Western Australia, said.Footage captures a rare moment when a pod of killer whales appeared to help an injured humpback whale."These orca here in Bremer are very, very much interested in humpback whales, and it is part of their diet.

"It was almost as if they could tell that this whale was too sick and too injured to defend himself and probably wouldn't make a good meal," Gemma said."We could see this huge clump of rope that this humpback had been carrying all of a sudden float free, as one of the orcas moved underneath the fluke," she said.Human encounters with curious killer whales

"It's one of those things in nature that completely baffles us because this is just the complete opposite of what it [the orca] is supposed to do."

 

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