Sperm whale-hunting orcas may be a new population: UBC study

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Killer whales reported attacking world’s biggest predators on the West Coast for the first time

Researchers from the University of British Columbia say they’ve identified a potentially new population of open-ocean orcas, that hunt the biggest predators on the planet.

McInnes said it’s the first time killer whales have been reported to attack sperm whales on the West Coast. The report said researchers were able to identify the orcas as possibly a new group partially because of bite scars on their bodies from the cookiecutter shark, a species of parasitic sharks that lives in the deep ocean.

 

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