Researchers Discover Orcas and Dolphins Hunting Together to Catch Salmon in BC Waters
In a world first, Canadian and German researchers have discovered that some species of orcas and dolphins team up to hunt for salmon.
The study, published in the journal ?Scientific Reports( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22718-4 ), was a collaboration by scientists at the University of B.C.,? Dalhousie University,? the Leibniz?Institute in Germany, and B.C.'s Hakai Institute.
Using aerial drones and bio-loggers - small devices attached to animals to record data on movement and behaviour - the researchers recorded interactions between fish-eating northern resident killer whales and Pacific white-sided...
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