Scientists witness first reported case of killer-whale infanticide
by Ashifa Kassam in Toronto from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JXM5)
'His blubber shook like Jell-o,' says researcher of the attack on newborn orca by unrelated 32-year-old male
Scientists in the Canadian province of British Columbia have documented what is believed to be the first reported case of an orca whale killing an infant of the same species.
"We knew right away that this was a remarkable event," said Jared Towers, a Cetacean researcher with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, of the encounter he and two colleagues witnessed in December 2016.
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