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Orcas kill young whale in front of shocked West Aussies
A routine watching tour off WA’s south coast took a shocking turn when a pods of orcas started hunting and killed a young fin whale near Bremer Bay.
The Whale Watch WA tour group were about six kilometres off the coast on Sunday morning when they ran into a regular pod of killer whales — affectionately named Queen, Cookie, and Cooee — and their babies.
They were joined by other pods, with more than 65 of the mammals spotted.
As the tour watched on, the orcas’ energy “shifted within a heartbeat”, with the group suddenly “exploding” out of the water towards an 11-metre, young fin whale which was believed to have been separated from its mother.
Boat full of tourists witness 'momentous' scene just 6km off Aussie coastline: 'Never seen'
A boat full of tourists was treated to a heart-stopping display just moments from the coastline. For the first time in Australian waters, orcas were witnessed hunting a fin whale.
The "historical and momentous" scene was captured on the cameras and iPhones of dozens of visitors to Bremer Bay, on the West Australian coast on Sunday morning.
Gemma, a tour guide from Whale Watch Western Australia, told Yahoo News the findings will now be reported to Cetacean Research Centre WA.
"This is the very first time a Fin Whale has been observed being hunted by Orca in Australian waters, " she told Yahoo News.
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