Nature can be a brutal thing. A group of whale watchers found out first hand when they witnessed a pod of orcas hunt and kill a blue whale. It’s an extraordinarily rare sight to see, but it’s also heartbreaking.
Everything, however, does need to eat, and hunting is part of survival, but it’s still hard to watch the blue whale’s struggle for survival and its last breath. The orca pod was known to the whale watching outfit. “Four different pods were milling about happily,” Whale Watch Western Australia wrote.”Their focus did indicate that they were on the lookout for food and as the calves socialized in creche pods, the adults stretched out and covered the full area of The Patch as they continued to forage.”
The crew aboard the vessel spotted a killer whale named Noosa, alone and to the south east of the feeding grounds, which seemed odd. They kept a close watch on her and spotted her family surface just ahead of her. “The sequence of events that followed happened so quickly,” they explained. “The orca exploded into action, surging towards the west as they often do when something has been found. The urgency could be felt and the surge was short as only 100 meters to our port side the ocean began to glow blue and our hearts sank… it was a blue whale that the orca had found.”
Unfortunately for the blue whale, the orcas made their kill — which is good, obviously for the orcas.
