| This video is an excellent documentary that covers a variety of killer whale populations in various coastal environs around the world. Here you'll see killer whales who individually chase salmon off the coast of the Pacific northwest, and others who join into larger groups to use cooperative techniques for catching herring off the coast of Norway; in the southern hemisphere, you'll see groups that hunt for elephant seal on island beaches in the southern Indian ocean, and others that use similar techniques to catch sea lions on the beaches of Argentina. In between the hunting scenes, there is footage of these whales enjoying social interaction or pebble massages, along with brief discussions from various scientists that study these intriguing creatures. Because these seagoing mammals are so different from ourselves, it is difficult to empathize with their behavior or understand their intelligence. By illustrating how killer whales have developed a variety of techniques to survive in a variety of environments, and how they pass along these techniques to their young through example and training, this video does a good job of bridging the gap between them and us. |
National Geographic's Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea movies, videos.