{"id":42701,"date":"2025-12-14T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/killer-whales-and-dolphins-seen-hunting-together-in-rare-video\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:29:00","slug":"killer-whales-and-dolphins-seen-hunting-together-in-rare-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/killer-whales-and-dolphins-seen-hunting-together-in-rare-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer whales and dolphins seen hunting together in rare video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Scientists have captured rare footage of killer whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins hunting together near the coast of British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Despite their common name &#8216;killer whale&#8217;, orca are actually the largest species of dolphin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The findings, published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, is the first recorded evidence of the two working together, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They studied the mammals using drones and camera tags to understand feeding behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Not only were the killer whales orienting [themselves] towards the dolphins at the surface, but when the dolphins started to dive, our tagged killer whales would start to dive,&#8221;  lead researcher Dr Sarah Fortune from Dalhousie University in Canada said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/ceq1000742go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have captured rare footage of killer whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins hunting together near the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Despite their common name &#8216;killer whale&#8217;, orca are actually the largest species of dolphin. The findings, published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, is the first recorded evidence of the two working together, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[12951,1834,1458,1793,1264,8751],"class_list":["post-42701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-dolphins","tag-hunting","tag-killer","tag-rare","tag-video","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42703,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42701\/revisions\/42703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}