It really hits home how enormous the orcas are when you see their body next to a seal. And they’re moving so fast!

The brain of an orca weighs 6.8 kg, second only to the sperm whale in the ocean. The orca's brain complexity is impressive. Its Gyrification Index (GI) is 5.7, compared to 2.2 in humans, making it the most complex and wrinkled cerebral cortex in the world! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I Love Orca! Thank You Very Much, BBC, for this amazing video!❤❤❤

the orca who invented the beaching strategy must have either been very desperate or very bored, either way that must have been one hell of a character

What an amazing footage, orcas are so beautiful!

These orcas are so smart.They want a free meal.😂😂

Absolutely magical animals killer whales are! They really do show their true spirt and beauty when they live freely in the ocean and not in a small uncomfortable tank in captivity their whole life, truly wonderful sea mammals! ❤

I'm currently watching this from deep within the African Congo me and my team are on a much needed five day rest back at base camp we have been studying of the last known gorillas on the planet stay safe guy's 👍

I’m glad that Orcas don’t consider us as food, otherwise the history of sea travel would have been drastically curtailed.

Orcas and the rest of their whale/dolphin family are some of the most intelligent, sacred beings to ever live on our planet. They are people. It is up to us humans to ensure they are treated with the highest kindness, compassion and respect.

Thank sso much for this amazing video! The animal kingdom is so fascinating, and BBC Earth presented it beautifully!

Love my Orca

"Jake, I think it best that we not go in the ocean today." "Right Sophia, lets stay on the beach by the water line where it is safe." Kurbam!

Orcas are the OG of the oceans. Gotta love them.

Love it! My First Nations name is Killer Whale... ❤❤❤ from the west coast of Canada.

The body slam scene is so scary, incredible shot!

I'm always astonished at how little KZfaq channels like this one appreciate the hard work of scientists. Scientists work for months to get footage of orcas hunting whales and YT channels like this one then make their work meaningless by cutting out the most exciting moments. The end of this video impressively proves that !

Props to the brave cameramen to get this insane footage. So dangerous!

Nature at it's most beautiful savagery

Fearsome skill...

7:12 obsessed with the implication that orcas are aware that the humans have beef with them

Thank you BBC earth for the scientific tapes you provide

Your videos never disappoint. Thanks a bunch!

My favourite water animal.

Orcas are funny: they hunt and look like sharks, are called killer whales, but are actually dolphins.

They have the most enormous bite force of any animal...19000 psi.

Splashed water drops on camera! That close!

amazing footage such beautiful creatures! very smart.

Our planet is incredible, we don’t deserve our status.

Amazing moments. ❤

Their hunting skills are so amazing and awesom!! I love Orcas❤

A creature that big doesn’t get that big without being really good at eating.

CatsDoThat...killButNotEat

The king of the ocean. 💪

If I were a Sea Lion , I'd be ordering my fish online for delivery. Once the Orcas decide that they want to eat you , it's pretty much a wrap. I love the Orcas , but I feel bad for the sea lions , dolphins, and whales that they prey on. It hurts my heart.

Dolphins beach themselves regularly chasing prey. They even do it in pairs or three at a time. I think one of the places is along the shore of South Carolina. They chase schools of fish up on the bank, then slide up and grab them. They always lean over on the same side. So their teeth on the side closed to the beach get worn down because they are biting dirt and mud along with the fish they grab.

Death is the most mystical and mysterious aspect of human life. Many people are interested in what happens after death, but it is the unknown that makes people afraid of it. This fear sometimes leads to the fact that people do not live a full life, limiting themselves in their abilities.

Damn - HECTIC 😢😮😮

Awesome!

if u noticed , orcas are with thier sibling , they are not hunting , but show to younger how to do it

Gelungenes Video sehr informativ. Gruss Jürgen 🤠

Amazing ❤

Bonjour, j'ai été témoin d'une séance d'apprentissage de dauphins avec des jeunes. Ils ont remonté un denti (dentex) depuis le fond sans le manger, sa vessie natatoire était toute gonflée donc il restait en surface sans bouger. C'était un beau spécimen (10 à 12kg). Et deux adultes se sont approchés de lui avec entre eux un jeune dauphin. Visiblement, les adultes apprenaient au jeune à prendre le poisson par la tête et pas par le ventre ou la queue. Après environ 45mn à 1h ils sont partis et n'ont pas mangé le poisson. La leçon était finie. C'est moi qui ai récupéré le poisson, lui ai coupé la tête et la queue et l'ai mis au four avec patates, tomates et oignons...😅 On c'est régalé en repensant à cette matinée de cours de dauphins...

The orca were teaching the young ones. I knew that the minute you said they hadn't killed the pups. The young and small Orca has been attacking and killing the pupS. If they ate them, classes would be threatened because one of their hungry members would try to end lessons and chow down! There would always be a battle about ending lessons, who gets this meal, etc. These are brilliant. animals who have survived for countless millennia. Somewhere they learned to eat 1st, then be done eating and set about teaching the children. They were not hungry. They were teaching their babies how to survive. Little orca, little sea lion pups. Bigger mal sea lion, teach the not yet fully grown juniors a lesson. The pods are females, families...sisters, aunts, mothers. They know and understand the deadly seas, they are always knowledgeable about the importance of teaching little ones. The woman in New Zealand that the drone watched swim with the mom and her 2 young ones--a baby and a junior--showed her teaching the baby what a human woman was. Not a deadly lesson--in fact she tried to nudge the woman to get out of the water--we don't know if shark were nearby. The pod was just outside the bay/beach. But she swam around her showing the baby the human swimmer. A kayaker had a similar visit from 2 orca, going down and rising vertically to watch him, learn about him. A diver had orca check him out as well. Just a learning experience for them. They have separated hunting for prey from their casual time when they learn--they have a lot of curiosity. When they hunt, they turn off curiosity and switch on lethal predator mode. It nis awesome.

Rooting for the sea lions.

Skucamuch narrows, Canada Sunshine Coast

1:58 sea lion really said not today!

Seems like Orca or Killer whales look more like a a porpoise or at least a dolphin!🐬 What gives!

@14:40 it sounds the the Orca's are murderous psychopaths'

Beautiful ❤🎉

I gave this docu with wonderful pictures a negative response ! And this is , because one thing I missed here and one thing must be absolutely clear : an orca must eat and this is certainly not a love-act and certainly this is cruel , but that is one side of the nature of this planet EARTH ! Obviously some people here did not understand , that without any doubts the most cruel "animal" on EARTH is the human being : PLEASE !;- everybody from this docu should visit at least once one of the slaughterhouses ,where our and their daily meals are "prepared "!!!!!!!

Wonderful 😍

I wonder if any fisherman slip in to these waters🤔🤔🤔

Common ancestor 😂😂😂. You may be related to a seal or be part seal but I’m not 😂😂

Determination!

Why are Orcas in captivity in the first place? Pls just leave them alone..

The 2nd narrator’s voice is too soft and casual. He’s very hard to understand and follow what he’s saying.

stop calling them 'killers' they're called orkas!

The seals watch their herd get snatched by orcas but not many of them care to move away. Not very clever, are they?

Oh man, I hope reincarnation is real and I'll find myself to be an orca one day. Even with all the hazards and discomfort it is the most awesome life imaginable to be an orca in the wild. Swimming the world oceans with your family, free to go wherever, discover the depths of the earth. Wow.

The zoom lens has really enhanced wildlife photography, and also made it tiresome and bad with too close up shots. I got very bored with this right away because of the bad photography.

Isn’t dangerous to film there in Patagonia?

Orcas are not whales... they are dolphins

D o l p h I n

what even is this voiceover haha

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Many eyes vigilant, above the water .... Of no use unfortunately.

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Definitely not a vegan 😂

Taste....too much adrenaline in bloodstream makes them very bitter....any dog hunter knows that. Pros???

Amazing Orca Moments | BBC Earth 1237pm 17.7.24 attenborough at his most predetaory re: narrating a life/death interaction.... seals should have learnt, by now, to stick to the beach... perfecting tricks in the oceania aquarium in florida prior to being released from captivity will have taught them even new and improved tactics for landing a seal or dolphin etc.

14:59, they don't like the taste i guess

Orcas are Smart and Beautiful 😃🤎 All Praises to TMH YAH, The Creator of Heaven and Earth 👏🏾🙏🏾

BBC, you're so out of touch. We can see it even in a basic wildlife video. Decadence? Dei? Both?

Seals are so stupid, playing in the surf while orcas are coming in close. Just get out of the water.

Thrashing is to kill mmmmmkay

I’m currently watching this from a Nazi , Alien bunker ,deep underground in Antarctica. Stay safe out there folks

Fishermen need dynamite

Maybe they share a common ancestry with you....but not with me. I don't believe in the evolution religion.

This doesn't look very amazing

"No other whales deliberately beach themselves". I thought Orcas are dolphins. This narrator must be a complete novice who nobody's ever heard of.

Oh my - the size, speed and power of the ORCAs are phenomenal! 😮😮 And they're clever, too... M 🦘🏏😎