So are orcas though. Theyre like the wolves of the sea. They need to eat too.

@@ravenisnotmyname711 orcas dont help, they just eat

@@ravenisnotmyname711 Wolves of the sea is right. Wolves do the same ruthless killing as orcas, they can kill for one small part of the animal and leave the rest. ... If humans do that, we call it barbaric. It is no less barbaric in animals.... This is how it goes it's true, but it's barbaric all the same...

Sentient cetaceans list: Odontoceti: Delphinoidea, Platanistoidea, Physeteroidea. Mysticeti: Megaptera Novaeangliae, Eubalaena Australis.

@@alaneon6456 nice list...

Orcas go after humpback calves, too. This may be a learned or emotional response due to orcas being baby killers.

@@Luaeria Yeah, they've experienced, too, so they empathize and hate the orcas for it.

Absolutely.

Doubtful, they're completely different species, but I am sure they can tell when the other is in distress. We can tell when dogs, cats or even rats are in distress. Other animals and also sense this from different speciee

I was wondering that too Humback’d help Gray’s seen it a lot. I saw a mom and calf were the males that were there to mate the mom and calf got in trouble for a second with killer whales and the males came and protected them and forgot about mating all together. Cool. However if these guys are protecting something that’s already gone that’s kind of dumb. Might as well just let them eat it.

@@robinsonray6766 My thoughts are the same.

There is a video of a deer coming to the aid of a rabbit and it stomps the hawk to the point that you almost feel bad....

The downvoters were the killer whales and the Gray mother

Oh yeah they were... very TRIGGERED, definitely. There's heaps of videos on KZfaq often taken by lay whale watchers of humpbacks saving other species from orca. For some reason mammal eating orca really TRIGGER humpbacks. I understand they've gotta eat but they should be eating fish, not mammals... that's the gospel according to the humpback whale anyway. Wahahaha. This time the humpbacks were unsuccessful in saving the pray but quite often they are able to save lives out there. Much respect and love to humpbacks. I got bullied at school quite badly. There were plenty of orca in my schoolyard. I wish there'd been some humpbacks. Wahahaha.

Milanka kids with their own issues will pick on another kid due to differences or kids they see as insecure (unconfident). I was a kid with no confidence, always struggling with my own emotions, as I didn’t really have an outlet. But you can prevent your children from going through the same, should you have ‘em. Just my 2 cents...

@@immy00 Yes that's great advice! There will still be bullies though, and we should all stand up to them. The animals can teach us. Humpbacks are good examples of heroes. Orcas are good examples of ruthless living for oneself no matter whose dead body you have to climb over, even endangered baby whales...

This was 2012: no drone available for filming at that time in Monterey Bay.

I know, can't wait to see all the new experiences to come in the near future!

Isn't it funny how far we've come in just 30 years. Back in the 80's we had wait until we got home to find out anything, now days you can find out 24/7/365

I understood from the video that the humpback whales were preventing the orca from feeding on the dead calf that they had killed earlier.

Orcas r dolphins tho

Orcas are not bastards. There is no such thing in nature. And not all orcas hunting on warmblood prey: depends on the culture of the particular pack. Yet orcas are the true top of all of the marine foodchain - litterally nobody dare to mess with orcas except for humans, of course.

@@alisaschulman-janiger3799 thanks so much for your reply! Okay, so it is a different male then. I know that there's a male called 168 or 168B but I am not exactly sure what pod he's from, but they're spotted there a lot as well. His dorsal fin curves quite a bit too. I love watching them and could do it all day. Thanks again for getting back to me and obviously for sharing your amazing videos 💕

@Dhananjay Kavoor lul

No drone in 2012

And so do sperm whaleys. Sometimes I wonder if they have more of a soul then we do. Just been wondering lately.

Heart, not soul

Humans are the most destructive, they’ll kill just for the sheer hell of it. At least orcas do it for food, even if it is just the tongue.

@@immy00 humans? You judge a species based on the lowlifes. Your mom and dad are humans too. You'll find people working to help save wildlife. The opposite of destructive people. We're all individuals and each of us don't deserve to be judged for the actions of others.

@@firepower5948 Well said. Think many whales sometimes seem to have more heart at times because they listen to God and protect the innocent. Some people who comment on these posts don't seem to understand that concept..

Altruism. It is one of God's rarest and cruelest gifts. It is inherited, but for my family it's not dominant. Mine comes from my father's side, though it is very hard to pinpoint in him personally, but with years of careful studying... My sister has none, zero. Mother has none; both are Christian, "good" people, I dearly love but bc of my instinct; not bc I believe they are kind ppl. But I have one female cousin on paternal side who has it; it is not debilitating to her like mine, but it certainly affects her personality and shapes her life hugely. I may also be seeing it in her brother's oldest daughter, almost ten now. I don't see her much, but I think I have heard of some kindness in her... We are really just this fall starting to study the lineage in depth due to my progressive resentment of the trait and my impossibly progressive cynicism. I am now "homicidal" intermittently. Earlier today reading the newspaper I became enraptured in last year's stolen car with handicapped dog in back seat; car found 4 days later, dog had been killed in back seat. So now what to do? I contacted the involved parties, detective, etc. for updates... but that's not a good idea just in case the person was caught and I kill them. So now I'm on the dark web. I won't elaborate. So where to draw the line? Today was Christmas; an exciting seemingly normal holiday. But I read the paper and now this is my day. Tomorrow something else. That's altruism. It ruins my life. I am 40. At 7 my first controversial dog litter recon rescue. Then vegan. ALF 100%. Thanks for letting me rant. No more internet today, third time saying that.

And what else? 4 am last night, "Louisa" -gecko who lives outside my window at night, shows back up after not being seen for maybe 3 days. I had just hopelessly resolved to pray for her, feeling maybe it was silly. So I just got idk, zoomy(?) happy and was bouncing and praising God for maybe 7 minutes, dogs jumping around too; and then I started crying; I really thought she was dead, so many scenarios and why would she be gone for 3 whole days? Louisa does not even know I exist.

@@Rebeccaturnerrescue -Thanks for sharing that sweet story. God made creatures to be our companions. It's ok to be grateful your gecko came back! I could tell you story upon story of animals that brightened my days, helped me go on, & how my heart broke when they left. Corrie ten Boom was grateful when some ants came into her cell at Auschitz! God can send his creatures to encourage us.

Ah hahaha! Brightened my night up!

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@@robinsonray6766 eh no, lol. Orcas are known for killing every type of whale (except bull sperm whales) and has been recordef hunting em down.

Or just sterelize you from the gene pool

The video wouldn't be able to pickup the images like it does above the water.

The best way would be filming from a drone

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I think maybe she's was in some lesser danger also? Idk, but I'm sure she was overcome with grief.

While vulnerable while calves, humpbacks can stand their ground against a pack of orcas when fully grown, they rarely do attack them though, mostly just defend themselves.

No, because nobody wants to do anything. people have to stop standing around with their thumbs up their ass. I'd say the humans have been walkin right up and fuckin up the animals by ripping them off for their furs and their environment. What we did was pretty goddamn hands on. Forget leaving it up to big non-profits, we need to be doing it RIGHT NOW. helping a mamma whale bust up a gang of orcas is one way we as individuals can make an immediate difference. We gotta get in there and get involved. DO SOMETHING. Beat pots and pans! Spray shark replant! Offer up a kid, we got to many of those brats anyway!

I've wondered that too. Because you would think a humpback would be able to KRUSH an orca RIGHT UP like a PAPER CUP! Wahahaha.

Peggy Thomas Executive Director PUFFER CORPS That is literally the stupidest thing I've ever read. That's PETA levels of stupidity. The Orcas won't give a shit if we bang pots and pans and offering a kid is seriously fucked up. Besides the orcas were just doing what they needed to survive! What you want to starve the orcas who are just as innocent as the animal they killed!?

@@milanka882 A humpback can easily kill an Orca with the tail but Orca are too smart to get too close to the Humpback. A Humpback can't chase an Orca because Orcas are faster.

I was wondering watching the video, if an adult humpback whale could kill an orca, if she wants to, thank you for the info !

Baleen whales such as gray whales and humpbacks do not travel in family units, unlike killer whales - where in many cases offspring stay with their moms for their entire lives. Gray whale moms usually travel just with their calf, but occasionally with others. Humpback moms also are seen only with their calves. No cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) ever travel as a family units - with Dad, mom, and offspring; males do not linger after mating.

Yup, the calf didn't make it.

of course the calf didn't make it! there was a bunch of big brain marine biologists there OBSERVING.

@@Jewelvonmayhem 😂😂 LMFAO

Don't know everything, but trying to make a difference for good in the world. How about you?

@@brendaann727 word.

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Killer whales (along with other dolphin species) are still members of the toothed whale family. So they are both dolphins and small whales. Taxonomy and animal classification can be very confusing. www.britannica.com/animal/toothed-whale

I thought orca are related to dolphins more closely than to other whales !

LOL. I do this all the time, I'll be like did i just spend an hour of my day on a random post to convince a stranger of my point of view? And I'll never revisit it again?

They are also whale species.

@@CleverClover2023 whales don't have fins like orca's

True, the tongue of the baby whale is just a delicacy to them....

Not all orcas eat fish. Some eat sea mammals.

Its more of a dietary culture for transient killer whales to eat other marine mammals. Changing what they prefer to feed on doesnt happen. Those orcas who eat salmon or sharks evolved to eat those things specifically. Killer whales dont just u p and switch their diets. And to demand that their species change for YOU is fucking ridiculous. Grow up!

My understanding is that orca pods specialise in certain prey. Some only eat fish ? How about location and seasonal prey availability ?

These are cultural preferences and practices passed on through generations of orcas.

Calling them either 'killer whale' or 'orca' is fine. They also have been called 'Grampus' or 'blackfish'. Most researchers prefer to use 'killer whale' as 'orca' is from their scientific name Orcinus Orca.

No sir. If we simply don't hunt whales at all, and start farm fishing more, than they will all be fine. Blue whales prospered without human intervention

Then cut your balls since you're going to create more mouths to feed and kill more animals for meat

@@EternalEmperorofZakuul good advise

Yeah but then you'd get shot by the police for pointing gun at people

Leave the interfering up to the humpbacks. Wahahaha.

Thank you for posting, Dr. S-J. it is of extreme interest, and my own observations of previously unseen bevhaviors in Gray Whales (persistence, calf care and protection, play in surf zones, and feeding in some North Pacific coastal areas - often occurring in wild conditions far from urban/industrial or motorized human activity, and unfortunately for research, not recorded or corroborated) ;ed me to pursue cognitive ethologiy. Since childhood, affiliative delphinid and other ceatacean interaction occurred, with the cetaceans as initiators - the entire events being in their agile, uh, flippers, had long led me to understand that there is more going on cortically than the little of which we are aware. Another misfortune was the sole significant research done back when opportunity was greater (1960s/70s before pollution, commercial emptying of oceanic trophic webs, and so on), was done for "defense" purposes by the US navy, which developed delphinid programs creating"suicide" explosive carriage, and other less immediately lethal human interfering with their lives and culture (culture, for those mistaking the word for something else, means environmentally and socially transmitted knowledge and experience). up here on the North Pacific coast, I've come from tie to tie, upon bullet-riddled delphinid corpses (as well as like-murdered pinnipeds. I feel that there should be, now that the internet has matured some, a report center for such violent , cruel, and dysfunctional human activities interfering with the lives of these other nations, as Beston called them. This occurs all too heavily on ursids and canids , who have been in the most recent decade or more, my interest (although ungulates, too, suffer immensely from humans hindering their ancient seasonal migratory paths in numerous ways, along with the pure psychopathic use of blunderbuses to eliminate other species for imagined increased personal social status.

Seems you may had been to close or you used zoom can that interfere with what they were doing at that time? Not criticising just curious.😊

Which boat were you on? And, if I had to whale watch from the shore, where would you recommend? I live nearby and I've had nice views of whales from around sand city and marina.

Maybe get a drone submersible that could work not sure how that works with what you said about disturbing the wales as the feed etc it would be cool