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- Drone footage recorded killer whales charging and striking a blue whale in this rare sighting off the coast of Monterey, California.
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Researchers from Monterey Bay Whale Watch (gowhales.com/) who witnessed the encounter say the orcas' coordinated attack was likely meant to harass the whale for fun and not a planned hunt. The attack caused the blue whale to thrash around and quickly flee from the pod. Although killer whales do prey on blue whales, this behavior is rarely observed in Monterey orca communities.
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"Hey, lets go mess with the fat kid"
-Willy and the gang
"Do the truffle shuffle!"
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Killer Whales: "You came to the wrong hood, ese!"
SKIFFLE yeah WHAT A DICK RIGHT?
Lol
lol. estupid!
Imagine bullying the largest animal in the world LMAOOOO
Except they can actually kill whales.
The killer whales are the best sea predators on the planet. They are at the very top of the animal kingdom with no proper rivals. The only exception are humans who are outside the animal kingdom
@@petesthename1588 actually humans are valid members "inside" the animal kingdom. maybe you meant outside their water realm.
@@petesthename1588 yes. you are right.
@@petesthename1588 wrong. Sperm whales are the biggest/ largest predators on earth. :)
Orcas: "Tag! You're it!"
Blue Whale: "I SAID I'M NOT PLAYING!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Killer whales be like 'its a prank bro'
Stone Cold the camera is right there its just a social experiment
Dylan Dao "It's just a social experiment bro!"
Stone Cold WHAT A DICK!!
Stone Cold look there's a camera up there!
it's just a meme bro I'm tired of you fricking normies REEEEEEEEEEE
the size of that blue whale is staggering considering what the orcas look like swimming up to it
@Legend Blue whales have been reported too be larger then the largest dinosaurs. Only creature that comes close is the Argentinosaurus.
Lapis The Bottle Blue Tarantula not even, argentinosaurus is less than half the size
@@scatman9166 oh sorry.
@@scatman9166 However it was longer..
This one is small..
Mother nature is only beautiful from the comfort of your own home...
Nah I’d fight these bois. On land
Then there wouldn't be any explorers.
It’s usually difficult to perceive the size of a blue whale in most vids, but this shows the scale perfectly. When orcas look like little pests next to it one can truly marvel at the enormous size of the blue whale.
this whale isan't the max size.
Size mean nothing, nothing to marvel over.
Blue Whale: ''C'mon guys not funny!''
Orcas: ''Krill yourself nerd''
chairshoe81 how does this not have more likes? Ahahha😂
lol i just love comment section in animal video
chairshoe81 good use of krill there. I lol'ed.
10/10 would lol again
I legitimetely lol when I read that excellent usage of krill
Straight aced that one, bruhh
Anyone else feels sad for the blue whale?
I would imagine without a calf the massive blue whale can out dive the orcas and stay down longer as a defense mechanism
+Lord Pistachio Drugstore Cowboy I'm just curious, since you seem to value animal life.....What are your thoughts on abortion?
+Piesenberg Abortion is murdering a human LIFE birdbrain. It was a loaded question, in attempt to show the brainwashed backwards values of libtards. I bet you would be horrified if someone were to cut open a pregnant blue whale and kill the baby, but no such value for human babies.
+Piesenberg You should probably learn basic biology if you don't understand the difference between sperm and an embryo. At the moment of conception a human being with DNA is created. Not fully developed of course, but still a human being. This is only 3rd or 4th grade science, it's not hard to understand.
If you had have basic biology knowledge you'd know that sperm has half of the potential baby's DNA. So is jerking off the same as killing half a baby?
1:04 killer whales perfectly orgnized on one line!!
Amen.. Its like someone was controlling them!
I know right!!!!
@@CaptPARAS they are the smartest creature that lives in the waters.
@@lapisthebottlebluetarantul1738 dolphins are smarter
@@Caracazz2 killer whales are dolphins.
That organized formation of the killer whales.
Nature is impressive. :)
Jerks of the sea.
You are the only jerk here its just mother nature ... tard
They are apex predators of the sea.
actually they're called wolves of the sea, but yeah, they can be jerks
Mas A no great white
Aaron M exactly
Those are not killer whales ! They are Thug whales ! Totally different species...
philou425 they are not even whales... killer whales are orca's aka same species as dolphins
mattyy101 That's why they're jerks.
They are all in the same infraorder: Cetacea
I was there the whole time your just because felt bad for the blue whale
maybe the whole reason why they're doing this because people named him whale,like,they're trying to say "we're not the same as these slow mo"
"See that thing flying? We are on TV! Let's do a stun!"
Lol underrated 😂
Blue whale: I'm the largest animal species in history, no one will harass me.
Killer whales: Challenge accepted
This CZcams video:
Killer whales do this for fun and don't actually kill and eat blue whales
*Searches orcas kill blue whale on youtube
1st video that pops up:
75 orcas kill and devour a blue whale
How it feels like having younger cousins visit for the week
lmaoooooo
Yeah Like Me. 😑
Me right now…
They come to invade your room and your gaming consoles and your PC. They take your old childhood toys that you organized for collection and your mom will scold you saying you’re too old to own any toy and asking you to give to them… ah yes that happened to me. Those lil s****
Kind of annoying that it was the same clip played over and over
Id rather see the raw fotage
Yeah, I love videos with, "Hey, check out this amazing 10 secs of footage!" Ok, what happened next? I'm sure you didnt just STOP filming... "... Fuck you! :D" -_-
that is probably all the video they had of this occurrence. didn't you read what was on the video? "the [the blue whale] fled the scene," "the killer whales did not pursue the blue whale after the strike." this ten seconds is all they have. More interesting than staring at the water for two minutes if you ask me
I agree, but considering the whale looks like it began to dive under to evade the orcas, I think it's fair to assume any visible footage ended after the initial 10 seconds we've been shown. Still, I agree lol just so happened this was a freak accident of footage.
That is a NatGeo twist on the video. The original edit isn't as repetitive. I am the original owner of the footage and the editor.
"What was that mild vibration?"
-Blue whale
Orcas are the CZcams pranksters of the sea
Orcas: ha got you bro
Whale: just leave me alone!
Orcas: *UMAD*
Orcas be like ..
See there's a camera flying above us.
This is cruel, but fascinating. Love nature.
Same here dude
Lord Pistachio Drugstore Cowboy Yes... You're right.
How do you consider nature cruel but yet condone humans actions towards nature?
Mike DEEZ yes you're right. That's why I don't eat these things
vegetarian?
Damn Willy always bullying bigger animals
Lucas van Osenbruggen I can't😂
It's Me, Faris You can't what? You find that very funny don't you?
Pete Mitchell yeaah
Why u have a check mark
Yeah killer whales are dicks
That was just rude... Blue whale was just chillin, more respect you guys.🐋🐳💙
Imagine being called a killer whale and look like a Sardine next to the blue whale.
I mean just because you're bigger doesn't automatically make you deadlier. Recall there are many carnivorous mammals that has smaller body compared to their prey
The animal kingdom is not all love and blessings like many of us humans would like to imagine...
It rarelly is. For each case of compassion and such you see in nature, you'll have thousands others of merely following their primal instincts for survival.
I've seen the case of the lioness who took the orphan baby gazelle as its "adopted kid". But let me ask: how many other gazelles and other animals have died for the adult lioness to be alive at that point?
Tom Nally idk who pictures the animal kingdom to be soft n loving but alright
nobody thinks it is
You mean like only PETA imagines.
Just like human, but less worse
Orcas are one of the best predators in the world nothing really challenges them
Sperm whales when they’re mad..
A bull sperm whale can kill them with just their clicks if im not mistaken.
@@Masterahsoka you're correct.
Those whales came in like ninjas 😂 hella fast
Lol
Orca training session. This is a common hunt technique of Orca, the wolves of the sea...
Orca is Lion pride in the sea
Orcas are the Apex predators of the sea. They'r calling them..whalekillers which is very true. Can you even imagine what their former ancestors are..
@@chanlovebaek614 more like a wolf pack
@@chanlovebaek614 lions get rekt by crocs
Just like a wolf, an orca without its pack cannot beat almost any animal it normally beats as they travel in packs of 40-80
Killer (orca) whales are truly the bullies of the sea!!
It’s scary how fast Orca’s are.
Said the human....
The blue whale is so busy just spacing out and relaxing that he doesn't sense the killer whales coming at him. I'm a bit surprised. He doesn't even know it until they are right there on top of him.
Probably the whale had never been attacked in his life. And he was surprised that he got attacked for the first time.
@@Reachland02 somewhat plausible
@@Reachland02 Lol went to the wrong neighborhood 😂
orcas be like "swim faster old man!"
whales are magnificent but we have Iceland, Norway, Japan, Faroe Islands killing them on large scale. such a shame!
mermaid000pranu Well the Northern Europeans actually hunt them for food and also respect the nature in my view but I don't the real facts.
mermaid000pranu
Japanese are the worst
well us indonesians also hunt whales, but with a very strict rules and stick to smaller whales like sperm whale, we never hunt those blues, and its only done by the traditional people of lamalera in certain months of the years, a proud tradition that has been going on since 5000 years ago
But i fucking hate those japanese whalers
mermaid000pranu That's very sad, some humans have to much greed, I agree, whales are a magnificent animal, I hope humans don't hunt the whales to Extinction
Pete Mitchell Blue whale are pretty much a rare target even for whalers, their size meant few boats are able to carry it to shore.... but that doesn't stop whalers to hunt the Blue Whale.... especially Japanese whalers that are known to kill whales for "scientific reasons"
Orcas are amazing soon as we learn to speak there language then will will truly see how intelligent they are
If they had legs and opposable thumbs they probably would have beaten us as dominant species on this planet.
@@Cpt_JohnRackham Yup, like the Simpsons episode.
Blue Whale will be like - "Come one by one you cowards"
We don't do that here.
Orcas: You want us to attack 1 at a time??? Who you think you are, Steven Segal?
I can't stop getting the image of orca as panda in my head, while they are actually hyena.
They are wolfs
Arland 13 we call them wolves but more like hyenas the way they eat and tear their prey apart while its still alive.
@@archides2778 wolves also do that, you dumbshit.
Renan Nascimento youve seen a wolf pack eat a parts of an animal then the pack leaves while the animal is still alive? Cool.
@@archides2778 yes, they do it all the time lmao
And y'all wanted to free Willy 😒
Lulu well the ecosystem and foodweb are like that
It's nature. Grow up.
Yeah, Free Willy's dead. Awkward 😬
Lulu They did Free Willy and he ended up doing the back paddle.
43 and I still haven't freed Willy.
The orcas look torpedoes going toward the big blue whale.
The blue whale is probably sick. A healthy blue whale can go under water for hours. Or even kill an orca with the swipe of his tale. Orca usually stay away from a blue whale. The sheer size will overtake them.
Wow, and look at the killer whales lined up in a phalanx-like position after (or what I assume was after). Would've liked to have seen more of the after!
Blue whales are surprisingly fast and can out run the orca. Also out dive them.
They also weigh 70 tons....if a blue whale accidentally smacked a killer whale....the last thing the killer whale would see before it died was flying 30 feet in the air...lol
@Manfreski this particular one weighs 70
@@johnirby8847 yes
1:08 nice formation
Largest Dolphin vs Largest Whale!
Now roll that instant replay
Incredible footage. Majestic creatures.
The killer whales were like "tag your it"
If I was that whale I'd swallow one of them and be like ......WHAT'S UP?
Yummy
Brad Vlogs lol
and that explain why they feed on krills
Owani de la Guardia watch a whale feed. because they are slow and easily spotted they open there mouth fastly creating a suction that sucks in easily a couple hundred liters of water and a hundred kilo's or so of krill.
if you were a whale, you'd be a dumber one than the one we see here.
The Blue whale could easily escape. Big gulp of air, and dive to depths the Orcas cannot go... for longer than they could hold their breath.. by far.
I can hear the klaxon going off in its head. "Dive dive! Emergency depth! Full down angle on the bow planes!"
*1:05**: ‘Your world is not so ugly after all’ venom was absolutely right, look at that shot it goes so well with the music. Majestic animals beautiful formarion*
1:03 impressive sync!
Excellent footage. Hope to see more! Thanks for sharing.
This whale makes orcas look tiny!
Well it is the largest creature too ever live the Earth. Nothing could really come close even in past life.
@@lapisthebottlebluetarantul1738 well that's not entirely true, they could come CLOSE
@@sfb4144 It Is
It Is The Largest
@@lapisthebottlebluetarantul1738 what about megladon🤔
Its these videos that should make people understand what living in a society means.
Orcas represent a dream to me. in so many ways. they're so free, and close to each other, I wanted to be a marine biologist bec of them. so beautiful.
That was incredible. How many things on earth can take that many hits from killer whales and keep it moving. That attack was awesome to watch, really great footage and video
Lol i like how they lined up at the end
Orca:attack that whale!!!
Blue whale:*minds his own business*
haha
They gotta be careful, that Blue Whale could hurt or even kill them with a well placed tail smack.
Killer whales be like, "What's up, cuz?!?" 🤣🤣🤣
I wonder how far off the coast. this must of been amazing to see. they have binoculars at the Monterey aquarium to see out into the ocean and I wish I got to witness this or whales in general when I went :(
Those orcas were very "orcha-strated" .....ha, get it?
this is why i love nature ❤
Killer whales are relentless! They will take on anything that crosses their path no matter how big their opponent is size just doesn't seem to phase them one bit, they show no fear. They truly are kings of the ocean.
Bullies of the sea
Because they want to eat ?
@@depressionslayer Did you watch the video? Pause it at 0:17 and read it slowly so you can understand
@@burt591 lol aww yes 🤣🤣
I feel like Orca’s are the bullies of the oceans lol 😂
Yup
The sperm whale can kill anything in the ocean with ease
That orca is no joke. Apex predator of the sea
Legend says an orca from that pod is still missing
1. They didn't strike it.
2. The whale just dove.
Y'all have let us down, natgeo.
The ocean is one big buffet for the Orca. 🐬
See humans aren’t the only ones that enjoy cruelty it comes with intelligence
@D S watch the whole video and you will see
Thank you CZcams for putting this in my recommendations...3 years after this was uploaded
Blue whale: you're krilling me here guys!
It’s all fun and games until the orcas adapt to life out of the water!
I knew there was a reason I have always loved Orca. They are the trolls of the ocean.
I LOVE BLUE WHALES!!! DON'T LET THEM DIE!!!!!
the animal was fast enough to get away from the pod at least
@Cale The Martian how could it kill it pls explain
It doesn't have any defense other than diving deep
@@devamdas1668 With a smash of his tail. Also you cuold see, that the Blue reacted very fast...possibly the Orcas felt that power when the Blue brought the water to a boil in a second.
Okay, but the fact that even a BLUE WHALE, the largest animal on the planet, is still weary of orcas goes to show how formidable the oreo dolphins are.
This is how they teach their young. Poor Bluey 💜
Even the giant orca is dwarfed by the blue whale. Fascinating.
how is that fascinating? killer whales aren't even close to the largest whales in size. They aren't even close to the largest Toothed Whale, the Sperm Whale
The equivalent of chasing cows with knives....oh wait isn't that called bull fighting?
1:07 "You have shown me your answer. Welcome to ORCA."
Few days later:
Orca: "Dafuq where am i"
Human: "t r a i n i n g t i m e m y l o v e l y"
This is why killer whales do not belong in a theme park.
I agree when are we gonna get blue whales
Orcas, the wolf packs of the sea
Blue whale: I’m the biggest animal on the planet. Nobody can hurt me.
Orcas: Hold our beers.
When you watch it it’s actually really sad but when you haven’t watched it it’s not that sad when you here about it
Orcas are such jerks. I still love them though and blue whales.
1:05
its ok boys, at least we look cool on camera with our nice formation
There should have been a full version of about 10 minutes or so, but I can't find it now.
I'd love to see the complete footage; is there anywhere I can see it?
what made them rule out territorial behavior as the possible reason? that's a really common reason prey animals chase out other animals or taunt/bully them right
The blue whale just like. You lose bro im going deeper.
That Blue is massive I don’t think the killer whales really wanted that fight on their fins tbh.
Orcas are the ocean mafia .....rulling their kingdom with so much intelligence
If a adult blue whale hits a orca with its tail, it's game over.
yes
0:58 - 1:01 there was something large fleeing the scene in the upper part of the screen. Maybe the blue whale? Or another spooked animal.
Why are you climbing moutains. Humans: because we can
Why are you charging Blue Whales. Orca: because we can.
This is why I love Killer Whales, they're like the football jocks of the sea. they hunt in packs(pods) and act like dicks to the sea life, but when the teacher(us) are around, they're super friendly 😂😂😂. #myanalogygameisweakfam
Beautiful nature
Subhan Allah amazingly beautiful 🌊🐳🐋
Trolling the largest animal in the earth history is for champions.
Fairer to say they were teaching the younger ones hunting strategies, instead of doing it for fun.
Or see if they had chance to put blue whales into their diet menu
I don’t know why but I have a huge phobia of blue whales. Just the thought of being stranded in the middle of the sea with an enormous mammal gives me anxiety. I can’t even watch these kinds of videos without being terrified