Focus. Productions. The Orca was spotted aggressively chasing the seal before using its tail to flip the seal out of the water.
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In this remarkable footage filmed off the coast of Victoria, Canada yesterday, a male killer whale known as T69C (which, rather aptly, sounds like the model number for a Terminator) sends a Pacific harbour seal hurtling 80 feet (20 metres) into the air with a casual flick of his tail.
The footage was taken by Mike Walker an employee of Eagle Wing Tours, a firm specialized in whale watching tours.
After watching this video, you’ll undoubtedly agree that orcas, which may be more commonly known as Killer Whales, are entirely deserving of their name.
After the orcas hit their prey, they don’t often eat them, cetacean researcher Chris Parsons of George Mason University told Earth Touch News Network.
Did the killer whale get its infamous nickname by flinging innocent seals through the air? But when they hit Dall’s porpoises, another of their prey, “they do it to eviscerate them”.
Remember that video from a year ago of an orca tossing a sea lion 20 feet into the air? “They hit them so hard that their entrails pop out, which they leave behind after eating the muscle and blubber”.
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A killer whale swims with her calf in Marineland aquatic park in Antibes, southeastern France.
